On this page the following entries were made in the “April, 2006” time-frame.
Archive for “April, 2006”
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe
Chinua Achebe’s masterly Collected Poems
City seeks poet laureate for Victoria book prize gig [Canada]
Poets point to Creeley as influential
Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate will get $100,000
John Lennon’s sketches sell for $226,000
harmolodics (has sound) from Ornette Coleman.
Tags: Billy Collins, Chinua Achebe, John Lennon, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Richard Wilbur, Robert Creeley
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the starry dynamo
Doctors and patients find healing in medical poetry
The Paradox of Howl
The Blue Terrance–Terrance Hayes
College Professor Wins Pulitzer for Poetry
“Eating the Peach” By Henri Cole
Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Claudia Emerson, Henri Cole, Poetry, Poetry News, poetry reading, poets, Terrance Hayes
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well, kind of back
Szymborska’s work makes imaginative leaps, while Hirshfield’s is analytical
LSU Press poet Emerson wins Pulitzer
A poet who celebrates the joy of verse
Richard Wilbur Wins 2006 Lilly Prize
Why dead corgi poetry is a lost art
‘Canada Reads’ panelists trade jibes in annual CBC book battle
Tags: Claudia Emerson, Jane Hirshfield, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Richard Wilbur, Wislawa Szymborska, XJ [...]
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The Poetry of History
Blogger sparks off ‘Fib’ poems craze across the internet
Stephen Dunn started as a jock, majoring in history and English on an athletic scholarship
An elegiac poet who knows baseball as well as death
There is a sad story behind Seijuijo’s haiku
Political poetry today is, as ever, a vexed enterprise
Tags: Benjamin Alire Saenz, Denise Levertov, [...]
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Another Nashville poetry alert
“Peter Cook is regarded as one of the most talented American Sign Language (ASL) poets today. As an ASL poet, Cook, who is deaf, uses similarities in sign direction or quality of movement, hand configurations and facial expressions to “rhyme,” just as words with similar sounds and endings rhyme in poetry.”
6:15 p.m.
Thursday April 20
Main [...]
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Quick post
Just wanted to point out some links about this Publisher’s Weekly cover story on poetry blogging and then I have to get back to prepping for my [form of punctuation]+oscopy. Hint: not comma-oscopy.
So If I Speak Out That Means I’m….
Author’s Response
O D A L I S Q U E D
shanna compton
mom and [...]
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Taking a break until Monday
See you Monday. Have a good Easter. If you’re Christian. Heck have a good Easter, even if you’re not.
Jackson’s formal talents and lyrically spun narratives dazzle in a book that covers everything from lay-ups to po-biz
Poet recounts from being ‘locked away in a drawer’ to taking center stage as University professor
Letters and [...]
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The Power of Reticence By Charles Simic
British Library reveals its missing list
American beat
Poet and publisher who taught creative writing dies at 80
Freed from Guantanamo, a poet pleads for lost verses
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Constance Hunting, Ed Bok Lee, Elizabeth Bishop, Poems, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Seamus Heaney, thieves
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“The Unfortunates” By Cate Marvin
The most impressive online magazine is still Jacket
Poets break the silence for Amsterdam’s unmourned dead
Two poets fascinated with women and the shifting moves of the self
Ancient Book May Be Covered in Human Skin
Tags: Cate Marvin, Harvey Shapiro, jacket, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, R Zamora Linmark, Robert Thomas, Writing and poetry
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dogwood winter
For Hirsch, Reading Poetry Is Fundamental
Wales native, BYU professor, star poet dies
The avantest of the avant-garde
Obsolete, yet still enduring
Seven students arrested for publishing a poem
Poet Dennis O’Driscoll finds inspiration in the workaday world
Check out this photo: Hail or Snow?
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very sad day here
It’s about 6pm CDT here in TN. We’ve had more tornadoes today. I spent the day updating the website at work with warnings (I’m the webmaster for a university in Nashville). Luckily I work in the basement.
CNN has a video of some of the damage closest to our home in rural Cheatham County on the [...]
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baseball soon
A little over a week until opening day for the Nashville Sounds. First game here in town is the 14th, which is Good Friday. I have my season tickets but I don’t know where I put them haha.
Rafael Campo preaches about the value of poetry in the healing process
More on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
Briton [...]
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September 30, 2003
Q Do you think that the Justice Department can conduct an impartial investigation, considering the political ramifications of the CIA leak, and why wouldn’t a special counsel be better?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. There’s leaks at the [...]
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Red Cross
As you may have heard, we (Tennessee) got hit last weekend by several tornadoes. 24 people in TN died. If you want to donate…click. Tomorrow (Friday) we are supposed to get another round of bad weather.
And speaking of disasters, there is a big emergency drill “Greater Nashville Homeland Security District 5 Emergency Preparedness Challenge” this [...]
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