Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — ‘Free Fall’, video and music by Mike Burakoff, collages by Nick Piombino, from the book of the same name. This is featured at The Continental Review “…a haven for original video readings, video poetry and hybrid poetic-imagistic objects….” —
2. — Brewer among the nominees for Utah Book Award —
3. — Andrew Topel, visual poet of commanding technique, is a rightful heir to lettrism —
4. — Joe Milford Hosts Scott Owens! - Sep 27,2008 from The Jane Crown Show —
5. — You should buy this book it is really really really really really good. Yay! —
6. — This week on The Infinite Mind: Telling Their Stories. We will take a look at the value of brin[g]ing personal narrative into medical care. [incl. Rafael Campo] —

I swear, I am “this close” to becoming an anarchist … if I didn’t think that a Constitutional Republic was the best way to ensure the maximum freedom. But law is becoming increasingly a moot point. Why did they pick such battle-hardened troops with tons of recent combat experience for this deployment? Pfff.

I feel too crappy right now to continue this blog, sorry. I’ll be back though.

Happy Autumn! My favorite season.

Poetry News:

1. — Much closer to home, Wingard also doesn’t know who puts the shells on H.D.’s grave; he guesses it can only be fans who know her work —
2. — ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘The Iliad’ are giving up new secrets about the ancient world —
3. — There is a long tradition of poems written in response to paintings —
4. — Manchester University’s John Rylands Library will be digitising much of its renowned collection of medieval manuscripts, including parts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales —
5. — When asked for advice on how the city can heal and progress in the wake of scandal, the city’s poet laureate Naomi Long Madgett, responded with a poem [sidebar] —
6. — Seeking the next N.H. poet laureate —

The lit mag reviews at New Pages are fresh. Isn’t it nice of them to keep publishing that? Why don’t you buy ‘em a beer?

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I used to get HD an AE mixed up haha. When I was writing that Ted Williams Frozen Head poem I kept thinking/writing Ted Hughes instead of Ted Williams too.

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My hand hurts, so I am taking a break. I have news scheduled for tomorrow, though and an appt in the pain clinic today so maybe that will help.

Poetry News:

1. — What The “Subprime Poetry Crisis” Means For The Overheated Metap[h]or Market —
2. — Poster poems: The rhythm of the falling rain —
3. — Wordplay with Pat Reviere-Seel and Jessica Newton [MP3] —
4. — A report on the new poet laureate of the U.S. A question from Yemen about Emily Dickinson. And poetry set to music, on a new album from France’s first lady, Carla Bruni. —
5. — This story of a wife’s betrayal and her husband’s fidelity unto death stings me with the awareness that small, unnoticed nobility endures in our midst —
6. — Poets, we think, can’t help but be poets and do poet-ish things. —

McCain’s Economic Plan For Nation: ‘Everyone Marry A Beer Heiress’ (ONN)

Poetry News Saturday SCIENCE! edition:

1. — Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language —
2. — “It’s probably no coincidence that many languages around the world have repetitious syllables in their ‘child words’ – baby and daddy in English, papa in Italian and tata (grandpa) in Hungarian, for example” —
3. — There are numerous examples in our daily language of metaphors which make a connection between cold temperatures and emotions such as loneliness, despair and sadness [fixed link] —
4. — Neuroaesthetics promises to reinvigorate science’s search for a theory of beauty —
5. — New Life For Middle English: Norwegian Detective Work Gives New Knowledge Of The English Language —
6. — By the end of the century, the two disciplines were officially divorced and poetry was deemed the worst way in which to express scientific knowledge —

Poetry News:

1. — So the idea that a poem can be made poetic by its structure alone is open to question, at the very least. —
2. — Joe Milford Hosts Grace Cavialeri - from The Jane Crown Show —
3. — Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour with Andrena Zawinski & Shakespeare [MP3] —
4. — Nobody reads poetry anymore —
5. — A woman who is one of the last people alive who knew writer Thomas Hardy is to perform one of his poems at the age of 102. —
6. — After two decades behind bars, Win Tin tells of life in one of the world’s toughest jails —

Adventures in reading miscomprehension

Poetry News:

1. — The Rebirth of a Suicidal Genius —
2. — Poetry, Pottery & Pies Raises Funds for Poet Laureate’s Medical Bills —
3. — Shakespeare’s Bootlegger, Dylan’s Biographer, Nabokov, and Me —
4. — Nadine Chapman: Colleague and friend —
5. — Alum’s Passion for Poetry Pays Off —
6. — There’s an inherent interest in Knight’s personal experiences within the asylum, and all of the poetry contains a deep introspection that opens a thin sliver of light into the line between sanity and insanity. —

Poetry News:

1. — Pallimed: Arts & Humanities (current posts about Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, “pain poet” Jane Cave Winscom, etc.) —
2. — poets transform the mountain lit scene & article is here —
3. — Win Tin, a poet, journalist and democracy advocate, was freed Tuesday after 19 years in prison —
4. — This month’s workshop is an exercise in self-portraiture, and it takes as its starting-point a quotation from the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda —
5. — Collins are to exuviate abstergently 2,000 rarely used words from their dictionaries to make way for new ones … but can we smell an olid rattus rattus? —
6. — “Should we have had more of a business plan?” he added. “Probably. But then the publishers that did have business plans didn’t do any better.” —

“What is it about this painting that such infamous people in history have owned it?”

Poetry News:

1. — Where poems come from —
2. — In a poem addressed to the frowning “critic”, Scorn Not the Sonnet, we learn some of Wordsworth’s own opinions about the form and its practitioners —
3. — at the hands of Vancouver poets Jen Currin and Meredith Quartermain, the world as we know it is transformed into something strange —
4. — Becoming the Villainess, Book Picks and the Meaning of ‘Drash’ —
5. — I don’t think poetry has a monopoly on all this, and I know that not all poets would agree with this, but for me it is one place we can go for perspective —
6. — Jane hosts Frank Andrick - from The Jane Crown Show —

Poetry News:

1. — America’s Poet Laureate –who writes about the Niagara River –is a woman who is searching for balance between her very public role and her notoriously private life —
2. — How to write poetry: Poet Wendy Cope explains what makes a really superb poem —
3. — Elizabeth Bishop’s Great Village —
4. — “Click on the link below, left, to hear an extract of Bin Laden’s poetry recital” —
5. — Those Who Write, Teach —
6. — Joe Milford Hosts Evan Willner — The Jane Crown Show [MP3] —

Poetry News:

1. — David Wagoner’s new collection of poems, “A Map of the Night,” feels like a summing-up by the author many consider the dean of Northwest poetry. —
2. — For days, I’ve trolled my poetry shelves for the right words to grieve with, the way an insomniac pharmacist — desperate for sleep — might pick through her tinctures —
3. — Film takes look at life of Emily Dickinson —
4. — But this remarkable collection by someone who perhaps invented the concept of “oversharing” long before it became fashionable, reminds us of why he mattered then, and still does now —
5. — Poets have always been fascinated with dreams. Please share yours —
6. — The poem is one of 20 that have started appearing in sidewalks since July —
7. — Burmese papers report losses due to strict policies of censor board deputy chief —

September is Pain Awareness Month. Good timing, what with the stock market & everything.

My town has been out of gasoline for a while. A lot of Nashville is out, too. A station here in town got some gasoline yesterday, Darryl said, and the Sheriff had a squad car in the parking lot & there is a huge line. Reminds me of the 1970’s lines at gasoline pumps, which I do remember. I don’t understand the CNN article that says it is panic. Kingston Springs was out of gas on the Sunday of the hurricane. I haven’t been too mobile lately so I’m not sure what the heck is going on.

Dear Onion Radio News: if you are going to make fun [MP3] of my State, at least learn how to pronounce the Governor’s name haha.

Poetry News new Saturday SCIENCE! edition:

1. — Computers figuring out what words mean —
2. — From cartilage to fruit-fly wings, physicist studies ’squishiness’ in everyday things —
3. — Please submit a 5 line poem by Monday, September 22 at 3pm (Japan Standard Time). [Space Poem Chain Vol. 5: JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency] —
4. — Scientists watch as listener’s brain predicts speaker’s words —
5. — Although readers keep shifting to the Internet, Esquire magazine’s editor is sure print isn’t dying, and he aims to prove it Monday by unveiling a 75th-anniversary issue with a cover that features electronic ink. —
6. — A Université Laval research team has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake —
7. — People who react more strongly to bumps in the night, spiders on a human body or the sight of a shell-shocked victim are more likely to support public policies that emphasize protecting society over preserving individual privacy —

I had no idea that I really don’t have the slightest idea where my body is, in space, LOL. I always knew I was (putting it kindly) nonathletic, but this is me in physical therapy: “Am I doing it right? Like this?”
PT: “Uhm. Ack. Not that far.”
Me: “Geez, I’m such a dork, haha.”
PT: “Aw, no you’re not.”
Me: “It’s OK; I accept that I’m a dork haha.”

I’m almost maxed out on PT appointments. >:(

Poetry News:

1. — Kelly honored with Academy of American Poets fellowship —
2. — Lorca relatives accept mass grave probe —
3. — A Melancholy Man of Letters —
4. — Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour (Wed Sep 17, 2008) with Scott Evans and Sumita Chakraborty [MP3] —
5. — Hailing Rain Taxi for years of service —
6. — Thanks to developing economies, liberal-arts courses are blooming in the developing world. —

“Avast, there!”

Poetry News:

1. — In a country where poets are revered like rock stars, Akhmatova was a celebrity, but that also made her a dark, dangerous figure in the Socialist paradise —
2. — The lone witness in poetess Madhumita Shukla murder case was attacked in his village Gohadia in Kaiserganj, police said on Tuesday —
3. — It is based on Anne Sexton’s “Transformations,” a poetic, adult reinterpretation of familiar fairy tales —
4. — France Encrusts Wall-to-Wall Poetry in Sofia [I like the idea of something being "encrusted" with poetry] —
5. — Hear Gwendolyn Brooks read “the mother” and Theodore Roethke read “My Papa’s Waltz,” with insights by ex-US Poet Laureate Donald Hall. [MP3] —
6. — Salt has launched Horizon Review, its second online literary magazine and part of its planned expansion into free-to-view Web journals —
7. — Perhaps it’s the duality between the intuitive, interiority and the strong authoritative, apocalyptic voices that guide these poems —

I changed our dental insurance to a more local dentist - Dr. Anissa Burgess. Darryl went in for a teeth cleaning & sat down in the chair & asked if the TV (People’s Court) could be turned off. She said no. He asked if it could be turned down. She said no & told him that he seemed like the problematic type who wouldn’t be satisfied with the teeth-cleaning job & he said all I want is a teeth cleaning, then he left. LOL way to make a good first impression, new dentist of ours! (And Darryl is a polite sensitive new age guy so I doubt he was a jerk about it.) He said there was no TP or paper towels in the bathroom, either. Meh. We are both stuck in bizarro world these days. He didn’t get into the dental chair until 55 minutes after the time of appointment; maybe she wanted him to leave because they were overbooked? Or perhaps she simply (obviously) really, really, enjoys daytime TV & would have preferred to watch the People’s Court in peace?

Unfortunately, I’ve been seeing a lot of the medical profession these days - 3 appointments so far this week. Most of it has been a good experience but I have to wonder what in the heck some people are thinking. My [very few] “WTF encounters” have been with Interns or with office staff. With the Interns - most of my care is at a University Medical Center - it’s like they didn’t know yet that it’s not cool to exclaim “is that permanent??!!” or whatever. And with the staff: yes I want to stand in front of the little window in the packed waiting room, giving you my medical history in front of everyone so you can decide if you want to pronounce my “referral fax form” worthy enough to give to the Dr. or not. (Was not at the University Medical Center.)

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry has become an overscheduled toddler run ragged by ambitious, bickering parents, its very existence a compromised simulacrum of their disharmonious projections and expectations —
2. — There’s no denying that American poetry in the last few years (with exceptions) has been extremely, one-sidedly intellectual —
3. — Recordings of 14 major 20th-Century American poets have been added to the free online audio Poetry Archive —
4. — A 21-year-old poet whose first collection was published when she was just 15 is in the running for the £60,000 Dylan Thomas prize —
5. — The editors of The New York Times Book Review set out to list the funniest novels ever and couldn’t come up with a single title by a woman —
6. — The American John Milton —

I dreamt of 3 Caesars/Cesars: Romero (joker), Chavez, and just plain. (Rome and/or Vegas). What the hell does that mean LOL?