Poetry News for October 18, 2007
Poetry News:
- — DIY publishing means most anyone can put out a book ” for better or worse —
- — Above, a display containing designs from journals and literary magazines —
- — Podcast: Vanderbilt all-star creative writing faculty gives reading —
- — We came up with the idea that the Global War on Terror needed its own literary magazine —
- — The picks and spades of Arab workmen, directed by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt of the Egypt Exploration Fund, have given the world a hitherto unknown poem by the greatest woman poet of all time —
- — This month The Chronicle contacted eight librarians under 40 and asked them a series of questions about the future of their profession, including …. [link good for a few days] —
- — What if Joseph Stalin remained Soso the poet? —
- — Hundreds of young bards were hosted by the Queen in the culmination of of an initiative to “breed poet laureates of the future” —
- — Much more often, however, the poet’s desire for fame and mastery is explicit, at once the fuel of his writing and its theme —
poet with a day job responds:
Posted: October 18th, 2007 at 7:05 pm →
I have to say that Wiman article bugged me. The way those Poetry critics write, with all their academic airs makes me crazy! Also, I wouldn’t take Kirsch’s word for any of it (though I am a fan of Wiman’s work), because Kirsch sure isn’t going to give Wiman a bad review.
Jilly Dybka responds:
Posted: October 20th, 2007 at 10:21 pm →
Thanks for reading Nasra!
I hate that crap, poet with a day job. Maybe it is my insecurities about being not that smart I don’t know. But that bugs me too.