This Week in Poetry: 001
Time to start a new feature. I’m not sure if this will stick or not, but it seems such a no-brainer that I should share links to poetry news I…
Time to start a new feature. I'm not sure if this will stick or not, but it seems such a no-brainer that I should share links to poetry news I come across during the week. If this is interesting or helpful, let me know, and I'll keep getting them together. Have a great weekend!
The National Book Foundation announced the 2013 longlist for the National Book Award in Poetry. (National Book Federation)
Popular Brisbane poet Graham Nunn (aka "Mr. Poetry) has come under fire for plagiarizing the work of other poets. While Nunn denies the claims, he has admitted to "creatively appropriating" without credit the text of other poets, which sounds dubious at best. (News.com.au)
Husband and wife team of Jared White and Farrah Field have opened a poetry-only bookstore in Brooklyn called Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Book Shop. (Publishers Weekly)
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor for the Writer's Digest Writing Community and the author of Solving the World's Problems. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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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.
