Poetry Hut Blog
2006 December

I just realized that tonight is the (18th????) anniversary of my first date with Darryl (hubby). We had met a couple months earlier at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, where my band was playing. Darryl was living in Nashville at the time but was producing a record in Detroit by a mutual friend and they [...]

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Thank you for visiting/reading this blog during the past year. And thanks to the editors of the following publications/presses for publishing (or telling me that they plan to publish) my writing in 2006. (I am not listing all the litmags/anthologies that have rejected me this year. The oh-so-many line-items would just be too depressing.)
The [...]

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Poetry News:

This week: Write a poem about someone who died in 2006 —

Al Young’s New Year’s resolutions —

her books sit in the poetry section, where they generate mild outrage for failing to conform quite to genre —

Thus was born Carpenter Poets of Jamaica Plain —

Sandburg documentary project develops new focus — [...]

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Poetry News:

Death of Dylan … ‘a flamboyant, eloquent, Bohemian genius’ —

There were 69 available creative-writing jobs advertised across the nation in October, up from . . . . —

Just six per cent of people UK-wide can confidently sing the Robert Burns favourite —

Forget the gym, flex your poetic muscle instead —

Appalachian [...]

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Three Proposed Web Journals from Dan Waber
Please take a moment & see if you can spare some money — thanks.
Poetry News:

Virgil, Kafka, Bishop —

The central figure in the dead-city cult was the Belgian poet and novelist Georges Rodenbach —

This is the first in our traditional year-end series of commissioned poems based on recent [...]

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Poetry News:

National Book Award winner Nathaniel Mackey talks about poetry, jazz and beauty in discord —

Mr. Zak left behind 40 cardboard boxes filled with lyric sheets —

The most famous gay man killed by the regime was the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca —

Lucretius on optical illusions By A.E. Stallings —

New [...]

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Poetry News:

One cannot overstate the synergistic impact of Fuller and Emerson, nor the importance of Transcendentalism to the fundamental concepts of American self-reliance and individualism —

He strongly objected to actors reading poetry, and believed that only poets should read poetry —

Rejection. And then what? —

The sign paying tribute to poet Langston Hughes [...]

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Poetry News:

An ATM for books —

C. K. Williams’s poems are broad in scale and narrow in scope —

Renowned Appalachian writer, literary inspiration dies at 86 —

O’Hara’s Christmas poem is as secular as can be - personal, artfully irreverent and saucy —

Ballgame Classic Hides its Feminist Nature [original poem here with missing [...]

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Poetry News:

The dub poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson —

While a student at Yale, he co-founded the literary magazine Furioso —

Poet tribute escapes damage —

Italian Poet Dies With Help From a Doctor —

There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry —

Western poets seem to be obsessively and endlessly interested in [...]

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Poetry News:

[He] renamed other months and days in the calendar, calling…May after his favorite poet —

Poetry finds unique home in library bathrooms —

World Of Science: Poet’s daughter —

Start, if you would, by reading the poem ” ideally aloud ” taking time to enunciate and listen to the words —

Botox ‘could [...]

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Poetry News:

For sale: the pub Dylan Thomas called home —

Prof. Meryl Altman Analyzes ‘Sappho’s Lost Session’ in Women’s Review of Books —

Poets can make dead words sing —

You cannot claim to care a fig for poetry unless you have at least a rough idea of what he was about; and his essence [...]

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Recently recognized by The New York Times as the “leading poetry critic in America,” Helen Vendler will speak Thursday, Jan. 18, at the Flynn Auditorium at the Vanderbilt University Law School. [more]

Tags: Helen Vendler, Nashville, Paul Hunter, Poetry

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Poetry News:

Great American Writers and Their Cocktails —

Now that I am in an M.F.A. program, I am still puzzled about the purpose of those “purpose” statements [link good for 5 days]—

From Ford worker to poet, and his pals definitely know it —

BookFinder.com Unveils the Top 10 Out-of-Print Books of 2006 — [...]

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Memo to school maintenance personnel:
given our recent inclement weather,
there’s been an unprecedented upswell
in fungi here, and in particular
the psilocybin mushroom (see attached).
As this fungus is a psychoactive
it must be immediately dispatched.
Psilocybin mushrooms are attractive
nuisances for the students and they pose
a health danger. Any personnel caught
with these psychedelic mushrooms may lose
their position so please give it [...]

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