Guardian: “In the time I’ve been paying serious attention – the past 15 or so years – there’s been a steadily increasing anxiety over the marketing of poetry.”

A long lost love poem from Marlene Dietrich to Ronald Reagan has been found. Even more interestingly, the poem was typed on Noel Coward’s typewriter. The poem reads:

Gipper skipper
You’ve never been a big tipper
But Adolf’s hair
And yours compare
I type this
After a night of drinks

Holy frijole! An enormous Don Marquis resource online! (via MeFi)

Independent: “‘I write poems slowly, not usually on the back of an envelope in a hurry,’ says Harsent. ‘Being a poet is wonderfully isolated. I am fantastically sequestered from the world.'”

Sonnet Central (via Books, Words, and Writing)

There are even Canadian sonnets!