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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
August 29th forum announcement
Dear Poetry Fans,
Poetry & Poets in Rags
We are back to normal with links to 31 articles, after the huge issue last Tuesday that covered two weeks. So I'll be brief. But, why statues this week? Three articles have to do with statues, the 9th, 10th, and 11th stories in News at Eleven. Also, we have a new addition to our Great Regulars section--I finally caught on that The Kansas City Star has a weekly Poet's Corner column. And important poets have died in our world this past week, so be sure to scroll to the Poetic Obituaries. Lots of good stuff. Thanks for clicking in.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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Poetry & Poets in Rags
We are back to normal with links to 31 articles, after the huge issue last Tuesday that covered two weeks. So I'll be brief. But, why statues this week? Three articles have to do with statues, the 9th, 10th, and 11th stories in News at Eleven. Also, we have a new addition to our Great Regulars section--I finally caught on that The Kansas City Star has a weekly Poet's Corner column. And important poets have died in our world this past week, so be sure to scroll to the Poetic Obituaries. Lots of good stuff. Thanks for clicking in.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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News at Eleven: [Jennifer Maiden] wrote a sonnet,
Positional Asphyxia, in response to the death of 27 Lebanese when the Israelis bombed Cana. "It's the idea of being trapped and being unable to emancipate oneself."
from The Age: Life and a Maiden
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from The Age: Life and a Maiden
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News at Eleven: The screenwriter and novelist Sheila Hayman,
who has coordinated Write to Life for more than two years as a volunteer, says: "The people in the group come in smiley and cheerful but that, in a way, is a coping device. They have all had the most horrendous experiences in their lives and in a sense have had living nightmares."
from The Guardian: Taking control of the ghosts
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from The Guardian: Taking control of the ghosts
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News at Eleven: He should return the Nobel Prize
for Literature. The accusation of hypocrisy, if only partial, is undeniable.
[Gunter] Grass has always admitted his Nazi affiliation in the context of a nationalistic family, society and the belief in truths which he subsequently had revealed to him as fundamental falsehoods.
from The Northern Echo: Has Grass come clean too late?
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[Gunter] Grass has always admitted his Nazi affiliation in the context of a nationalistic family, society and the belief in truths which he subsequently had revealed to him as fundamental falsehoods.
from The Northern Echo: Has Grass come clean too late?
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News at Eleven: The poet, who was born 100 years ago
today, never penned the note.
The telltale sign that the letter is a joke is that the capital letters at the start of each sentence spell out "A N Wilson is a shit".
from The Guardian: Hoax love letter fools Betjeman biographer
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The telltale sign that the letter is a joke is that the capital letters at the start of each sentence spell out "A N Wilson is a shit".
from The Guardian: Hoax love letter fools Betjeman biographer
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News at Eleven: "If you have a gift horse,"
Indiana Court of Appeals Judge John Baker said during a court hearing Tuesday, you "keep your mouth shut."
from The News-Sentinel: Judge scolds 2 charities for fighting over Lilly family fortune
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from The News-Sentinel: Judge scolds 2 charities for fighting over Lilly family fortune
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News at Eleven: First published in 1923
in the journal Krasny Flot (Red Fleet), it was reprinted in the 1970 edition of the annual Soviet literary anthology Den' poezii (Poetry Day). It is a moving poem, of which my unrhymed literal translation can only give a hint.
from libcom.org: Stormy Petrel--Anatoli Zhelezniakov
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from libcom.org: Stormy Petrel--Anatoli Zhelezniakov
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News at Eleven: Carol Ann [Duffy] says:
The wonderful Romanian poet, Nina Cassian, now in her 70s, is much-loved globally for performances of her own direct, feisty and vulnerable poems. This tiny poem is typical of her work--both ruthlessly honest and funny.
from The Daily Mirror: Yourlife: Poetry Corner
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from The Daily Mirror: Yourlife: Poetry Corner
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News at Eleven: [Andrew] Motion cannot realistically hope
to measure up to dear old Betj, let alone to such previous incumbents as Jonson, Dryden or Tennyson, but so far--he was appointed in 1999, so he has four more years in office--he has made a surprisingly good fist of the job.
from The Independent: Andrew Motion: Poetic licence to thrill
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from The Independent: Andrew Motion: Poetic licence to thrill
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News at Eleven: Until recently, few have recognised Fergusson's
connection to the history of the hospital. But in 1992, the hospital opened the Robert Fergusson Unit, a specialist clinic for the treatment of patients from across Scotland, suffering psychiatric or behavioural problems after a head injury.
from The Scotsman: Poetic madness in Edinburgh's lunatic asylum
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from The Scotsman: Poetic madness in Edinburgh's lunatic asylum
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News at Eleven: [Emma Lazarus] was thought of
as being on the lunatic fringe for advocating a Jewish homeland. And there were some people who thought that she was a godless infidel who had a very enlightened and too modern sense of what it meant to be a Jew.
from Nextbook: American Iconoclast
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from Nextbook: American Iconoclast
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News at Eleven (Back Page): "The world was outraged
when the Taliban blew up Buddha statues in Afghanistan," says activist Natalya Chernetsova. "But a similar process of cultural destruction is now going on in central Moscow and no one is doing a thing."
from The Guardian: Shoppers threaten to topple father of Russian literature
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from The Guardian: Shoppers threaten to topple father of Russian literature
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Great Regulars: From "the smell of All Day English Breakfast Specials/
expanding in the January air" to June's "geraniums . . . bunched and grubby and alive" and the "muck of noise on the Edgware Road" in "grey September", he [Tobias Hill] delivers the city to us in a series of sensual, impressionistic vignettes that thrum with oppositions.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: London, light and love
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from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: London, light and love
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Great Regulars: [Nancy Nielson's] dogs help her
hold the line between the great wilderness and her small, carved-out niche of gardens. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal and in her chapbook, “Fencing Wildness.”
Field Keeping
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: In the late summer meadows
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Field Keeping
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: In the late summer meadows
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Great Regulars: Even Thomas Jefferson showed disdain
for Phillis’ writing; in his Notes on the State of Virginia, he remarked, "Religion indeed has produced a Phyllis Whately [sic] but it could not produce a poet. The compositions published under her name are below the dignity of criticism."
from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: America's First African-American Poet--Phillis Wheatley
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from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: America's First African-American Poet--Phillis Wheatley
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Great Regulars: Indeed, one of the significant
accomplishments of [Wendy] Salinger's narrative is that it ventriloquizes so successfully, speaking not only in the voice of the misogynistic and limitlessly narcissistic father ("Shut up. You don't care about the pain in my gut or the pain in my head or the pain in my neck, which is what you are. So just shut up. I'm warning you"), but also in the voices of the silenced females. . . .
from Karl Kirchwey: The Philadelphia Inquirer: Poetic memoir tells of torn loyalty to an abusive father
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from Karl Kirchwey: The Philadelphia Inquirer: Poetic memoir tells of torn loyalty to an abusive father
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Great Regulars: Of taking long walks
it has been said that a person can walk off anything. Here David Mason hikes a mountain in his home state, Colorado, and steps away from an undisclosed personal loss into another state, one of healing.
from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 074 (pdf)
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from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 074 (pdf)
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Great Regulars: Or sometimes there is reason
to do the opposite, letting two different kinds of nuance, basically irrelevant to each other, fuse or collide. That can be a way of discovering meaning or expressing feeling. Suji Kwock Kim does this in a poem that comes out of the long, cruel Japanese occupation of Korea:
Occupation
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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Occupation
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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(New to) Great Regulars: 'Found Poem: Rural Route 20, Oklahoma'
By Jan Sokoloff Harness
from The Kansas City Star: Poet's Corner: 'Found Poem: Rural Route 20, Oklahoma'
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from The Kansas City Star: Poet's Corner: 'Found Poem: Rural Route 20, Oklahoma'
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Poetic Obituaries: Betty T. Bennett, a literature professor
at American University who was a leading authority on the life of "Frankenstein" author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and her circle of friends, died of lung cancer Aug. 12 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. She was 71.
from The Washington Post: AU Dean, Professor Betty Bennett, 71
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from The Washington Post: AU Dean, Professor Betty Bennett, 71
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Poetic Obituaries: Looking up, they'll remember how Dr. Gladys Conrad,
their amazing mom, basked in the ocean breezes freshening her open balcony.
Then the sisters, wearing their mother's hats, will carry flowers to the beach. They'll sit for a while and read Gladys' poems.
from The Union-Tribune: Daughters reach out in hopes of solving mother's killing
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Then the sisters, wearing their mother's hats, will carry flowers to the beach. They'll sit for a while and read Gladys' poems.
from The Union-Tribune: Daughters reach out in hopes of solving mother's killing
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Poetic Obituaries: Silva Kaputikian was laureate
of a number of literary awards. In 1998 Cambridge International Geographic Institute awarded her the title of "Woman of the Year".
from Armenia Diaspora: Armenian Poetess Silva Kaputikian Passess Away
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from Armenia Diaspora: Armenian Poetess Silva Kaputikian Passess Away
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Poetic Obituaries: [K. Ayyappa Panicker] was one of the harbingers
of modernism into Malayalam poetry. He was a teacher with a huge fan following and had played a major role in transforming Malayalam theatre, which had got stuck in the proscenium mode.
from The Hindu: A lonely traveller's journey ends
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from The Hindu: A lonely traveller's journey ends
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Poetic Obituaries: Dr. [Raymond H.] Reno taught English literature
at Georgetown for 37 years, with a specialty in the plays of William Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists as well as the epic poetry of John Milton.
He was considered an innovative teacher who devised new ways to draw students into classroom activities.
from The Washington Post: GU Professor, Actor Raymond H. Reno, 82
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He was considered an innovative teacher who devised new ways to draw students into classroom activities.
from The Washington Post: GU Professor, Actor Raymond H. Reno, 82
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Poetic Obituaries: Renowned laureate of Navodaya period
in Kannada literature B R Vaadappi (92) passed away here on Thursday morning at his residence.
from Newindpress: Laureate Vadappi passes away
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from Newindpress: Laureate Vadappi passes away
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Poetic Obituaries: [Paul van Vlissingen] set aside time
every day for reading and for writing. He published some of his poetry and his reflections on life, as well as books of photographs taken by his friends of issues and places he found important.
from The Times: Paul van Vlissingen
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from The Times: Paul van Vlissingen
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
August 22nd forum announcement
Dear Poetry Fans,
Poetry & Poets in Rags
The ferry into Lofoten last week was like entering a dream. If you ever get the chance, you should go.
Here is Poetry & Poets in Rags, back after a week hiatus with the biggest issue ever. I made sure of only 11 articles in News at Eleven, because we have 31 Great Regulars, and 23 Poetic Obituaries, making a total of 65 articles from all over the world, for your information, perusal, and enjoyment. Our headliner is a great article by the National Poet of Wales, something that should prove useful to the poetry forums around the web. In Great Regulars, we have articles by former IBPC judges Sarah Crown (two) and David Biespiel, and one by upcoming judge David Kirby some of you may want to check out.
I need to detract, which is odd, because I usually only link to articles. But, there is an obituary in our November 8, 2005 issue, which notes the passing of a poet named Stephen Magee. In the forum announcement, I made the connection with the poet Stephen Magee, who wrote both "Rightly" which was shortlisted in John Burnside's workshop at The Guardian and published in Other lives, and "Temeraire" in David Harsent's article called Murdering your darlings. The latter Stephen Magee wrote to me, to let me know he is alive. He says, "Perhaps the strangest aspect of this story is that, when my brother's email arrived, I was in the middle of writing an essay entitled 'Do you believe in ghosts?'."
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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Poetry & Poets in Rags
The ferry into Lofoten last week was like entering a dream. If you ever get the chance, you should go.
Here is Poetry & Poets in Rags, back after a week hiatus with the biggest issue ever. I made sure of only 11 articles in News at Eleven, because we have 31 Great Regulars, and 23 Poetic Obituaries, making a total of 65 articles from all over the world, for your information, perusal, and enjoyment. Our headliner is a great article by the National Poet of Wales, something that should prove useful to the poetry forums around the web. In Great Regulars, we have articles by former IBPC judges Sarah Crown (two) and David Biespiel, and one by upcoming judge David Kirby some of you may want to check out.
I need to detract, which is odd, because I usually only link to articles. But, there is an obituary in our November 8, 2005 issue, which notes the passing of a poet named Stephen Magee. In the forum announcement, I made the connection with the poet Stephen Magee, who wrote both "Rightly" which was shortlisted in John Burnside's workshop at The Guardian and published in Other lives, and "Temeraire" in David Harsent's article called Murdering your darlings. The latter Stephen Magee wrote to me, to let me know he is alive. He says, "Perhaps the strangest aspect of this story is that, when my brother's email arrived, I was in the middle of writing an essay entitled 'Do you believe in ghosts?'."
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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News at Eleven: Poets use rhyme all the time:
half-rhyme, internal rhyme, broken rhyme, leonine rhyme, chain rhyme, random rhyme and vowels echoing intimately from inside one line across to the next.
Too bad: the real rallying flag for the rhyme police is end rhyme in a rhyming scheme.
from The Guardian: No rhyme or reason
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Too bad: the real rallying flag for the rhyme police is end rhyme in a rhyming scheme.
from The Guardian: No rhyme or reason
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News at Eleven: [John Betjeman] sucked up to
the aristocracy, thrilled at the smell of slum poverty and mocked the ghastly good taste of the middle classes in rum-ti-tum verses of rhyming Victorian pastiche.
from Telegraph: A tribute to the poet of privet hedges
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from Telegraph: A tribute to the poet of privet hedges
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News at Eleven: That Scotland now has the cultural
confidence to teach its own literature in schools and universities is some acknowledgement of [Hugh] MacDiarmid's desire for full Scottish self-expression and, however much he may have despaired of the current devolved Parliament with its limited powers, his has been the loudest voice for Scottish self-determination in the modern era.
from The Scotsman: Of poetry and politics: MacDiarmid's vision of Scotland
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from The Scotsman: Of poetry and politics: MacDiarmid's vision of Scotland
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News at Eleven: Fewer than one per cent
of all poets published by the mainstream poetry presses in Britain are black or Asian. You'd think it was the 1940s or 1950s but no, it's the 21st century.
from The Independent: We've had enough of Greek myths
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from The Independent: We've had enough of Greek myths
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News at Eleven: Although this editing job
is unpaid, Jacket is considered one of the best publications of its type anywhere, The Guardian calling it "the prince of online magazines".
As mainstream publishers retreat from publishing poetry, Jacket, [John] Tranter contends, "has a huge impact" on the poetry world.
from The Australian: Original of his generation
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As mainstream publishers retreat from publishing poetry, Jacket, [John] Tranter contends, "has a huge impact" on the poetry world.
from The Australian: Original of his generation
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News at Eleven: Kakamurad Ballyev, former press secretary
of the President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov, was sentenced to 17 years imprisonment. Ballyev's became the only trial in a whole series of trials of senior officials of the Turkmen state Tashkent kept under the lid.
from Ferghana.Ru: Saparmurat Niyazov's former press secretary sentenced to 17 years imprisonment
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from Ferghana.Ru: Saparmurat Niyazov's former press secretary sentenced to 17 years imprisonment
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News at Eleven: [Lorie] Nicholson-Tennant, 25, returned
to her Hollywood home late on the night of August 25, 2004, after a poetry reading. A few hours later, her mother found her stabbed and her throat slit.
from The Miami Herald: Nicholson gets life for killing ex-wife
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from The Miami Herald: Nicholson gets life for killing ex-wife
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News at Eleven: There was a sliding door into her laundry,
a drier's Coke-bottle eye. The crack
of her bust rode up as the door rolled shut behind.
In close-up, lipstick stuck to her teeth like food.
And so on, until it becomes a secret that must be kept close to the chest until the boy becomes a poet.
from The Australian: Necessary Evil
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of her bust rode up as the door rolled shut behind.
In close-up, lipstick stuck to her teeth like food.
And so on, until it becomes a secret that must be kept close to the chest until the boy becomes a poet.
from The Australian: Necessary Evil
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News at Eleven: While Enid [Wilkinson] was doing
her homework at the kitchen table, [Ted] Hughes, then 19, noticed an exercise book into which she had copied her favourite romantic poems.
"Ted picked up the book and said, 'Shall I write you one of my poems?'," Enid recalled last week.
from The Sunday Times: Found after 50 years: first love poems of Ted Hughes
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"Ted picked up the book and said, 'Shall I write you one of my poems?'," Enid recalled last week.
from The Sunday Times: Found after 50 years: first love poems of Ted Hughes
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News at Eleven (Back Page): When Hank Boerner paid
a dollar for an old, used book he found in 1990 while on vacation at a Vermont resort, he didn’t pay any attention to the penciled inscription on the inside of the front cover.
from Lawrence Journal-World: Recently found poem reveals sister’s tribute
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from Lawrence Journal-World: Recently found poem reveals sister’s tribute
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Great Regulars: Louis Bayard, the author of "Mr. Timothy,"
a novel that imagines Tiny Tim as a 23-year-old living in a London brothel, follows that success with "The Pale Blue Eye," a delightful novel that plants Poe firmly on the plains of West Point in 1830 and presses him into service helping a retired detective solve a murder.
from Jeff Baker: The Oregonian: 'Pale' tells a vivid tale of Poe
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from Jeff Baker: The Oregonian: 'Pale' tells a vivid tale of Poe
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Great Regulars: In writing elegies for each other,
poets honor the fundamental nature of poetry--the labor and shimmer of language, the made thing.
Stern
in memory of Ted Hughes
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: The elegy between poets enshrines verse for eternity
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Stern
in memory of Ted Hughes
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: The elegy between poets enshrines verse for eternity
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Great Regulars: With this outstanding volume,
his [Matthew Francis's] place among contemporary British poetry's aristocracy is confirmed.
Each poem in this brief, beautiful book conforms to the same strict template: a 45-syllable sestet in which the lines, declining in length from 13 syllables to four, enact the sense of distillation, of homing in, that is a crucial feature of these poems.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Flashes of light
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Each poem in this brief, beautiful book conforms to the same strict template: a 45-syllable sestet in which the lines, declining in length from 13 syllables to four, enact the sense of distillation, of homing in, that is a crucial feature of these poems.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Flashes of light
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Great Regulars: According to the existing curriculum,
11- to 14-year-olds must study eight major poets, four major fiction writers and "drama by major playwrights". Of the fiction writers, half must have been published before 1914, and half afterwards.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Culture Vulture: Brave new works
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from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Culture Vulture: Brave new works
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Great Regulars: Oddly, [Keith F.] Collins does not
read much poetry. "I'm not a huge poetry reader, I actually enjoy writing them more," he admits. "I have read numerous baseball poems, and among my favorites is 'The Base Stealer' by Robert Francis."
from Bill Diskin: York Daily Record: Poetryork: The poetry of baseball
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from Bill Diskin: York Daily Record: Poetryork: The poetry of baseball
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Great Regulars: [Anne Mullin's] poems have
appeared in many poetry journals and anthologies, and her chapbooks include Women Who Know Too Much, Women Who Know More Than Enough, and Two Friends Blend, with co-poet Mary Alice Boulter of Pocatello.
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: A summer's afternoon at the sea
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from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: A summer's afternoon at the sea
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Great Regulars: The self-effacing remark that he
was "sometimes a Poetaster" no doubt sheds some light on Thoreau's reputation as a poet—that attitude coupled with the fact that he did write fewer poems than essays. But on the other hand, Thoreau probably considered all of writing "poetry" in the larger sense of the word, that is, "maker."
from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: Sometimes a Poetaster--Henry David Thoreau
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from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: Sometimes a Poetaster--Henry David Thoreau
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Great Regulars: So for Maggie Dietz
to call a poem in her first book "North of Boston" is like an unknown jumping into the ring with the heavyweight champ; you worry not about who's going to win but whether the newcomer will end up on the canvas or in the cheap seats.
from The New York Times: David Kirby: Dreams, Trees, Grief
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from The New York Times: David Kirby: Dreams, Trees, Grief
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Great Regulars: Those who survived the Great Depression
of the 1930s have a tough, no-nonsense take on what work is. If when I was young I'd told my father I was looking for fulfilling work, he would have looked at me as if I'd just arrived from Mars. Here the Pennsylvania poet, Jan Beatty, takes on the voice of her father to illustrate the thinking of a generation of Americans.
from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 072
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from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 072
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Great Regulars: Those of us who have planted
trees and shrubs know well that moment when the last spade full of earth is packed around the root ball and patted or stamped into place and we stand back and wish the young plant good fortune. Here the poet Roy Scheele offers us a few well-chosen words we can use the next time.
from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 073
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from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 073
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Great Regulars: That quiet, rapt attention
has a lot to do with writing: The sunlight spills like "gilt/on onionskin"--which I take to mean both the actual skin of an onion and the thin paper named after it. And [Peter] Balakian's final line, again using the verb "spill," brings Thoreau's astringent kind of whimsy to the writer's urge or need to write.
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice (August 13th)
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from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice (August 13th)
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Great Regulars: But [Ogden] Nash's sensibility
has a bleak, sour quality that is not the stuff of popular music. Many of us think of him only as a charming, inventive and carefree goofer. It's surprising and maybe a little shocking to read this poem:
Old Men
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice (August 20th)
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Old Men
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice (August 20th)
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Great Regulars: We learn from Dr. [S.] Kalyanaraman's
Himalayan effort that language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous works of unconscious generations. Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Language is itself the collective art of expression, a summary of thousands upon thousands of individual intuitions.
from V Sundaram: News Today: Trials, tribulations & triumph of a cultural archeaologist--I
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from V Sundaram: News Today: Trials, tribulations & triumph of a cultural archeaologist--I
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Great Regulars: Language contains so faithful a record
of the good and of the evil which in time past have been working in the minds and hearts of men, we shall not err, if we regard it as a moral barometer indicating and permanently marking the rise or fall of a nation's life.
from V Sundaram: News Today: Trials, tribulations & triumph of a cultural archaeologist--II
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from V Sundaram: News Today: Trials, tribulations & triumph of a cultural archaeologist--II
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Great Regulars: The poem takes its pace
from the heat of the afternoon: unfolding slowly with a description of the cat "boneless on the hot stones of the drive", leading in a lovely soundscape of assonance and lulling iambics to the poet's discovery of the tick, "a tiny purple aubergine" (brilliant image!) in her coat.
from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: Animal magic
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from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: Animal magic
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Great Regulars: First I'd like you to think
of a problem - the kind that keeps you awake at night and stays for breakfast. It could be a worry-bead problem, or something you wonder about; a doubt you live with; an anxiety you know like the back of your hand; a question you've gone over so many times the path's worn bare.
from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: Kate Bingham's workshop
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from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: Kate Bingham's workshop
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Great Regulars: [Polly Brown] has also received
awards for her writing from the Worcester County Poetry Association and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. Polly's first collection of poetry, Blue Heron Stone was published in 2000 by Every Other Thursday Press. Her poem "Bean Morning" can be found in this collection.
from The Hopkinton Crier: Poem Prescription
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from The Hopkinton Crier: Poem Prescription
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Great Regulars: by Federico García Lorca
from Poem of the Saeta
The Way
from The New Republic: Poem: Two Poems by Federico García Lorca
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The Way
from The New Republic: Poem: Two Poems by Federico García Lorca
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Great Regulars: Alberto Rios: I've collaborated
with many artists over the years doing these poems of public purpose. Karla Elling, for example, who's a fine-letter press printer, she helped me actually physicalize a project that's called "Words over Water" around Tempe Town Lake. It's 600 granite tiles, six miles long.
from PBS: Newshour: Poet's New Work Chronicles a Couple's Life
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from PBS: Newshour: Poet's New Work Chronicles a Couple's Life
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Great Regulars: "December 12, 1884: George Cooke"
Laramie, Wyoming
By Jill McDonough
from Slate: "December 12, 1884: George Cooke" By Jill McDonough
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By Jill McDonough
from Slate: "December 12, 1884: George Cooke" By Jill McDonough
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Poetic Obituaries: The reason for suicide
is not yet known.
[Mitralal 'Balak'] Adhikari jumped off the Dharahara despite efforts of security guard to save him.
from The Himalayan Times: 42-year-old Man Jumps to Death From Dharahara
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[Mitralal 'Balak'] Adhikari jumped off the Dharahara despite efforts of security guard to save him.
from The Himalayan Times: 42-year-old Man Jumps to Death From Dharahara
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Poetic Obituaries: He was a visionary and entrepreneur;
a man who turned his dream into reality and gave the Town of Whitby worldwide popularity. But his family says Len Cullen would have called himself "just a gardener."
from Durham Region News: Cullen Gardens founder dies
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from Durham Region News: Cullen Gardens founder dies
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Poetic Obituaries: Latterly, in retirement, he [John Downie]
turned his pen to poetry. But it was for his honest and clear rugby reports and comments that he will be most remembered.
from The Herald: John Downie
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from The Herald: John Downie
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Poetic Obituaries: "She was still quoting poetry,"
William Hofelt said. "We would start a line from a poem and she would finish it. It was one of the most delightful times we had with her."
Respected by peers, revered by students and loved by both, [Esther M.] Doyle died Friday at The Oaks at Westminster Woods in Huntingdon.
from Altoona Mirror: 'She was still quoting poetry': Longtime Juniata College professor dies at 96
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Respected by peers, revered by students and loved by both, [Esther M.] Doyle died Friday at The Oaks at Westminster Woods in Huntingdon.
from Altoona Mirror: 'She was still quoting poetry': Longtime Juniata College professor dies at 96
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Poetic Obituaries: [Army Spc. Rogelio R.] Garza was the only
son in a family with two older sisters and two younger sisters.
"He loved to write poetry and draw pictures and, like any boy, he was into video games," Jessica Garza said.
from KRIS: Corpus Christi soldier remembered as protective brother
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"He loved to write poetry and draw pictures and, like any boy, he was into video games," Jessica Garza said.
from KRIS: Corpus Christi soldier remembered as protective brother
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Poetic Obituaries: That same year he ran
in the Democratic mayoral primary but lost to Ed Koch.
"He was one of the best-read, most-informed people I've ever known," [James] Ballinger said.
Besides magazine publishing, [Joel] Harnett wrote poetry and political books.
from The Arizona Republic: Philanthropist helped create city's 'footprint'
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"He was one of the best-read, most-informed people I've ever known," [James] Ballinger said.
Besides magazine publishing, [Joel] Harnett wrote poetry and political books.
from The Arizona Republic: Philanthropist helped create city's 'footprint'
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Poetic Obituaries: [Dallas Grant Hempstead, a] troubled poet
who was stabbed and fled his central Stockton apartment Sunday spilled blood at his front door, on a fence he climbed and on the spot where he died.
from The Record: Family describes slain man as gifted singer, poet
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from The Record: Family describes slain man as gifted singer, poet
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Poetic Obituaries: Mazizi Kunene, who died
last week aged 76, was hailed as one of South Africa's leading poets, and indeed Africa's, having been declared the continent's poet laureate by Unesco in 1993.
from Mail & Guardian: Return to the ancestors
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from Mail & Guardian: Return to the ancestors
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Poetic Obituaries: Jennie [Lopes] was formerly employed
as a sales representative for Southern Bell in Atlanta.
A free-spirited person, she loved sports, dancing, shopping, and fashion. She enjoyed writing stories and poetry.
from The Standard-Times: Jennie O. Lopes
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A free-spirited person, she loved sports, dancing, shopping, and fashion. She enjoyed writing stories and poetry.
from The Standard-Times: Jennie O. Lopes
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Poetic Obituaries: While Pak Majid did not
make a mark as a writer, he too wrote poetry and articles. It was Pak Majid who noticed his friend's penchant and talent for writing.
from New Straits Times: Point Blank: Tale of a friendship cloaked in reticence
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from New Straits Times: Point Blank: Tale of a friendship cloaked in reticence
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Poetic Obituaries: "You could take the most obscure poem,
read it and read it and not understand, and then she could take it and help you understand," [Reba] Campbell said. "She was a marvel at making a poem come alive."
[Ann] Miller also wrote poetry and was putting the finishing touches on a poem when she died, Campbell said.
from The Waco Tribune-Herald: Friends mourn 'the best of old Baylor'
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[Ann] Miller also wrote poetry and was putting the finishing touches on a poem when she died, Campbell said.
from The Waco Tribune-Herald: Friends mourn 'the best of old Baylor'
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Poetic Obituaries: Renowned Egyptian author and Poet,
Dr. Ahmed Mustajir passed away on Wednesday following a brain clot which he suffered while watching scenes of brutal carnage committed by the Israeli forces in Lebanon.
from Bahrain News Agency: Egyptian poet passes away
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from Bahrain News Agency: Egyptian poet passes away
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Poetic Obituaries: [Mike E.] Papageorge owned and operated
Wareham Fruit; he also was the proprietor of Bryant's Farm. He also worked for Decas Brothers, and was a carpenter, fisherman and poet.
from The Standard-Times: Mike E. Papageorge, 90
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from The Standard-Times: Mike E. Papageorge, 90
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Poetic Obituaries: Rahman, one of Bangladesh's most
acclaimed poets, died on Thursday after being in a coma for more than a week. He suffered kidney and liver failure.
from BBC News: Thousands mourn Bangladeshi poet
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from BBC News: Thousands mourn Bangladeshi poet
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Poetic Obituaries: Arlene Raven, an art historian, critic
and educator who helped transform feminist outrage into the Woman's Building, an iconoclastic Los Angeles institution that for 18 years was a magnet for women seeking to produce art on their own terms, died of cancer Aug. 1 at her home in Brooklyn, N.Y.
from The Los Angeles Times: Arlene Raven, 62; Established L.A. Center to Support Female Artists
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from The Los Angeles Times: Arlene Raven, 62; Established L.A. Center to Support Female Artists
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Poetic Obituaries: [James Taft Robinson Sr.] enjoyed reading
black history, treasuring the works of Maya Angelou, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
"When he wasn't extinguishing a fire, calculating water pressure or helping to save a life, he was a caring intellectual with his pen," [Levi] Thomas said.
from The Miami Herald: Dedicated 28 years to Dade fire department
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"When he wasn't extinguishing a fire, calculating water pressure or helping to save a life, he was a caring intellectual with his pen," [Levi] Thomas said.
from The Miami Herald: Dedicated 28 years to Dade fire department
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Poetic Obituaries: [James Sadler's] reputation
as a hair stylist spread far beyond Tampa.
Six years ago, he was featured on a makeover show on TLC.
Apart from his work, friends and family remembered Mr. Sadler as a man with a passion for music, poetry and people.
from Brandon Times: Singer, hair stylist dies at 37
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Six years ago, he was featured on a makeover show on TLC.
Apart from his work, friends and family remembered Mr. Sadler as a man with a passion for music, poetry and people.
from Brandon Times: Singer, hair stylist dies at 37
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Poetic Obituaries: [Tevis] Shaw, a 2004 graduate
of Lafayette High School, was a sous-chef at Bellini's restaurant and was to start attending classes at the University of Kentucky on Wednesday.
"He played guitar and he was a good writer," said his mother, Katherine Shaw of Lexington. He wrote poetry, but usually didn't show his poems to others, she said.
from Lexington Herald-Leader: Lexington man dies in fall from gorge cliff
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"He played guitar and he was a good writer," said his mother, Katherine Shaw of Lexington. He wrote poetry, but usually didn't show his poems to others, she said.
from Lexington Herald-Leader: Lexington man dies in fall from gorge cliff
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Poetic Obituaries: [Derek Lee] Slinger qualified
for his Eagle Scout badge--and the coloring book ended up being distributed to 20,000 patients in 50 children's hospitals.
from Editor and Publisher: Eagle Scout Helped By Universal Cartoonists Dies at 19
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from Editor and Publisher: Eagle Scout Helped By Universal Cartoonists Dies at 19
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Poetic Obituaries: [Walter] Sullivan's relationship with Tate,
Warren and the other writers of the Fugitive and Agrarian movements was based in a common dedication to the literary and cultural traditions of the South, which became increasingly threatened in the 20th century, said Vanderbilt professor Mark Jarman.
from The Tennessean: Author, Southern literary critic, professor Walter Sullivan dies
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from The Tennessean: Author, Southern literary critic, professor Walter Sullivan dies
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Poetic Obituaries: Tributes have poured in
for the 50-year-old disabled shot put and discus star, Tanya Swanepoel, who passed away in Helderberg Hospice on Sunday, June 30, after losing her battle against cancer.
from District Mail: Tanya loses battle against cancer
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from District Mail: Tanya loses battle against cancer
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Poetic Obituaries: Rob Wales loved football,
literature and Grand Funk Railroad. But teaching was his passion.
from The Daily Herald: He taught about life
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from The Daily Herald: He taught about life
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Poetic Obituaries: [Jeff Walsh] wrote a poem,
got permission from his superiors and shared it with readers of the Leader-Post in February, when he was training for a second deployment to Afghanistan--the professional soldier as poet.
from Regina Leader-Post: Regina soldier dies in weapons accident
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from Regina Leader-Post: Regina soldier dies in weapons accident
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
August 8th forum announcement
Dear Poetry Fans,
Poetry & Poets in Rags
Tomorrow, I'm off to Oslo (Christiania to you old Ibsen contemporaries) then Lofoten. I highly doubt we will have a Poetry & Poets in Rags at all next week, or on time the week following. I leave you with a headliner about Ibsen, another 10 excellent articles in News at Eleven, some terrific articles and poems from our Great Regulars, and the Poetic Obituaries fuller than usual.
So what about your poetry news fix for two weeks? How can I just up and leave this way? Here are three things to make you not even miss me, but have a holiday from me instead:
1. At the Poetry & Poets in Rags blog, scroll down the sidebar about a quarter of the way, and notice the "Poetry News Links". Browse them, and you are sure to find an online zine with poetry news to your taste.
2. To get the news as it breaks, which I do at least twice a day, go here: Google Poetry News.
3. If you haven't already, this could be the time to check out Tanya Allen's Choriamb: Poetry News and Reviews. She's excellent.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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Poetry & Poets in Rags
Tomorrow, I'm off to Oslo (Christiania to you old Ibsen contemporaries) then Lofoten. I highly doubt we will have a Poetry & Poets in Rags at all next week, or on time the week following. I leave you with a headliner about Ibsen, another 10 excellent articles in News at Eleven, some terrific articles and poems from our Great Regulars, and the Poetic Obituaries fuller than usual.
So what about your poetry news fix for two weeks? How can I just up and leave this way? Here are three things to make you not even miss me, but have a holiday from me instead:
1. At the Poetry & Poets in Rags blog, scroll down the sidebar about a quarter of the way, and notice the "Poetry News Links". Browse them, and you are sure to find an online zine with poetry news to your taste.
2. To get the news as it breaks, which I do at least twice a day, go here: Google Poetry News.
3. If you haven't already, this could be the time to check out Tanya Allen's Choriamb: Poetry News and Reviews. She's excellent.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
~~~~~~~~~~~
News at Eleven: All of these themes
are also present in The Master Builder, if in different proportions--Ibsen and Hardy's viewpoints being not just similar but the same.
from The Times Literary Supplement: Creative connections between Hardy and Ibsen
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from The Times Literary Supplement: Creative connections between Hardy and Ibsen
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News at Eleven: "When she finished reading,"
recalled Tinesha Davis, a Waldorf poet in the audience, "there was a brief moment of silence. Then there was that 'wow.' "
The young poet [Trenise Robinson]--not unlike William Carlos Williams, the famed poet-doctor of New Jersey--majored in biology in college.
from The Washington Post: In a Young Writer's Verse, a Ruined City's Sorrow
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The young poet [Trenise Robinson]--not unlike William Carlos Williams, the famed poet-doctor of New Jersey--majored in biology in college.
from The Washington Post: In a Young Writer's Verse, a Ruined City's Sorrow
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News at Eleven: Take the following short poem,
which appears near the end of the new collection:
Red Scarf
from The Washington Post: Transcendence
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Red Scarf
from The Washington Post: Transcendence
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News at Eleven: The way she [Wislawa Szymborska] writes
is at odds with many prevalent standards these days. She triumphs over them, utterly. That shows how good she is, and how dumb the standards are.
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Poet does it all 'wrong,' but she's so right
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from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Poet does it all 'wrong,' but she's so right
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News at Eleven: I am wholly, and to use a word
that I just used before, passionately, in favor of free speech in all its forms. I am completely and utterly slavishly committed to free speech and I think that anything less--one iota less--erodes democracy and that means that I am in favor of people being allowed to say anything. [--Molly Peacock]
from Bookslut: An Interview with Molly Peacock
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from Bookslut: An Interview with Molly Peacock
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News at Eleven: I was right to be careful.
When I went on trial in 2003, several people I knew, who turned out to be agents, testified against me.
As predicted, my family had a difficult time when it became known I was a dissenter.
from BBC News: Cuba dissident: 'Fear is everywhere'
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As predicted, my family had a difficult time when it became known I was a dissenter.
from BBC News: Cuba dissident: 'Fear is everywhere'
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News at Eleven: It is a vicious, below-the-belt
skirmish in Australia's poetry wars.
The poet John Kinsella was due to speak about the writing of memoir at the Byron Bay Writers Festival last weekend.
from The Sydney Morning Herald: War, blood, courts: it's poets at arms
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The poet John Kinsella was due to speak about the writing of memoir at the Byron Bay Writers Festival last weekend.
from The Sydney Morning Herald: War, blood, courts: it's poets at arms
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News at Eleven: Homer's "rosy-fingered dawn"
and "wine-dark sea" are themselves the first dawn and first-sighted sea of a new world of poetry: the effulgence, inspired and inspiring, of a new way of seeing and saying. All we read today would be unwritable without the "love," "death" and "dark" that come to us in the first book of the "Iliad."
from The New York Times: On Baricco's Homer
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from The New York Times: On Baricco's Homer
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News at Eleven: Against what he [William Empson] took
to be the prevailing modern orthodoxy of Symbolist poetry--'the main rule is that a poet must never say what he wants to say directly . . . he must invent a way of hinting at it by metaphors, which are then called images'--he promoted what he called 'argufying' in poetry, 'the kind of arguing we do in ordinary life, usually to get our own way'.
from London Review of Books: No reason for not asking
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from London Review of Books: No reason for not asking
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News at Eleven (Back Page): And the beautiful thing
about writing is that once you write it down, then you can share it. You know? You can send it to somebody, or post in on your refrigerator. [--Lawson Inada]
from Oregon Public Broadcasting: An Interview With Oregon Poet Laureate Lawson Inada
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from Oregon Public Broadcasting: An Interview With Oregon Poet Laureate Lawson Inada
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Great Regulars: "I wanted to work with the boundaries
of language," he [Ivan Doig] said. "I'm never going to be Yeats, where he has everything working just right in a poem, but I was determined to try to get that feeling in prose."
Doig rewrote the first page and a half of "This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind" at least 75 times.
from Jeff Baker: The Oregonian: Finding rhythm of remembering
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Doig rewrote the first page and a half of "This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind" at least 75 times.
from Jeff Baker: The Oregonian: Finding rhythm of remembering
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Great Regulars: And though he [Robert Hess] can articulate
all of these sources of inspiration, he can't always explain where his poetry actually originates.
"I do believe in mystical experience, and sometimes poems just come to me and I don't feel they are mine," Hess explains. "I've had these experiences since I was a small boy and feel a responsibility to share them."
from Bill Diskin: York Daily Record: Poetryork: Poet seeks truth through poetry
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"I do believe in mystical experience, and sometimes poems just come to me and I don't feel they are mine," Hess explains. "I've had these experiences since I was a small boy and feel a responsibility to share them."
from Bill Diskin: York Daily Record: Poetryork: Poet seeks truth through poetry
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Great Regulars: [Candice Stover] sent them
with a note so beautiful I have to include an excerpt as well.
"The hydrangea heads sprawl drenched and extravagant along the vegetable garden, the sky looks moody with thunderstorms brewing inland and off the water, and my skin still feels the lusciousness of a swim stolen mid-day in the pond. How does this summer night find you?"
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: Condensing sweetness of summer into short treasures of poems
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"The hydrangea heads sprawl drenched and extravagant along the vegetable garden, the sky looks moody with thunderstorms brewing inland and off the water, and my skin still feels the lusciousness of a swim stolen mid-day in the pond. How does this summer night find you?"
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: Condensing sweetness of summer into short treasures of poems
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Great Regulars: William Carlos Williams, one of
our country's most influential poets and a New Jersey physician, taught us to celebrate daily life. Here Albert Garcia offers us the simple pleasures and modest mysteries of a single summer day.
from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 071
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from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 071
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Great Regulars: Imaginative details such as the buzzing
little finger, the three kinds of wire, unexpected adjectives like "diamondhead"--because they come to the reader partly through Billie's consciousness--create an intimacy, a shared viewpoint or imagining. The poet's art, by being so closely attentive, is generous to its desperate characters.
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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Great Regulars: Katherine Beattie's poetry focused
on the everyday course of events from the 1940's which included observations about raising children, caring for a home and family and losing a brother to war. Some of the language and content of her poems take the reader back in time, while some of the issues are just as relevant today as they were 65 years ago.
To a Gold Star Mother
By Katherine Beattie
from The Hopkinton Crier: Poem Prescription
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To a Gold Star Mother
By Katherine Beattie
from The Hopkinton Crier: Poem Prescription
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Great Regulars: by P.C. McKinnon
This poem is dedicated to Trinidad Sanchez, Jr., internationally recognized poet, who passed away in San Antonio on July 30.
What's In A Poem?
For Trino
from Newpaper Tree: Poetry
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What's In A Poem?
For Trino
from Newpaper Tree: Poetry
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Poetic Obituaries: Literature was a lifelong interest
and she [Elspet Grant Cameron] was an enthusiast for poetry societies, Burns gatherings and was a consistent champion of the Scots language.
from The Herald: Elspet Grant Cameron
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from The Herald: Elspet Grant Cameron
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Poetic Obituaries: After he was imprisoned at Huntsville
in 1977 for assault with a deadly weapon, [Henry Ray] Clark signed up for an art class. He drew with green, black and red ball point pens on any scrap of paper he could find--envelopes to prison menus.
from Houston Chronicle: Art turned around a troubled life
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from Houston Chronicle: Art turned around a troubled life
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Poetic Obituaries: Carlos A. Cortez, through his labor-oriented
art and writings that helped bring international attention to Mexicans and other native peoples, died on Jan. 18 at his home in Chicago. He was 81.
from Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists: Carlos A. Cortez dies at 81
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from Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists: Carlos A. Cortez dies at 81
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Poetic Obituaries: [Marguerite "Peggy" (Bacon) Nolfi] Cseplo
died Aug. 4, 2006, at her daughter's residence.
Born May 13, 1934, in Marion, she had lived in Highland Heights before moving to the Chardon area 30 years ago.
She published poetry and was a folly dancer.
from News-Herald: Marguerite "Peggy" (Bacon) Nolfi Cseplo
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Born May 13, 1934, in Marion, she had lived in Highland Heights before moving to the Chardon area 30 years ago.
She published poetry and was a folly dancer.
from News-Herald: Marguerite "Peggy" (Bacon) Nolfi Cseplo
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Poetic Obituaries: Born in Romania in 1928,
this former Prisoner of Zion [Ezra Fleischer] immigrated to Israel in 1960 with his wife, becoming a poet, a distinguished scholar, a gifted author, a teacher and a true sage. His is a life that proves it is possible to combine scholarship and solid, unshakable humanity--a rare synthesis that we like to call wisdom.
from Haaretz: A rare synthesis called wisdom
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from Haaretz: A rare synthesis called wisdom
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Poetic Obituaries: [Robert J.] Foster was the author
of many books, including mystery novels, poetry volumes and children's stories. He also wrote a musical comedy, Three Cheers for Me, which he produced and directed as the Elgin High School fall musical in 1976. His most recent poetry book, Nipping Leaves, was published in 1987.
from The Courier News: Elgin teacher/author Foster dies
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from The Courier News: Elgin teacher/author Foster dies
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Poetic Obituaries: Cecily Mackworth, who has died
aged 94, was a writer, traveller, war correspondent and rebel. Her friendships included Ivy Compton Burnett, Nancy Cunard, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas, Tristan Tzara, Lawrence Durrell, David Gascoyne, Natalie Sarraute, and Conchita de Saint-Exupéry.
from The Guardian: Cecily Mackworth
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from The Guardian: Cecily Mackworth
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Poetic Obituaries: As with this poem, [Richard E.] McMullen's
work not only revolved around Milan but also the people he encountered in it. He was a teacher in local schools from 1956 until retiring in 1988. Students often remarked to his family that he was the best teacher they had and an inspiration to start writing.
from The Milan News-Leader: City's only poet laureate passes
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from The Milan News-Leader: City's only poet laureate passes
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Poetic Obituaries: Man is born and then
he dies, but some become immortal. The Nepali Folk poet Ali Miyan, who died at the age of 89 on Aug 3, is one of that latter number.
He passed away after 8.30 p.m. at the house of his eldest son Hanif Miyan at Miyanpatan in Pokhara.
from Ohmy News: Nepal Mourns Ali Miyan
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He passed away after 8.30 p.m. at the house of his eldest son Hanif Miyan at Miyanpatan in Pokhara.
from Ohmy News: Nepal Mourns Ali Miyan
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006
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