Poetry Hut Blog
2008 June

Poetry News:

— These are poems of stark strength and startling honesty, constantly revealing the shock of the reality of everyday existence, touched often by a quiet dry humor —

— With invention, irony, and uncanny instinct, three poets show off their mastery of the surreal —

— T.S. ELIOT v. PORTISHEAD —

— Stray Questions for: Mary Jo [...]

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Poetry News:

— William Logan in the NYT on Frank O’Hara —

— Actually creating reading of substance trapped in constraints —

— To annotate his poems is to realise how much cultural and metaphysical freight they carry —

— Much of her work drew on the southern working-class milieu from which she sprang, and she produced powerfully [...]

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Poetry News:

— Publish and Perish —

— What did it mean to buck the tide and take women writers’ works and lives seriously? [link found here thank you] —

— From Abolition to Dickinson, Rev. Higginson made his mark —

— His seminal poems, “The Neo-HooDoo Manifesto” and “The Neo-HooDoo Aesthetic,” delve even deeper into this artistic practice [...]

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Poetry News:

— Amy Newman uses short, verses to show the theorist of evolution struggling to absorb its implications for his private life —

— We love independent filmmakers and musicians, and celebrate their maverick spirit, so why don’t we want independent writers? —

— Margaret Atwood wins Spain’s top literature prize —

— G. E. Murray 1945~2008 —

— [...]

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Poetry News:

— I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision. [not safe for work] —

— A poet reconciling verse and living —

— Mike Watt, Lee Ranaldo, more set James Joyce to music —

— Karen S. Williams June 30 Poetry Workshop, Reading and Booksigning - Open to the Public [Detroit: WCCC [...]

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Poetry News:

— Aleda Shirley (1955-2008): An Appreciation —

— On the Gurlesque part 2 —

— Holy Shit —

— Emerging writers are published with established writers around a loose theme —

— The Beat Generation’s jazz sensibility still resonates in a new century —

— Poetry with je ne sais quoi —

— It’s all in Buffalo, and it’s all [...]

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George Carlin on baseball vs. football:

link

Tags: baseball, George Carlin

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Poetry News:

— Tasha Tudor, 92 —

— From Verse to Controversy — And Fleeting Fame —

— One of the liberties that poetry takes, and that prose can’t, is temporarily to break up or interrupt a sentence with a line ending —

— On the contrary, Lowell had mastered that style so completely that he had exhausted its [...]

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Poetry News:

— Langston Hughes, the first poet especially devoted to jazz, got the idea to use it from Vachel Lindsay, his mentor. In the 1920s and 30s, Hart Crane, Carl Sandburg, and Mina Loy were pioneers of jazz poetry. —

— Executive Director needed for award-winning online magazine —

— Though not an obvious family man, [...]

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Poetry News:

— A 24-year-old who called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist” won her appeal in London in Tuesday against conviction for collecting information which could help plan a terror attack —

— Why everyone wants to make a Dylan Thomas movie —

— For more than 30 years, poet and professor Richard Shelton has traveled to a high [...]

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Poetry News:

— Well, William Logan is back —

— Amazon seems each year to go from one publisher to another, making increasing demands in order to achieve richer terms at our expense and sometimes at yours [link found here thank you] also see Borders Urged to Consider Sale to Amazon. I didn’t know Borders went up [...]

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Poetry News:

— Local writer hopes to make a difference —

— That frozen timepiece is an appropriate image for a poet whose best work seems to still time, to suspend a moment of clear-sighted observation —

— Are Those Shakespeare’s “Balls”? —

— Director Nick Loven said the film will be the perfect way to mark Tennyson’s 200th [...]

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Poetry News:

— Memoirist, poet and Book World contributor Mary Karr will be online Tuesday, June 17 at 3 p.m. ET to discuss her Poet’s Choice column, her best-selling 1995 memoir The Liars’ Club, and the joys, seductions and struggles of the writing life —

— On the Self Publishing Argument —

— where human thoughts seem to [...]

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Nashville

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Davis-Kidd Books
Emmylou Harris
Just Another Pretty …
Kingston Springs
Kingston Springs Fire Department
KingstonSprings.org
Metroblogging Nashville
Music City Bloggers
Nashville Sounds
Nashville Weather
pitcherlady
Plumgood Food
Radio Free Nashville
Reading, Writing …
RexBlog
Rhino Booksellers
Riverview Restaurant
Ryan Adams Sucks
South Cheatham Public Library
That’s right, it’s bigbadivy
The Chuck and duck blog
The Homeless Guy
Tiny Cat Pants
TN Guerilla Women
TN Weather Zone
WAMB
WPLN

Blogroll

1000 Black Lines
12 or 20 questions
30 Days
32 [...]

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