Poetry News For February 7, 2007
Poetry News:
- Asahi Haikuist Network —
- 45 Writers from 22 Countries Receive Hellman/Hammett Grants —
- The Poets.org Poetcast: a retrospective on the life and work of Muriel Rukeyser, including historical recordings and reflections from her former student, Sharon Olds [link goes to MP3 file & it is not safe for work] —
- ‘Othello’ off the British teaching list —
- the songwriting genius who created many of Duke Ellington’s masterpieces, Billy Strayhorn is the subject of a new documentary —
- translation is as important to the health and strength of a literature as new blood is to a gene-pool —
Got my contributor’s copies of Harpur Palate. 
The Wonder Spot is going to be bulldozed. Sad. I never visited but I have been to The Mystery Hill a couple times. Coincidently, The Mystery Hill & The Mystery Spot both suffer from the same alarming transgressions of Newtonian physics! I know!! Weird!!!!11
Tags: Billy Strayhorn, haiku, human rights, human rights watch, Muriel Rukeyser, Poetry News, shakespeare, Sharon Olds, The Wonder Spot, Translation
Sam Rasnake responds:
Posted: February 7th, 2007 at 7:24 pm →
Thanks Jilly for the link to the Othello story.