Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Wordplay this week: Ed Dorn [I can't find the podcast file though. More here.] —
2. — The battle of the literary endorsements —
3. — An infatuation killed by reality —
4. — Why all this is a recipe for another Futurist revolution —
5. — It’s not every town where you can see your poet laureate coming down the street on a giant shoe —
6. — Jessica Winter reports on the winner of the Poetry Foundation’s first annual Verse Drama Prize —
7. — Literary journalism needs to get better if it is to survive —
8. — Canadian literary champion Robert Weaver dies at the age of 87 —
9. — New Developments for Ghost Road Press, Krysl, Haruf, and Brown —

I’m disappointed that this garment has no visible dotted-lines. (Simply having zippers doesn’t cut it.)

Arlo Guthrie has endorsed Ron Paul. Cool.

Poetry News:

1. — “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —
2. — Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —
3. — City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across racial and socioeconomic lines to promote literacy through poetry —
4. — Poet Li-Young Lee achieves transcendence in works such as ‘To Hold’ —
5. — Maya Angelou’s poem in praise of Hillary —
6. — Lilya would become the muse for Mayakovsky’s poetry for the next 20 years, and the couple a key presence in the Soviet Union’s new literary and artistic movements —
7. — Brian Turner had a master’s in fine arts degree tucked in his ruck sack when he enlisted at the age of 30 —
8. — Poetry turns out to be a better survival tool than you might think —
9. — Gloomy poets are rarely very good, and good poets rarely very gloomy —

So what’s the deal? Why do the mainstream media hardly ever do articles or reviews about women poets? It is often hard to find ANY article to link to.

Are there more men poets than women poets? (When I got my MFA, the poetry students were mostly women.) Are men poets simply better poets than women poets? More interesting? Better at self-promotion maybe? Do articles in which the subject has a penis make for increased sales or something? Are men poets more likely to get published by a large press? What? Is? The? Deal? Here?

Poetry News:

1. — People believing that’s Angelou’s best poem ever, I figured, is justice enough —
2. — Sekou Sundiata: Defying Labels —
3. — Bookslut is looking for a columnist and also for a book designer —
4. — The Impoverishment of American Culture by Dana Gioia —
5. — Poetry doesn’t make a lot of money, and the quiet time doesn’t mean it’s easy —
6. — the e-mail congratulation ratio for the two achievements ran about 50 to 1 —
7. — A (Slightly Qualified) Defense of MFA Programs: Six Benefits of Graduate School by Arielle Greenberg —
8. — After the 1-0 loss, the Twins express themselves in Haiku and other verse —

I’ve been tagged:

Here are the rules:

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.

2. Players start with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.

3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their 8 things and post these rules.

4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 8 people to get tagged and list their names.

5. Don”™t forget to leave them a comment telling them they”™re tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I am an extraordinarily patient person but waiting in/on line/queue gives me the creeps/anxiety. Waiting rooms are OK though. It’s just standing in line.

2. If a poem doesn’t tickle my ear somehow it doesn’t resonate with me.

3. In 1983 I won a Spin Magazine trivia contest about the Flintstones. I received a t-shirt.

4. I have only workshopped poems in grad school. Not before nor since, I think. Can’t stand it. Never had a bad experience though. Not a fan.

5. I rarely write poems about myself (explicitly).

6. I hate talking about myself.

7. Thanks for reading.

8. The End.

I tag these 8 random people: tag, tag, tag, tag, tag, tag, tag, tag.

A new low. Dear 5th Amendment — I’m so sorry. !$@%# !&#*&#^ King George @)$ *#(#( @**!&!

Yay to Carol! Her chapbook is being published by Finishing Line Press because it was a top-ten finalist in their 2007 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry.