Poetry News:

1. — Langston Hughes, the first poet especially devoted to jazz, got the idea to use it from Vachel Lindsay, his mentor. In the 1920s and 30s, Hart Crane, Carl Sandburg, and Mina Loy were pioneers of jazz poetry. —
2. — Executive Director needed for award-winning online magazine —
3. — Though not an obvious family man, Ben Jonson’s epigrams on the deaths of his children testify to his strength of feeling about fatherhood —
4. — Faculty and staff vacate Antioch College campus this week —
5. — This year, there is actually something to celebrate—something that cuts against the industry’s self-fulfilling death wish: One hundred new independent bookstores opened in America last year. {fixed thanks Collin} —
6. — children with speech and language difficulties can benefit from integrating creative writing with traditional articulation and language therapy —
7. — Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives February 4, 1959, Vol. IV, No. 15 —
8. — Jasper native named Indiana poet laureate —
9. — Field Guide To Poets —
10. — Florence ‘to revoke Dante exile’ —

The trigger point injections weren’t as bad as I feared. I’m extremely sore but I’d rather be almost too sore to move than to be in pain. I don’t know if that makes any sense…. I never had any anatomy classes & didn’t even dissect anything in biology, so I am just learning about the structure of the human body & finding it all amazing. Collagen (helix) is pretty.

Happy Solstice.

Poetry News:

1. — Robert and Jean Hollander have just completed a beautiful translation of the astonishing fourteenth-century poem —
2. — PBS transforms downtown New Bedford into Walt Whitman’s America —
3. — The Poets.org Poetcast: Charles Simic goes to the planetarium [links to MP3] —
4. — Baseball has long been the sport with the strongest literary heritage —
5. — ** Enter the 11th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest here! ** —
6. — How seven letters managed to freak out an entire nation —

The Nashville Sounds won our division again. I went to exactly *one* game all year. But I have playoff tickets.

Like rats from a sinking ship.

Poetry News:

1. The trial begins at 6:30 p.m. —
2. National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Lucille Clifton recited 16 of her poems to a packed audience Tuesday —
3. Maureen Cannon, 84, a Poet of the Everyday, in Light Verse, Dies —
4. Dante used drugs? Depends on who’s talking —
5. Rep. Kessler says there’s a rhyme and a reason for her poetry bill —
6. Adopt a gargoyle to save Shakespeare’s historic church —

Found, Won or Earned, Money Changes Everything

Poetry News:

1. the process of getting published didn’t involve a single rejection letter —
2. Blake used the notebook for more than 30 years —
3. It’s fitting that Ginsberg’s juvenilia should serve as a beacon in the night of bad poetry —
4. After 700 years, Dante gets nose job —
5. Better nature after incalculable loss —
6. This week belongs to Tatiana, because millions of eyes will focus on her 29 words —

Fascinating comparision between LBJ’s January 10, 1967 State of the Union speech and GWB’s (disappointing and vague, to me) speech January 10, 2007.