Poetry News For April 28, 2007
Poetry News:
- Indian poetry ‘bomber’ jolts US —
- “I think maybe he was just trying to save poetry from me” —
- Everything in the Beginning —
- Stiles stars in Sylvia Plath story —
- Poetic justice for Houstonian —
- Top honors given in 25th annual Eagle-Tribune/Robert Frost Foundation Spring Poetry Contest [congrats Jan] —
Thanks to Simon for letting me know about that incident described in the first link. And Gregg wants you to know about “John Ashbery’s upcoming performance as part of the LIVE run of Guy Maddin’s BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! at the Village East Cinema, May 9 - 15.” [more here]
I have a poem forthcoming in Tuesday;An Art Project. That makes me happy because it is a very beautiful letterpress project. Nashville has Hatch Show Print & they’ve done letterpress printing since the 1870’s. If you come to Nashville it is a cool place to visit.
Also if you are in the Atlanta area:
Atlanta “Save the Book Review” Read-In!
Bring a book (or books) you love for a peaceful protest!
Readers from all over Atlanta are being encouraged to come together in a critical mass to help convince the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to reverse its terrible decision to “reorganize” its book review editor out of existence!
Imagine no local literary coverage. Without a book review editor, and without an official champion for books within the paper, the quality of books coverage is endangered!
Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007 *Rain or shine!
Time: 10:00 AM until…you decide! Let’s keep it going until we finish at least two good novels!
Location:
Converge in front of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution offices at 72 Marietta Street, downtown. Hold open your book and read aloud or to yourself. Trust us, you won’t be the only one! Picture hundreds of people doing the same thing.
Who:
Any and all readers and lovers of books and newspapers are encouraged to come. Come one, come all Atlantans, Georgians, and maybe even some of you hardcore out-of-staters!
Why:
Because the city and region want and deserve a robust, reader-friendly, intelligent book review section, not just a generic section without any local coverage.[more]
Ivy responds:
Posted: April 28th, 2007 at 2:38 am →
Congratulations on the Tuesday publication!
Collin responds:
Posted: April 29th, 2007 at 4:14 pm →
It’s so ironic that the AJC is the main sponsor of the Decatur Book Festival, yet they scrapped the book pages. It’s been a huge controversy in Atlanta. I talked to one of the organizers of the protest last night at a party and I think there is going to be a huge crowd.