Don Domanski | Poetry Hut Blog

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. We went to our friend Erma’s and it was fun and delicious. After dinner, there was a many-hour jam session & I even played bass on one song — “Killer Joe” because it is really easy and I don’t really play anymore, LOL.

Public service announcement:

Seeking poets who might have an extra copy of their chapbook or book they’d be willing to donate to a lucky student. Each week, during my 8-week undergraduate poetry class, there will be a drawing to see who wins the book a poet has been generous enough to donate. The winner will be responsible for reading your book, reviewing it, and selecting a favorite poem to read to the class the following week. If you like, contact information and book price should be included so that others in the class can buy your book. Students will be STRONGLY encouraged to buy the books of poets who, after all, were kind enough to contribute a book to their education. If you’re willing, please send your book (autographed would be nice) and contact and price details to:

Jeff Winke
Upper Iowa University - Milwaukee Center
620 S 76th St.
Milwaukee, WI 53214

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Poetry News for October 22, 2007

Poetry News:

— The early letters of the future poet laureate reveal many of his lifelong obsessions, from furry animals to the occult, mostly in a financially anxious form —

— More to the point, they seem to fill a gap left increasingly by magazines, which rarely publish this type of material anymore —

— That Canadians would have no access to works of our own imagination just seemed goofy —

— In her Foreword to the book, noted poet Alice Ostriker writes that Farrokhzad belongs in the company with Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Plath, and Sexton —

— Midwest Poet Series turns 25 —

— He told his father, who expected him to become a scientist, that he was going to be a poet, and headed to the local library —

— Charles Simic on Good Morning America (TV) —

— Poem of the Week No. 3: Lewis Carroll —

— Berry’s new collection, “Window Poems,” is a series he composed while looking out the window of his writing cabin —

— Language as Sculpture, Words as Clay —

— Poetry, like wisdom, is above all price; it is either worth everything or nothing; yet, as poetry is not, like poets born, but made, those who make it very naturally desire to sell it, and the great difficulty has been, heretofore, to ascertain its market, or commercial value —

— New Lit Mag Alert —

— Making art of ‘Industrial Scars’ —

Yeah, I guess that might work here. Your robber would be so mentally disturbed by you ignoring him while you festoon yourself into a freaking FABRIC VENDING MACHINE.

My plan: palm an Alka-Seltzer at all times when in risky areas.

Bad guy comes up, pop it in your mouth, and act like a rabid and possessed animal as thick white froth pours down your chin.

Make lots of large, cat-like, limb motions. Scream, hiss, and bark. Toss in a few laughs. Look and point to something behind him. (His head will turn) RUN!! at a right angle from where you were, and then quickly switch into the direction where he was looking.

Ha my sister cracks me up. We were discussing this.

Thanks for the birthday good wishes. We had a fun day. That movie was funny. (It’s up at you tube.) Barbara Stanwyck had some great outfits. And there was one of the funniest poker game scenes.