Poetry Hut Blog
Albert Goldbarth

Poetry News:

1. — Official State Author and Poet Are Named —
2. — Owners To Open ‘Mystery Room’ Sealed For 50 Years —
3. — What are your feelings on MFA programs in regard to authors publishing in today’s market? —
4. — The rubric “poet among painters” does not adequately explain the radical shifts between formal and personal values in O’Hara’s poetry —
5. — What does zazen do for the poetry? Do you feel that there is a relation there that helps somehow in the writing? —
6. — Even though running a press is costly, it’s still important for folks to have the opportunity, even though it’s infrequent, to be published —
7. — Two books published by St. Paul-based Graywolf Press and one from Minneapolis-based Coffee House Press have been nominated for the 28th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes —

Anna Akhmatova died March 5, 1966.

Most popular outgoing links for February 2008 (as far as Feedburner is concerned):

• “One of Ireland’s best-known poets today denied he sexually exploited young men as police investigated allegations against him”
• “Barack Obama’s creditable poems are in an erratic tradition of political versifying” (tie)
• “Interview: Major Jackson” (tie)
• “The second part of this post is about my impression of the role that some phantasmatic nightmare image of AWP plays in the imaginations of many participants in the various online poetry worlds”

Poetry News:

1. — Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —
2. — Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —
3. — Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan to attend and are not an axe-murderer] —
4. — Emotional poem fills screen —
5. — The Gotham Book Mart (it was originally Gotham Book and Art) became known for embracing avant-garde and, occasionally, controversial writers and challenging censorship —
6. — Is Southern literature exhausted? —
7. — SUNY Brockport seeks to restore paintings of E.E. Cummings —
8. — Simic Interview at NPR —
9. — X-Ray of a Van Gogh Reveals 2nd Painting —
10. — To make the top reaches of this list, I was told by Brent Cunningham, S.P.D.‘ operations director, you need to sell roughly 100 copies a month —

I enjoyed “Masters of Science Fiction” & am looking forward to the next episodes. Stephen Hawking narrates it. Speaking of alternate universes: China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate

Awww. More niece. She kinda looks like she got all of our modicum of Native American genes.

And some deep-linking to the NY Times:

1. — Featured Author: Ishmael Reed With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
2. — Featured Author: Allen Ginsberg With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
3. — Featured Author: Jack Kerouac With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
4. — Featured Author: Langston Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
5. — Featured Author: Randall Jarrell With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
6. — Featured Author: Seamus Heaney With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
7. — Featured Author: James Merrill With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
8. — Featured Author: Joseph Brodsky With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
9. — Featured Author: Robert Frost With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
10. — Featured Author: James Dickey With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
11. — Featured Author: James Joyce With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
12. — Featured Author: Margaret Atwood With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
13. — Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
14. — [More] Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
15. — Featured Author: Ted Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
16. — More on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath From the Archives of The NYT —
17. — Featured Author: Hart Crane With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
18. — Featured Author: Maxine Kumin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
19. — Featured Author: Federico García Lorca With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
20. — Featured Author: William S. Burroughs With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
21. — Featured Subject: Cole Porter With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times —
22. — Featured Author: Charles Bukowski With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
23. — Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
24. — [More] Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
25. — Featured Author: Kenneth Koch With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —