News

• Mervyn Morris named first Jamaican poet laureate since independence[Jamaica Observer]
• Experiencing "found poetry" - have you checked your daily newspaper?[The News Tribune (Tacoma)]
• Korean-American poet Hannah Sanghee Park receives Walt Whitman Award[The Washington Post]
• A blow for Poetry Month - a poetic take on black boxer lands punches with broad appeal[WNPR.org]
• Nina Cassian, Exiled Romanian Poet, dies at 89[The New York Times]
• "3 Sections" by Vijay Seshadri earns 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[Pulitzer.org]
• Tribute to Kurt Brown: "What matters is that we have been here at all"[The Prague Review]
• Elgin Community College (Illinois) students again posting poetry on a wall, as the late William Stafford suggested[The Courier-News]
• O Caddie! My Caddie! A look at golf through poetry over the years[The New York Times]
• Poet David Rigsbee: Bearing witness to "the dance in middle air"[waltermagazine.com]
• The Colorado Independent offers "news-stained poetry project"[The Colorado Independent ]
• Engaging poetry in the classroom: Ways to make every text, every minute count with struggling readers[Poetry Foundation]
• "Sugaring" by Barbara Daniels in TCR among "Best of the Net"[sundresspublications.com]
• Helen Vendler on the "Gorgeous Nothings" by Emily Dickinson[New Republic]
• Q&A with poet Mark Turcotte: "Questions of identity are pretty big"[jconline]
• Saudi book fair bans "blasphemous" Mahmoud Darwish works after protest[The Guardian]
• Poet Bill Knott, dead at 74 - "The truth is somewhere"[Poetry Foundation]
• Poetry magazine joins with D.C.’s Split This Rock festival: “Poems of Provocation and Witness” [Washington Post]
• Los Angeles Poet is latest resident writer at Carl Sandburg Home Historic Site in Flat Rock, N.C.
• Private memories, public traces: a tribute to Seamus Heaney at Emory University[The Irish Times]
• Poet Laureate Selects 2014 Witter Bynner Fellows, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Jake Adam York[EIN]
• The poet Ned O’Gorman, 84, dies; founder of innovative Harlem school[The New York Times]
• The secret Auden: Generous, honorable and the fear of being praised for it[The New York Review of Books]
• Poems of Goodnight Moon author found in an old trunk, and will be released in the U.S.[The Guardian]
• Imagine: Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore feeding the elephants[The New Yorker]
• A look back at Wallace Stevens, the private poet of Hartford, known around town as just "a local writer" [Hartford Courant]
• Poet Sebastian Barker, a former chair of the British Poetry Society, dies at 68[The Guardian]
• Noted slam poetry performer Maggie Estep dies at 50[The New York Times]
• Georgeous Ladies of Wrestling: a picture and a poem[The New York Times]
• The Poetry Foundation welcomes submissions to the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships[Poetry Foundation]