Bob Dylan is one of our best poets
Tangled Up In School: Teaching Dylan In BostonNPR March 21, 2009"I think that [Bob Dylan is] one of the best contemporary American poets, even if you just look at the lyrics stripped of the music. He's...
View ArticleWe Have No Minor Poets
"Curiously, it is almost impossible to find...modest assessments when one turns to contemporary poetry. Indeed, the problem of neglect or insignificance evaporates in a situation in which, in spite of...
View Articlea poem should float
Kay Ryan Reflects on Role as Nation's Poet Laureate Online NewHour 3/25/09Jeffrey Brown asks Kay Ryan whether she makes "a conscious effort to get [her poetry] down to an essence," or whether that's...
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Posting here will only be occasional for the next couple of months--I'm in the middle of moving. I'll begin posting regularly again once my life gets settled.-Tanya
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W.S. Merwin wins 2009 Pulitzer Prize
The Shadow of SiriusW.S. Merwin - Copper Canyon PressThe Laughing ThrushO nameless joy of the morningtumbling upward note by note out of the night and the hush of the dark valley and out of whatever...
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No monster hogweed in U.S. poetry crop
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney‘The hazel stirred’: Death of a Naturalist (excerpt from Stepping Stones) Found at Poetry Daily____________________________________________"'Remote on the...
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New Books by Cortez, Powell, Sorby
When possible, excerpts are taken from poems printed in the new books. Otherwise, excerpts are from work that is representative of the poet's work at large. Find moreOn the Imperial Highway: New and...
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New books by Green, Batykefer, Seed
American Fractal by Timothy Green - Feb 15, 2009 - Red Hen PressThe Memory of WaterIt can be demonstrated with thermo- luminescence: the salt solutionretains knowledge of what it once held,...
View ArticleRansacking Other Literatures
All Around the World the Same Song:How globe-trotting poetries may not beat scrawls in a cave.BY C. K. WILLIAMS, Poetry Foundation"This is what happened to me and to many other poets during the the...
View ArticlePros + Cons of Online Lit Mags
"...Writers who choose to publish their work online face a host of potential pitfalls. The benefits far outweigh the risks, but the risks are there and writers should be aware of them."Now You Read It,...
View ArticleLet poetry be restored to the marketplace
"T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams. Auden, Yeats, Pound, Frost and others...were amateurs—in the best sense of the word. They wrote poetry for love whether or not they were paid....
View Article"Poet's Choice" goes web-only
"EVOLUTION" AT POET'S CHOICE"With its change to a Web-only feature, Poet's Choice is evolving. We'll be asking a different poet each week to share with us a poem he or she has written. Mary Karr, who...
View ArticleBe Negative
Going Negative: A “necessary skeptic” says what he really thinks about new books by Jane Mead, D.A. Powell, and John Poch.Poetry March 2009 BY JASON GURIEL"But negativity, I’m starting to think, needs...
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New books by White, Douglas, Gray
Bone Light Orlando White - Red Hen Press - February 15, 2009UNWRITTENEnough to reveal part of what covers a skull, to scrape out its ink with a trowel: a loop of an unfinished alphabet, a C bent to...
View ArticleAn Examination of the Poet in Time of War
"'The war, people said, had revived their interest in poetry,' said Virginia Woolf after the First World War. This phenomenon has repeated itself. Following September 11 and, subsequently, following...
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Writing poetry is like sitting in your Honda
Knopf, February 10, 2009"The poet's task is both to dramatize our most intimate and intense feelings, and at the same time give us a perspective on them. Stonington's great poet James Merrill once...
View ArticleGot poems about Little Red Riding Hood?
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Red Issue Fairy Tale Review
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How strained can a rhyme be before it's too strained?
Good interview w/Andrew Hudgins:From worse to verse: Quirks of behavior provoke rhymes from professor BILL EICHENBERGER - THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH - 3/15/08 Q: How strained can a rhyme be before it's too...
View ArticleSon of Sylvia Plath Commits Suicide
Son of Sylvia Plath Commits SuicideBy ANAHAD O’CONNORNew York Times March 23, 2009 "Nicholas Hughes, the son of the poet and novelist Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, killed...
View ArticleAndrew Motion's one regret
"I wish ... that someone had flown me to Iraq and Afghanistan and encouraged me to write about the wars in those places."'No writing is as hard as this' - poet laureate's parting shot Stephen Bates The...
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