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

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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 […]

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Depressed? Must be a writer.

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The Guardian‘s Benedicte Page reports that “Writers ‘at greater risk of depression’, survey finds“: Irregular pay and isolation contribute to the propensity for writers to succumb to depression, says the site, with nearly 7% of male artists and writers likely to suffer a major episode of the illness. Though Gwyneth Lewis disagrees that suffering for one’s art

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