Poetry News:

1. — The elements conspire against the harvest in Bernard O’Donoghue’s Ceo Draiochta (Magic Mist) —
2. — One image in this section shows CA Conrad and Linh Dinh reading from their work in the cold. Dinh wears a placard that reads, “Ape Laureate,” bringing a sense of humor to the high-minded seriousness often associated with poetry. —
3. — Sportswriter William Blake on the Yankees–Red Sox Game of 8/26 —
4. — Associated with the New York School of poetry and being a long time resident of Manhattan’s East Village, Godfrey is a master of writing city poems —
5. — Video: NEH Chairman Bruce Cole speaks about “The State of the Humanities” —
6. — Lee Ann Brown, Jerome Rothenberg, and Bob Perelman talk with me about Gertrude Stein’s verse portrait of Christian Bérard —
7. — “I’ve been fascinated with it ever since,” said Kooser, speaking by phone from his home in Garland, Neb. —
8. — To the heir of a family that prided itself on its artistic patronage, he submitted the outraged complaint “This is the way poets are treated!” —
9. — awww —

Poetry News:

1. — Such esoteric experiments as Have They Attacked Mary He Giggled—A Political Satire, Lucy Church Amiably, Tender Buttons and her monumental The Making of Americans may have to wait for a doubtful posterity to be properly appreciated —
2. — Autobiography of a Mythic Life —
3. — Two Poems by Gerald Stern —
4. — Michael Wilding recounts how the University of Sydney was persuaded to establish a creative writing course —
5. — She produced several books on poetics and a book of poetry before publishing her first major biography, of Anne Sexton, in 1991 —
6. — Walton has turned weakness into insight by making letters into visceral objects [might not be safe for work] —
7. — It has been variously labelled ‘Language Poetry’, ‘Language
   Writing’, ‘L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing’ —

Poetry News:

1. — Many a man has gone muzzy-minded over the writings of Gertrude Stein —
2. — Commonly misperceived as, alternately, the pantheist precursor of the California sandal-and-beads set and the misanthropic “inhumanist,” Jeffers was none of these things —
3. — the notion that the free sharing of copyrighted poetry online is bad for poets doesn’t hold water —
4. — The cutting of Raymond Carver —
5. — Diane Wood Middlebrook, Biographer, Dies at 68 —
6. — Gregoire names first state poet laureate —
7. — The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce the acquisition of two monumental works by Cy Twombly —

This year just keeps getting crappier and crappier. 2007 I hate you! LOL Please say some prayers for my family. Found out who the actual crazy ones are.

Poetry News:

1. — More than 60 years after it was written, George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” remains the classic essay on the relationship between words, truth, propaganda and politics —
2. — ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ found guilty in British court and ‘Lyrical Terrorist led double life’ and ‘Lyrical terrorist’ convicted for jihad poems —
3. — Here is another photo from St. Petersburg: taken from the bench where KGB agents would sit everyday in the 40’s and 50’s to watch one the land’s great poets, Anna Akhmatova —
4. — Penguin Wins U.S. Decision in Dorothy Parker Copyright Trial —
5. — Creativity, innovation and ‘coolness’ often emerge from the grungier areas of a city —
6. — “poets cannot be coddled and nurtured in universities - that depletes their minds from having relationships with poetry” —
7. — The artwork of two local artists, sculptor Lisa Scheer and poet E. Ethelbert Miller, was recently installed at the east entrance —
8. — Nobel laureate to explain connection between arts, sciences —
9. — The rhythm of the poem is the rhythm of the train; it scans beautifully and is irresistible as a result —
10. — Gertrude Stein, fearless and flushed —
11. — Hardy’s poem was printed in the TLS of September 10, 1914 —
12. — WHY NOT ABOLISH POETS? ANYBODY WRITES POETRY NOW; Bards Are No Longer Picturesque But Look Prosaic and Wear Everyday Clothes and Cut Their Hair and Drink Milk Shakes and ;- Oh, It’s Simply Awful! —

Have you heard of The Soulforce Institute for Nonviolent Change? I haven’t and I’m right here in the city with the Southern Baptist HQ.

Poetry News:

1. — Blog or self-published (logroll) “reviews” are not reliable sources [link found here] —
2. — a unique film festival was held where poetry was the focus of the cinematic medium —
3. — Exploring Gertrude Stein’s nooks and crannies —
4. — Synchronously with the growing decline of the novel we are witnessing the beginning of a new golden age of poetry and the interesting spectacle of hard- headed publishers armed with fat contracts scrambling to annex each new poet of promise who “swims within their ken,” according to George P. Brett, President of the Macmillan Company, who is in London on business —
5. — A PRIZED POET: Winner of prestigious award links art form to influences of daily life —
6. — I, too, throw it: Marianne Moore tossing out the first ball, opening day at Yankee Stadium —
7. — “The blood jet is poetry / There is no stopping it” —
8. — In The Circuit by Alice Notley —
9. — Stray Questions for: Kay Ryan —

Well this was an icky experience yesterday & only partially successful due to my freakishly malformed interior nasal septum environment. But it was a good try. (Still having ear problems & quite a lot of pain.) Getting the septum fixed in Dec I think — I’m talking to the surgeon at Vanderbilt about it soon. They are supposed to be good, but, a.) it’s my face b.) it’s my freaking ***SKULL*** and c.) it’s my face. Plus like your brain is right there too, isn’t it?

Poetry News:

1. — The MacDowell Colony has provided a creative workspace for artists for 100 years —
2. — The poet is the longtime editor of the Pitt Poetry Series of the University of Pittsburgh Press —
3. — For believers in marriage, this poem is for you and should be recited by the best man (or woman) at a wedding —
4. — Poetry project reveals the power of words —
5. — Who wrote “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”? What does it mean? —
6. — Forward Bloc, part of the leftist block supporting the Indian ruling alliance, announced that it would press for Ms. Nasrin’s expulsion from the country —
7. — Poet Grotz Wins $25,000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers”™ Award —

I can’t remember the last time Darryl and I went on vacation. That’s not good. Surely it wasn’t over 10 years ago but I’m afraid it is. We’ll have to remedy that next year. (He met up with me in Hawaii a couple years ago but that didn’t count because I was working.)

A legitimate telecommuting job.

This blog seems to have fallen off the face of Google search, LOL. I was wondering why human being visits have dropped off. Oh well, que sera sera.

…I still haven’t found a PHP developer, so the Word Vine project is on hold.

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).