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(0)A big shout-out to my Scrabble-playing buddy Ruth Bavetta, whose visual poem “The End and the Aim,” made the top fifteen most view poems on Rattle.com
Why Do Poets Say “O”? Dave Bonta wants to know.
There’s some hate speech going on in Chicago poetry circles. Turf wars are not uncommon in poetry circles, but I’d say you’re losing if you have to stoop to calling your opponent fat. “They don’t really like you better than me, they just feel sorry for you.” Convincing argument, huh?
Via Poetry Hut Blog and then via Modern Americans, check out American Poetry in the Age of Whitman and Dickinson
Via Silliman’s Blog, Billy Collins thinks people don’t read poetry because we have no good poets. My question, is the ability to make Patrick Moynihan cry the mark of a good poet?
My friend Nancy Fletcher Cassell pointed me to Karla M. Huston’s Burying the Red Shoes: Conversations with Four Poets at Margie. The four poets are Denise Duhamel, Naomi Shihab Nye, Shara McCallum, and Stellasue Lee.
Annie Finch, who is blogging at Harriet, on Why I Am a Woman Poet
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