today called for the immediate release from prison of celebrated journalist U Win Tin whose health has deteriorated badly in the past few days.
the editor of its poetry section, Htay Aung, Rangoon-based journalists told The Irrawaddy.
with a conscience, acutely attuned to existential absurdity yet immune to zero-sum nihilism, using elaborate artifice as a delicate instrument to probe everything that makes us all too human.
of [Frank] O'Hara's poems, but he doesn't want you to care. To accept the present as a fallen realm risks making it insignificant, although other poets of the period, especially Elizabeth Bishop, wrote deeply without losing their lightness of bearing. In his best poems--"Thinking of James Dean," "Why I Am Not a Painter," "On Seeing Larry Rivers' ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware' at the Museum of Modern Art," "Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets," "The Day Lady Died," "Les Luths," "Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)" and half a dozen others--O'Hara found something beyond that terrible vacancy he was trying so hard to fill. 
TS Eliot and Ezra Pound, induce a kind of English cultural cringe. But the close literary relationship between [Edward] Thomas and Robert Frost was another key Anglo-American encounter, and its effects continue.
and a clapboard country store, you turn onto a packed dirt road, and at the point where two roads diverge you go to the left and up the small hill. If it's the off-season, and the thin road is deserted, you can park right in front of the white boxy house with the front porch overlooking the mountains. The neighbors won't mind that you're blocking the road a little. They're used to people stopping and staring at the former home of one of America's most loved writers, Robert Frost.
keep overhead low by staffing the store themselves. This decision is one they've both struggled with and aren't proud of--Deavel says she wishes they could provide jobs for others--but it's one borne of necessity. Employees are usually an employer's largest expense. 
Ahead of me and on my right, an arc
which means it is easy to understand. To many modern, or post-modern, American minds, such a distinction is the kiss of death. The lovers of obscure verse will find plenty in Kooser to deride, but the rationale for maintaining the position of poet laureate is to help make poetry more accessible in order to attract a wider audience for the art.
crosses the battle line so boldly drawn by the English Romantics, who fired flaming volleys at reason and its territories. In 1820, John Keats's "Lamia" dubbed science "cold philosophy"--a destroyer of natural charms: "Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings/Conquer all mysteries by rule and line . . . , Unweave a rainbow." But Holub swings open the operating-theater door in "Heart Transplant" and reveals technology's new beauty: 
by Baron Wormser
where no body of water is more than a few feet deep, and even at that shallow depth I'm afraid of it. Here Sam Green, who lives on an island north of Seattle, takes us down into some really deep, dark water.
not to symbolize the feelings of one individual, but to stand for the shattered individuals of an entire generation, survivors trying to put their lives back together in a country crippled by a war.
who has been held by authorities in Beijing without charge since March says her husband's detention has now been extended for a further two months to give the police time to collect evidence against him.
known as "The Dog," into a kitten? Well, Melville has unfortunately got his history a little mixed-up here--Diogenes was alive and well when the Parthenon was built and certainly would have seen it. And there is no proof that he found it of any account whatsoever.
I was in Morocco recently, and a devout Muslim mentioned to me that the Prophet Muhammad, in his book of sayings, the Hadith, had said as much. But the Koran also teaches, I was told, that poets are dangerous, and that decent people should avoid them. That reminded me of Plato, who wished to ban all poets from his ideal republic because he thought they were liars.
and poverty impact on education, there are hundreds of thousands of children who will only come across books when they are in school. 
of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn-I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.
which developed as a corollary, this nonexistent nothing is the source or unformed raw material of all things in the Creation, without which they would not exist."
Daniel Elias Galicia, Gilberto Moreno, Nancy Lorenza Green and Jonathan Penton. Compiled by Donna Snyder and the Tumblewords Project. 
commentator, reviewer and columnist for The Sunday Times. 
we feature a series of poems that appear in the 15th Annual Santa Cruz County High School Poetry Anthology.
a letter to someone you have lost.
by Jack Gilbert
Blue Blood
By Quinlan McDonnell
By Kaitlin Moore
By Michael Zurzolo 
Allen Tate is now a black hole. The authority that made him, in the 1930s and 1940s, one of the most formidable figures in American poetry, mentor and superego to a generation, has collapsed. Neither his strenuously ambiguous poems nor his orotund essays in literary interpretation (he was one of the deities of the New Criticism) are still commonly read.
[Jorie] Graham is fundamentally a poet of swiftness and simultaneity--the swiftness of both thought and time, the simultaneity of the sensous and the mental. Writing that combines the constant fluctuation of the real and the intermingling of body and mind in all perception conveys truths, both external and internal, that are otherwise, in more sequential treatment, unattainable. Thinking of such an intersection of flesh and spirit, John Donne famously sums up its effects: "One might almost say, her body thought."
(HappenStance Press, 2008, £8) signals the first full collection from this publisher. This week's poem is representative of the pace and pleasure in this collection – a tightly woven rattle, a beady poetic eye to the beauty of a moment.
By Patrick Donnelly
as a fine poet who, although not short of admirers, deserved wider recognition.
to East Liverpool in 2004 after many years in Texas, where she was an apartment complex manager and also a published poet.
from talking about his disease or being ill in his writing--which included songs as well as the books of poetry "Girls on Chemo" and "the b-sides of death and dying."
many of which were published.
her family genealogy, her dog, Fancy, and attended the Church of Christ in Houma.
letters to the editor, several poems were published in several poetry anthology books, a distinguished member of the International Society of Poets, member of the American Association of Retired Person's Union, a member of the Library of Congress, received many outstanding achievement awards from the National Library of Poetry.
of heartbroken internet messages about love in the weeks before she leapt nine floors to her death.
[Rick] Murray viewed himself as a creative writer. In 1997, he and his son, Richard, wrote Bloo Moon, an Internet-exclusive science-fiction novel.
of poetry, "The Burning Field," "The Feel of the Sun," and "The Impossible Toystore" during his life; a fourth book of poetry, titled "Waiting for the Alchemist," is to be published next spring.
he [Hayes McNeill] said, who wanted her students to dissect and understand the intricacies of literature.
described as a sensitive boy with a fantastic imagination enjoyed writing stories and poems and even had one verse published after his school entered it into a competition.
and creative writing for 42 years at three different colleges: Elon College, N.C., from 1949 to 1958, Old Dominion College in Norfolk, Va., from 1958 to 1968 and Appalachian State University (ASU), from 1968 until he retired, professor emeritus, in January, 1991. 
of literature, especially writing, reading and discussing poetry. He also enjoyed music and spending time at the beach and mountains.
