Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — “Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing.” —
2. — In the case of After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events, edited by Tom Lombardo (Sante Lucia Books), poems have been chosen to help readers to recover from subjects such as war, abuse, addiction, death, and more. —
3. — Mark Roper’s lightness of touch captures the poise and beauty of this peculiar bird —
4. — Wellesley’s Dan Chiasson named poetry editor of Paris Review —
5. — Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath and … Marie Osmond. UbuWeb is a weird and wonderful treasure trove of the avant garde —
6. — Georgetown Welcomes Award-Winning Poet Carolyn Forché to Faculty —

Just in time for Halloween, I am sporting an eye patch. Aaaarrrrr. Still trying to figure it out - seeing a specialist next week. The eyeball is like 80% collagen, so … spooky. (My body makes messed up collagen.) My regular eye Dr. spent almost 2 hours with me yesterday. She’s great.

ps. taking a break until I can see straight.

Poetry News:

1. — I don’t necessarily push dark imagery in my poems as much as I embrace darkness when it arrives in my life, and find a way for that darkness to exist inside language. —
2. — Halloween has changed a lot in my time but it has always been an inspiration to poets —
3. — Writer Lawrence Joseph keeps memories of old store alive [link from here thank you]—
4. — All good poems surprise. Great poems keep surprising for longer, for as long as we can imagine. —
5. — Through Lowell’s dizzying psychological dramas and fits of despair, Bishop remained a steadfast but unsparing correspondent. —
6. — Wendell Berry’s time is now —

In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure

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Poetry News:

1. — That’s the least interesting aspect of his work, but it did produce this startler, “User’s Guide to Physical Debilitation,” from a forthcoming book of his poems —
2. — Brenda Shaughnessy’s poems bristle with imperatives: confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide. [I don't get that knock knock joke ]—
3. — Calavera poems joke in face of death —
4. — Former poet laureate Charles Simic, a longtime Review contributor, reads work from his two most recent collections, Sixty Poems and That Little Something. [mp3] —
5. — How not to be a literary critic —
6. — Poet explains his probation violation with rhyme —

There’s a rough-looking Hammond Trim-O-Saw listed on the Nashville Craigslist, if anyone is looking for printing equipment.

Poetry News:

1. — The BBC reports that the British Library has digitized some rare recordings of fifty-seven 20th-century writers’ voices —
2. — A longitudinal cinéma vérité-style documentary, “The Last Beat” follows Corso after the death of Ginsberg, as he goes “on the road” to discover his creative muse —
3. — Duke Anthropologist Translates Poems Lost During Holocaust —
4. — Poetry or otherwise, Gordon still taps into he calls the “most important” piece of advice he’s ever received, which —
5. — Shortlisted poems: a poll of readers to decide the outcome —
6. — I’m sort of wondering whether any other poet-bloggers want to throw together an informal late-night guerrilla reading? —

When it says Phillies Phillies Phillies on the label label label …

Poetry News:

1. — She was a brilliant student, poet and author, who contemplated life and death with passionate intensity, so typical of an individual with an eighth house Sun in Scorpio —
2. — The good news is that the relatively dreary climate of poetry-publishing ensures that the chapbook will continue to flourish —
3. — ‘Paper Woman’ writes on body —
4. — For more than 2500 years, classical epic has been the province of men: written by, for and about them, and passed down through the centuries by male translators. —
5. — Asahi Haikuist Network —
6. — Nowadays acmeism is remembered only due to the names of outstanding poets, such as Nikolay Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam —
7. — The Contester: Down Came a Contest, Cradle and All —

Poetry News:

1. — Tomorrow (Thursday October 23rd), enthusiasts will be able to pay tribute to John Milton for a full 12 hours by tuning into the first live internet broadcast of his marathon masterpiece, ‘Paradise Lost’. —
2. — Laundromat writer takes his poetry to the cleaners —
3. — Yeats poem sold at auction —
4. — A look at how an iconoclastic young writer revolutionized the poetic form. —
5. — Grove Press will soon release a previously-unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac —
6. — Lines for Hard Times from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast [MP3] —
7. — Call for Submissions–2010 Poet’s Market! —
8. — Interviewed by Cortney Davis, physician and poet Rafael Campo discusses the shared attributes of caregiving and writing. —
9. — Bard is given Beatles treatment —

41 today & 18th wedding anniversary.

Still alive and still married.

Just an update LOL.

Poetry News:

1. — Arnold’s formal innovation in this honeymoon poem shows he could have been a great poet —
2. — People are at their most creative late at night with 10.04pm the most likely time for a eureka moment, research has shown —
3. — The poet whose verse was more feared by the Ottoman Empire than insurgents’ bullets has won the belated honour of a “day of celebration” in the country he romanticised, Greece —
4. — “The Dental Hygienist,” a poem by Western Kentucky University faculty member Tom C. Hunley will be featured on the Oct. 25 segment of “The Writer’s Almanac” —
5. — A list of the nominees for the Governor General’s Literary Awards —
6. — Jordan detains poet for religious crime —

Anniversaries: Oct 21

Poetry News:

1. — A wooden tablet dating from the latter half of the seventh century, found here in fiscal 2003 among the Ishigami ruins, contains a section of verse from the Manyoshu, Japan’s oldest existing collection of poetry, it’s been learned —
2. — Washington and Lee University’s R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, has won the 2008 Library of Virginia Poetry Book of the Year prize. —
3. — Poet Glen Downie has claimed the $15,000 Toronto Book Award for his collection Loyalty Management. —
4. — Sandburg Home marks 40 years as historic site —
5. — Poet Invents Eighth Deadly Sin In New Collection —
6. — Wordplay this week: Lee Ann Brown [MP3] —

Poetry News:

1. — The newly released “Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook” pulls together as-yet uncollected essays and stories by Charles Bukowski, written from 1944-1990 —
2. — Poetry being ‘frozen out of schools’ claims Children’s Laureate —
3. — “A lot of my poems are informed by Detroit … Even when I wasn’t living in Detroit. I can’t help it.” —
4. — The poetry of childhood is rarely simple; even an apparently straightforward poem of childhood memory, —
5. — U.Va.’s Rita Dove to Receive Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award Oct. 18 —
6. — Brad Pitt teams up with Warner Bros. for ‘The Odyssey’ —
7. — Atkinson is as comfortable riffing on pop culture (Willie Nelson, “Three Days of the Condor”) as she is on Cicero, John Milton and Herodotus —
8. — In this election year when the cost of health care looms large for most of us, anybody would profit from reading this sad lyric by Roger Fanning, an only child who nursed both parents to their expensive graves within a single year. —

Stories Of ‘Appalachia’ Unearthed In PBS Series

Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs dies

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Eddie Holland is one of my favorite poets. I have a couple of very peripheral Motown Records stories (I was born in ‘67, after all.) Maybe I’ll write them out sometime.

The pride of Inkster, Michigan:

Marvelettes video.

Saturday SCIENCE! edition which I don’t think anybody reads but I don’t care; I’m a nerd: