Poetry Hut Blog
2007 May

Hey I think I’m back. As of yesterday I’m allowed to drive again. Yay because I am about at my limit of being cooped up at home. Right now I’m kind of sore and I think I slept weird somehow because my shoulder hurts a lot. Too bad I blew through my pain pills last [...]

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Poetry News:

— We often adopt our car as an extension of our ego, while at the same time imbuing it with the power to know where the road is —

— Foetry.com has closed —

— … this it will do by performing an unprecedented poetic act …. it will “bounce” a poem off the Moon [...]

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1. Monk and Poet
2. Politrix: My Thoughts on the Crusade against Indecency in Hip Hop
3. Rhyme for a reason
4. What happens to us when art connects to the unconscious

Tags: Brother Isaac, Censorship, childrens poetry, Def Poetry Jam, Hip Hop, John Slater, Professor Timothy D. Wilson, Samuel Barondes, unconscious, work ethic

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I have a poll for you, if you are a DIY publisher/micropress:

I sell my books, chapbooks, etc online with help from

lulu.com

paypal

[...]

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1. Poetry, philosophy and more: OSIAN propagates love for books.
2. Faber buys up Beckett’s prose and poetry.
3. An exhilarating struggle
Oates weaves tale of woman’s life-affirming quest to transcend her past.

Tags: Joyce Carol Oats, Poetry, publishing house, Samuel Beckett

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1. Pawlenty Gives The OK For State Poet - The governor having vetoed the poet bill once — mocking it as an activity that might lead to a state interpretive dancer or a state mime.
2. Doors exhibit opening at rock hall
3. D.A. Pennebaker’s ‘65 film a defining look at Dylan
4. Interview: Nobel laureate, Nadine Gordimer [...]

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1. Toast to Bard is auctioned for £15,800
2. Gary Snyder: James Lovelock’s arguments for nuclear power ‘demented’

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Gary Snyder, James Lovelock, nuclear power, Robert Burns

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I am home after an overnight stay at the Women’s Hospital at Centennial for observation and hourly harassment The surgery went well and my Dr was able to do the surgery laparoscopically. Darryl stayed in my room with me & slept on a chair that transformed into a bed while I pushed the button [...]

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1. All the World Still a Stage for Shakespeare’s Timeless Imagination
2. Prison Poet Turns Focus To Learning Life‘ Lessons
3. Much more than a “woman writer”
4. London pubs done write

Tags: Dylan Thomas, john keats, Lord Byron, Poetry, poets, Prison Poet, Robert Lewis Stevenson, shakespeare, Virginia Woolf

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1. The literary wife: Working with the widow
2. MacSween: Canada‘ “˜great unknown poet”™
3. Topicalizer and other tools for writers.
4. Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet’s Life.

Tags: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Jill Balcon, Literary Wife, paul simon, Richard Cory, Roderick Joseph MacSween, writing tools

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1. Eco-Poet Gary Snyder to Read at the Third Biennial Ojai Poetry Festival
2. “In the world of today, which is filled with danger, we need the advice of Hafez more than at any other time, and the poetry of Hafez contains warnings for all nations.”
3. Why do you think people remember poetry more than prose? [...]

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1. The Bard of Lawnboro? Former NPR poet now a muse on local themes.
2. Rock star poets and revolutionary verse the Chinese contingent at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
3. A closer look at Gary Snyder
The legendary bard on Buddhism, ecology and Kerouac

Tags: Gary Snyder, NPR

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Poetry News:

— If No One Can Find My Book, Does It Exist? —
— Children’s Poet Laureate Speaks of Food Fights and Sports –
— Genius? Idiot? Poetry-world provocateur Jim Behrle likes Ginsberg and acrylic poo [link thanks to Gina's blog a sad day for sad birds] —
— The Little Magazine That Could —
— Former British PM [...]

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Poetry News:

— Try your hand at his workshop on dramatic monologues —
— Japan’s salarymen say it with senryu –
— ‘Arcadia’ weaves poetry, math, gardening and physics —
— Nursemaid’s Elbow —
— The editor of a literary journal … has been accused of lifting material from another writer —
— colleagues defend journal’s two editors —

Well surgery [...]

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