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Poetry News:
- Culture and digressions? [link courtesy of large hearted boy] —
- Some categories of writing aspire to celebration more than information —
- A group of writers has collected more than 800 fading landscape terms in a new book in hopes of keeping them from going extinct. —
- Gothic, ambiguous and apparently amoral, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has mystified readers and inspired writers and artists for over 200 years —
- Stein scolded him for reading Proust, who, she said, was her imitator (so also Hemingway) —
- Books by Akron Poetry prize winners —
My birthday — October 21
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s birthday — October 21
and Jack Kerouac, Elliott Smith, and Fred Berry all died on October 21
I was born on the same day that Abbie Hoffman tried to levitate The U.S. Pentagon.
Velvet Underground Rarity Sells on eBay (Washington Post) “Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattan flea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band’s first album, “The Velvet Underground & Nico,” sold on eBay for….” holy cow (scroll down)
Tags: CK Williams, Geoffrey Hill, James Laughlin, New Directions, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, revetment, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Velvet Underground
