News

• Peter Kane Dufualt dies at 90, "his lack of renown surprising" [The New Yorker]
• Donald Hall at 85: Writing and revising in longhand, sitting in a big stuffed chair[The Boston Globe]
• David W. McFadden, Ghassan Zaqtan and Fady Joudah win Griffin Poetry Prize[National Post]
• Poet, novelist and WW II veteran Jonathan Russell, 93, dies[Port Chester Daily Voice]
• University of Texas Ransom Center acquires beat generation poet Peter Orlovsky archive [University of Texas]
• Kenn Nesbitt named Childrens Poet Laureate[Poetry Foundation]
• Natasha Trethewey reappointed U.S. Poet Laureate[The New York Times]
• Pushkin granddaughter: We need a new breed of poet-translator[Asia]
• Words hanging in air: Reflections on the correspondence of Lowell and Bishop[Smithsonian Magazine blog]
• Palestinian poet, at first denied, is granted visa to attend Griffin gala in Canada[CBC News]
• Callaloo: Started as an outlet for writers in the South, now representing the African Diaspora[Los Angeles Review of Books]
• Amid war, poet Edward Thomas found peace in nature[Slate]
• Don Share named editor of Poetry Magazine[Poetry Foundation]
• Kim Merker, hand-press printer of poets, dead at 81[The New York Times]
• E-books of poetry: What about the hanging indent, or the extra spaces in Cavafy?[The Associated Press]
• Anti-slavery newspapers and poetry among the ways culture survived the Civil War[Lincoln (Neb.) JournalStar]
• UK publisher Salt abandons single-author collections amid poetry market slump[The Guardian]
• A more ordinary poet: Seeking Emily Dickinson[Boston Review]
• Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece[Los Angeles Times Review of Books]
• Art at auction: How much are poems worth?[Huffington Post]
• Latest from TCR contributor Joanne Dominique Dwyer: Belle Laide[Sarabandebooks.org]
• Book by book: Q&A with Robert Bly[The New York Times]
• Luci Tapahonso named first Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation[Indian Country Today]
• Faith, relationships and the role of language: listen to an interview with Marie Howe[American Public Media]
• Poet Billy Collins selected for Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize[Concord Monitor]
• Mojave/Pima Poet Natalie Diaz: From Home to College to Basketball to Europe and Back Again[Indian Country Today]
• America: little-known last stanza of a poem can be read (or sung) as a salute to Boston[The Oregonian]
• Q&A with Kingsley Tufts Award winner: Writing is more about losing the self than finding it.[Indianapolis Monthly]
• Griffin Poetry Prize announces finalists[National Post]