Poetry News:
- — The book-length poem is presented in a series of atmospheric vignettes written primarily in brief couplets, interrupted periodically with parentheticals and postcards and another review here at Ron Slate’s blog —
- — At the risk of oversimplification, there’s a schism in American poetics: writers who live in the world (so-called lived experience) vs. writers who live by the word —
- — Poet lands book deal with major publisher —
- — Anne Sexton’s Scrapbook: A look inside the young poet’s life 16 years before she won the Pulitzer Prize. —
- — Myth and magic of Wilfred Owen —
- — In just a few lines, Joe renders redundant the contents of entire libraries on aboriginal dispossession and cultural destruction. —
- — The Measure of Democracy By John Ashbery, August Kleinzahler, Joshua Mehigan, Mary Jo Bang and J. D. McClatchy—
- — PW’s Best Books of the Year —
Court Green wants poems about the ’70s &
Shenandoah wants poems and stuff about Flannery O’Connor &
tuesday;an art journal is fresh &
Anti- is fresh &
dead mule is fresh & so is
womb poetry too &
deadline is about a month away: “Initiated in 1998, the Stadler Fellowship offers a recent MFA, MA, or PhD graduate in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in arts administration and literary editing.”
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