Via Jilly

1. The death of the poet Reginald Shepherd has Alan Contreras puzzling over how to judge a student prize in his memory. —
2. — Those eleven [poems] were composed at the ages of twenty-three, forty-one, forty-eight, forty, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty, twenty-eight, thirty-eight, forty-two, and fifty-nine, respectively. There is no evidence, Galenson concluded, for the notion that lyric poetry is a young person’s game. —
3. — Can’t we leave Hughes and Plath alone? —
4. — Burger King Restaurants of Canada Inc. has announced the launch of MeatHaiku.com —
5. A look at how an iconoclastic young writer revolutionized the poetic form. —
6. In the case of After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events, edited by Tom Lombardo (Sante Lucia Books), poems have been chosen to help readers to recover from subjects such as war, abuse, addiction, death, and more. —
7. A poet has been forced to launch his new collection in the street after a bookstore cancelled the event because of a campaign by Christian activists. —