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A Web site that permits readers to chat about books as they read, may be transforming a lone activity into a communal one.

via Chat While Reading: The Future Of Books? : NPR.

One of the richest resources on YouTube is an extraordinary channel named SpokenVerse. It offers 466 readings of great poems in English, from Shakespeare to today. Their reader is a pleasure to listen to. He makes no effort to “perform,” but simply and clearly respects the poetry, with understated emotion when necessary.

Recently one of his poems was taken down by YouTube, apparently because of one female breast more than a century old.

How YouTube separates porn from poetry :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Other Views.

Poetic Machinations

The recent election of the Oxford professor of poetry is the stuff of poetic satire, if only it weren’t so sad and pathetic.

Editorial - Poetic Machinations - NYTimes.com.

The quagmire over the Oxford University Professor of Poetry keeps on sucking.

Call for Oxford poet to resign after sex row - Times Online .

The muse was once the female figure — deity, Platonic ideal, mistress, lover, wife

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– whom poets and painters called upon for inspiration. That inspiration is harder to come by these days.

Where Have All the Muses Gone? - WSJ.com

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott has quit the race to become Oxford Professor of Poetry after becoming embroiled in a sex smear campaign.

Nobel winner quits Oxford poetry race over sex claims | News.
As reported at the NYT

01duffy.1-75.jpgWith the choice of Carol Ann Duffy, the post held by such poets as Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted Hughes went to a woman for the first time.

[From After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman]

On Writer’s Almanac the poem for the day is “Treason,” from The Ghost Soldiers, a collection of prose poems, a lot like the poems from Return to the City of White Donkeys, from which “Shiloh” is my favorite poem by Tate.

I did what I was supposed to do. I tore one out and carried it around in my pocket. Read it. Then read it again.

Then I went back the next day and tore out another. And another. It was addictive. Like Thin Mints but without calories.

via Deseret News | A song in your heart, a poem in your pocket.

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

Blending the pleasure of poetry with biography, history, geography, and current environmental concerns, Stanford Professor John Felstiner reveals the tension between a human-centered viewpoint and nature at large. This tension drives both environmental poetry and politics.

[From Stanford Professor Asks, "Can Poetry Save the Earth?" ]

Rules for ePoetry

E-poetry relies on code for its creation, preservation, and display: there is no way to experience a work of e-literature unless a computer is running it—reading it and perhaps also generating it.

This “rule” is important for what it rules out: e-books, digitized versions of print works, and other word-processed documents, on- or offscreen.

via Born Digital: Poetry Foundation.

fishermanThe Times invited readers to submit original verse that addresses the current economic downturn, exploring the relationship of work to a way of life and a geographical place

Fisher, Oregon, Poets Celebrate an Industry in Decline.

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