Poetry
January 11th, 2007 at 02:01am
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Pascale Petit, French/Welsh/Latin American poet, essayist & translator living in London, is beginning her term as judge for the InterBoard Poetry Competition this month, and your poetry guides have put…
Read full article at New IBPC judge: Pascale Petit
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By Village Poet
January 10th, 2007 at 10:01pm
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Poetry Guide Bob Holman recently shone his spotlight back over the year 2006 in poetry. Contained in his survey was a great reading list of all the best poetry books…
Read full article at Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2006
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By Village Poet
January 4th, 2007 at 01:01am
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In our 10 years (!) on the Web, your About Poetry guides have posted innumerable varieties of poetry news, interviews, essays, tips & tidbits, memorials & reminiscences, but we?ve also…
Read full article at Updated Index of Our Library of Poems
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January 3rd, 2007 at 09:01pm
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Our entries have gone to the InterBoard Poetry Community editors for the first competition of the new year, and we hope all our readers agree that these poems, all by…
Read full article at Our Forum?s Envoys to the January IBPC
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January 3rd, 2007 at 04:01pm
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Just in time for the turning of the old year, IBPC judge David Kirby has issued his choices of the winning poems in December 2006 competition — and while none…
Read full article at Winners chosen in the December InterBoard Poetry Competition
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December 28th, 2006 at 08:12pm
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Bob Holman rounds out his review of poetry in 2006 with capsule reviews of books from Julie Sheehan, Patricia Spears Jones, Robert Creeley, Alice Notley, Jack Wiler, Elizabeth Bishop, Alicia…
Read full article at A Roundup of the Best of the Rest of 2006
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December 28th, 2006 at 02:12am
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2006, Good Year, Poetry… As we approach its end, Bob Holman shines his spotlight back across the year, from NextWave at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to YouTube, Grammy nominations,…
Read full article at 2006: Looking Back Over the Year in Poetry
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December 28th, 2006 at 12:12am
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Book of the Year? Folks, may I direct your attention to Ms. Patricia Smith?s Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffeehouse Press)…. Her most recent book was 13 years ago, but the…
Read full article at Poetry Book of the Year: Teahouse of the Almighty, by Patricia Smith
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By Village Poet
December 21st, 2006 at 10:12pm
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We?ve chosen a few more classics to add to our collection of Christmas poems for your holiday reading & reflection, by Robert Herrick, Sir Walter Scott, and G.K. Chesterton. Enjoy!…
Read full article at Poems for Christmas
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December 21st, 2006 at 01:12am
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The Poetry Foundation has been doing something very cool all this year with the fancy Web site they?ve made using Ruth Lilly?s bequest: In the Journals section, they?ve made some…
Read full article at Patricia Smith on Ghazals
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