Poetry News for November 21, 2007
Poetry News:
- — Poets’ Opportunities Greater than Ever Before; Arthur Guiterman Tells How to Make a Living Out of Verse and Gives a List of Don’ts for Aspiring Poets ;- Advises Writing on Topical Themes By Joyce Kilmer. —
- — Defending the M.F.A. [link good for a few days] —
- — Mr. Wilson’s work was less effective in two vocal pieces, “Four Short Poems of Louis Zukofsky” and “Lotus Dam,” based on a poem by Les Murray —
- — Just in time for Thanksgiving, hear delectable poems from Stanley Kunitz, W.S. Merwin, Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, and Philip Levine —
- — He won the 2005 Lannan Literary Poetry Fellowship and has made presentations at more than 300 national conferences, universities and prisons —
- — NEA May Funnel Addtional Funding to Artist Colonies —
I hope these weren’t some of the toys I sent. But a high probability that, yeah. My condolences. 
How can somebody suicide-vest-bomb a bunch of little kids? I won’t be sending any more stuff to hand out to the kids over in Iraq (after these school supplies are sent) I don’t think. (My family member is OK.)
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I have some poetry up at the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. These poems are formal poems, including a dactylic poem that made electricity come out of my forehead when I was trying to write it, haha. I don’t think I’ll be writing any more dactylic poems anytime soon. So go read my poems and the other poet’s poems & be sure to not miss Dale Wisely’s poems because his poems just kill me.
Thank you for the invitation.
Tags: Frank X Walker, Galway Kinnell, Jo Kondo, Les Murray, Louis Zukofsky, Philip Levine, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, poets and writers, Robert Wilson, Stanley Kunitz, the dead mule, WS Merwin, Yusef Komunyakaa
michael responds:
Posted: November 21st, 2007 at 8:53 am →
Jilly: Enjoyed the reads at Dead Mule. Thanks!
Sam Rasnake responds:
Posted: November 23rd, 2007 at 7:30 am →
Enjoyed your work at Dead Mule, Jilly - Especially liked “Here Begins the Book of the Tales of Circus Zimba” and “The Original Human Blockhead’s Tale”. Fine, fine pieces. Glad to read your work.