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Poetry Friday: A Christmas List

By Women's Voices For Change
Inspired partly by Jan Simpson’s cool Christmas-for-Theatregoers list and by new Christmas poetry lists from The Independent UK and the Daily Mail, the latter a listing of new love poetry, we at WVFC feel obligated to offer our First Annual Poetry Friday Christmas shopping list. Below, your quick-links to the most recent work by poets who’ve adorned our Poetry Fridays…
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Poetry Friday: Standing Up for Louise Glück

By Laura Baudo Sillerman
It took a week to even begin this piece. The hesitation comes from the natural disinclination to skate on the thin ice of a place where one’s knowledge is less than deep. Still, I do know a bit about poetry. I have read a great deal of it and have studied it from numerous angles with numerous brilliant guides. I…
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News Brief: Louise Gluck Wins Wallace Stevens Prize; Bad News on Osteoporosis Drug; MORE Magazine’s Michelle Obama Cover

By Womens Voices for Change
The poet must be flying: We thought that former Poet Laureate Louise Gluck, 65,  had already gotten every literary prize out there. But that was before we learned she’d scored the Academy of American Poets’ $100,000 Wallace Stevens Prize, for a lifetime of “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.”  Academy chancellor Robert Pinsky said as the award…
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