Poetry News For March 5, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Official State Author and Poet Are Named —
- — Owners To Open ‘Mystery Room’ Sealed For 50 Years —
- — What are your feelings on MFA programs in regard to authors publishing in today’s market? —
- — The rubric “poet among painters” does not adequately explain the radical shifts between formal and personal values in O’Hara’s poetry —
- — What does zazen do for the poetry? Do you feel that there is a relation there that helps somehow in the writing? —
- — Even though running a press is costly, it’s still important for folks to have the opportunity, even though it’s infrequent, to be published —
- — Two books published by St. Paul-based Graywolf Press and one from Minneapolis-based Coffee House Press have been nominated for the 28th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes —
Anna Akhmatova died March 5, 1966.
Most popular outgoing links for February 2008 (as far as Feedburner is concerned):
- “One of Ireland’s best-known poets today denied he sexually exploited young men as police investigated allegations against him”
- “Barack Obama’s creditable poems are in an erratic tradition of political versifying” (tie)
- “Interview: Major Jackson” (tie)
- “The second part of this post is about my impression of the role that some phantasmatic nightmare image of AWP plays in the imaginations of many participants in the various online poetry worlds”
