Poetry News: 30 Most Recent Entries

10.10.08
Poetry goes to work.

"Pat the Voice" channels Dylan Thomas.

E-lit pioneer Stephanie Strickland isn't giving up on paper.

"Dark angel with her unruly Slavic eyebrows" wouldn't mind a meet-up.

UK Minister argues for more librarian "joy and chatter."

How to capitalize on a cultural asset (poetry) in Massachussets.

Millionaire poet plies audiences with free wine, so-so verse.

Poetic strategies in the oblivion of David Foster Wallace.


10.09.08
Scottish poet Mick Imlah wins the Forward Prize.

Rosanna Warren's anti-memoir of verse.

"Poetry dead? An absurd idea," says Pinsky.

National Poetry Day in the UK.

An argument for the Nobel for "outstanding literary achievement with no fancy stuff."

The poet psyche express.

Pure poetry and football.

Poetry in the raw.

Amiri Baraka: "If you don't get hit in the head, you've got a future."


10.08.08
Charlotte Kohler, renowned editor at VQR, dies at 99.

A lesbian poetry retrospective.

The absolute and the everyday in Rae Armantrout.

Canadian lit booster dies.

Finnish poet Paavo Haavikko is dead.

Budding Brookline poet "completely rad."

Ashley Capps has "survival skills given by the human imagination."

The Poetry Treatment puts verse in the can.

John Snow, cricketer poet.


10.07.08
Robert Hass: "There's something wrong with the American moral imagination."

Poetry from the political fringe.

Poet Samhan an "enemy of Islam."

The UK tries to Import important poetry.


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