News

• Second Acts: Lisa Spaar take a second look at second books of poetry by Larry Levis and Anna Journey[Los Angeles Review of Books]
• Q&A with Clive James: "Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour."[PBS.org]
• Daniel Weissbort has died: Translator and poet who founded Modern Poetry in Translation[The Guardian]
• Poetry Foundation announces annual Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism[Poetry Foundation]
• Ahmed Fouad Negm, known in Egypt as the "poet of the people," dies at 84[Aljazeera.com]
• David Biespiel on the new poetry emerging from Iran [The Rumpus]
• Poetry: Why does anyone write it? A writer finds answer in Louis Simpson[The Oregonian]
• Russian dissident and poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya dies at 77[The New York Times]
• The Cranberry Cantos: Thanksgiving poems for family and friends[Poetry Foundation]
• From Marvell to Larkin, Hull is "A City of Poets"[The Telegraph]
• A "news-stained poem": 50 Miles from the Colorado Springs Wildfires[The Colorado Independent]
• William Weaver, influential translator of modern Italian literature, dies at 90[The New York Times]
• Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky: His reading list for having an intelligent conversation[Openculture.com]
• Poems we think we know: The Battle Hymn of the Republic[Los Angeles Review of Books]
• What is the ideal day job for a poet? Amy Woolard discusses[The Atlantic]
• Letters, poems of soldier-poet John Jarmain found; donated to Exeter University[Exeter Express and Echo]
• 40 years later, no foul play found in death of Pablo Neruda[The New York Times]
• Brodsky & Yevtushenko: What are the allowable limits of relationship between artists and authority?[Bloomberg.com]
• Emily Dickinson archive online combines Harvard, Amherst and Boston Library collections -- and sparks intrigue[The New York Times]
• Michael Symmons Roberts, Anne Carson and Daljit Nagra are among the lineup for 2013 T.S. Eliot poetry prize[The Guardian]
• Q&A with poet and Fontbonne University professor Jason Sommer, "sort of a narrative junkie."[Dailytarheel.com]
• Does hearing a poem (vs. reading) change its meaning?[BU.edu]
• Imagine a poetry shut-down: “We will not go back to writing poems with a gun to our heads"[TheRumpus.net]
• Expatriate poet, educator and critic James A. Emanuel, dies at 92 in Paris[The New York Times]
• Applications invited for The Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place[FrostPlace]
• Frost Place, in partnership with Bull City Press, sponsors chapbook contest[FrostPlace]
• 10 poets on the longlist for National Book Award [National Book Foundation]
• Forgotten poems recovered by American Civil War research[Phys.org]
• Michael Symmons Roberts wins Forward poetry prize[The Guardian]
• The government shutdown and Cavafy: "Waiting for the Barbarians"[New Yorker.com]