Poetry Hut Blog
2007 April

Poetry News:

A conversation about life, death and the power of poetry —

Just as Lichtenstein, Pollack and other artists kicked the gates open and invited popular culture into the realm of high art, so Kirby has tried to play host to a similar aesthetic open house —

Literary journal devotes entire edition to New Orleans [...]

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Poetry News:

Cary-Grove student Allen Lee (inset) was arrested on disorderly conduct charges after his controversial essay in his English class —

oops —

A sampling of poems from recently published collections —

Sometimes poetry makes things happen —

Criminalizing the creative —

35 years later, Sinclair’s still a poet —

Tags: creative writing, J Patrick [...]

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“I had little kids come up to me and hug my legs and say, ‘I love you, Sir Graves.’ And I’d tossle their hair and say (in the voice of Sir Graves), ‘I love you, too.’”
– Lawson Deming
Rest in peace

Tags: detroit, Lawson Deming, Sir Graves, Sir Graves Ghastly

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Poetry News:

Indian poetry ‘bomber’ jolts US —

“I think maybe he was just trying to save poetry from me” —

Everything in the Beginning —

Stiles stars in Sylvia Plath story —

Poetic justice for Houstonian —

Top honors given in 25th annual Eagle-Tribune/Robert Frost Foundation Spring Poetry Contest [congrats Jan] —

Thanks to Simon [...]

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Poetry News:

Centre professor wins prestigious poetry award —

Newspapers running off readers —

City has a job opportunity … for a poet —

Isabella Whitney was the first woman in England to publish a volume of poetry —

Stopping By Frost’s House —

Moscow authorities want to replace criminal action films, which are currently pervading [...]

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Poetry News:

Does poetry still matter? —

But in the early 20th century, a critical revolution led by T.S. Eliot helped to put Donne at the center of the English canon —

Virginia Tech’s Professor of Hate —

At the tender age of 15, Franz Wright sent one of his poems to his father —

In [...]

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Poetry News:

Professor Inducted as Kentucky Poet Laureate —

English journalist James Fenton gets the gold —

Ezra Pound Poetry Recordings on PennSound: Digital Archive —

English professor wins poetry contest —

University Creates New Poetics Chair —

UCSC literature professor Nathaniel Mackey has been named a winner in the 26th Annual Northern California Book Awards [...]

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Poetry News:

Poet and teacher Nikki Giovanni uplifts thousands in Blacksburg, Virginia —

Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda receives Cervantes prize for literature —

Sienna Miller Replaces Lohan In Dylan Thomas Pic —

Love, War and History: Israel’s Yehuda Amichai —

New collections of poetry for kids —

taking a break

Tags: Antonio Gamoneda, Dylan Thomas, Poems, [...]

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Poetry News:

William Butler Yeats’s “The Fiddler of Dooney” suggests that idea … —

Prof. Joe Heithaus Wins ‘Discovery’/The Nation Poetry Contest —

McBride‘ poetry leaves lasting impression —

Feelings of sadness for the passing of spring —

Stratford has celebrated Shakespeare’s birth and death date as St George’s Day for over a century [...]

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Poetry News:

Black Mountain Breakdown —

How should creative writing teachers handle students who turn in gruesome stories? —

“Stephen Colbert challenges Sean Penn to a Meta-free-phor-all, with Robert Pinsky presiding” —

Lost Shakespeare poem published for first time —

Lake Superior State University 2007 List of Banished Words —

One of the most frequent irritations about the [...]

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Poetry News:

Students critique Pulitzer Prize winner —

Tulare County poet laureate kept writing until the end —

When words take wing —

That’s the trouble with now. Now we’ve got a horrible culture, horrible times and horrible music. —

From Haiku to the Blues —

Nelson Mandela read an extract from one of her poems, [...]

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Poetry News:

Bradstreet wrote about the difficulty of pursuing art in the Puritan community where she lived —

There are Plathites out there that are very sensitive about Sylvia being made fun of in any way —

Seattle Poetry Festival Steps Up [probably not safe for work] —

Kathleen Peirce is one of nine poets [...]

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Poetry News:

“I was willing to resign before I was going to continue with him,” Ms. Giovanni told CNN —

After John Berryman, American poetry turned toward having the weight and feeling of its words overshadow the story —

Contemporary poet Blas Falconer to read works at APSU Thursday [Nashville] —

Drunk vandals target poet’s garden [...]

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Poetry News:

Emory Prof Wins Poetry Pulitzer —

Selections from readings hosted for National Poetry Month 2007, including new poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Elaine Equi [links to MP3] —

Do you walk around with a rainforest in your head? —

Here are the five bestselling poetry books in the US for the week of March [...]

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