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Judge Olly Neal tells his daughter, Karama, how he discovered African American author Frank Yerby while cutting class and hiding out in the school library.

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The Digital & Retro Issue

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Marianne Morris: "...there is no such thing as expensive poetry and if there was it would suck irrevocably"

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The Poetry Takeaway specialises in the production of free, made-to-order poems, delivered and performed to the hungry yet discerning literary consumer within ten minutes or less.

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Daniel Watkins counts the ways...

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David Prater writes... "When I speak of books as coherent communities here, I do not mean in the conventional sense of ‘oh, what a disparate, quirky and fascinating bunch of individuals whose work has been assembled here’. Despite having been included myself in several anthologies, I am not interested in the biographical components of these books."

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by Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng: days like this, against the scores of weather-vanesautumn books fighting termites, meals of fleshed out bittermelons,straw men down the ground, smell of turpsa cloudburst white as a skull Rest here.

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The Wikipedia article on Graham Foust is under discussion for deletion because it 'may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for academics'. Foust has written four full collections of poetry; As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions, 2003), Leave the Room to Itself (Ahsahta Press, 2004), Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007), and A Mouth in California (Flood Editions, 2009)Scroll down for

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by Christine Klocek-Lim: "Once again, I was strangely comforted. This chapbook was the friend who lived across the country from me. The friend I couldn't talk to very often. The friend who nevertheless understood exactly what I had been feeling in the midst of destruction."

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Rob A Mackenzie with his thoughts on critical engagement

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On Making the Poetry Manuscript

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Grace Curtis responds to John Siddique's poetry

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Poets may be drawn to a phrase – an idiom, a phrase we take for granted – and marvel at its oddity, turning it this way and that.

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Letter: 'Defending an anthology'

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Aurally delivered on the delirious hem

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Safety Warning Haikus

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More information here.

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Ruth Stone, 1915-2011

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…is fresh. [via mischievoice]

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Bronwyn Mehan of Spineless Wonders [Australia]: Light bulb moment. I purchased a labeller and stuck Sample Copy on the back cover of eighty misprinted copies, wrapped them in an order form and mailed them to bookshops. As I am the publicist and admin for Spineless Wonders, as well as editor and director, it took me about two weeks. By this time, The Rattler & other stories, had received great

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'Dead poets' poems read by Nic Sebastian in English and other languages' I commend to you her reading of Plath's The Moon and the Yew Tree

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Metro’s poetry bus card commemorates centennial of Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz [via hi spirits]

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Adam Ford's thoughts on poetry slam

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Scratch here. [via [d/d'n]*]

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Some noteworthy advice from a reviewer

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J.S.A. Lowe: 'I’m a brand-new, first-semester PhD student in a creative writing program. I’m a poet': Well, this is awkward, she begins, once I sit down, her mouth twisted apologetically to one side. She goes on to say—I’ll tell you what she goes on to say—but it’s hard, because immediately adrenaline floods my chest and I go into a kind of shock, and I am worried already that I won’t get it

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Here be the stats.

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…is fresh.

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'When I wrote the poems I often found that there was a magical device in the poetry to change the negative emotion or feeling such as pain, sorrow, anger or disgrace to great joy.'

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… is fresh.

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Jonathan Carr: "Where Flash fiction is a working down of a form[,] prose poetry is an exploding up of a form, a release from structure, a star erupting, a channel run straight from the brain stem to the pen."

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Behind the Scenes at Tupelo Press : 9. What separates the manuscripts that get marked for further reading from the ones that do not? Craft. Ideas. Resonance. Control. Authority of voice. Whether or not the work is “memorable.” And more often than you might think, the consistency of the work across the manuscript. Many, if not most manuscripts have several fabulous poems. Few manuscripts are

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On the theme of imitation

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In the absence of a good coffee shop where we can put our elbows on the table and talk away the morning, I'm making myself available on the blog this month to respond to your questions and comments about the journal and poetry at large.

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Since there are 51 of you and there’s only one of me, I hope you won’t mind if I respond to you in one, big letter.

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Paisley Rekdal writes: 'I was, quite literally, on the verge of tears leaving the bar after that reading. I realized that over the years, I had been denying myself not only the information that would have made my writing career easier to manage, but the ability to express gratitude to those whose work was written, if even in part, for those like me.'[via Jeannine Blogs]

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'We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world.'

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To celebrate October as Filipino-U.S. American Heritage Month, Eileen R. Tabios will present a poetry reading at 12 noon on Monday, October 24, 2011 at the Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Building (3rd Floor) at the Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, DC.

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… is fresh.

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Jill Jones writes: Michael Farrell has just posted some comments on a couple of my poems on the Jacket2 site. He points out that some recent poems, such as these two, 'Leaving It To the Sky', from Dark Bright Doors, and 'Misinterpretations/ or the Dark Grey Outline', recently published in Overland, are, in his words, more 'aggressive' and 'rawer, rougher, more "live" '. I hadn't thought of

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by Ian McMillan

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The first real work of digital literature? There are other digitally based literary works, of course, such as hypertext novels, electronic literature and flarf poetry. But these are experiments in the modernist and postmodernist vein. They feel familiar, even if they look strange.

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And, in a very poetry-geek admission, I should say that I really liked the idea of my first book being blue, because Elizabeth Bishop requested a blue dust jacket for North & South.

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2004: Poetry evening was held in March - the second one this year and the last one before AWG left. Once again the collection of poems was diverse - but each poem revealed a little about the reader - such is the nature of poetry. Chris spoke about coffee being like his mate (...who must be dark skinned as he likes his coffee black - or perhaps she’s just steamy hot?), Vicky chose the humorous

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Peter Finch writes: What’s surprising is the format of the events they run. Change the names from Om Swastyastu and Djenar Maesa Ayu to Twm Morys and Robert Minhinnick and this could be Bay Lit or the Dylan Thomas festival in Wales. How to write folktales. Journalism and Creative writing workshops at the local library. Turn your blog into a book. Words in motion – lose yourself in a lust for

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Jill Jones writes: This focus from the editor indicates that this year's anthology won't just be the sameold sameold. A look at the list of contributors also indicates that the spread of poets offers more of the newer and more innovative writers on the scene, as well as a number of anthology regulars. The anthology also picks up on work that has either been published overseas or was fresh but

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Editorial: In "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" William Carlos Williams says that poetry has no news to deliver, nothing sensational or glamorous to advertise, “yet men die miserably everyday/ for lack/ of what is found there.” Poetry doesn’t make things happen, to use Auden’s words. It doesn’t stop wars, feed the hungry or stop the earth from being abused. Yet it is perhaps precisely of its

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Excerpt… People try to fight time. A pet is a help. But the number of infinitesimal creatures populating a house--how could you ever count them? Rest here

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In which WWAATD asks writers and other artist types about life as breeders/parents/kid-keepers: Mary Biddinger: 'I’m not sure I ever received advice about being a parent and a writer. Gabi was born when I was in graduate school, and I was one of the first of my friends to have a kid, so there weren’t any real mentors for me in that respect. However, my advice would be to remind yourself, parent

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Kelli Rusell Agodon: 'The eBook formatting went past my comfort zone with poetry ... I just didn't feel comfortable formatting the book myself.'

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This year, PEN will present 17 awards, fellowships, grants, and prizes…

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by Nadine Sabra Meyer: It is 1842 and Napoleon has returned to Paris as body-ash grey as the iron Seine, Fuseli and Lavater have worked all winter painting the soul’s character to flesh, each high forehead a cathedral vaulted for the mind, and in Italy Francesco Hayez paints this girl, not so much a portrait as a study, the oval of her face flattened and white as a cameo. He paints her

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Poet Robert Peake, former poetry editor for Silk Road, gives us an update from the London literary scene: As I travelled by tube to the Southbank Centre to attend the first event of the London Literature Festival, and my first poetry reading since moving to London two months ago, I took with me my American expectations about poetry venues: coffee shops, small community centers, the occasional

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Ever since poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum broke onto the scene with his acclaimed "The Queen's Throat," which theorized about the distinct connection between gay men and opera, his dazzlingly personal approach to his subjects has been known to draw both intense loyalty and furious detractors (his deconstructed approach to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for example, "Jackie Under My Skin," seemed

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'I’m not sure why many of us feel an initial resistance to electronic reading platforms, perhaps because as writers and readers we love the tactile, visual nature of printed books and we fear they might be endangered by this new technology. '

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'Amazing Back Issue Give-away!' [Wales, UK]: Following the success of World Book Night, we have decided to give away some lovely stuff too! We have a limited number of back issues up for grabs - simply email us your contact details, and you might be the lucky recipient of a FREE New Welsh Review . This offer is open to subscribers and non-subscribers.

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''Low Tea' at the Delirious Bakery: The Delirious Bakery is a site-responsive bakery that collects and dispenses dissent via recovered oral traditions. During its residency in the Clubs & Societies historic basement storehouse, the artists and guests will host a series of ‘low teas’, where tales about the darker side of The Rocks are exchanged with each sticky bun.

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Graham Nunn: 'News came to me today of the passing of one of Australia’s greatest haijin (haiku master), Janice Bostok.' More from Haiku Oz

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C Dale Young: 'Some called this vanity press, and others said it was a good thing to do. I am pretty sure the real thing falls somewhere in between. But who knows?'  Update: BlazeVOX rallies, 'It is just us and a love of strange poetry that keeps me going.'

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Focus on the Asian-Pacific region

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As if by magic… [via looktouch]

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Michael Broek: "The Logic of Yoo" is very different from the poetry I had written previously. My wife, the poet Laura McCullough, helped me think about this when we talked in the shower about a contest she had just finished judging (The shower is a great place to work out these problems. It's the only meditative space in our house). There were literally dozens of manuscripts written by men like

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Poet Kate Middleton: 'My time in the States had given me a psychic distance from Australia but it made me more and more Australian...'

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Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, Gwendolyn Brooks and more...

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[via Another Lost Shark]

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Report from Queensland Poetry Festival

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Helen Kitson: It's pointless to try to mould Plath into a feminist. On the "subject" of women she was often loaded with spite and mockery ("Face Lift", "Eavesdropper"). But, for me, what she did was to give me the courage to be a feminist and still be vindictive, jealous…I don't believe that even a committed feminist has to love the concept of "wimmin" and womanhood wholesale. Or rather, I can

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Kate Bernadette Benedict: I've ever and always just wanted to reach people. Poetry is what I have to give; that's why it's so awful when publication doesn't happen and success doesn't come. I've wept over it.

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His readers sometimes became his lovers: women who liked the poem acted on their admiration by offering themselves sexually to the poet.

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The Seashell Game is a unique form of contest in which you can nominate the poems of other writers, rather than entering your own: This haiku comes from a time when I was fighting a long running bushfire [in] southern Tasmania. I was about to retire for a well-earned sleep when I looked at the night sky and a feeling of oneness and expansiveness came over me. It felt like everything was alright

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A meeting with Filipino poet, Joel M.Toledo, audio interview: Filipino poet Joel M. Toledo grew up in Silang in the rural province of Cavite near to Manila. The son of a navy man, Joel's family was impoverished and he grew up without electricity in his house. His first book of poems Chiaroscuro is about moving from the darkness of his home to the bright lights of Manila.

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More so even than simple conversation, reading aloud is a contract between two individuals, forming a connection that endures beyond the words themselves.

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Ian Wedde makes his living from words but he admitted he was almost lost for them when he found out he was going to be New Zealand's new poet laureate.

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'...we seek writing that is daring, witty, erudite, lucid and infectious.'

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"Man, I forgot how much I forgot..." [via Binding Wor(l)ds Together]

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Collin Kelley: Acid Flashback No. 1 for Billy The first time I dropped acid, mistaking a Johnnie Walker Black billboard for Joanne Whalley-Kilmer straddling a chair like in the poster for Scandal ...[rest here]

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An interview with Brother Anthony of Taizé A Korean poem is written in the Korean language. If I translate it into English the result is bound to be a text in English. Nothing at all remains of the original poem as such, except a rough equivalent of the meaning of its words and grammatical structure. Everything is suppressed.[via subject object verb]

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...is fresh.

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Call for Writing [Scotland]: ...you must be either a refugee, asylum seeker or other person whose first language is not English, Scots or Gaelic currently living in Scotland or a current member of Scottish PEN.

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... is a collection of poems written on wrappers, following the example set by Ted Hughes, who wrote a Tunnocks wrapper poem in 1986.

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So it continues: a petition to reinstate Judith Palmer as Director of the Poetry Society. Here's her statement. Previously: A statement from Paul Ranford – resigned Finance Manager of the Society

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The love that brings me to the page has no answer. It has no master. It is a yearning into the abyss from which no solution appears.

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...an ear for a title: "I like titles," she says with a grin, over coffees in a rackety West End café. "With other people's collections, I enjoy reading the title page as if it were a poem itself. For me, I love the process of inventing them: a lot of thought goes in, but they're serendipitous, too. When they come, it's a real thrill. The title is the first sense you get that maybe you've got a

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… is fresh.

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One Grand Prize of all Salmon Poetry's 2011 titles, signed by the authors

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...is fresh.

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Anna Forsyth: 'I am looking for poets from other countries to submit poems about NZ or mentioning NZ.'

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They have human voices, but their roar is a proverb. —Henry Darger

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… is biting down hard.

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In the mythological structure of this world, when a civilisation falls so too do its gods.

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Gillian Andrews, Sarah Jackson, Jane McKie, Jane Yeh and Lydia MacPherson compete for £5,000 award

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Members seeking explanation for spate of resignations deliver demands in poetic vehicle

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... is fresh.

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... at Australian Poetry

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… is fresh.

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Ellery Adams Bares All [via Very Like a Whale and Collin Kelley]

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An official Boxcar Poetry Review blog that features helpful advice, articles, and resources to help poets through the various stages of writing, publishing, and promoting a first book of poetry.

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An interview with Gabriel Sylvian on the poetry of Gi Hyeong-do: ...But his popularity with college students remains steady. Ironically, in the 1990s, young aspiring poets would purposely hang out in Seoul theatres at night, hoping to absorb inspiration to write like their idol, unaware of the meaning of "theatre" as understood by the gay community.

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...is here.

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Edwin Morgan was one of the great 20th Century poets, but few could have guessed he had amassed a fortune of over £2million!

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