Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — This Ecstatic Nation: Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11 —
2. — Q&A: Rebecca Wolff’s Fence Turns Ten —
3. — Holy Road: Paula Gunn Allen (1939 - 2008) —
4. — He wanted to create, as he put it, “echoes realer / than originals.” Unfortunately, echoes have a nasty way of fading. —
5. — Elizabeth Kirschner’s book of poems, ‘My Life as a Doll,’ chronicles her memories of child abuse —
6. — Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago —
7. — It’s easy to forget that American poetry was not always as friendly to the middle class as it is today —

The book reviews at New Pages are fresh and so are the lit mag reviews

dancing girl press has opened the chapbook manuscript reading period — they make good chapbooks.

I like persona poems - a whole online lit mag issue of them

Poetry Midwest has an e-chapbook available as a downloadable PDF file.

My family member is back from Iraq - thank you for your prayers.

Poetry News:

1. — In the summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans —
2. — An Interview with Cathy Smith Bowers —
3. — “Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry — transcript —
4. — From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts? —
5. — Basho’s Irish echoes —
6. — Why devote seven years to proving an esoteric theory — in four volumes amounting to more than 2,000 pages — about which many academics remain skeptical and most people are unaware? —

I’ve been meme tagged — so here are 7 things and you consider yourself tagged, you hear?

1. I grew up in Michigan but have never been on a boat. (I’m not counting rowboat or canoe.)
2. My favorite Christmas Carols are O Holy Night and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen but I couldn’t tell you many of the words.
3. As part of my spiritual practice I try to keep an open heart but I’m naturally kind of melancholy and leery.
4. I think I am going to adopt this slogan for the near future hahaha. (Link found here)
5. More of a cat person but I like dogs too.
6. Men from both sides of my dad’s family first came to America to avoid serving in the military.
7. I like vanilla.

check out the skeletons

Poetry News:

1. — A report card is a report card ” unless it belongs to Robert Penn Warren —
2. — Literary magazines come and go; none lasts forever —
3. — The ad also has a popular poem, when the initial letters are added up … [and more here] —
4. — The Psychology of Rejection —
5. — Poet Fleur Adcock is to receive an honorary doctorate of literature from Victoria University —
6. — Versatile Frame wins award for collection of verse —

The Poetry Foundation has 2 job openings right now. Both jobs are full-time and both require relocation to Chicago if you don’t live there already:

1. An Archive Editor. This person, ideally, would be “a serious poet who can also write and edit prose.”

2. An Associate Editor. This person, ideally, would have more of a journalism background.

Weekly World News, the newspaper of record for the deranged, announced this week that it was folding on Aug. 3. Well that saddens me. My sister and I both subscribed for a very long time and we had a lot of fun discussing the articles. But for the past year it has been not so good. We’ve been wondering about that. Oh well, I guess we can still go to their website.

Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny.