Poetry linkage: at weddings, in the gym, reading and a new magazine

By Nico | April 28, 2011

With National Poetry Month winding down to a close, I thought I’d do another round up of poetry news and miscellanea.

Wedding season is near upon us – further evidenced by the upcoming nuptials of my sister this June – and Carol Ann Duffy offers a collection of poems frequently found at weddings.
Stephen K. Tollefson writes about memorizing poetry – at the gym, of all places.
Earlier I mentioned the launch of Canada Reads Poetry, and a collection has been selected, forage, by Rita Wong. For more on the other titles, see the round up here.
And finally, poet George Murray, also of Bookninja fame, is launching a new online magazine, NewPoetry. The manifesto looks great, and the first call for submissions has recently been posted. Keep an eye on this one.

I read a lot, and though I wasn’t consciously reading more poetry over other forms, I manged to read quite a few collections this month:

Patternicity, by Jim Johnstone
Contrary, by Ruth Roach Pierson
The Nights Also, by Anna Swanson
Sunday, the locusts, by Jim Johnstone
Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, by Daniel Scott Tysdal
The Burning Alphabet, by Barry Dempster
Little Venus, by Carla Drysdale

Each of them excellent in their own way.

What are you reading?

Nico is a bibliophilic reader, writer, editor, reviewer, poet, blogger, hat wearer and kitten tickler. Nico's work has appeared most recently in Broken Pencil, The Antigonish Review, and Carousel, among other journals. Nico tweets as @plutopsyche.

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