Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s The Fifty Minute Mermaid asks us to examine the very nature of our present-day livesr —
2. — Like music, poetry is not just about meaning —
3. — His goal with the book is to help people understand the lives that Native Americans live in today’s society and how much racism and stereotypes affect them —
4. — Four JP poets to read not far from E.E. Cummings’ grave —
5. — Taslima to be invited for Poets Convention —
6. — the unconscious, “those great enormous fiery urges,” produces the best results —
7. — Pertinent Press: How does an upstart poetry publisher pass the bullshit test? —
8. — Metaphors, symbols and myths are not arcane distortions, peculiar to poetry —
9. — Michelangelo’s “Dirty” Poetry —

Thanks to the kind folks at the William Penn House in DC, I have a cheap place to stay while at the Split This Rock Festival. (My dad is a Quaker.) I’m staying the first night in a hotel, since there was no room on that night. I’m looking forward to that trip.

Poetry News:

1. — U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read —
2. — She will read one poem and then place a sticker on the person —
3. — Pulitzer Winner to Take Over as New Yorker‘ Poetry Editor —
4. — The Terrorist At My Table (Penguin, Rs 200) by Imtiaz Dharker is a collection of poems born in times ruled by terror and instability —
5. — Can you discuss the significance of the Sharon Olds poem that sparked the narration and your decision to incorporate it into the production? —
6. — The 5-minute Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet —
7. — James Fenton on poets and explosive events —

That’s funny, my brother David just sent me Novels in Three Lines (mentioned in that last link). It does seem “the literary equivalent of Weegee.” Strange little prose poems. It arrived yesterday so I haven’t sunk into all of it yet. I like it though.

David is my eldest brother — 20 years older than me.