On this page the following entries were made in the “January, 2006” time-frame.
Archive for “January, 2006”
It’s necessary to reserve a secret vice
Judges in rapture as poet Duffy wins T S Eliot Prize
From feminism to fairy tales: the musings of Margaret Atwood
The poet ancestors and their heirs
‘The Keeper’ and the Story of Poet Omar Kyayyam
E-read all about it
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graduation photo
taken by my friend Christine. i’m in the pink shirt.
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I will pull down the Gates of Hell itself
in these poems, imagination is a capability, to use Keats’s word, and not a random goofing or mere word-salad (requires bug me not)
Ali Smith finds an ancient epic given new life in Edwin Morgan’s The Play of Gilgamesh
Margaret Reynolds finds Carol Ann Duffy’s Rapture unashamedly lyrical - and brilliant for it
Brünhilde by Jo [...]
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back home now
What does it mean to be poet laureate?
A poet’s commanding voice
Ex-poet laureate applies the sounds, rhythms of her experiences to writings
Where have all the poets gone?
El Paso native Ray Gonzalez’s most recent poetry collection, “Consideration of the Guitar” (Boa Editions, Ltd., $19.95 paperback)….
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Walking on water wasn’t built in a day
Stars in bid to save French poets”™ home
Human Skin-Bound Books in Many Libraries
Poet chose a heroic task
New museum, public display pay homage to Beat generation
Literary brouhaha reaches Hollywood
Graduation is today.
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Meme
Four jobs you”™ve had in your life:
waitress (age 7 to about 16)
new age bookstore clerk (1987-1989)
bass player
computer network administrator
Four movies you could watch over and over:
Tombstone
Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell version)
Best Years of Our Lives
Sunset Boulevard
Four places you”™ve lived:
Dearborn Heights MI
Detroit MI (Brightmoor neighborhood)
Nashville TN (Bellevue neighborhood)
Kingston Springs TN
Four TV shows you [...]
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Shakespeare Never Did This
David Harsent: The pity, and poetry, of war
A Million Little Corrections (requires bug me not)
Charming Billy (requires bug me not)
Before he died in 1994, Charles Bukowski flagged a number of his favorite unpublished poems for eventual publication (requires bug me not)
Whose life is it anyway?
Friday the 13th today, eh?
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Sound and Poetry
Poet’s misspelled slab to go
A poet laureate of the people: Newsom taps Jack Hirschman to ‘challenge the status quo’
Yeats treasures to go on display
Patti Smith, Meet Sylvia Plath
Grant will fund book on tormented poet
Tags: Jack Hirschman, John Ashbery, phonosemantics, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Sylvia Plath
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yay
Yeats’ family treasures to go on display
Irving Layton: the world, the flesh and the devilish poet
City will have own poet laureate
Young poets, winning words
Doublespeak pervades
Well the poetry reading was a success! Yay! Thanks for the good vibes.
The weather here in Charlotte NC is very warm. I mostly brought sweaters. Oops.
I got [...]
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wish me luck
The enduring fire of Merwin’s poetry
Touster makes an ode to poetry
Can a big pot of money - and a savvy marketing plan - make poetry matter again?
‘My name is Miss Moore, but you can call me Marianne
Unorthodox funeral honours poet
Well tonight is my thesis reading. Yes, I’m (very) nervous but I also hope to [...]
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The clouds go, nevertheless
Church holds memorial for poet Sandburg
I thought it would be cool to write on animals and have the animals graze and make poetry
Poetry is the forgotten stepchild of American literature
Poet reverses calligraphic process in works
True love pays attention, and in his writing Stevens shows real, loving attention to nature (requires bug me not)
Tags: Carl Sandburg, [...]
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give me your courage
The U.S. poet laureate and winner of this year‘ Pulitzer Prize in poetry is a Unitarian Universalist
The poet Walt Whitman gazes with affection at his companion, Peter Doyle, a streetcar conductor
Here, Bullet, reflects his war-time experiences in graceful and unflinching poetry
The first modern dictionary of the English language was an extraordinary achievement, even for a [...]
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Oh to be the bad woman for someone
show for Thursday, December 29, 2005 Robert Pinsky
BW TechBeat Haiku Contest: Calling for Entries
Toilet Door Poems will commission 6 emerging poets and 6 visual designers, to create 6 posters for display on the backs toilet doors
Author Rebecca McClanahan To Read At W&L
Acclaimed poet Irving Layton dies at 93
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Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Poet Adrienne Rich remembers her friend’s life and work
Arnold Rampersad, Telling the Langston Hughes Story
High Desert Journal looks to regional writers to chronicle the West
Epistle to Arbuthnot’s Ghost (after Pope)
By Teresa Cader
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