Poetry News For May 10, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker — and eliminates the words he doesn’t need —
- — On an unconscious level, this final replication exceeds the early rhyme but also thwarts it when the two sounds become identical (as the mother and daughter must not) —
- — The idea that science and poetry are mutually exclusive realms is a widespread misconception. Please prove it wrong here. —
- — In A Birthday, from her first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), the sensuous aesthete is in the ascendant —
- — What, if anything, is Arab American poetry? —
- — “It would seem soft for instance to look in my life for the sentiments in ‘The Death of the Hired Man.’ There’s nothing to it believe me.” —
- — Nevertheless, she apparently did and wrote the poem the “Mother’s Day Proclamation” as a call for a Mother’s Day for Peace to be established in the United States. —
6 days until a very special episode of Poetry Hut Blog.
…I’m off to pretend that I’m a lipstick. (MRI). 
emily responds:
Posted: May 12th, 2008 at 10:16 am →
how was the MRI? I’m having one on Thursday. I’ve been told NOT to open my eyes.
Jilly responds:
Posted: May 12th, 2008 at 11:29 am →
It wasn’t bad. I am not at all bothered by closed spaces. It is very loud though, which I don’t like. They gave me earplugs but it is still pretty loud. It hurts to be on my back, so being on the table for 40 minutes was the worst part because it hurt & you, of course, can’t move.
Some MRI places (not this one because it was a hospital utilitarian radiology dept) will play a CD for you so you might want to bring one.
The MRI makes a variety of industrial noises and/or Star Trek-original-series-type of sound effects.
I think you can ask for a valium beforehand.
I didn’t have contrast dye. Sometimes that makes you hot from what I understand. (Not in the good way.)
Make sure you pee before you go in haha.
It’s not too bad.