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24 Dec 08

TheStar.com | U.K. embraces Canadian's book about vowels

Eunoia – which means "beautiful thinking" and is the shortest English word to include all five vowels – became an unlikely hit in Canada after its 2001 publication by Toronto-based independent Coach House Books. The book is in its 21st printing here, having sold more than 20,000 copies, an extraordinary feat for a poetry collection. It also won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize.

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11 Dec 08

The Bear Hunt: An Original Ballad Never Before Printed - The Atlantic (February 1925)

Writing from Springfield, Illinois, on September 6, 1846, to his former Springfield neighbor, Andrew Johnston, then living in Richmond, Lincoln refers to a promise once made Johnston to ‘bore’ him with another ‘little canto of what I called poetry.’

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06 Dec 08

Il Pleut

Poem by Apollinaire : Digital version conceived by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino : Digitally rendered by Mary Ann Sullivan

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05 Nov 08

John Ashbery - Election Day Poem - Infomercial 2 - NYTimes.com

Still there are those who mistake dark clouds
for raffish hucksterism. They have never savored
the elation of an empty crystal ball.

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24 Oct 08

Oxford American | Ready-To-Eat-Individual

Frank does not want to discuss his run-in with meningitis, why he writes poetry or what he does to pay the bills. He prefers to keep the focus on Ready-To-Eat Individual, a collaborative poem about New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina that he wrote with Brett Evans.

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20 Jul 08

Sailing to Byzantium | New York Times Video

How Yeats was inspired to write his poem. Video is from the exhibit at the National Library of Ireland.

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16 May 08

MuBet - by John Mercuri Dooley

MuBet is composed of independent sentences and phrases written or gathered -- with no thought of alphabetical, narrative or other order -- on a continual basis.

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09 Apr 08

DEATH FUGUE by Paul Celan

Translated by Johnm Felstiner

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19 Jan 08

Walt Whitman's Manuscript Drafts of "Song of Myself" - Ed Folsom, U. Iowa

This site offers you the opportunity to explore the origins of one of America's greatest poems, Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." Available here are facsimiles and transcriptions of all the surviving manuscript drafts of the poem.

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02 Jan 08

Pictures and Sound - The Walt Whitman Archive

This is a 36-second wax cylinder recording of what is thought to be Whitman's voice reading four lines from the poem "America."

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