Should all Poets Move to Australia and More Stuff
“Out of the garrets,” by Fiona Scott-Norman for The Age, looks at performance poetry in Melbourne, Australia. “Poets are becoming the new pop stars,” writes Fiona. Which begs the question:…
"Out of the garrets," by Fiona Scott-Norman for The Age, looks at performance poetry in Melbourne, Australia. "Poets are becoming the new pop stars," writes Fiona. Which begs the question: Should all poets be booking flights to Australia? Or, are all poets already there?
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"Charles Simic Receives Poet Laureate Post, Plus $100,000 Award," by Jeffrey Burke for Bloomberg, shows that Simic has had one helluva week with the poet laureate announcement and now a separate $100,000 prize as winner of the American Academy of Poets' Wallace Stevens Award.
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Also, my latest edition of Faulty Mindbomb is out. Rachel Carlson wrote the poem "My Fat Content." Check it out at http://faultymindbomb.blogspot.com/2007/08/fmb0027.html.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
