Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — When Hank Williams died on New Year’s day in 1953, he left behind a legacy of honky tonk hits as well as an extended family that would grow to include a son, daughters and grandchildren. Milo Miles reviews an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame called, “Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy.” —
2. — alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast, Linh Dinh catalogues the myriad grades of Vietnamese chuckles. [MP3] —
3. — John Ingram, Chairman of the Ingram Content Companies, announced last Thursday that the company would fold the leading print-on-demand publisher, Lightning Source, Inc. into its main book business to create Ingram Lightning Group. —
4. — One of the failings of our education system is that we are educating people out of creativity. —
5. — That era of the poetry readings was also the folk era. So our intermission would be a folk singer, usually playing the auto harp. —
6. — Author of new book discusses his work linking corporate values with the decline of the tenure-track position, especially in the humanities. —
7. — His latest collection, The Late Show, includes “Gloss of the Past,” composed entirely of the names of lip glosses —
8. — ‘Paradise Lost’ poet turns 400 —
9. — Poetry, our national art, has never been so neglected or unloved. —

The magnitude of circadian advantage influences the outcome of Major League Baseball games in that teams with greater circadian advantage are more likely to win. Crossing multiple time zones further reduces the probability of success for traveling teams.

On this date in 1970: Dock Ellis pitches a no-hitter while on LSD.

His biography, Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, was written with Donald Hall.

Best wishes to him and his family as he awaits a liver transplant.

Poetry News:

1. — Written on the body: literary tattoos —
2. — Guy Maddin is planning on writing an upcoming feature with a longtime friend. “It’s called Keyhole,” Maddin tells Paste. “Which I’m co-developing with the poet John Ashbery.” —
3. — Literary magazines: grotesque and Gaitskill —
4. — Opposing Ezra Pound’s dictum to “Make It New,” conceptual poetry responds with “Why Make It New If You Can Reframe the Old?” —
5. — I’ve never found anything cool in used books —
6. — Darkness surrounds the wit, lightning flashes of sheer intelligence transform the darkness, and, it must be said, great windy stretches of self-indulging discourse blow throughout —
7. — On this episode of “Studio 360,” radio personality and poet Sean Cole takes a closer look at Emily Dickinson’s legendary poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” —
8. — This is my goodbye and thank you after almost two years of writing my Times poetry column. —

Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure. — Hans Scholl

Poetry News:

1. — Cornelius Eady and Toi Derricotte will receive the 2008 Elizabeth Kray Award for service to the field of poetry —
2. — Homage to Pasternak, With Piano and Poetry —
3. — Meanwhile, the boxes containing the legacy of the late poet — the first black woman and first Virginian to have her work included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry — had become nomads —
4. — Alleged molester on FBI Most Wanted list faces NH judge —
5. — New Audio: Jackson Mac Low reads “Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair” —
6. — Everybody’s sad, except really dumb people —
7. — Poet Honor Moore created waves with her memoir that in part talks about the double life of her father Paul Moore, an Episcopal bishop —

Poetry News:

1. — Most Recent Articles from American Poetry Review, The —
2. — Female contenders rule out ‘archaic’ post of Poet Laureate —
3. — In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of Native American literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong — and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses —
4. — Asahi Haikuist Network —
5. — When Barbara Guest passed away in the winter of 2006, America lost one of its most fiercely independent and original artists. —
6. — The Art of the Blurb: Results of the Poll —
7. — In 1611, at age 42, Lanyer became the first woman to publish a book of poetry in English, Salue Deus Rex Judaeorum, or “Hail, God, King of the Jews.” —
8. — Surrealism, Rebellion and the 1960s —
9. — “My problem is that I am the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, but I wanted to be an individual. But we are, of course, a product of our parents. In denying them, you deny part of who you are. It’s taken me years to be ­comfortable with that” —

This isn’t Miguel Batista’s blog haha. I’m getting erroneous web traffic.

Kucinich introduces Bush impeachment resolution. I’m watching him on C-SPAN right now. Thank you Rep. Kucinich.

Please please please please call your Representative. (202) 224-3121. If you don’t know who that is, you can put your zip code in here and it will tell you.

Poetry News:

1. — Comparing the Processing of Music and Language Meaning Using EEG and fMRI Provides Evidence for Similar and Distinct Neural Representations —
2. — Poetry can be true without being True —
3. — Lamantia anticipated by decades the elegant involutions and torqued interiority made familiar to us by other poets influenced by Surrealism such as Paul Celan and John Ashbery —
4. — “I must have been a fierce particle,” she marveled in a 2003 conversation with Spires. —
5. — Of verse and violent crime —
6. — A Yale-educated WASP, Matthews mocked the tight-lipped stoicism that was his birthright, while elevating it into high style. —
7. — “It’s for everybody,” she said. “It’s music. If you love music, you love poetry. It’s for everyone.” —
8. — Just when Almereyda has inclined us to the notion that agitprop can be noble, sincere and effective, Night Wraps The Sky accounts for the simultaneous unraveling of Mayakovsky’s life and Lenin’s communism. —
9. — a list of print journals that accept email submissions —
10. — As a new biopic probes the life and loves of Dylan Thomas, the writer’s daughter gives her verdict to biographer Andrew Lycett —

America has always struggled to live up to ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the freedoms written by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. Nowhere has this idea played out more visibly than on the baseball field where men and women have fought to cross racial, cultural, and gender barriers for the equal opportunity to play the game. In conjunction with our spring 2008 exhibit, Baseball as America, the National Constitution Center presents “Baseball: The Melting Pot,” a special conversation about the ways in which the game of baseball has served as a reflection of our social tensions as well as ideals, and our struggle to become a more inclusive society: MP3.

The following blogs have linked here, regarding my book, Trouble And Honey. Thanks for your support:

If I missed you, please let me know. I am just taking technorati.com’s word for it.

Poetry News:

1. — Why is America ambivalent about Whitman? —
2. — Eliot the poet has to be rescued from thesis mongers and academic apologists, and liberated from the ballast of both an outsize critical reputation and his own Olympian criticism —
3. — The controversy threatens to forge a permanent divide in the city’s small press community, where two degrees of separation might be one too many. —
4. — “Interpretive Work” is the first book in a new imprint established by Red Hen Press in Southern California to publish literary works of high quality by lesbian writers —
5. — Bookstores here are so scarce that many readers have trouble naming one —
6. — His work also reached a wider audience thanks to the 2003 film ”21 Grams” by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu —
7. — Poetry Roundup —

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Poetry News:

1. — Local bookstore brings poetry to the shelves —
2. — Poet Zagajewski receives the 2008 Milosz Prize —
3. — The LGBT Literati —
4. — A 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal has been awarded to Ninebark Press for its inaugural publication, “Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad.” —
5. — W H Auden struggles for the conch —
6. — Classics - Old English Poems and Riddles and The First Poems in English —
7. — Show to honor Edna St. Vincent Millay —
8. — IT failure haiku poems —

Poetry News:

1. — This Ecstatic Nation: Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11 —
2. — Q&A: Rebecca Wolff’s Fence Turns Ten —
3. — Holy Road: Paula Gunn Allen (1939 - 2008) —
4. — He wanted to create, as he put it, “echoes realer / than originals.” Unfortunately, echoes have a nasty way of fading. —
5. — Elizabeth Kirschner’s book of poems, ‘My Life as a Doll,’ chronicles her memories of child abuse —
6. — Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago —
7. — It’s easy to forget that American poetry was not always as friendly to the middle class as it is today —

The book reviews at New Pages are fresh and so are the lit mag reviews

dancing girl press has opened the chapbook manuscript reading period — they make good chapbooks.

I like persona poems - a whole online lit mag issue of them

Poetry Midwest has an e-chapbook available as a downloadable PDF file.

My family member is back from Iraq - thank you for your prayers.

Poetry News:

1. — Knox is at her best in poems that demonstrate an understanding of poetry —
2. — More on the Frost “poetry punishment at the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet —
3. — John Ashbery’s Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems and Robin Blaser’s The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser are the International and Canadian winners of the eighth annual Griffin Poetry Prize —
4. — Is there an American poet more unique and incapable of characterization than James Tate? —
5. — Putting Your Poetry in Order —
6. — An extraordinary poet examines ordinary subjects —
7. — In the introduction to ‘The Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present’ (Scribner, $30), the poet and critic David Lehman points to what he sees as a “vital American tradition of erotic poetry” —
8. — Hollins University will receive a $5 million gift to establish what will be known as the Jackson Center for Creative Writing —
9. — Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen finds refuge in Sweden —
10. — An athlete in the extreme sport of poetry —

Poetry News:

1. — Vandals Forced to Study Poetry of Frost & CNN, WSJ —
2. — Jason’s poem “One Day I Will Die” enjoins us to hug each instant hard enough to forge a diamond from the coal —
3. — So why does poetry matter? —
4. — Remembering Joseph Brodsky —
5. — Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumble —
6. — He believed that bad writing destroyed civilizations and that good writing could save them, and although he was an élitist about what counted as art and who mattered as an artist, he thought that literature could enhance the appreciation of life for everyone —
7. — Czechoslovakia is the setting for Poem of the End, which re-lives the last phases of Marina Tsvetaeva’s most intense love affair —
8. — What happens to creativity and imagination as we get older? —
9. — Dearborn Suite by Philip Levine Another Michigan poem —
10. — Detroit, 1972, by Jim Daniels And another Michigan poem —
11. — Making a Lyrical Return to the Sunken Garden —

Poetry News:

1. — Wendy Cope: ‘I don’t want to be laureate’ —
2. — What is a failed poet? —
3. — The idea for a skull and roses came from an illustration in “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” a collection of poems by the Persian poet who died in 1123 —
4. — The trouble with neuroaesthetics —
5. — When Hemingway turned his hand to verse —
6. — In time for the Stanley Cup Finals, a Q&A with Randall Maggs, author of the first great book of hockey poetry —
7. — Poetry: Read It When You’re Drunk —

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Regarding the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

If you didn’t browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them.