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• — Amy Lowell As a Leader in Contemporary Letters; MRS. MEYNELL’S ESSAYS, January 29, 1922, Sunday Section: Book Review & Magazine —
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• — Is the State of Contemporary Poetry Healthy? – Quote of the Day / William Logan —
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• — Poetry scrubbed out —
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• — Waterboys set Yeats poems to music —
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• — “The machine was an IBM electronic computer—one of the new “giant brains” which differ from previous computing and tabulating machines in that they function with the speed of light— 186,000 miles per second.” —
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• — National Trust row over Kenyan poet’s bequest —
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• — Amid Recession Economists Embrace Haiku —
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• — Clip Job: When Poets Battled the Bureaucrats —
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• — Ich Denke Dein — a love poem by Goethe, in English and in German —
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• — What to Read Now. And Why (not very many women, evidently) —
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• — Inquiry reopened in discovery of poet’s remains —
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• — Rustbelt Roethke workshop draws authors for July event —
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• — POETS WHO MUST OR WHO MAY WRITE; Three Writers of Verse Whose Work Illustrates Afresh the Wisdom of Horace E. Scudder’s Two Questions THE SINGLE HOUND. By Emily Dickinson. With an Introduction by Martha Dickinson Blanchi. Little, Brown & Co. ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER AND OTHER POEMS. By Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1.25. IN DEEP PLACES. By Amelia Josephine Burr. George H. Doran Company. $1. September 19, 1915, Sunday, Section: Review of Books, Page BR333, 2021 words —
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• — Another Author Lets Loose Over Bad Review Via the Internet —
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• — An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs <-- they updated link for free access to full article thank you ---
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• — Summer Poetry Sale! —
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• — bad, bad, bad… —
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• — Rhyme, Meter, and Poetry for Children —
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• — On McSweeney’s: “Comments written by actual students extracted from workshopped manuscripts at a major university.” —
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• — In May, we marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s sonnets by asking NPR listeners and readers to write in with modern love poems or songs that they think will be remembered 400 years from now. Here are a few of those suggestions. —
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• — Wislawa Szymborska: “One hole in the net” —
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• — CUE …is fresh. —
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• — Gunn’s ‘Movement’ —
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• — Each of these collections poses elusive questions whose answers, embedded in the asking, form the basis of eloquent poems. —
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• — Bangladesh have reportedly picked up Indian national Jibon Singh, the main suspect of the theft case of Nobel Prize Medal of Poet Rabindranath Tagore —
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• — Sarabande Books will accept submissions during the month of July for The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. —
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• — in the poem, Revere arrives in Concord at 2 a.m., but in reality, he was detained by the British at a roadblock in Lincoln on the way to nearby Concord. —
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• — Cornelius Eady and Sarah Micklem Do the Write Thing —
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• — “The purpose of this showcase event is to celebrate the literary journals that give us poets a place for our work.” —
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• — The collection as a whole hangs together with the shape and atmosphere of René Magritte’s surreal painting —
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• — The first step to getting published —
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• — The Waterboys will perform a series of five concerts at the national theatre around St Patrick’s Day, with frontman Mike Scott, Irish fiddler Steve Wickham and guest musicians performing An Appointment with Mr Yeats, combining the poetry of Yeats with the passion of the Waterboys’ music. —
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• — They might be the zit-ridden little brothers of science fiction geeks, but fantasy readers still deserve our respect —
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• — It seems my recent Billy Collins post has garnered much interest and discussion, so thank you all for your comments. I am always glad to have these conversations, though I am interested in folks’ responses to my Kay Ryan post. —
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• — new cat alert —
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• — Karen is also part of the Fourth Plinth project, meaning she’ll be standing on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square for an hour July 31 reading poetry and tweeting about it. —
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• — Even from the bleak perspective of the arts and humanities as a whole, the outlook for literary study per se is especially grim. and part two—
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No visit from the birds today, so no new pics.

Here’s an article on Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that was in a newspaper.

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• — A Talk with Sir Rabindranath Tagore; Bengali Poet, Nobel Prize Winner, Now in This Country, Gives His Poetic Creed and Explains Oriental Attitude Toward Literature By Joyce Kilmer. October 29, 1916, Sunday —
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• — Frieda Hughes: why I love motorcycle racing —
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• — The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, Mr. Carroll’s hometown, has agreed to install a marker that commemorates a moment on Nov. 27, 1925, when the poet Vachel Lindsay was timidly approached at dinner by a busboy who placed three poems he had written next to Lindsay’s plate. —
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• — This month’s Across the Page features four noteworthy poetry collections, including: Mary Oliver’s new release, Evidence; Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn; Marilyn Hacker’s Desesperanto, and British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s Rapture. —
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• — As you can see, at least two letters at the start of every word are the same as the ending letters of the previous word. Can you make such word-chain sentences that make sense? —
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• — 5 Awe-Inspiring Poetry Reads, by Katha Pollitt —
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• — Denton woman selected as 2010 Texas poet laureate —
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• — D’oh! on a Grecian Urn —
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• — Miss Conduct’s 2nd Annual Clerihew Contest! —
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• — Like the Levi’s(R) brand, Walt Whitman stands for the democratic power of real people – the self-reliant young men and women who make this country a better place. —
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• — “Over the coming weeks, we’ll also be posting a second set of poems by the contributors to the issue. These poems will be ‘made’ using the texts from other contributors’ poems.” —
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• — Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2009 Results —
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• — “…about the experience of putting together the Multiformalisms anthology I recently edited with Susan Schultz and how the formalism/language poetry are not at all the opposed forces people imagine they are but are practically in cahoots” —
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• — Marianne Moore’s five-decade struggle with “Poetry.” —
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• — An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs <-- updated link to free access to full article thank you ---
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• — Santa Clara County unveiled its first-ever word collage – a collection of lines from county residents organized by county Poet Laureate Nils Peterson. —
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• — Poetry presses, getting published & the delightful ampersand
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• — In her collection, “Honeybee” (Greenwillow, 2008), writer Naomi Shihab Nye finds a metaphor for our constant busy–ness in the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder — the unexplained demise of thousands of honeybees. [mp3] —
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Hey, happy Canada Day!

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• — Bukowski letter sells for $1,500 —
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• — A Dream by Jorge Luis Borges, New Yorker July 6, 2009 —
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• — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu believed that satire should be sharp and fine as a razor, sliding into its subject deeply but barely discernibly. Her quarrel with Pope, said to originate in her rejection of him as a suitor, produced some particularly cutting strokes. —
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• — Lawrence resident Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, left, will take the reins as Kansas Poet Laureate as Denise Low, right, finishes her two-year term. —
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• — “In order to earn quick money, some people through their substandard creations has rendered Hindi poem/literature into a laughing matter” —
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• — Twitter freakout du jour: Alice Hoffman v. Boston Globe and an apology: Author Apologizes for Twitter Outburst About a Bad Review —
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• — Latest translation of ‘Aeneid’ lacks vitality, power —
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• — “A good if eerie example of what happens when the shutter opens before the flash goes off.” —
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• — Weekly Poem: Natasha Trethewey ‘Myth’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
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• — Wish Away Cancer! Get A Lunchtime Face-Lift! Eradicate Autism! Turn Back The Clock! Thin Your Thighs! Cure Menopause! Harness Positive Energy! Erase Wrinkles! Banish Obesity! Live Your Best Life Ever! —
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• — In Search of the Science Behind the Healing Powers of Art —
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• — Harvard professor David McCann says America is ready for sijo —
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• — Although Matt Simpson, who has died aged 73, was never one of the Liverpool poets, the city is at the heart of nearly all his work —
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• — After an 18-Year Mission, the Solar Probe Ulysses Retires —
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Taco Bell’s New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature

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• — chicago poetry calendar —
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• — Summertime Poetry Picks —
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• — Tony Hoagland on Dean Young —
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• — Iran’s National Poet Speaks Out —
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• — Four Virginia poets — two well-known, two not so, offer anthologies that make summer a time to savor the poetic as well as lighter reading. —
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• — Darth times indeed: The Give Dick Cheney’s Memoir A Title contest —
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• — bill moyers’ in-depth interview with w.s.merwin —
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• — Four Ears: the Curse of the Metrical Code —
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• — ron slate on stacie cassarino —
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• — The Waste Land, according to Ezra Pound, is “the longest poem in the English langwidge”. As his spelling suggests, he was not being entirely serious. —
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• — “Those good folks, The Joiners, are offering up their latest song as a free download this weekend. Hurry and listen to their wonderful “Tennessee.” It’s really, really good.” —
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• — How David Trinidad’s collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry. [mp3] —
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• — PICTURES: Hand Stencils Through Time —
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• — “fire” – lou pinella as bukowski poem —
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• — Spanish Poet Victoriano Cremer Dies at 102 —
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• — New tartan commemorates Burns’s 250th anniversary —
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• — Arty Party Food —
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• — no wonder print media is “dying” —
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• — Psychjourney Podcast & “Invisible Sisters.” —
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• — “Never Land” Yusef Kumunyakaa —
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• — Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winner Matthew Dickman writes emotional and accessible poetry… [mp3] —
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• — A recent search through the vast holdings of the Vrzhu Research Bureau archives uncovered the draft of a previously unknown poem by John Keats. —
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• — Weird book of the week: Poems About Horses —
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• — Book Review: The Bloodless Stigmata by Dee Kite —
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• — An array of poems printed on heavy stock hang above elegantly carved wooden Japanese-style prayer sticks —
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• — Best documentary award was taken by Aliona Van der Horst of The Netherlands with a lament for cult Russian poet Boris Ryzhy, who committed suicide in 2001 —
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• — Gordon Brown turns to former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion for advice —
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• — It was not unitl later, when I was readling through Tupelo Press’s free downloadable Reader’s Companion [PDF] for Calendars that I realized the poem is written in dactylic tetrameter. The dactyl is one of the most scorned metric feet in English prosody. —
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• — “He probably wrote some poems for some of you bimbos out there…” —
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• — On this edition of The Poets Weave, Jenny Kander reads poems by Maxine Kumin from the book Say This of Horses: a collection of poems, edited by C.E. Greer and Jenny Kander. —
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• — Back to the Futurists: Italy’s First Avant-Garde Turns 100 —
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I felt bloggy for this post of Poetry Hut Blog. Lotsa good links out there.

I think I linked to this cartoon a long time ago, but I’m easily amused:



I like Shakespeare’s cartoon-panel-exasperation-sweat-drops in that last panel. Have a nice Monday.

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Chicago poetry blogger, (and poet) Kristy Bowen, who is also the editor of Dancing Girl Press (beautiful chapbooks) and neato lit mag Wicked Alice, has introduced the chicago poetry calendar:

the chicago poetry calendar

“A collective central clearinghouse for readings, event listings, local book and litmag news and reviews, interviews, and all other things poetry-wise in Chicago..If you are a editor, curator, poet, etc, who would like to be added to the blog as a member to post news, reviews, etc…, we would love to have you join.”

• — I thought I’d hop into a recent discussion begun here which proposed to consider the prose poem as a medium, a la Marshall McLuhan, rather than as a poetic form and was based on a quote to that effect made… —
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• — All that remains of Denver’s once- vital Beat scene are the memories of those who took part as well as the literary and visual artworks and scattered residue from that creatively fertile, topsy-turvy time from around 1965 through 1987 —
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• — “He touched my life. His influence was profound. He will always be part of me, down where the deep-feeders lie.” —
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• — Dharma Poetry: Gary Synder’s “Riprap” —
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• — “I’m at the point where I don’t really know what’s going on–I really haven’t been in touch for 10 years.” —
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• — Cambridge University launched a campaign on Thursday to buy an important collection of personal papers belonging to Siegfried Sassoon, the British anti-war poet noted for his bravery in battle. —
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• — But there is one element in the story of the fall of Palmyra and of Queen Zenobia that is not usually mentioned in the history books: namely, the fact that there was also a “poet” in this story, who played a central role in the unfolding drama by proffering “advice.” —
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• — Hassett vs. Hasselbeck: What A Plagiarism Lawsuit Reveals About Writers’ Fear of Theft —
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• — Women in science —
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• — However, she is keeping the 600 bottles of complimentary sherry written into the ancient terms and conditions. —
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• — Two words on love —
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• — The Library of Congress posted a photo: —
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• — The Poetry Media Service offers free content about poetry to newspapers and online publications. Its book reviews, profiles, interviews, and poetry columnists will engage a general readership in poetry. —
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• — Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman enter the blogosphere, with a whole age in train. ( —
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• — “I’ve gotten a healthy amount of queries asking for clarification on a couple points surrounding our first reading period, so I figured it’s better late than never to clarify” —
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• — William Carlos Williams reads his poems in New York City in 1942 and at the Library of Congress in 1945. [mp3] —
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• — On Poetry: Contemporary American poetry needs a literary revival —
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• — A former poet laureate on haiku and the responsibilities of writers. —
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• — Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing —
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