News Article Tape: (ragline)___The Guardian: Oxford University to reform voting rules for poetry professor post___(ragline)___Hartford Courant: At Home In A Legend's Home: James Merrill's 107 Water St.___(ragline)___Hartford Courant: Cate Marvin,...

Dear Poetry Aficionados, IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags The chair of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford is headlining the poetry news again. This time, the college's new online voting procedure is the prelude to the new vote, or the...

a "kamikaze convention", and this year descended into embarrassing farce when Ruth Padel felt compelled to resign after nine days in the job. For some, the arcane voting rules are the problem. Any member of Oxford's convocation, which includes all...

apartment, Marvin expects to maintain her independence as she works on longer poems during her stay. One of the themes of her poetry--and her academic work--is the need for women writers to break free from male-dominated literary tradition. In "Lines...

Eugene Heaney's eulogy for his second cousin Colm McCartney, murdered by sectarian killers in 1975. The backdrop of the poem and the present setting were one and the same: cows in a mist, clay and water, a soft treeline. . . . I dab you clean with...