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Poetry News:

1. — SERIAL SYSTEM HURTS OUR NOVELS; And Too Many American Writers Want to Own Automobiles, Says George Barr McCutcheon By Joyce Kilmer —
2. — Song of Herself —
3. — Robert Hass — Winner 2007 National Book Awards — Poetry —
4. — How to Win a National Book Award in Five Easy Steps —
5. — Leading Neuroscientist Seeks Neural And Biological Basis For Creativity, Beauty And Love —
6. — creativity has become a feelgood term intended to make us all feel a bit better about what we do —
7. — Kate Light gave a reading on Nov. 13, 2007, in Buttrick Hall as part of the Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program. This podcast includes selections from her three books - Gravity’s Dream, Open Slowly and Falling Bodies. [links to MP3] —
8. — when the sisters were 17 and 20 years old, they were sent to Nazi forced labor camps … where they wrote these poems —
9. — since somebody published a poem I wrote when I was 19, which has been mocked, thoroughly, I don’t think those are going to be appearing anytime soon —
10. — Scoop: Viggo Mortensen Is Edgar Allan Poe —
11. — Lee Ranaldo Pens Poetry Book Based on E-mail Spam —
12. — Mark Jarman’s newest collection continues to confound a secular critical world —

Have a good weekend — see you next week.

Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program
Fall 2007

Monday, October 1, 2007, 8 p.m., Buttrick 102, poet Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection.

Friday, October 12, 3 p.m., Buttrick 101, Faculty Reading, Alumni Reunion Weekend: poets Beth Bachmann, Kate Daniels, and Mark Jarman, and novelists Tony Earley, Lorraine Lopez, and Alice Randall.

Wednesday, October 31, 8 p.m., Wilson 126, novelist Robin Lippincott, author of In the Meantime.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007, poet Kate Light, author of Gravity‘ Dream. (A performance of Ms. Light‘ “Einstein‘ Mozart” by the Blair String Quarter will be performed at The Blair School of Music‘ Turner Recital Hall, Monday, November 12, at 8 p.m.)

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I’ll totally be at both of those Kate Light events. Her poetry is great. Plus Einstein & Mozart and my favorite meter, dactyls. Whoo.

Poetry News:

1. — Joe Zawinul, jazz musician behind Bitches Brew, dies at 75 —
2. — Number of these [books sold in the USA] that sold fewer than 99 copies: 1,123,000 [link good for a few days] —
3. — ‘Uncanny coincidences’ lead police to explore Taslima angle to Hyderabad [bombings] —
4. — A thinking parrot’s loving good-bye —
5. — Poets with local ties honored [ congrats Amanda ]—
6. — Scandalous poem, novelized —
7. — look down this list of 10 words, choose seven of them, and immediately write a poem incorporating those seven words and your warped catchphrase or proverb —
8. — Jarman to read from new book at APSU —
9. — Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance [link good for a few days] —

Does anybody have any tips about teaching someone the idea of stressed /unstressed syllables? Ironically, I had a hard time getting this across to my adult literacy student last time. (Totally my fault.)

When I saw Hairspray: the Musical (a while ago), the theater also showed a trailer for the forthcoming Beatles-based musical/music-video-thing, Across the Universe. Alright already, Baby Boomers — I get it! The ’60s were revolutionary. Sheesh. Oh and there are Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin biopics forthcoming too and Oliver Stone is doing another Vietnam movie.

Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Tool

There are 69 Poets born between 1931 and 1940

There are 112 Poets born between 1941 and 1950

There are 61 Poets born between 1951 and 1960

There are 10 Poets born between 1961 and 1970 (My generation — I’ll be 40 next month)

There are 0 Poets born between 1971 and 2007 Sorry, 36-year-olds!

Of course, there isn’t enough information to be statistically significant, really, but it does make me laugh. Har. Hee.

Epilogue:

A blogger (?) 20 years from now:

“When I saw Movie X, the theater (?) also showed a trailer for the forthcoming U2-based musical/music-video-thing, With or Without You. Alright already, Generation X — I get it! The ’80s were [I can't think of anything except "crappy"]. Sheesh. Oh and there are Joe Strummer and Ronald Reagan biopics forthcoming too and Oliver Stone is doing another Vietnam movie.