On this page the following entries were made in the “April, 2006” time-frame.
Archive for “April, 2006”
pollen
Jo Shapcott sparkles with intelligence in her collection of poems
Limp iambs limpingly limp to the rhyme - it gets verse and worse
Spam I am: Poetry meets spam in your inbox
Instead of the customary, sensible and predictable word, poetry discovers one that vibrates with meaning (requires bug me not)
The bonds, love triangles and backstabbings of great [...]
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Budding Trees Moon
Poet Harvey Shapiro, bard of New York
Alumnus Brian Turner receives Northern California Book Award
Economists have usually been terrified of sticking their necks out on literary matters
Dillon filling shoes of boozing poet in ‘Factotum’
2006 Wallace Stegner Fellows named
Tags: Brian Turner, Charles Bukowski, Ezra Pound, Harvey Shapiro, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Rain Taxi, Writing and poetry
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lightning bugs
Elizabeth Bishop: We can read her thoughts, but would she want us to?
There’s no getting away from it, Seamus Heaney is associated with bogs
Poets can submit work for Grolier prize
Thomas Lynch is probably the first American poet to inspire a critically acclaimed television series
Q & A with Baron Wormser
MFA in creative writing at [...]
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junebugs
Kim Addonizio is blogging at the Poetry Foundation this week
Paper erodes, tablets are smashed
A Bibliophile’s Worst Nightmare
How Betjeman learned to boogie
point and counterpoint
The tradition of poetry as a way of being mean is an ancient one
Tags: Anne Bradstreet, John Betjeman, Kim Addonizio, Mary Ruefle, MFA, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Writing and poetry
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I have a weakness for poems written by kids
Poems: A Blue So Blue
Is Poetry for You?
‘Baseball Love’ is poet’s ode to game
Writers need to be honest to their craft, Nobel winner says
Billionth Word Added To Oxford English Corpus
Lake Superior inspires WSU prof’s poetry
Tags: Derek Walcott, George Bowering, James Armstrong, OEC, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Ted Kooser, Writing and poetry
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Blue Peninsula
This is my friend Madge’s new book.
Blue Peninsula at Amazon
You can read an excerpt at the Poets.org web feature called Life Lines. “The Life Lines project was in part inspired by the book Blue Peninsula by Madge McKeithen, which demonstrates precisely how poetry most often visits us ““ memorable lines float back to us at [...]
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title goes here
FREE cone day at Ben & Jerry’s today. The one near Vandy in Nashville always participates in this. Too bad– I don’t work right across the street anymore.
Wow. I guess everyone has a blog now. Guess they didn’t get the memo.
If you want a copy of Claudia Emerson’s “Late Wife,” take a number
Music [...]
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Academy of American Poets
Too bad this job is in NYC. I’ve been doing that since 1997.
Web Coordinator
Publication or Company Academy of American Poets
Industry Online/New Media
Salary
Benefits Health
Job Duration Full Time
Job Location New York, NY USA
Job Requirements Working closely with the Chief Online Editor, the Web Coordinator shares responsibility for the design and production of Poets.org, the Academy‘ award-winning website. The person [...]
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Some upcoming manuscript reading periods
I’m going to try to get my manuscript published this year. If not, screw it, I’ll just post it here as a PDF next year. It’s not like I have any desire to get a teaching job and read a bunch of crappy Freshman essays all day, anyway. As my friend Carol pointed out, Bill [...]
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harshing my mellow
Random fact about me #1: I have never paid more than $2500 for a car.
For the first 5 years of my adult life I was a musician. == broke
Then I married a musician. == broke
Then I was a student, married to a musician. == even more broke
Then I got an MFA and student loans, married [...]
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Everyday The Rain
My friend Chris has a new CD out. Her website is here chrismccall.com/ (warning: contains background music.) She’s one of the most talented folks I know. We played in bands in Detroit together and went to the same Buddhist temple in the ’80s. In fact, in about 1988, back when Jewel Heart met in Rimpoche’s [...]
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more cowbell
a bunch of free poetry lecture videos
A Canadian Auden for the under-40s?
New book claims Bard the love child of English queen
August Kleinzahler on Roy Fisher
Looking at Andy Warhol through Andrew Marvell’s eyes, and vice versa
Tags: August Kleinzahler, John Lennon, Ken Babstock, lunch poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Roy Fisher, shakespeare
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If design govern in a thing so small
“Why is poetry different? We can point and laugh at the Dan Browns of the world, safe in knowing we can’t even be compared. We have no expectations of poetry being popular, so we can feel validated by the lack of popularity and our own misunderstood genius.” from Weirdness Evaluation Engine
(Thanks to Reb Livingston for [...]
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I am writing these words as a route map
… but having poetry books around is actively harmful by about the same amount (-.07) [pdf abstract]
Myers noted that even large literary magazines are struggling
Portland Woman Maine’s New Poet Laureate
Religious writer receives Guggenheim Fellowship for prose, poetry
Remembering Audre Lorde
Panel discusses link between art, insanity
Tags: Betsy Sholl, creativity, Judith Slater, Lorde, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Scott [...]
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