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Another mega-update this week, including all 44 of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese.

We're in the process of adding more Emily Dickinson poetry. In the coming weeks we'll be adding more of her work until we've archived all 1,775 poems! Yes, it's a lot of work.

We've also recently acquired a mid-size collection (~1,000 poems, about 25% of which we already have in the archive) from a poetry site, "The Poet's Corner" (probably one of many sites on the web that goes by that name) whose webmaster decided he'd had enough and thought we might put the poems to good use. So thanks to Jerry, we'll be editing and adding those poems, all of which are public domain and range from Chaucer to Robert Browning to other authors that have probably not been published on the Internet before. Check them out.

We'll still be accepting essays, articles, and reader responses regarding Frank O'Hara throughout the month of August. Check this link for info on our "Call for Papers."

Try to keep cool,

-- Jough, ed.

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That's all for now. Expect an update as usual, this Sunday.

Cheers,

-- Jough Dempsey, Editor.

There's a new article (finally) in "The Art of Writing Poetry" series. This time around we look at some quick tips about avoiding cliché, working on line endings, rhymes, and avoiding melodrama like the plague.

We've also added over 500 new poems this week. Thanks for all of your submissions.

Also, we're still accepting articles and essays for our feature on Frank O'Hara. Check out the Frank O'Hara Feature page for more details.

Plagiarist.com is pleased to present our first in a series of feature articles on a particular poet, poem, period, or genre. We'll be focusing not only on the poets you know and love, but also those we feel are wrongly overlooked.

The current feature is a Plagiarist.com exclusive, focusing on James A. Emanuel. There's an introduction by Jean Migrenne, Emanuel's French translator (he translates Emanuel's poetry into French) as well as twenty-two poems selected by the author himself, all featuring French translations by Jean Migrenne.

Also added this week are the contents of Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems. Check them out.

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Lots of news this week. We're also now accepting submissions for essays and articles about Frank O'Hara. We're looking for essays focusing on a single poem, or a few poems. O'Hara is the subject of our second feature. So send your proposals and essays to publish@plagiarist.com.

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I hope everyone has a Happy Summer Solstice.

-- Jough, Ed.

It's been a busy week for articles here.

First up is an excellent look at free verse and the post-post-modern line (or lack thereof) with the renouned Marjorie Perloff's "After Free Verse: The New Non-Linear Poetries".

Next up is another rail against National Poetry Month (do any poets actually support NPM?) by the man who makes the New Formalists run and hide, Charles Bernstein. You can read his thoroughly entertaining (yet informative) piece "Against National Poetry Month As Such."

Next up is a Plagiarist.com exclusive. Jean Migrenne wrote an introduction for our new feature on James A. Emanuel, and we've posted it as a "sneak peak." Check out the full feature next Sunday, but for now, you can read the poems (selected by the author himself) in the archive.

Also added (whew!) are four articles in our new "Canonical Essays" section - these are all required reading for any poetry lover.

We've updated all of your submissions too, so keep 'em coming. We'll be adding new articles and essays this week too, and it's not too late to submit yours for consideration. Just e-mail: publish@plagiarist.com.