Poetry Hut Blog
2007 July

Poetry News:

— Poet laureate finds rhyme and reason in ordinary life —

— Prostitutes are target audience for India’s latest magazine —

— Love him or loathe him, William McGonagall is a Scottish literary legend —

— The Diameter of the Bomb by Yehuda Amichai —

— The Lost Poems of Joe Dimaggio —

— Why literary blogging won’t save [...]

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Poetry News:

— The hijacker of everyday logic —

— Writers and Poets on Film —

— Pothole Poet Guilty —

— Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects In The Brain —

— Here is a poem by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh —

— Stage work dissects complexity and demons of poet [...]

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The Reanimation of Ted Williams’ Frozen Head
It is almost imperceptible — the twinkle of ice rime thawing
in an interior steel room filled with exaggerated gases,
near a regal super-neuro-unificator machine.
Everything is silent but for a discontinuous tinkling,
which means the enfolding of the field begins,
which is a prognostication of the heft of the bat,
which means science is [...]

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Poetry News:

— A report card is a report card ” unless it belongs to Robert Penn Warren —

— Literary magazines come and go; none lasts forever —

— The ad also has a popular poem, when the initial letters are added up … [and more here] —

— The Psychology of Rejection —

— Poet Fleur Adcock [...]

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Poetry News:

— Tam o’ Shanter kirkyard resurrected —

— Modern medievalists credit him with being the first scholar to treat Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as texts with literary depth —

— Korean Mummies Reveal Medical Clues, Love Poems —

— poetry therapy ” a field that’s little known but growing [may require bug me [...]

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Poetry News:

— Day Six: Penguin Publisher, Expert, Enliven Parker Copyright Trial —

— the average salary in publishing remains relatively meager compared to other professions, especially for women —

— his poems are no less for this; we must each find our own language —

— It wasn”™t until the mid-1840s that limericks became popular —

— The first [...]

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Poetry News:

— I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers —

— Fiona Sampson admires the responses to her exercise on listening poems —

— Fitzpatrick painstakingly filled the three-car driveway with T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” —

— Two skulls, one poet —

— Penguin in battle [...]

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Poetry News:

— The great poet William Carlos Williams called [her] “one of the major phenomena of history” —

— Copper Canyon is the leading U.S. independent publisher of poetry —

— As these four collections show, the field’s “outsider” status lets poets pursue art for its own sake —

— Too many movies, poems, songs, TV shows deal [...]

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Poetry News:

— People believing that’s Angelou’s best poem ever, I figured, is justice enough —

— Sekou Sundiata: Defying Labels —

— Bookslut is looking for a columnist and also for a book designer —

— The Impoverishment of American Culture by Dana Gioia —

— Poetry doesn’t make a lot of money, and the quiet time doesn’t mean [...]

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Poetry News:

— How Jim Morrison Died —

— The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few” —

— We’re poets, so this was an amazingly stressful situation for us —

— Actress Katrice [...]

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Poetry News:

— A ‘Redemption Song’ for The Clash’s Frontman —

— The great poetry binge —

— When ‘On the Road’ Was ‘On the Subway’ —

— Forward prize shortlists look to youth and experience [one can always find poetry-related articles in the Guardian here, too.] —

— Poems should always be read at least twice, because the first [...]

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Poetry News:

— And yet, as immeasurable”or meaningless, as some might argue”a degree in creative writing may be, Delaney found that there was enough consensus of opinion to produce a top-ten list —

— Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike to star in ‘Caitlin’ —

— Job: Curator of Poetry, George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poetic Theaters, Romantic Fevers [one can always check NYT for poetry-related articles here] —

— Sonnets served with a slice of pi —

— Revisiting North Carolina’s finest poet —

— “This is a clip from the new Bob Dylan movie. It stars Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan and David Cross as Allen Ginsberg.” —

— [...]

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