News

• 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]
• Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-winning poet with a naturalist’s precision, dies at 88[The New York Times]
• Knocking once again at the door of the late poet W.D. Snodgrass[The New York Times]
• José Emilio Pacheco, renowned Mexican poet and author, dies at 74 [The New York Times]
• The Sewanee Review honors Dana Gioia with Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry[The Sewanee Review]
• Two poems by Greek poet Sappho discovered on ancient papyrus[NPR]
• The end of Yeats: work and women in his last days in France[The Irish Times]
• S. Korean poet Ko Un wins Golden Wreath Award; past recipients include Auden, Neruda, Heaney, Brodsky, Transtromer[Yonhap News Agency]
• José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet, author,dies at 74[The New York Times]
• Emily Dickinson: avant garde or poet of restraint?[New York Review of Books]
• Former Poet Laureate Kay Ryan injured in bicycle accident[San Francisco Chronicle]
• Belfast poet Sinéad Morrissey wins TS Eliot Prize for Poetry[News Letter]
• Khaled Mattawa and Alberto Ríos Named Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets[Poets.org]
• Juan Gelman, Argentine poet who challenged the tyrannies military juntas, dead at 83[The New York Times]
• Word theft: Why did 2013 become the year of the plagiarists?[Poetry Foundation]
• Five poets among finalists for National Book Award[The Los Angeles Times]
• Amiri Baraka, polarizing poet and playwright, dies at 79[The New York Times]
• British poet Simon Curtis has died; edited the Thomas Hardy Journal for several years[The Guardian]
• Thoughts on the 100th birthday of the late William Stafford[Crossmap.Christianpost.com]