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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Armen Davoudian January 30, 2023
It’s easy to get lost in debates around form and content, or form and function, or form and freedom, or form and fill-in-the-blank—arguments for the importance of one side over...
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Featured BloggerBy Timothy Donnelly April 19, 2013
After having wandered somewhat far from the discussion of quasi-unintelligibility in my last post I thought it might be a good idea to revisit the topic before moving forward. I...
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Featured BloggerBy Timothy Donnelly April 10, 2013
Seven years ago this month Helen Vendler published one of my favorite of her books, Poets Thinking. In particular I love its chapter on Alexander Pope, which starts off by...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 19, 2012
Open Culture comes through with yet another gem. Here's a video of Tom Waits reading Charles Bukowski's poem "The Laughing Heart." And, as a bonus, here's Bukowski reading his own...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff November 29, 2010
Included in Dr. Gillian Wright's November 22nd Literary Manuscripts Masterclass at the Bodleian Library was a poetry manuscript attributed to Octavia Walsh (1677-1706). Notes in the catalog call into question...
