Poetry News:
- — Psychologists Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University ran three experiments to study existential dread in the laboratory —
- — Three Reasons Why We Don’t Read Poetry —
- — I guess this collection is about the shadowy presences and outlaw characters who haunt the margins of American, particularly Southern, history —
- — He is, we are constantly told, a great poet and a big wind-bag, a profound seer and a boisterous humbug —
- — Jennifer Grotz once wrote poetry like a drunken Patsy Cline, sick on love —
- — Akron poet Thomas Dukes wins prestigious national book prize; and some thoughts on poetry for profit —
Tags: death, dreaming, dreams, Jennifer Grotz, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, rt smith, Shenandoah, Thomas Dukes, Walt WhitmanThere are a lot of sleep / dream articles up at the NY Times. “Once seen as a blank screen, a metaphor for death, it has emerged as an active, purposeful machine, a secretive intelligence that comes out at night to play and to work during periods of dreaming and during the netherworld chasms known as deep sleep”