Poetry News For April 7, 2007
Poetry News:
- Elaine Equi’s newest collection, Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems, includes this new work, “Bent Orbit.” —
- As will be obvious by now, one of the rules of the triolet is that its first two lines return as the last two —
- Poets behave like conquistadors wherever they roam, picking up a new verse form, a lover, some inventive cursing, a disease —
- State to hire poet laureate, but won’t pay for wine —
- 10 famous literary bars —
- A lesser known form of poetry —
I’m going to be on Radio Free Nashville (Easter) Sunday morning at 11am CST — on the Difficult Listening program with David Harris. Baseball/poetry will be served.
Taking a break for a while - going to Detroit to see my mom.
Tags: Carol Rumens, Derek Walcott, Elaine Equi, Poetry, Poetry News, poets
