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The week in review: The Week That This Affected You January 27, 2012: Here’s everything from this week’s poetry news that you really need to know, in handy, clip ‘n’ save, actionable listicle format. 1. Christopher Walken does a mean cover of The Raven. Because Walken is the OG of internet meme generators, and his kiddie-scaring shtick makes almost anything seem badass. Also, “The Raven” is a cinch [...]
More The week in review Posts: The Week We Blacked Out | The Week We Rubbed Elbows
Poetry News
Give a Listen: Newest PoemTalk Features P. Inman ! January 26, 2012: A bit biased (an admittal of co-production over here), but we'd really like to point you to the newest PoemTalk at Jacket2; episode number 49 is focused on Peter Inman and features Sarah Dowling, Danny Snelson, and Michael Golston discussing two short poems from Inman's book at.least. (Krupskaya, 1999). "The poems are 'lac[e]y.' — dedicated [...]
Poetry News
Putin’s Canon January 26, 2012: Vladimir Putin is compiling a 100-Book canon that all students must read, according to The Guardian. From the article: Putin, who is running for a third term as president in March, says that Russia has "always been described as a 'reading nation'", and proposes taking a survey of the country's "most influential cultural figures" and [...]
Poetry News
Tess Gallagher Sues Skyhorse Publishing January 26, 2012: Per this Publishers Weekly update, Tess Gallagher, the wife of late author Raymond Carver, filed a copyright suit last Friday against Skyhorse Publishing over the book Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver. The suit claims the book has unauthorized excerpts and photos. Last year, Skyhorse bought Arcade, which originally published [...]
Other Posts
- January 26, 2012: The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin
- January 26, 2012: The Poet-Critic: On Juliana Leslie’s National Poetry Series Win
- January 26, 2012: From Harry Potter to…Allen Ginsberg?
- January 26, 2012: “One of the best poets in rock and roll”: Luc Sante on Patti Smith
- January 25, 2012: Fodder: Ten Reasons Not to Sleep with a (Male) Poet, According to The Rumpus
- January 25, 2012: Everybody Loves Burns
- January 25, 2012: Indie Literature Festival on Kickstarter
- January 25, 2012: The Final Fax of Chuck Bukowski
- January 25, 2012: A Poet “Sexts”
- January 25, 2012: The Guardian Reviews Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation
- January 25, 2012: Shivani Elicits Feminist Response to “Can Creative Writing Be Taught?”
- January 25, 2012: Introducing One Pause Poetry
- January 24, 2012: “Poem Videos” by Langston Hughes, Robert Bly, Pablo Neruda!
- January 24, 2012: Michael Madsen Slams
- January 24, 2012: Tree Swenson to leave the American Academy of Poets

