Poetry News:

1. — “The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn’t prevent us from having a vermouth together” —
2. — No contemporary poet is famous, but some are less unfamous than others —
3. — US poet and novelist Bukowski’s poems to be translated in Iran —
4. — Bigger Cars, Flip-Up Seats, Poetry: How Riders Would Run a Subway —
5. — Delta State to give honorary doctorate to poet Trethewey —
6. — Poetry’s PR chick —
7. — Last night Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa and laments that children in Zimbabwe are starving for knowledge, while those in more privileged countries shun reading for the ‘inanities’ of the internet —
8. — Poet David Poston will receive the 2007 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition Award —
9. — Inspired by a TV documentary on mining perils, Philip Larkin wrote a great poem only 25 lines long —

Poetry News:

1. — Scratching poems on cell floors, or making ink from the brick powder of the walls, Burmese writers have managed to continue writing despite imprisonment and censorship —
2. — Haiku Poet Documented Life in Japanese Camps —
3. — To write vital poems, Notley has said, “it’s necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against … everything.” —
4. — The End of America: Naomi Wolf’s Call to Action —
5. — poetry written by English colonists before there was a United States, and by citizens of the new republic shortly after its founding —
6. — Poetry can’t topple dictatorships or stop fascist terror, but… —
7. — As human beings we should be judged by our minds, by our creativity, not by our biology —
8. — Terrible. (That looks like a good documentary.) —
9. — Questions You Should Never Ask a Writer —
10. — When You Have Ideas You Cannot Yet Execute —
11. — Walnut Hill School in Natick will name its new residence hall in honor of poet Elizabeth Bishop —
12. — He wakes from dreams and walks into the woods, sometimes for hours, reciting and memorizing the poems that come to him in his sleep —
13. — Poetry Center design an exacting, contradictory task for architects —
14. — it displays a line from one of Shelton’s poems that appears in computer punch-card code similar to that of the 1970s —
15. — You”™re a Good Prop, Cruel Muse —

Today is the Feast Day of St. Teresa of Avila, who wrote “I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself” and “”May God protect me from gloomy saints.” My Grandma, Theresa (Korte) Zimba, was named after her. And I was named after my Grandma Zimba (one of my middle names is Theresa). There is a famous statue of her.

St. Teresa of Avila was a mystic and the first female Doctor of the Catholic Church & is the Patron Saint of:

headache sufferers
(protection from?) heart attacks
sick people
Spain
Pozega, Croatia
laceworkers
loss of parents
people in need of grace
people in religious orders
people ridiculed for their piety
and she could levitate

So the word of the day is transverberation

Rosmarie Waldrop — Our Moments
Thomas Sayers Ellis — Mr. Drum
Jonathan Weinert — Solving for y
Jilly Dybka — Obstacles I Have Faced in Life and How I Have Overcome Them
Mary Tautin Moloney — Damage Reflected
Nubar Alexanian — Fisheye
Greg Delanty — Prayer in Summer
Frannie Lindsay — After a Sermon on Giving Up Everything
Jeffrey McDaniel — Confessions of a Flawed Diety
Jeffrey Perkins — Squirrel
Ravi Shankar — Rodeo Cowboy No. 1, Oil on Canvas, 1978
John Caserta — Keys
Joan Houlihan — The New Cruel
Mike Perrow — In a Time of the Tendered Ocean
Don Share — Symbiosis
Bill Gallery — Chair & Palm Trees, California, 1997
Steven Cramer — Rereading Stevens in Mid-February
John Hodgen — For Mr. Grimes Who Tried to Teach Me Physics After My Father Died
Noelle Kocot — The Peace That So Lovingly Descends

hahaha I am in a funny mood. I think they’re going to take my webmaster license away for using that <blink> tag. I’m cracking myself up. That really is a beautiful journal though so go buy one.