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	The New Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Poetry was a poetry anthology edited by Al Alvarez, published in 1962 and in a revised edition in 1966.
		The criteria for inclusion in The New Poetry were firstly the poet had to be British (which excluded Sylvia Plath from the first edition) and had to have not made their reputation before 1950 (this excluded the likes of W.
		Alvarez concluded that Lowell and Berryman were the most influential figures on British poetry writing at that time, which justified their inclusion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_New_Poetry (372 words)

	Poetry
		Contemporary poetry's striking absence from the public dialogues of our day, from the high school classroom, from bookstores, and from mainstream media, is evidence of a people in whose mind poetry is missing and unmissed.
		The limits of the poetry of any age come not from things the poets perceived but were unable to attain (that would be failures of craft), but rather from the things they never thought to include or never thought of value to their art.
		Poetry is important to the extent it embraces experience in its full complexity; for some kinds of poetry, "the largest possible audience" may be a very few readers indeed.
	www.poetrymagazine.org /magazine/0906/comment_178560.html (3399 words)

	Poetry and New Criticism
		While language is by nature discursive, all literary uses of language pull toward more presentational forms of symbolic transformation, with poetry the most directly presentational through its emphasis on the specific properties of words (sound, rhythm, arrangement, past history, connotations, etc.).
		Poetry creates presentational effects by undermining the discursive nature of its medium, language, in many different ways; a poem requires reflexive reading (or re-reading), in which individual sections are examined in the light of an awareness of the whole piece.
		However, poetry is never purely presentational; its richness and ability to convey both rational and intuitive meanings simultaneously stem from the tension between the discursive and presentational modes.
	www.cnr.edu /home/bmcmanus/poetry1.html (452 words)

	[New-Poetry] Help!
		I hold that what distinguishes poetry > from prose is meter, and that that has been the distinction between > the two for thousands of years across human language.
		But that French or Greek poetry > relies on this or that kind of meter to distinguish poetry from > prose, while English or Japanese on this or that other kind of meter > supports rather than undermines my position that meter is the > distinguishing factor between poetry and prose.
		I think it's because "poetry" has a > privileged position in our culture that "prose" does not have, and > you want to claim the privilege of being known as a poet without > having to learn how to do what it takes to be a poet.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /pipermail/new-poetry/2005-January/000328.html (948 words)

	New British Poetry: 1 London and Southeast England
		As the title makes clear, this is a repeated experiment by one of London’s foremost poetry presses, which seeks to foreground the work of authors who have not yet published a full collection of poems, but whose work has appeared, sometimes widely, in magazines and journals of merit.
		ANVIL NEW POETS 3 brings together the work of ten poets, ‘from all over Britain and beyond’, whose styles vary widely, but whose combined talents demonstrate the prevailing trends in British verse, as well as how those trends are interpreted by a top publisher like Anvil.
		As one of the few really large publishers that actively encourages submissions, Poetry Now is able to draw upon a huge pool of resources to assemble an anthology where each poet is given one poem only to make her- or himself known.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/17251/98483 (445 words)

	The New Princeton Encyclopedia o... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From abecedarius to zeugma, by way of cywydd, estribillo, Nibelungenstrophe, Tachtigers, and other poetic terms that sound like poetry, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a gold mine for readers and writers of poetry alike.
		First published in 1965, this tome has evolved to reflect developments in critical thinking and an expanding knowledge of non-Western poetry (without, heaven forfend, being trendy: "a reference work," the editors explain, "must always distance itself from its time while it works to embrace that time").
		Rating 5/5 Want to know what a 'priamel' is? Look it up here, "The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics." Not only will you see 'priamel' defined, but a short history of the use of the concept, examples of priamelic poetry, and a other resources to learn more.
	www.books-shoppe.com /prod/0691021236/The_New_Princeton_Encyclopedia_o... (763 words)

	The Poetry Book Society, the book club for poetry lovers: New to Poetry?
		Bad experiences at school or baffling encounters in broadsheet review sections can convince some readers that modern poetry is difficult to understand, or doesn't relate to real life or the rest of their literary experience.
		Remember, the reading of poetry is not an exact science: it does not require the wearing of protective glasses and need not be carried out under strict laboratory conditions.
		If you are new to poetry, and would like some advice about where to start reading, call us on 020 7833 9247 and we will give you a tailor-made recommendation.
	www.poetrybooks.co.uk /PBS/pbs_new_to_poetry.asp (634 words)

	The New American Poetry (Rexroth)
		Her poetry had about it a wistful Schwärmerei unlike anything in English except perhaps Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach.” It could be compared to the earliest poetry of Rilke or some of the more melancholy songs of Brahms.
		Both write poetry which has learned much from the Far East, and which is saturated with a feeling for the new, human significance of the landscape and the primitive peoples of the mountains and forests of the Pacific Coast.
		This does not mean that his poetry is not thoroughly traditional — in one of the oldest traditions, that of Hosea or the other, angry Minor Prophets of the Bible.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/essays/american-poetry.htm (3903 words)

	The Hindu : Simple and silent
		Also, by then, almost all the new poets had published their first collections, which were sold out in a few months, perhaps faster than the collections by the supposedly established poets of today.
		Certainly, what is meant by "new poetry" is the kind of poetry being written by a generation of poets whose initiation into poetry has been after the1980s, and, by "past models", what it was in the preceding decades, the 1960s and 70s — the period of high modernism in Malayalam.
		Hence, manifestly, the thrust of the new poetry is on reclaiming the objectivity of words and, thus, the spontaneity of language.
	www.hindu.com /lr/2004/08/01/stories/2004080100010100.htm (1077 words)

	NEW POETRY #3
		Poetry in Exile: A Study of the Poetry of W.H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky and George Szirtes.
		Poetry and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: A Festschrift for Peter Dronke.
		The Poetry of Ana Maria Fagundo: A Bilingual Anthology.
	orpheus.ucsd.edu /speccoll/anp/newbooks3poetry.html (2715 words)

	PhillySound: new poetry
		I was shook by the intensity of the day itself, but also with the inevitability of suffering that would play out throughout the world theatre and in the USA in its aftermath.
		These included resisting sweeping new anti-democratic Patriot Act legislation, countering the boldness of the Information Awareness Program, and making a difficult attempt to educate the public on the domestic surveillance atrocities that made the dreams of a liberated nation that much more distant.
		The gist of the program (which already has a lot of support in City Hall) is to MAKE land owners who rent to high income tenants provide 20 percent of their housing to lower income tenants, thus helping curb the classist segregation which is rapidly occurring in the greater Philadelphia region.
	phillysound.blogspot.com (2565 words)

	New Poetry Review: One Poem at a Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		New Poetry Review is for everyone from neophyte to experienced poet.
		Discussion can range from a close reading of the poem, in the manner of New Criticism, to a more wide-ranging treatment of the world in which the poem is embedded.
		For those of you who are new to poetry, I recommend the seven lectures on the Craft of Poetry online.
	www.newpoetryreview.com (358 words)

	New Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This new taste for a certain private and household poetry, for somewhat less pretending than the festal and solemn verses which are written for the nations, really indicates, we suppose, that a new style of poetry exists.
		Men should be treated with solemnity; and when they come to chant their private griefs and doubts and joys, they have a new scale by which to compute magnitude and relation.
		Here is poetry which asks no aid of magnitude or number, of blood or crime, but finds theatre enough in the first field or brookside, breadth and depth enough in the flow of its own thought.
	www.emersoncentral.com /new_poetry.htm (1006 words)

	The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		"The New American Poetry is a crucial cultural document, central to defining the poetics and the broader cultural dynamics of a particular historical moment."--Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry
		Donald Allen's The New American Poetry delivered the first taste of these remarkable poets, and the book has since become an invaluable historical and cultural record, now available again for a new generation of readers.
		Donald Allen (1912-2004) was the editor of The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (California, 1995) and coeditor of The Collected Prose of Charles Olson (California, 1997).
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/7045.html (384 words)

	AHA! POETRY
		POETRY is the glove on the hand of AHA Books of Gualala, California.
		All rights of poetry by other authors remains in the copyright of the writer listed.
		And it was selected by merit to be in Poetry Month Project.
	www.ahapoetry.com (311 words)

	POETRY New Orleans \| Lousiana POETRY
		Bob Kaufman was born on April 18, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of thirteen children.
		Nicole Cooley lives in New York City, and is working on a book of poetry about the Salem witch trials of 1692, titled The Afflicted Girls.
		He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997, and is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he lives with his wife, poet Yona Harvey, and their daughter.
	www.neworleans.info /poetry.php (826 words)

	Poetry 180
		This is the first school in the country to institute a brand-new poetry program initiated by recently appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins.
		"The typical poetry in the classroom is 15-to-600 years behind the times, so the point of Poetry 180 is to get kids interested by exposing them to poetry that is fresh, contemporary, human and direct, by poets that they probably would not have heard of otherwise.
		The Library of Congress' Poetry and Literature Center explains the position of Poet Laureate.
	www.acfnewsource.org /art/poetry_180.html (628 words)

	Poetry NZ \| Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Poetry NZ is an international print journal of poetry and poetics based in New Zealand.
		Established in 1951 and currently edited by Alistair Paterson, it is this country's oldest and most distinguished poetry magazine, but is nevertheless interested in new writers trying to have their work recognized.
		While New Zealand poets receive the most attention, Poetry NZ is always looking for high quality work from other countries.
	www.poetrynz.org (241 words)

	New British Poetry 29: Three Journals
		There is also a one-page editorial; a column called ‘Past Master’, printing selections from an author from an earlier generation; a close-up upon a ‘Featured Writer’; a section for readers’ remarks upon previously-published poems; several reviews of new books; and advertising specifically targeting new titles, competitions and markets for new poetry.
		Besides the poems, there is the briefest of chatty, straightforward editorials; several pages of notices for new books, many with paragraph-sized reviews by IOTA’s editors or their associates; and listings of forthcoming contests and markets for new work.
		The journal’s reputation continues to expand in the UK, and the editors’ critical acumen has meant that IOTA is now frequently cited in the acknowledgements of collections by many established poets.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/New_British_Poetry/116760 (432 words)

	Learn New Poetry Forms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Or perhaps you are a new poet who reads many different kinds of poetry but has not yet found one that lights your fires to get you going.
		As we go along and get more people involved in this new project, we hope they will share their expertise in their fields so more can be added to this list.
		If you know of, and write in, another poetry form, send your text about the form with samples of your work by attaching the file to an email message to ahabooks@mcn.org with attention to New Genre.
	www.ahapoetry.com /newform.htm (177 words)

	New Issues Poetry Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification that the manuscript has been received, or your canceled check may be used as a notification of receipt.
		A manuscript may be submitted that is being considered elsewhere but New Issues should be notified upon the manuscript's acceptance elsewhere.
		New Issues does not consider manuscripts outside the context of its competitions.
	www.wmich.edu /newissues/NewIssuesPoetryPrize.html (244 words)

	New Foundations • Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In addition to learning about poetry in general, the poems selected for study would help children understand and celebrate their cultural identities.
		Children would learn the parts of speech of the English language and apply them be creating their own poems; and through this experience would increase their self-esteem.
		When you read this poetry I hope you will hear the passion for life that flows through the children's poems.
	www.newfoundationsinc.org /poetry.asp (216 words)

	Pinsky Reads New Poetry
		The presentation of poetry readings will be made during a special Bicentennial conference on "Poetry and the American People: Reading, Performance and Publication." The conference will be held April 3-4, 2000, at the Library of Congress, and will include readings by the three Special Consultants and the Poet Laureate.
		We have become aware that poetry inhabits lives we had not suspected, comforts those in trouble, sustains those in need, satisfies those who seek completeness of vision.
		Having served as poetry editor of The New Republic through much of the 1980s, he is currently poetry editor of the weekly Internet magazine Slate, and a contributor to "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS television, reading poems related to current events.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9906/pinsky.html (1071 words)

	New to Poetry - Poetry Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This narrative poem tells the story of the massacre of the Light Brigade in the Crimean war, and is written with a steady marching style and pace, so that you can almost see and feel the soldiers going into battle, and to their death.
		RAW is the BBC's new literacy campaign, which aims to help you enjoy your reading and writing.
		The Poetry Archive depends on donations from public bodies and private individuals.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/adultLearners.do (1013 words)

	Poetry New Zealand
		Poetry NZ, began in 1951 with the publication of Louis Johnson's
		It is interested in new and younger writers trying to have their work recognized.
		The rest of the issue is comprised of a selection of poetry from New Zealand and abroad, as well as essays, reviews and general criticism.
	www.bookcouncil.org.nz /community/media/poetrynz.html (269 words)

	LitKicks: Two New Poetry Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From the small press/indie part of the publishing world (which we at LitKicks love), here are two new poetry picks that have caught my eye.
		The cover art is of a winged microphone which fits perfectly, since I think many of the pieces in the book would gain strength from live reading -- their cadence seems to ask for performance -- yet they still stand up on the page.
		LitKicks is partnering with BlogAds.com on a new ad program for small and large publishers, novelists, chapbook poets, etc. Click here if you have something you'd like to promote.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=PoetryPicks (539 words)

	About the New Media Poetry conference
		A number of the leading critics and writers in the field of New Media poetry will gather in Iowa City this October.
		The conference will focus on poetry composed for digital environments, exploring cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural accounts of this work in the broader context of contemporary arts and culture.
		The conference promises to be an historic literary event since it will be the first devoted exclusively to the critical study of this emerging literary practice.
	www.uiowa.edu /~iwp/newmedia/about.html (218 words)

	Home - Poetry Society
		Here you will find poetry news, events to go to, help with writing and places to submit your poetry.
		We gratefully acknowledge the Asia New Zealand Foundation for their ongoing and generous support of the Junior Haiku section.
		We would like to remind entrants that all poems entered remain under consideration for the anthology, and may not be submitted elsewhere, until October 1st 2006.
	www.poetrysociety.org.nz (416 words)

	New Zealand Poetry - Poetry Cafe - Venue - Porirua - NZ
		New Zealand Poetry - Poetry Cafe - Venue - Porirua - NZ Poetry Café Porirua Incorporated
		Dinah Hawken was born in Taranaki in 1943 and began writing poetry in her mid-thirties.
		She trained as a physiotherapist and a social worker and spent 20 years as a student counsellor at Victoria University.
	www.poetrycafe.co.nz (161 words)

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