Poetry Hut Blog
2008 March

Poetry News:

— There should be a place for more original poetry to be posted and shared - let’s start right here —

— Needed: Contemporary Visual Poetry for Poetry —

— Psalms offer source of inspiration for prayer —

— University Comes To Aid Of Literary Magazine —

— Here are 15 short poems as animated films. They’re the [...]

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Poetry News:

— Scantily Clad e-chaps —

— When James Woolley, Smith Professor of English, discovered a lost manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —

— “I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted [...]

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Poetry News:

— It’s also an opportunity to have the kind of immediate relationship with an audience that is all too often unavailable to poets, no matter how well-known they are —

— Book Review The Ghost Soldiers (2008) James Tate —

— Jonathan Williams: 1929-2008 By Jeffery Beam • Special to The Smoky Mountain News —

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Poetry News:

— This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was “a wild little creature” —

— new small press alert —

— Byron, Shelley and Miss Havisham —

— MLB Poetry Previews: Boston Red Sox —

— Romantic, Surrealist, clear-as-glass, impenetrable charlatan: Ashbery has been called all of these —

— new lit [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —

— Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —

— He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, [...]

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Poetry News:

— April approacheth, and stalking in its shadow is NAPOWRIMO —

— “It’s always important to have poems that will offend people,” she joked. —

— Exhibition in Petersburg Marks 70th Anniversary since Death of Poet Osip Mandelstam —

— This Saturday she returns to Boston’s Opera House to perform Homeland, an epic poem wrapped in a [...]

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Poetry News:

— If birds come from something as bizarre as a smooth ovoid container with no exit or entry, then it’s not too far of a stretch to imagine that the backbone of a corpse becomes a snake —

— WordPlay - WPVM: Celebrating Jonathan Williams [links to MP3] —

— 2008 National Magazine Award Finalists —

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Poetry News:

— Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. —

— The Polish Immigrant, by Peter Skrzynecki —

— Despite T.S. Eliot’s doubts that the traditional sonnet could figure importantly in modern poetry, it thrives to this day [...]

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Poetry News:

— Detained poet in hospital with hernia —

— Haikuists are adept at juxtaposing vivid imagery during springtime —

— For the next four days, the area around U Street and Columbia Heights will be buzzing with the presence of poets —

— Stray Questions for: Ishmael Reed —

— Current Finalists for the 20th Annual Lambda Literary [...]

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Poetry News:

— He died from a love of poetry [thanks Lee!] —

— Theater For The New City will present On Naked Soil - Imagining Anna Akhmatova, a new play written and co-starring stage and screen veteran Rebecca Schull —

— Punishing the publisher —

— Stuck for a rhyming scheme? Try the ghazal. It’s wickedly difficult to [...]

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Poetry News:

— Poetry workshop: Try Sean O’Brien’s exercise on poetic dramatisation —

— Brian Turner and Bruce Weigl from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [links to MP3] —

— The revival of Cid Corman’s journal Origin reminds me of when international discussion of poetry took place at a slower, more intense, pace —

— One includes “text, pictures, [...]

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Poetry News:

— A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —

— Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —

— What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —

— It [...]

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Poetry News:

— Mail sorter’s poems win $65,000 prize —

— Hopkins’s syntax is so mangled, the lines so packed with heavy plodding accents and stilted comma stops, that he speaks as if through a chokehold —

— A pair of fine collections from Philadelphia poets who fervently put their wanderings to words —

— after the last customer [...]

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