Poetry Hut Blog
2008 May

Poetry News:

— … violence in Baltimore, poetry, Buddhism, and the unexpected convergence of all these things —

— The institute has recently invited the world’s poets to send a maximum of three pieces with English translation to poet.peace@Gmail.com webserver in Tehran is slow be patient —

— Pain as an Art Form —

— Meanwhile, Language Poetry distinguished [...]

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Poetry News:

— Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is so moved by a shipwreck that he starts writing again —

— Quiet, dear, Mummy’s writing —

— Pulp Fiction was a seminal film. Will Shakespeare was a seminal poet. Obviously it follows that the two should be mixed together, which is exactly what has been done at Pulp [...]

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Poetry News:

— Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker — and eliminates the words he doesn’t need —

— On an unconscious level, this final replication exceeds the early rhyme but also thwarts it when the two sounds become identical (as the mother and [...]

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Poetry News:

— Anonymous Greeting-Card Writers Put Their Heart Into Their Work —

— May Day was never the same after Allen Ginsberg’s 1965 visit to Prague —

— Use poetry in the workplace, says arts conference speaker —

— Poet fined for insulting Mexican flag, calls ruling threat to free speech
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— After 50 Years, Will Quality [...]

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Poetry News:

— Things fall apart: is the post-9/11 imagination disintegrating? —

— Happy Birthday, Archibald MacLeish! —

— Dante, Primo Levi and the intertextualists —

— On other occasions he complained he looked like “a cross between an egg and a bloodhound” and “an egg sculpted in lard, with goggles on” —

— It reminds me of the old [...]

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Poetry News:

— The day Thoreau died —

— Sexually explicit poetry forces educator out —

— Dylan’s mystery girl tells it like it was —

— Poetry readers tend to lead active lives, listen to music, read a lot, use the Internet and volunteer at significantly higher rates than non-poetry readers, according to a study looking [...]

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Poetry News:

— The lit mags that could —

— GK intros Maxine Kumin, she and GK read her poetry [real audio] —

— There are stereotypes about Sylvia Plath fangirls — that we’re mired in middle-class existential woe —

— In his new collection, Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems, poet Cornelius Eady writes of his transition [...]

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Poetry News:

— The Mainichi Newspapers is inviting participation in the 12th Annual Mainichi Haiku Contest —

— Punk rocker Exene explores a creative space in Missouri —

— DNA Analysis Exposes Fake Schiller Skull —

— “Sort of Gone,” a collection of poems by Sarah Freligh, follows the adventures and misadventures - mostly misadventures - of a ballplayer [...]

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I have a diagram, A Magnetically Actuated Exercise and Amusement Device for Use with Cats, up at DIAGRAM, which is fresh.
From what I understand, these lit mags also have new issues up or out, too and I see lots of poet-bloggers:
anti
coconut
la petite zine
linebreak
tuesday; an art project
and as always, No Tell Motel has a new [...]

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Poetry News:

— With her new novel, Lavinia, fantasy and science fiction virtuoso Ursula K. Le Guin vividly fills some of the blanks in Vergil’s Aeneid —

— “I’m trying to get people to see a book as an aesthetic artifact, not as a generic container,” says Dave Wofford, who operates the one-man letterpress Horse and Buggy [...]

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Poetry News:

— Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which-during specific times of the year-transform into the legible text of a poem —

— UMKC’s New Letters is a winner in the National Magazine Awards —

— Poet staves off poverty in exotic Edmonton —

— and the [...]

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Poetry News:

— Her early writing is set in a structured style with familiar rhyming schemes, yet its tone foreshadows her charged works to come —

— Consistencies Found In Synaesthesia: Letter ‘A’ Is Red For Many; ‘V’ Is Purple —

— Poet Giovanni honored with historic marker —

— Poems not only rhymed but the syllables of each [...]

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Poetry News:

— I tend to write poetry when I need to scratch an itch, something has been triggered and I need to study why. —

— Gillian K Ferguson has spent five years working on a mirror ’sequence’ of 1,000 poems inspired by her wonder at the human DNA code being cracked —

— Features On Mercury [...]

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