Poetry News For April 20, 2008 part 2
Poetry News:
- — I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —
- — Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —
- — Definition of poetry splits the literati —
- — The Victorian poet William Barnes proposed wheelsaddle as an alternative to bicycle, and in the same vein suggested painlore, folkwain and nipperlings in lieu of pathology, omnibus and forceps —
- — Collected here are poems from 59 countries and territories spanning Asia and the widest definition of the Asian diaspora —
- — Blake Morrison celebrates livres d’artistes, texts have been cut open, painted over, burnt and locked up by the likes of Matisse and Hirst —
- — Q&A with California Poet Laureate Al Young —
- — WILD NIGHTS! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway —
Important net neutrality developments.
My 6 word story - thanks Thierry Brunet.
…catching up.
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