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Celebrate!Mary Jo Bang has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry for her collection, Elegy (Graywolf Press, 2007). Bang is professor of English and director of The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University ...
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Tufts Discovery Winner Janice N. HarringtonWhile some head off to Branson golf and other leisure distractions to escape snow or stress, I am diving deeper into poetry. To give myself a break from editing (uggghhh!), revision and new theatre work abou...
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Poetry in other languagesIt's been very thrilling to listen to poems in other languages. I've been trying to listen to poems in French. On first listen, I try to absorb the words as a sonic treat. I listen for patterns in rhythm, rhyme and crescendo....
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Myra Shapiro PoemThis poem by Myra Shapiro which appears on Poetry Daily (and was published in River Styx, Number 75, 2007) made me hang onto the meaning of being "held" in a "comma." But I also got a kick out of the line breaks. Look at what the poe...
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A New Year's PoemThis poem from Teresa Leo's The Halo Rule (Elixir Press) seems the perfect way to trail back into my hush and to finish recuperating. It is a poem about the new year. My favorite lines are the final ones: "...if each season / were tw...
