Poetry Hut Blog
2006 September

Poetry News:

House race turns terse over verse —

Poet Jeannine Gailey to read her work at University of Cincinnati —

In everyday practice, poetry is divided into good poetry, which is written by ourselves, and bad poetry, written by others … —

Nominate a poet laureate —

Full of life or facing death, Sojo let [...]

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Poetry News:

“Fourteen Final Lines” By J. Allyn Rosser —

A U.Va. graduate student, poking through a box of uncataloged material at the school’s library, has found an unpublished poem by Robert Frost —

Does he know which Jersey poet would win in a fight, Walt Whitman or William Carlos Williams? —

Computerized Analysis Helps Researchers [...]

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Poetry News:

John Hollander of Woodbridge is the state’s new poet laureate —

Never trust a man whose eyebrows meet —

Preparations are underway for tonight’s opening of the Beat Museum in San Francisco —

Children Get a Poet Laureate —

Friends, family remember writer, UM professor —

If Shakespeare was drunk while he was writing, [...]

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Associate Web Editor-Poetry/Media
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Associate Web Editor, Poetry/Media — The Online NewsHour
The Associate Web Editor will produce the web site for the NewsHour Poetry Series:
www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/poetry/
The Associate Web Editor creates poet bios; chooses poems and photos; obtains rights; and, helps conceptualize and produce multi-media features and other activities related to the production of the Poetry Series. This [...]

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Poetry News:

Poetry brought to life among buried bards —

Oulipo Ends Where the Work Begins — thanks to CruelestMonth for that link.

Mary Karr: sharing the shock of reality —

…a wrist-to-shoulder palette that includes tattooed portraits of poets —

The Sonnets of George W. Bush and other poems of the 43rd presidency —

Worm [...]

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From Tricia:
“The rules of participation are this: you take a picture of yourself dressed as a line of Stevens’s poetry, you send me the picture, and I post it on his birthday blog. You could also send a drawing, a comic, a picture of a long-suffering costumed pet, or a photoshopped image–anything goes, really.”
Emperor of [...]

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Poetry News:

the First Annual Florida Book Awards is calling for entries —

Hi-Liters are a tool of the devil —

They are among the most original elegies ever written, in feeling and in the handling of language and verse forms —

when he was most creative, writing prose in his mind, the least neural activity [...]

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Poetry News:

Thinking women’s sculptor resurrects ancient ones —

The bad blood between two romantics —

Sublime translation of Wang Wei poems —

Frost’s N.H. home falls into disrepair —

The files continue well into the 20th century, and include a 1937 report on Andre Breton —

Language often has a figurative, connotative logic —

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Poetry News:

good poetry, when inspired by the highest Muse of them all, demands your presence —

Writers Becky Thompson and E. Ethelbert Miller bring poetry to the streets. —

Author’s rejection births bigger success —

Spirit of a poet guides activist through tough social battles —

Yeats was much more than a poet —

Today’s [...]

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Poetry News:

Judge throws out charges against Turkish novelist —

£60,000 Dylan award list revealed —

Ancient poetic form meets an age of anomie —

Abysmal alliteration author admired again —

The Shakespeare Wars —

Whose content is it anyway? —

Tags: Dylan Thomas, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Tory Dent

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Reb and Collin have some interesting things to say about poetry.
Poetry News:
1. the idea that poetry can be straightforward and still be worthwhile bothers certain poets so much ”
2. What Are Words Worth? ”
3. Learning How to Read Slowly Again (login requires bug me not) ”
4. In those days, men had art and women [...]

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Poetry News:

Poetaster Squabbling Gets High-Tech —

A big-budget film version of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost is also in the pipeline —

Academy of American Poets Poetcast #9 (Mp3) Louise Glück reads “Telescope” by telephone, Major Jackson reads “Blunts” in Bryant Park, and Lucie Brock-Broido pairs a poem of her own with a poem by [...]

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My dad turns 80 today. His name is Richard but everyone calls him Rip. (Because he used to fall asleep in school, the nuns called him that.) He grew up Catholic but became a Quaker in the ’80s. In the late ’80s he decided to take a class at Wayne State U and was in [...]

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Poetry News:

Poet A.E. Stallings to read at Vanderbilt —

Poetry Foundation to Name First Children’s Poet Laureate —

Even so, he does not condone certain types of bardolatry —

High-Def Haiku: Win a Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD Player —

If you’ve walked around Green Lake on recent Sunday, you’ve probably seen the Poetess sitting in [...]

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