Poetry News:

1. — Interview: Poet Major Jackson —
2. — Just when you think that nothing is sacred in a Koch poem … —
3. — Small press has big dreams for writers in N.C. —
4. — Need a new password? Here’s literary help. —
5. — VJTI lecturer beaten over Shivaji poem —
6. — Beating the odds, Alaska Quarterly Review reaches 25th year —
7. — For him, it’s a given that any poet carries around a near encyclopaedia of every line or poem that’s ever affected them —
8. — Security forces have arrested a man suspected to be an aide of the prime suspect in the theft in India of the Nobel Prize medallion of poet Rabindranath Tagore —
9. — Poet-mania: Mary Oliver’s sold-out appearance sparks a ticket frenzy on Craigslist —

Poetry News:

1. — Writing tops poll of ideal jobs —
2. — Prolific poet was a gracious critic —
3. — Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser, a couple with individual success, will write the next chapter of Hopkins’ Writing Seminars —
4. — Conversation With a Poet Laureate —
5. — Rare Anne Spencer collection headed to UVa —
6. — Renowned poet and Tennessee native Nikki Giovanni will return to her alma mater this fall as a distinguished visiting professor at Fisk University —

March 20-23, 2008 “You are invited to our nation‘ capital for a festival that celebrates our great tradition of poetry of witness and resistance.”

“There were no differences by political party in the percentage of those who said they had not read at least one book” … and One in Four Read No Books Last Year

Evidently, lit mag distributor Bernhard DeBoer has gone out of business.

Here is an OPML file of my poetry-related blog subscriptions. I guess you can right-click to download it. You can import it into Bloglines or Google Reader or other blog readers. I recently switched from Bloglines to Google reader entirely because Bloglines kept giving me old feeds.

Poetry News:

1. The use of haiku, with its uncanny capacity to encapsulate an instant, seems ” oddly ” confined to baseball —
2. This image comes not from some poet’s overwrought fantasy but from a news story —
3. Why devote oneself to that aggressively minor genre, poetry … —
4. Magazine off to flying start —
5. He [the janitor] put underwear on them —
6. Exploring poetry’s ‘lesser space’ [thanks to Jennifer for the link] —
7. So you think you can write? —

My brother has started a blog.

Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las is going to be on Conan O’Brien tomorrow night.

Some links from my blogroll, Nashville-style:

• Aimlessly Wandering
• Category Five
• chez bez
• Davis-Kidd Books
• Emmylou Harris
• Jackson Miller
• Just Another Pretty …
• KingstonSprings.org
• Lean Left
• Metroblogging Nashville
• Mother Tongue …
• Nashville Is Talking
• Nashville Sounds
• Nashville Weather
• Perambulating the Bounds
• pitcherlady
• Pith in the Wind
• Plumgood Food
• Radio Free Nashville
• Reading, Writing …
• RexBlog
• Rhino Booksellers
• Sideshow Bennie
• That's right, it's bigbadivy
• The Chuck and duck blog
• Tiny Cat Pants
• TN Guerilla Women
• TN Weather Zone
• WAMB
• WPLN

Poetry News:

1. The timid male would be advised to stand well back when a female threatened is on the rampage —
2. Milan has begun preparations for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Futurism —
3. Cardiff poem is too tiny to be seen —
4. Salter and Leithauser are acclaimed poets, with over a dozen volumes and many honors between them —
5. The scourge of a sick England —

I don’t have any kids but I would assume the poet-mom equation fits into this discussion.