Poetry News for May 31, 2007
Poetry News:
- — We often adopt our car as an extension of our ego, while at the same time imbuing it with the power to know where the road is —
- — Foetry.com has closed —
- — … this it will do by performing an unprecedented poetic act …. it will “bounce” a poem off the Moon [UK residents only]—
- — In its first year, the Poetry Foundation’s website — poetryfoundation.org — has been named Best Website in the Association category for 2007 —
- — Poetry ‘contests’ mere ego-boosters —
- — “Poems on several subjects: written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor Thresher in a Barn in the County of Wilts, at the Wages of Four Shillings and Sixpence per Week: which were publicly read by the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, in the Drawing-Room of Windsor-Castle … To her Majesty. Who was thereupon most graciously pleased to take the Author into her Royal Protection, by allowing him a Salary of Thirty Pounds per Annum, and a small House at Richmond in Surrey” —
- — Powell’s Books not racist toward African-Americans, just poets —
