Table of Contents

1. World Class Poetry Updates
2. New World Class Poetry Pages
3. Take The World Class Poetry Survey
4. World Class Poetry Blog
5. World Class Poetry Reviews
6. Become A World Class Contributor
7. World Class Poetry Networking

World Class Poetry Updates

This week's updated pages include:

• Langston Hughes: The Black Poet Laureate
• Poetry Terms, Letter R
• World Class Poetry Hall of Fame

New World Class Poetry Pages

New pages added this week:

• Amiri Baraka: Radical African-American Marxist Poet Who Defied All Traditions
• Gwendolyn Brooks: Friend, Poet Laureate, Encourager

Be on the look out for these World Class Poetry pages, coming soon:

Robert Hayden
Edgar Allen Poe
Pablo Neruda

Take The World Class Poetry Survey

Take the World Class Poetry Survey. Seriously, I want to know what you think. What would you like to see at World Class Poetry?

If you haven't already taken the survey, please share your thoughts.

World Class Poetry Blog

The best poetry blog on the Internet just keeps getting better. Don't believe me? Check out these latest comments from my readers:

"Allen, Thank you for mentioning this. I’d not heard about the article yet, and I like Hass."

"Mulholland Drive is a wonderful film, very bizarre and weird. I like irony when used well and this is an interesting post, plenty of food for thought for a writer!"

"Thank you for all you do in the name of Poetry, poet Allen Taylor!"

Now it's your return. Check out these recent posts at the World Class Poetry Blog:

• Poetic Missiles Shot Through The Walls Of Academe
• A Poetry Manuscript Conference That Looks Promising
• Two Poems: A Rictameter And How Freedom Dies
• WSJ Interviews Poet Robert Hass
• Amiri Baraka: Radical Poet, Radical Voice of Black America
• Should Poets Laugh At Themselves?

World Class Poetry Reviews

While checking out the website of one of my favorite journals, Rattle, I discovered that they were looking for people to review a few books. I volunteered. So they'll be sending me some books to review and you can read them online once I'm done.

Speaking of reviews, send me your chapbook or full-length poetry book and I'll review it for World Class Poetry. My review pages tend to rank on Page 1 of Google for the author's name. Just fill out the World Class Poetry review application. I'll be in touch with the details within 48 hours. Get your review before thousands of monthly visitors at no charge.

Become A World Class Contributor

While in Iraq in 2005 I had the opportunity to write enough poems to fill a full-length book. I'm looking for poets of stature to critique them for me in order to help me ready them for publication. I will be seeking publishers this next year and your name will go on the acknowledgments page if you are selected to be one of my few, specially selected critique partners. Use the World Class Poetry contact form to tell me why I should choose you.

Would you like to contribute content to World Class Poetry? Let me know through my contact form and I'll tell you how your name can appear on my website. If you have a website then you can get a little link love just by contributing content to World Class Poetry.

World Class Poetry Networking

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Oh, and one final word: Merry Christmas!