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Poetry News For December 2, 2009
This blog will continue to be semi-hibernating for the next month. Have a happy, healthy, safe, holiday and new year. — Legend has it that in the same room, Robert Lowell taught aspiring poets Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and George Starbuck, al...
Poetry News For May 28, 2009
— A Crowthorne man has written a poem dedicated to a member of his wife’s family who survived the sinking of the Titanic. — *** — Thursday’s Poem: “Lyrical” by Joseph Millar, from Fortune. [mp3] — *** — Poet...
Poetry News For May 27, 2009
— Poe’s bookcase stands in North Raleigh — *** — Pandas and poetry: Salt Publishing spoofs WWF video to save itself — *** — Having claimed the scalps of two distinguished poets in less than a fortnight, the job of ...
Poetry News For May 26, 2009
— Poetry professor quits over ’smear tactics’ allegation — *** — Poem of the week: To his Mistress, Objecting … by Robert Herrick — *** — The first issue of Poe from BOOM! Studios promises a Hellboy-esque s...
Poetry News For May 25, 2009
— Poet cornered: Ruth Padel fights to keep Oxford post over tip-offs about her rival and A male poet wouldn’t have been blamed for rough tactics: Ruthless power plays in academia are as common as good wine and Oxford’s top poet urge...
More Plathiana
Sylvia Plath poem, November 1950 Seventeen Magazine. Another old Ebay find. {PDF file.} Actual magazine is on its way to the Plath collection at the Lilly Library in Bloomington. (Thanks to Anne Haines for suggesting it a long time ago.) If there are...
Poetry News For March 17, 2009
— Articles in Jan/Feb 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The — — [from Fanny Howe's interview in Daniel Kane's What Is Poetry [Conversations with the American Avant-Garde], T&W, 2003] — — In Arab World, Ancient...
