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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 16, 2010
The Huffington Post reports that the new issue of Allure magazine features profiles of the women of Fox News--and some poems written in praise: Their hair, it's clear, would hardly budge, Nor...
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By Harriet StaffJune 15, 2010
William Logan critiques C. K. Williams, Tony Hoagland, Keith Douglas, Don Paterson, Derek Walcott, and Anne Carson in the New Criterion: With too much experimental poetry, where there’s smoke, there’s …...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 15, 2010
You have to be signed in to Facebook to read the whole thing, but here is a taste of Joshua Clover taking issue with a few issues at the Rethinking...
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By Harriet StaffJune 15, 2010
La Bloga asks Rigoberto González about the Camino Del Sol anthology and the current state of Latina and Latino writing: I think readers will be pleasantly surprised to recognize how...
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By Harriet StaffJune 15, 2010
Anis Shivani takes David Lehman and the BAP to task at the Huffington Post: Get ready, Professor Lehman, for a "mean" and "spiteful" review of the low-hanging fruit you've offered...
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By Harriet StaffJune 15, 2010
On the Academy of American Poets site, Hejinian explores the connection between suffering and generosity in Scalapino's work: Leslie's generosity to poets (as a teacher, as an editor, as a publisher,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 15, 2010
The Telegraph reports on the latest twist in Ricky Gervais new show on BBC 2 (jk!), in which Michael Horowitz insults Roger Lewis's taste after Lewis claimed to be inspired...
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By Harriet StaffJune 14, 2010
The AJC reports that Atlanta's Emory University has landed another great archive: Emory University officials announced Monday that Irish poet Eamon Grennan has placed his paper's with the institution's Manuscript,...
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By Harriet StaffJune 14, 2010
Tony Hoagland, from the Ploughshares blogDarcie Dennigan writes a "metaphorical" review of Tony Hoagland's new book, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty. Tony took up residence in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa—then...
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By Harriet StaffJune 14, 2010
The sales and trade marketing director at UK literary imprint Hodder & Stoughton, James Spackman, tells the The Bookseller Cover Design Conference that they're missing out if they don't concentrate...