Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — For this trio, vive la différence! —
2. — Yeats’s inspirations ranged from folklore to fascism —
3. — Minnesota to get state poet laureate —
4. — The fringe presses with a small margin for success —
5. — One pleasure of art comes from how accurately it can convey ambivalence —
6. — Baseball’s troubadour poet laureate —
7. — Les Murray’s world subtly radiates holiness in whimsical poems —
8. — Fiona Sampson’s exactitude and command of inner space in Common Prayer impress Adam Thorpe —

Deep down, I can’t help but think if we gave the kids in the Middle East 1,000s of electric guitars and amps and drumkits and rock and roll records, everything would turn out O.K.

Emily Dickinson:

Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles —
Buccaneers of Buzz.
Ride abroad in ostentation
and subsist on Fuzz.

Fuzz ordained — not Fuzz contingent —
Marrows of the Hill.
Jugs — a Universe’s fracture
Could not jar or spill.

Poetry News:

1. — The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife by Jeannine Hall Gailey [congrats Jeannine] —
2. — ” … he cut through all the rubbish and I think that should be admired” —
3. — Art work marks end of poet’s walk —
4. — Momaday named state’s centennial poet laureate —
5. — I’d be out playing and I would hear a poem way off —
6. — They’ve convinced Congress to hold hearings on the matter [Yay! and you can keep an eye out here: there is an RSS feed] —
7. — First interview with JK Rowling —
8. — “Damn My Captain . . . I’m almost sorry I ever wrote the poem . . .” —

File-Card Conveyor Operated by Pedals

I was woken up by a phone call at about 4 a.m. — it was my brother Jason telling me that their daughter was born this morning. Woo! I’m an Aunt again. Yay!

Poetry News:

1. — Ode To The Best Poem Set In A Southern Junkyard [ and here is the poem ] link found here thank you —
2. — The Fall and Fall of the P-Zine —
3. — Poem race row splits council —
4. — … Joseph Brodsky once said of her that she “is the kind of poet that simply ‘happens’” [link found here thank you] —
5. — Clash Over Kerouac —
6. — Politicians should leave poetry to the poets —
7. — Born Magazine marries poetry to images in such a way as to enhance the rhythm and mood of the art —
8. — Sam Sifton, The [NY] Times’s culture editor, is answering reader questions from July 9 through 13, 2007. E-mail your question to … —

Poetish interviews here [thanks to Kevin for the suggestion]

Proms 07

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A lot of my Gran’s folks lived in Burke County, NC & around Morganton. For a few generations, the women in that part of my family never married, had kids by multiple partners, and also gave their own surname to their kids (instead of the man’s). So I haven’t had much luck with my genealogical research for that Whisnant line LOL. Anyway, speaking of Burke County, North Carolina…

there is an Appalachian murder ballad called “The Ballad of Frankie Silver(s)” — it isn’t as well-known as like “Omie Wise” or other murder ballads. The story is that Frankie allegedly took an axe to her husband and afterward she allegedly confessed via the ballad’s lyrics. (From the scaffold, even.)

There is a (great) documentary “The Ballad of Frankie Silver” at Folkstreams and you can watch it online. [warning: contains hillbilly music]

Frankie Silver got hanged on this day in 1833

This dreadful dark and dismal day,
Has swept my glories all away.
My sun goes down, my days are past,
And I must leave this world at last?

Oh! Lord, what will become of me?
I am condemned, you all now see,
To heaven or hell my soul must fly
All in a moment when I die. . . .

[the rest of her confession]

Poetry News:

1. — Punctuation In Three Acts By Jessica Handler (congrats Jessica)—
2. — A hunk of meat crawls macabrely into the home of a strangely unperturbed poet —
3. — Philip Booth was a poet known for his explorations of existence and New England in an intense, sparse style —
4. — it’s ironic that these “lost” poems are in the limelight as the subject of a six-year lawsuit —
5. — Hunter Discusses Reshaping ‘Shopworn’ Language —
6. — From rags to riches, or how undergarments improved medieval literacy —
7. — On This [yesterday] Day —
8. — Of all the great English poets, Dryden must be the least enjoyed —
9. — Sharon Olds with Michael Silverblatt from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation —
10. — The Poem as Comic Strip #4 —
11. — The poetics of Americana with Kimiko Hahn and David Baker [links to MP3] —
12. — In our own day, no doubt Toni Morrison and Seamus Heaney have their fans, but I would be extremely surprised if, in 100 years’ time, anyone rated their work —

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Back on Thursday.

Poetry News:

1. — “Love Song” by Julie King (Congrats Julie) —
2. — A Sacred Connection to the Sun —
3. — a strange feature of this story is the reluctance of those duped to acknowledge their mistakes and take decisive action —
4. — He found a soul mate among the people of Taiwan —
5. — On-demand printing provides an analogue product that originates in the digital world —
6. — Writing while Arab —
7. — A renaissance for mead —

Poetry News:

1. — the deepest, most traditional poetic form in the English tongue’s literature is blank verse —
2. — he was posthumously denounced by the vice-dean of Canterbury Cathedral for the “pollution” he had introduced into English poetry —
3. — Saving St. E’s —
4. — Fiction is the new poetry. They’re going to start writing essays like, ‘Can Fiction Matter?’ [link found here thank you] —
5. — Songbook Celebrating the psalms —
6. — Writers and readers meet on the internet —
7. — FIRST Answers.com Creative Writing Challenge —

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This made me laugh. Thank you.

Well I guess Friday was Frida Kahlo’s 100th birthday.

Poetry News:

1. — Seamus Heaney’s new book “¦ is sold out before most people have even heard about it —
2. — Poet Christopher Buckley Wins Guggenheim after 20 years of Trying —
3. — In Berry tribute, authors explore influence of writer who loves the land —
4. — Harborview lets poetry do some of the healing —
5. — When a new hotel in Edinburgh commissioned local poets to write poems to place on guests’ pillows instead of the usual chocolates, there was a gleefully cynical response —
6. — Chickasaw Nation Announces 2007 Hall of Fame Inductees —
7. — even with the occasional endorsement of the MLA, online projects are not generally esteemed by universities as evidence of scholarly productivity —

Poetry News:

1. — Mashile Scoops Pan African Book Prize —
2. — Sharing her personal history with a major literary and countercultural movement has been a mixed blessing —
3. — written poetry among Tibetans remained largely the work of scholars until the exile to India in 1959 —
4. — ‘Bard of Belltown’ a ‘great poet’ and a man of mystery —
5. — “I Have Been Given a Baseball … ” By Alan Michael Parker —
6. — The ‘raging bull’ of Russian poetry —
7. — Reclusive Nobel laureate publishing latest novel online —

Hands Up! To Hold Your Books.

Curious.

Not sure if I am going to post this weekend. If not, have you a good weekend.

Poetry News:

1. — What’s a ‘perfect line’ in poetry? —
2. — Khlebnikov was part of an active avant-garde circle of writers and painters known as the Cubo-Futurists —
3. — When she went to prison, she learned how to be free —
4. — The Antioch Review Lives, For Now —
5. — Shelley: poet, predator and prey —
6. — Emptying a Space to Let Something In: What can poetry teach designers? —
7. — Hewn-out word-shadows —

Idaho Center for the Book Announces Call for Handmade Books

Poetry News:

1. — Poems about Aliens —
2. — The power and the passion: letters from great names sell for millions —
3. — A poet whose work draws on everything from astrophysics to household chores has been appointed Vermont’s new state poet —
4. — Egad! Poetry and the grammarian —
5. — ‘Operation Homecoming’: The Writings of War —
6. — Once upon a time, from Homer to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Byron, poetry occupied an pivotal place in Western culture —
7. — This poem is from a collection of verse about diseases, hospitals and the science and afflictions of the body —

I’m having Internet access problems and chigger problems.

Happy 4th of July. This person is my (insert the word “great” 27 times) grandfather. I had thought my family were just, like, hillbillies.