Poetry Hut Blog
2008 April

Since my last post regarding this topic:
1. The Washington (state) Atty General has said “talk to the  hand  Feds.”
2. The National Writers Union (I am a member - they are UAW Local 1981 btw] has called for Justice Dept. and Congressional investigations.
3. AuthorHouse and Lulu.com have caved, though I can’t find any official announcement [...]

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Poetry News:

— You’re saying to the world, this is how I want to be read, this is how I want to be seen, and those are hard decisions to make —

— Poetry in Motion, Thanks to YouTube —

— The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce [...]

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Link to an article.
Looks like I’ll have to update my Poets Laureate map pretty soon.

Tags: Charles Simic, poet, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Poetry News, poets

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Poetry News:

— These aren’t pastoral poems delighting in nature; they’re set in a muddy town of drunken fights —

— Try doing it, and what you’ll end up with is cheap imitation Frank O’Hara —

— Thieves steal homeless poet’s words —

— Agenda will celebrate its half centenary next year, having been founded by William Cookson and [...]

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Poetry News:

— There is little that can make us as acutely conscious of the fact that we are still alive as being shown the body of someone who is dead —

— Start a Notebook on Poets.org - 30 Ways To Celebrate National Poetry Month —

— “if anything the poem and video are poking fun at [...]

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Poetry News:

— Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon —

— U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician —

— New Buk on DVD —

— Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner —

— Al Young took to [...]

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Poetry News:

— Catherine Breese Davis wrote of loss, abandonment, destitution, despair and decrepitude—and she knew what she was talking about —

— Between Poetry and Performance, a Film Finds a Rocker’s Heart —

— A Voice Poetry Roundup: From half-baked utopias to diabetic bitches —

— But if no one likes to read poetry — or so it [...]

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Poetry News:

— Thanks to poetry, X=imagine the possibilities —

— Salt To Expand Its Stable Of Free Online Literary Magazines —

— His meteoric poetic output began with his first professionally published poem at 16, but by 20 he stopped writing poetry and would later declare of his work: “All of that was just pig swill.” [...]

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Poetry News:

— We are each a bundle of nervous impulses: to fidget, to gossip, to be distracted, to inquire, and especially to satisfy our scalding curiosity by looking at anything we’re told not to look at —

— Big is still best but not everything Americans do is supersized - a rich tradition of shorter verse [...]

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Poetry News:

— Trying to organize poets is “kind of like trying to organize minnows or something” [there are MP3s linked in the sidebar on the left] —

— A collection of poems by Dan Albergotti, an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, has been published, a result of his work being selected for the [...]

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LOL yeah I’m getting a late start haha.
I always feel a slight tinge of I don’t know, guilt, when I do a blind translation. Like I have to apologize. Sorry Goethe.

Found

Each going is wild
so much fur here,
and such night zoos,
they wear me inside.

I’m shut in each sadness
one blue machine standing,
with stern tender light,
with angle-shine.

Will each [...]

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Poetry News:

— I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —

— Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —

— Definition of poetry splits the literati [...]

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Poetry News:

— How to trivialise women’s poetry —

— elitism is a laughable charge to levy against an art that doesn’t require tickets or a premium cable subscription —

— The antipoem’s burlesque charm hits like a nightstick —

— An interview with poet Mary Jo Salter —

— And I may say, perhaps, I’m happier writing about doctors [...]

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Poetry News:

— The sonnet is a frequently misunderstood form with an enduring appeal. Fancy having a crack at your own ‘little song’? —

— it also cements her reputation as the greatest poet of her generation —

— This sense of freedom is produced by Ashbery’s diction (no American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, [...]

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