Archive for “March, 2006”

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Lucinda Williams and Miller Williams tonight

Posted March 20th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

I’m going to see Lucinda Williams and Miller Williams tonight at the Belcourt Theater here in Nashville. Where to park? Where to park? I’ll give you the full report tomorrow. I hope Miller Williams does this one but who knows?
Happy vernal equinox or autumnal equinox, depending on your hemispheric whereabouts.

Dylan called in to [...]

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I served beauty

Posted March 19th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Literary Mama: Mothers of Invention (requires bug me not)
After decades of suffering and repression under Stalin, Anna Akhmatova lived to see her poetry celebrated (requires bug me not)
Why the Virginia Quarterly Review matters
Sappho, who lived in the 7th century B.C., made poems that continue to influence Western love poetry (requires bug me not)
William Baer offers [...]

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Time passes. Listen. Time passes.

Posted March 18th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

University of Arkansas Press Publishes Two New Books in Its Poetry Series
Utah poet wrote of his illness, mortality
Review: Anna Of All The Russias
Dylan Thomas film opens Swansea Film Festival
Judge dismisses Google copyright case

This is late but…Happy Birthday Ivy!

Tags: Anna Akhmatova, Dylan Thomas, ee cummings, Google, Ken Brewer

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Nashville Music City March for Peace III, Saturday, March 18th

Posted March 17th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Nashville Music City March for Peace III
Saturday, March 18th
Bradley Park Musica Statues (Music Row Roundabout)
Roundabout for Division, Demonbreum, & 17th
12:00pm - 2:30pm
[more]

Tags: Nashville, Nashville Peace and Justice Center, Paul Hunter, Peace

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Posted March 17th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Utah Poet Laureate Ken Brewer dead at 64
Behind every great male writer
Librarian who defied Jim Crow laws to be honored
Bravo! debuts a television series that profiles contemporary Canadian poets and reveals their muse
Boy’s gum is plucked from valuable art

Tags: Canadian poets, Elizabeth Bishop, Ken Brewer, Poetry, Poetry News

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Interest nervous succumb easily

Posted March 16th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Poet Interviews at the BBC
Smoked Salmon Chowder
Jackson Mac Low began writing experimental poems as early as 1938 but didn”™t publish until 1966
Scholarships available for Chautauqua Writers Festival
There are, obviously, huge omissions, but the Poetry Archive is determined to fill them

May I take your order?

Tags: BBC, Chautauqua Writers Festival, Jackson Mac Low, poet, Poetry, Poetry [...]

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Defiance gleamed in Casey’s eye

Posted March 15th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Rhyme for orange found in Wales
“Lot’s Wife” By Katha Pollitt
The credibility of books is in a million little pieces
Scribes tap, tap, happy until the final … ding!
Can a poem save a city?
New writers’ awards launched in Dublin

Tags: Akhmatova, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Katha Pollitt, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, typewriters, what rhymes with orange

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Fish can have mad cow disease and I have a problem

Posted March 14th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Here is Trethewey’s “Elegy for the Native Guards”
A 560-page poem about the other world drawn from some 25 years of conversing with spirits at the Ouija board
Poetic injustice for local child prodigy?
Bob Hicok has been teaching at Virginia Tech for two years in the same way that he writes poetry
Robert Pinsky reflects on his Favorite [...]

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into cold, blue-black space

Posted March 12th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Mexican poet spent 27 years composing book-length work
For any other poet, 19 poems and a short story would have seemed a poor show for 15 years’ labour
The (half-joking) point of Oulipo was to make experimental literature more scientific
Small-town girl won many laurels for her poetry
At the Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop

Tags: Elizabeth Bishop, Gloria Gervitz, Greg [...]

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Happy Birthday, Jack

Posted March 12th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Jack Kerouac, 1953
‘Averno,’ by Louise Glück (requires bug me not)
University of Florida professor wins National Book Critics Circle Award
Is there a poet who wouldn’t look?
Poetry Please
Asahi Haikuist Network

Tags: haiku, Jack Kerouac, Ken Brewer, Louise Gluck, Poems, poetics, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, William Logan

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your puny enormous sadness

Posted March 11th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

I guess AWP is in full swing, eh? I, like Kay Ryan, am ambivalent about the whole thing. A loud place crammed with people doesn’t seem like a good time to me. No offense–I would like to meet a lot of you in real life someday. Have fun, those of you who are there. And [...]

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Through the back door, a length that seemed unending

Posted March 10th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Icelandic saga Beowulf and Grendel pits good against evil
Poet laureate Rita Dove strives to take the fear out of poetry
The Columbia Review’s past is, indeed, star-studded
18th Lambda Lit. Awards finalists announced
The other tragic woman in the life of Ted Hughes

Tags: Assia Wevill, Beowulf, Lambda Literary Awards, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Rita Dove, Robert Burns, The [...]

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you will hear thunder and remember me

Posted March 9th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

My friend Larry has died. He made beautiful bird calls and was one of the best storytellers I have ever heard. His funeral is today.

why…another biography of Anna Akhmatova, one of great poets of the 20th century, is needed
A poet’s legacy cut short
Al Alvarez: The Poet Laureate of Poker
Brother Wolf takes an epic poem [...]

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Noooooo!

Posted March 8th, 2006 by Jilly Dybka

Vandyland is closing. Sob.
This is Vandyland.
Whenever these places close it reminds me of when they tore down my dad’s drive-in restaurant. Ugh. It was next to our house. I worked there from about age 7 to about age 15 or 16.

Tags: Nashville, Paul Muldoon, rips drive in, united states of generica, vandyland

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