Poetry News For May 5, 2008
Poetry News:
- — The Mainichi Newspapers is inviting participation in the 12th Annual Mainichi Haiku Contest —
- — Punk rocker Exene explores a creative space in Missouri —
- — DNA Analysis Exposes Fake Schiller Skull —
- — “Sort of Gone,” a collection of poems by Sarah Freligh, follows the adventures and misadventures - mostly misadventures - of a ballplayer who makes a life in the game in part to show his worthless sot of a father that he can do it. —
- — “I mask it. I make my poems seem simpler then they really are,” Snyder said. —
- — Everyday world sizzles with alarm in his poetic vision —
- — Stafford’s wartime poetry shows the power of his convictions —
- — A web of associations connects a group of New England writers, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe. —
- — This is pretty cool - congrats —
A prediction that Google will end up buying Ingram Digital (and Booksurge). I’m sure those folks over in La Vergne, TN would be surprised to hear that.
All I can say is, I’m glad that I forgot to watch the Kentucky Derby this weekend. Sometimes I think there’s something wrong with me - I cannot cannot cannot stand to see an animal get hurt. I have a greater reaction to that than I do from seeing a human get hurt. Though in my defense, I don’t like to watch those stupid home video TV shows where people get hit in the balls and stuff, either.
The Kentucky Derby was always a big deal when I was growing up. My dad’s drive-in restaurant wasn’t too far from the Detroit Race Course (actually in Livonia) and a lot of the regular customers (my extended family) were bookies and gamblers. So on derby day my mom would make sure we’d pick the horse’s names out of a hat (a “to go” white paper bag, actually) and my dad would put the b&w TV with a coat hanger antenna up on the counter & we’d watch the race. 
