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Poetry News For May 7, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Poet, Mother, Editor, Wife —

  2. A new Selected Poems from a long-established, much-honored poet provides a new generation of readers with the opportunity to scan a career —

  3. poetry auction for the Frank Sherlock emergency fund —

  4. For an episode in the delightfully cantankerous relationship between Gertrude Stein and her brother … —

  5. Poet explores power of words in coping with disaster —

  6. Haiku for Henry —

  7. Fifty-three years ago in The New York Times, the poet W. H. Auden reviewed the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien‘ epic trilogy —

Congrats, Moyette, for making the shortlist of 50 for The Daily Telegraph’s ‘Novel in a Year Competition’ (out of over 2,000 entries). :)

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Poetry News For April 1, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Pills and Lilly’s wills: Prose for National Poetry Month —

  2. St. Louis publisher finds poetic justice in national book award —

  3. Since female poets began bum-rushing the academy midcentury, claiming their right to discuss these formerly taboo subjects, there has been a flood of smart, morbid, searching, sometimes outrageous writing on maternity —

  4. His crossword setter’s love for the exotic word and the common phrase results in a constant mingling of the baroque and the colloquial —

  5. The rediscovery of the absurd ““ the Oberiuts are the liveliest of the classic Russian writers —

  6. Memories are made of this —

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Poetry News For March 19, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Puerto Rican Poet Gets Her Own NYC Street —

  2. Poet Receives $50,000 Prize —

  3. Members of an outfit called the Poetry Caravan take turns reading to residents at nursing homes, women‘ shelters and clinics for drug abuse —

  4. On the face of it, this poem is utterly barking —

  5. Is there a link between madness and creativity? —

  6. It takes agility and imagination to write well about the ordinary without condescension or apology, easy jokes or inflation —

I made a playlist of songs with James Jamerson’s bass playing. I can never decide which is my favorite bass line. Usually it is this one (& he is actually in the video) or this one or this one. He’s the reason I became a bass player (which I’m not really, anymore). There’s nothing like a James Jamerson bass line and a big slappy Motown 4-on-the-floor snare drum. :)

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