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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2012
In a recent post, New Yorker blogger Michelle Dean wonders what sort of politician Wallace Stevens might have been. Stevens earned the equivalent of $350,000 annually as an insurance company...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2012
MobyLives points us to The Independent, which reports that "the UK’s Young Poets of the Year Award attracted record submissions this year." More than 7,000 young people have submitted works...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2012
Blake Butler puts Dorothea Lasky in a VICE grip and doesn't know whether to kneel or cover his ears. No, really! It's a review of Thunderbird (ahem—we hear the hardcovers...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2012
Check out this article in the Harvard Gazette about a collaboration between electronic musician/field recording artist Bernie Krause and poet/Ecopoetics founder Jonathan Skinner. Here's a sample from the article. Make...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2012
According to National Post writer Michael Lista, a movement of scientists-turned-poets tends to sacrifice readability for clever references, sentencing their readers, no matter how eager, to hours of Wikipedia searches....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2012
Poets House is concluding their 25th-anniversary celebrations on October 6th! There's a lot of specialness going on, starting at 12 'o clock and running through the afternoon. Check it: Help Poets...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2012
Check it out: a computer program known as "Pentametron" is creating strange, sometimes poignant, sometimes absurd sonnets in real time. Why? According to the creator, Ranjit Bhatnagar, the program was...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2012
Head on over to Open Letters Monthly for this review of Emily Pettit's debut collection Goat in Snow. Joe Betz, reviewer, begins by situating Pettit's collection with the traditions of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2012
Matthew Sherling conducted a full interview with Bob Hicok to be published in the next issue, but you can take a hit of it now over at The Believer's Tumblr....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2012
More upsetting news: The much-loved Baltimore poet and collage artist Chris Toll has passed away. Ron Silliman featured Toll on his blog a few days ago, including a video by...