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If you have any spare school supplies — notebooks, markers, pencils, pens, crayons, etc. I am gathering them to send them to my family member in Iraq so he can distribute them to kids over there. Hmmm. Maybe not crayons. (What do you think? It’s pretty hot over there.)

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Poetry News for October 17, 2007

Oct 17th, 2007 Posted in Poetry News | 4 comments »

Poetry News:

— Students learn Dante’s Disco Inferno —

— A desperate and decayed world of gamblers and faded whores has one onlooker in its thrall —

— The Real Carver: Expansive or Minimal? —

— China’s voices of dissent —

— A conversation with Maya Angelou —

— Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists —

— Due to recent industrial action, postal deliveries may be affected. We are thus making this week’s issue available in epaper format, free of charge. [I can't get it to work though] —

That image goes with the blink tag from Monday. hahaha

What should we do for our wedding anniversary this weekend to celebrate our troth plightin’? What is going on in Nashville Sunday?

Tags: Brian Henderson, Charles Baudelaire, Dennis Lee, Don Domanski, Margaret Atwood, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Richard Howard, Rob Winger

Poetry News for October 16, 2007

Oct 16th, 2007 Posted in Poetry News | 2 comments »

Poetry News:

— ‘Poet cannibal’ arrested —

— Editor meets Henry Rollins —

— Writers Debate the Net’s Effect on Their Craft —

— A Lawyer, a Poet, and a Love Rekindled —

— Poet Hass’ ‘Time’ does not live up to ‘Praise’ —

— Robert Lowell’s 1960 statement regarding the state of poetry not only pitted the Beats against “cat-nip” academics, but publicly declared them to be a force —

— Writing Aplenty on the Web, but Where’s the Cash? —

— …but back to the apparently quite lucrative Beat industry —

— The first story on this program is a Eudora Welty classic about the rebellious daughter of a somewhat bizarre Southern family, “Why I Live at the P.O.”, read by Stockard Channing [mp3] —

— Writers, publishers gather to celebrate Twin Cities literary scene —

— Oct 24: Sonia Sanchez to Present next Joseph N. Patterson Lecture (Winston-Salem) —

— Poet Laureate Simic: ‘I grew up bent over a chessboard’ —

— Series A: Evan Willner and Joshua Corey —

“Our idea was to go beyond merely displaying how badly a baseball can be thrown.”

Tags: baseball, Eudora Welty, Evan Willner, Henry Rollins, Joshua Corey, Paul L. Mills, physics, Robert Hass, Robert Lowell, Sonia Sanchez

Poetry News for October 15, 2007

Oct 15th, 2007 Posted in Poetry News | 5 comments »

Poetry News:

— Scratching poems on cell floors, or making ink from the brick powder of the walls, Burmese writers have managed to continue writing despite imprisonment and censorship —

— Haiku Poet Documented Life in Japanese Camps —

— To write vital poems, Notley has said, “it’s necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against … everything.” —

— The End of America: Naomi Wolf’s Call to Action —

— poetry written by English colonists before there was a United States, and by citizens of the new republic shortly after its founding —

— Poetry can’t topple dictatorships or stop fascist terror, but… —

— As human beings we should be judged by our minds, by our creativity, not by our biology —

— Terrible. (That looks like a good documentary.) —

— Questions You Should Never Ask a Writer —

— When You Have Ideas You Cannot Yet Execute —

— Walnut Hill School in Natick will name its new residence hall in honor of poet Elizabeth Bishop —

— He wakes from dreams and walks into the woods, sometimes for hours, reciting and memorizing the poems that come to him in his sleep —

— Poetry Center design an exacting, contradictory task for architects —

— it displays a line from one of Shelton’s poems that appears in computer punch-card code similar to that of the 1970s —

— You”™re a Good Prop, Cruel Muse —

Today is the Feast Day of St. Teresa of Avila, who wrote “I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself” and “”May God protect me from gloomy saints.” My Grandma, Theresa (Korte) Zimba, was named after her. And I was named after my Grandma Zimba (one of my middle names is Theresa). There is a famous statue of her.

St. Teresa of Avila was a mystic and the first female Doctor of the Catholic Church & is the Patron Saint of:

headache sufferers
(protection from?) heart attacks
sick people
Spain
Pozega, Croatia
laceworkers
loss of parents
people in need of grace
people in religious orders
people ridiculed for their piety
and she could levitate

So the word of the day is transverberation

***“Tuesday; An Art Project is an unbound, letterpressed journal of poems, photographs and prints, published, biannually by Tuesday Journal press.”

Rosmarie Waldrop — Our Moments
Thomas Sayers Ellis — Mr. Drum
Jonathan Weinert — Solving for y
Jilly Dybka — Obstacles I Have Faced in Life and How I Have Overcome Them
Mary Tautin Moloney — Damage Reflected
Nubar Alexanian — Fisheye
Greg Delanty — Prayer in Summer
Frannie Lindsay — After a Sermon on Giving Up Everything
Jeffrey McDaniel — Confessions of a Flawed Diety
Jeffrey Perkins — Squirrel
Ravi Shankar — Rodeo Cowboy No. 1, Oil on Canvas, 1978
John Caserta — Keys
Joan Houlihan — The New Cruel
Mike Perrow — In a Time of the Tendered Ocean
Don Share — Symbiosis
Bill Gallery — Chair & Palm Trees, California, 1997
Steven Cramer — Rereading Stevens in Mid-February
John Hodgen — For Mr. Grimes Who Tried to Teach Me Physics After My Father Died
Noelle Kocot — The Peace That So Lovingly Descends

hahaha I am in a funny mood. I think they’re going to take my webmaster license away for using that <blink> tag. I’m cracking myself up. That really is a beautiful journal though so go buy one.

Tags: Alice Notley, Anne Bradstreet, Burma, creativity, Democracy and Media Freedom in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Bishop, Harold Bloom, Joe Plum, Naomi Wolf, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Richard Shelton, St. Teresa of Avila, Tuesday; An Art Project, Violet de Cristoforo, Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, visual poetry

Poetry News for October 12, 2007

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Poetry News:

— Statue Brings Exiled Russian Writer Home —

— Beat poet Ferlinghetti’s art gets yanked from S.F. building lobby —

— Squandermania is ambitious, referential, musically brooding in lofty vocabulary, ironic regret and lament without sentimentality —

— A second NPT documentary, funded in part by the Metro Arts Commission, will explore the contributions of the legendary Vanderbilt poets and critics ““ among them America‘ first Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren ““ known as The Fugitives —

— Poets and flamenco ring in the new Poetry Center —

— It’s easier than ever to make and buy culture. No wonder some people are so upset. —

This should be interesting

Tags: Don Share, Joseph Brodsky, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, wnpt

Poetry News for October 11, 2007

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Poetry News:

— “The name ‘Ceptuetics’ comes from combining the words conceptual and poetics” —

— The Gulf between Love and Hate is No Greater than 6: Experiments in Language, Literature, and Mathematics —

— Make Us Wave Back: Essays on Poetry and Influence —

— A native of Puerto Rico, Judith Ortiz Cofer is a poet, essayist, memoirist and novelist —

— The National Book Awards finalists were announced yesterday —

— Scene reviewers pick their favorite out-of-towners appearing at the Southern Festival of Books —

— China: police harass human rights poet Tao Jun after interview for US newspaper —

— More TFR News —

— After about 6am CST (Noon GMT/UTC) click here to find out the winner of the literature Nobel —

Tags: david Kirby, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Kareem Estefan, Linda Gregerson, michael collier, Nashville, national book awards, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Robert Hass, southern festival of books, Stanley Plumly, Tao Jun, The Futility Review

Poetry News for October 10, 2007

Oct 10th, 2007 Posted in Poetry News | one comment »

Poetry News:

— Susan Howe whispers the netherworld [mp3] —

— Violet de Cristoforo, 90; California haiku poet survived WWII internment camps —

— This poem is as sexy as a soft-porn script —

— This very special baseball program of SELECTED SHORTS includes stories, memoirs, and poems that celebrate the national game [mp3] —

— how the structure of language reveals things about the mechanics of our minds —

— The words that time forgot —

Clever crows are caught on camera

Tags: crows, John Donne, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Steven Pinker, Susan Howe, Violet de Cristoforo, Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry News for October 9, 2007

Oct 9th, 2007 Posted in Poetry News | 4 comments »

Poetry News:

— The Happy Endings Foundation hoax —

— Vendor of verse: It’s personal at NYC street ‘poem shop’ —

— “Poetry arises out of a mind that feels itself in some way to be cracked” —

— Editorial: A Muse Unplugged —

— In three books, over eight years, Matthea Harvey has moved to the front of the pack of interesting poets writing in English —

— New Tay disaster: William McGonagall faces challenge to title of world’s worst poet —

— Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts —

— A monument to the outstanding poet Joseph Brodsky will be set up nearby the American Embassy —

— Former state poet laureate Grace Paley was remembered in a memorial service —

– Physics Nobel winner(s) will be announced today. This link’ll probably tell you the winners.

– Your cabbage: now with 100% more anti-depressants and oral contraceptives.

– Ron Paul was in Nashville this weekend & I attended. He seems like the only antidote to this, to me. I think our Constitutional Republic has been replaced by a corporate-controlled oligarchy. There are a bunch of videos of the rally at You Tube.

Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Christian Wiman, Grace Paley, Joseph Brodsky, Matthea Harvey, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Ron Paul, William Chrome, William McGonagall, Writing and poetry

Poetry News for October 8, 2007

Oct 8th, 2007 Posted in Poetry News | 2 comments »

Poetry News:

— Ugly Duckling Presse began as a college 'zine in 1993 and evolved into its present form as a nonprofit art and publishing collective in 2000 —

— Established in 2004, the Pegasus Awards are a series of annual prizes with an emphasis on new awards to under-recognized poets and types of poetry —

— the literary magazine has decided to shutter so that its book imprint may live —

— Bibliophiles see margins shrinking, but aren't ready to close the book on literature —

— a special poetry day to be held at the Queen's London home —

— Literary review founders honored —

— During Memorial Ceremony, Friends, Colleagues Pay Tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet —

— Deft variations of approach and imagination keep these poems moving —

— A person in a photograph can be reinvented in our minds to be whatever we want them to be —

— Some writers seem destined to serve as poets laureate; others would probably hate the job —

— He is lyric brown sauce, an unctuous, fruity slop … LOL —

Now Hawking and his 36-year-old daughter Lucy, one of his three children with Jane, have collaborated on a scientific adventure story for children …

This is still the funniest TV blooper I've seen. Cracks me up every time.

Tags: Alex Albright, Allison McVety, Anne Stevenson, Brenda Iijima, Brian Culhane, Eva Roberts, Gina Frangello, Herbert Leibowitz, John Surowiecki, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Robert Hass, W. Keats Sparrow, William Meredith, William Wordsworth

Poetry News for October 5, 2007

Oct 5th, 2007 Posted in Poetry News | 2 comments »

Poetry News:

— Thank you very much for inviting me to speak about Poetry and Power —

— the latest wrangle in the US reflects a wider problem in deciding what’s good poetry and what’s not —

— VA Tech professor writes poems about shooting —

— Poets are good at discerning life within what otherwise might seem lifeless [congrats]—

— Business of Words with Collin Kelley, Month of October, Guest: Reb Livingston —

— Sean O’Brien has become the first person to win the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry three times. —

— For years, Baltimore has laid claim to one of our greatest writers. Nevermore! —

— Old and, though no-one knew it then, close to death, Auden’s behaviour in Ilkley can best be described as eccentric —

— The court cited the lower court‘ findings of fact questioning the validity of the certificate‘ facts, such as … the publication of the poems without a copyright notice —

— ACLU “˜Howls”™ Against FCC Destroying the Best Poems of a Generation —

— Burma: Act Now! —

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Congrats to Eclectica on its 54th issue. That’s quite an achievement, as online lit mags seem to come and go. In the latest issue, Scott Malby did a review of this site. Thanks, that is kind.

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3 most popular links for last month (as far as Feedburner is concerned):

“This country’‘ best-selling contemporary poetry book, according to the most recent list on poetryfoundation.com”

All about the latest Best American Poetry

The announcement that Paul Muldoon will be the next poetry editor of The New Yorker provoked Ted Genoways, editor of VQR, to to call out American poets

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Attn Nashville word nerds: this program (New PBS Series Probes the Origin, Technology and Art of Writing) begins tonight at 7pm on Nashville Public TV.