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Barbara Guest

Poetry News:

1. — Most Recent Articles from American Poetry Review, The —
2. — Female contenders rule out ‘archaic’ post of Poet Laureate —
3. — In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of Native American literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong — and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses —
4. — Asahi Haikuist Network —
5. — When Barbara Guest passed away in the winter of 2006, America lost one of its most fiercely independent and original artists. —
6. — The Art of the Blurb: Results of the Poll —
7. — In 1611, at age 42, Lanyer became the first woman to publish a book of poetry in English, Salue Deus Rex Judaeorum, or “Hail, God, King of the Jews.” —
8. — Surrealism, Rebellion and the 1960s —
9. — “My problem is that I am the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, but I wanted to be an individual. But we are, of course, a product of our parents. In denying them, you deny part of who you are. It’s taken me years to be ­comfortable with that” —

This isn’t Miguel Batista’s blog haha. I’m getting erroneous web traffic.

Kucinich introduces Bush impeachment resolution. I’m watching him on C-SPAN right now. Thank you Rep. Kucinich.

Please please please please call your Representative. (202) 224-3121. If you don’t know who that is, you can put your zip code in here and it will tell you.

Poetry News:

1. — Initially championed by TS Eliot, the poetry of Lynette Roberts has long since fallen out of fashion, but her voice remains fresh and challenging —
2. — MLB Poetry Previews —
3. — Inventory By Frances Richey —
4. — Frances Wilson’s The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth reveals a passionate, talented woman whose love for her brother defined her and finally destroyed her —
5. — Allen Grossman writes the poems that inspire poets —
6. — At home with Mary Jo Bang —
7. — How the complete works of four 20th-century poets with complicated publishing histories found their homes —
8. — 50 arts secrets revealed —
9. — Though it remains to be seen what will become of the new position, it augers well that the city has recognized a need to help foster the burgeoning literary scene. —

I guess AWP is in full swing, eh? I, like Kay Ryan, am ambivalent about the whole thing. A loud place crammed with people doesn’t seem like a good time to me. No offense–I would like to meet a lot of you in real life someday. Have fun, those of you who are there. And safe travels.

• Neko Case’s ‘Flood’ of Velvet Melancholy
• Barbara Guest, 85; Modernist Poet Inspired by Abstract Expressionists
• Nominees Are Announced for Times Book Prizes
• Big bucks for Beat literature
• Poet finds audience on the Internet

I have a poem in the new issue of Elysian Fields Quarterly.

• Control, creativity meld in poet’s mist of artistry
• Emotions, communities, even languages pair for gay poet
• Iain Sharp talks to a young New Zealand writer who has been hailed as a genius
• Finding faith doesn’t blunt Karr’s poems
• Poems of farm, factory, and going forth
• Barbara Guest, Pioneering Poet of the New York School, Is Dead at 85 (requires bug me not)

Wow. Check out this lamp. “…quite possibly goes with any decor!” And now today’s poetry news:

• Should a poem want to stop?
• Gov. Ted Kulongoski has named Lawson Inada of Medford to a two-year appointment as the poet laureate of Oregon
• Faulkner letter sells for nearly $18,000 US
• Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva, Russia’s two greatest 20th-century lyrical poets, cast long shadows over its modern poetical canon
• Barbara Guest — New York School poet and writer