Poetry News:
- — Memorial for Idaho poet, kayaker Studebaker to be Saturday in Twin Falls —
- — Poets, Fiddlers and Leaving Seattle —
- — Exene Cervenka: Fom X To Missouri —
- — Tuesday’s Poem: “Old Timers’ Day” by Donald Hall from White Apples and the Taste of Stone [mp3] —
- — What Am I Doing Wrong With This Poem? —
- — Milarepa picked for 22nd Napa Sonoma Film Festival 2008 —
- — August Kleinzahler’s ugly gifts —
- — What makes Shapiro so important to American poetry right now is the success with which he’s taken over the territory of fiction writers —
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Barack Obama was among the 69 senators voting to broaden government spy powers and give immunity to phone companies that aided in secret wiretapping. way to go.
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I must have been living in an alternate reality or am utterly clueless or oblivious because this confused the heck out of me:
“If born female into the majority of US American households, one will live 20, perhaps 30 years under the moniker ‘girl.’” [comments]
20 or 30 years?? What??
Has that really been your experience? Daaang! Personally, the only time I ever have had the adult moniker “girl” is with some of my mostly-African-American-coworkers at the HCBU I work at — and I have the feeling that the Gurlesque “girl” and the HCBU “girl” are not equivalent.
What do you think?
Why do most American women have the moniker “girl” ’til maybe age 30 nowadays? (?) Is that something they are self-identifying with? Or is it a generational thing that I am oblivious to? The comment that I linked to says that society is doing it to women. Powerfully.
Do you think you are a “girl?” Do others call you “girl”? How old are you? Where do you live? Help I’m confused.
– signed, 40-year-old woman
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Poetry News:
- — Economy in writing can put garrulous narration or evasive speechifying to shame (congrats c. dale)—
- — The American College of Physicians, the nation’s largest medical specialty organization, has published a compilation of stories, essays, and poems by doctors and their patients —
- — America’s newest, and foreign-born, poet laureate has traveled a long way —
- — Married M’s: The Metropolitan Market’s Logo Questioned —
- — Where Sheep Once Grazed, Now Poems Take Root —
- — Taslima wants adequate security after death threat —
- — Each week, Ed Shakespeare, the bard of Brooklyn baseball, will take a page from his ancient ancestor and add a bit of iambic pentameter to all our lives —
So for the last 11 days here in Nashville, it has been over 100 degrees F for 10 of them — including one day when it reached 106 degrees F. The hottest it has been here EVER (since they have been keeping records) is 107 degrees F. We are also in an “extreme drought.” I feel really bad for the farmers. We had a really hard freeze in April (?) and that messed things up and now this.
In more positive news, I got a new adult literacy student. That should help shake me out of my funk. My previous student graduated out of the program & got his CDL. 
Then I took a break because of the surgery. But I’m back & ready to share the wonderment of wordage. If you are in Nashville, the Nashville Adult Literacy Council needs YOU! They have a waiting list of folks who WANT to LEARN!!! It just takes a couple of hours every week and is fun! If you don’t live in Nashville, I’m sure your town has a similar organization with a long waiting list.
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Poetry News:
- — When Donald Hall’s father died, he said he wrote immediately about his father‘ passing, but that the poem took 17 years to complete —
- — delicate and imaginative tableaus —
- — who said it better, the minor poet or the major politician? —
- — Streets of poets facing the final stanza —
- — Q&A Joyce Brinkman Indiana Poet Laureate —
- — Syd Barrett’s love poem to Viv, his ‘little twig’, up for auction —
- — The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture —
- — a poem reports about something different from news, even when the material is similar —
I’ve been having physical therapy for my mysterious back/shoulder problem. Part of it is a rotator cuff injury. Weird. I learned a new word though - supraspinatus. I can’t stop saying it. Supraspinatus!
Still can’t figure out how it happened. Darryl hasn’t given me an accordion lesson since before the surgery. (”Given me an accordion lesson” is not an euphemism for anything. He is teaching me how to play the accordion.) Darryl is 1/2 Polish and 1/2 Mexican. That’s some heavy accordion juju LOL. When he was about 10, his dad took him and his accordion over to the Motown studio for an audition haha.
Contest: Guess how much my uterus weighed in grams (per the pathology report) and whomever comes closest, I’ll mail you something. You can post in the comments but you’ll need to use a valid email address. Guess before Wednesday at 11:49 pm CST.
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