Poetry News For April 25, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon —
- — U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician —
- — New Buk on DVD —
- — Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner —
- — Al Young took to writing poetry, as he describes it in one poem, “to make out the sound of my own background music.” —
- — An opportunity to do something good —
- — What’s The Best Writing Tip of All Time? —
- — Argentine poet wins Spain’s highest literary honour —
- — Lifetime achievement ‘double’ for Cynthia Ozick —
- — Bullies, Addicts and Losers: A Poet Loves Them All —
- — A newly discovered cache of poetry video shorts —
See you Monday.
ps. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that evidence seized during arrests that are illegal under state law can still be used at trial.
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Rebecca Loudon responds:
Posted: April 27th, 2008 at 1:01 pm →
Thank you, Jilly.
love,
Rebecca
David M. Harris responds:
Posted: April 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm →
On those “best writing tips:” Anthony Trollope, in An Autobiography, talks about how writers need cobbler’s wax. You rub it on your pants, then on your chair, and then apply pants to chair. Same idea, just more interestingly put. (If you know what cobbler’s wax is.)
Other than that, the best two bits of advice I ever heard were: First, from Sarah Schulman, “If it doesn’t hurt, you aren’t doing it right.” Second, attributed to Bruce Coville (but he denies being the source), “Follow your weirdness.”