Poetry News For March 21, 2008
Poetry News:
- — He died from a love of poetry [thanks Lee!] —
- — Theater For The New City will present On Naked Soil - Imagining Anna Akhmatova, a new play written and co-starring stage and screen veteran Rebecca Schull —
- — Punishing the publisher —
- — Stuck for a rhyming scheme? Try the ghazal. It’s wickedly difficult to use in English, but Mimi Khalvati has it to perfection —
- — They do not constitute an exploration of a distant land so much as an incitement to appreciate that which lies outside the self: to feel the strangeness of the world, and one’s own strangeness in it. —
- — Brevard College students protest banning of publication —
- — More than 100 of his friends and fans gathered on Tuesday night at East Harlem’s Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center, not just to celebrate his work, but to help him in a time of need —
Do you have your March Madness brackets filled out? I have Memphis, Tennessee, Marquette, and UCLA in the final 4, with Memphis and UT going forward, and UT winning the whole thing. 
Happy Solstice. Hope you have a good Easter too. I’m not at Split This Rock after all. I hope someone blogs about it.
Tags: Anna Akhmatova, books, creative writing, Jack Agueros, Mimi Khalvati, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets
January responds:
Posted: March 21st, 2008 at 1:00 pm →
I’m sad I’m not at Split This Rock, too. If you do here that someone is writing/blogging about it, let me know.