Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — The fine art of literary rejection letters —
2. — Benefit set for professor who lost literature in fire —
3. — George Szirtes responds to this month’s risk-taking responses to his exercise on the theme of being small —
4. — In Lawsuit, New England College Says Its Poetry Program Was Stolen —
5. — Boston poets Rafael Campo and Franz Wright are divergent, even contrasting, poetic animals. —
6. — Sylvia Plath’s Three Women to be staged in London —
7. — Wordplay with Landon Godfrey, Glenis Redmond, Laura Hope-Gill, Sebastian Matthews, Denise Levertov, Hilda Morley, MC Richards, Alice Notley, Ruth Hershberger, Jane Mayhall,Eva Jungermann, Cynthia Homire; the women of Black Mountain College [MP3] —
8. — Ask A Poet —

“Motivated” was the word I was trying to think of, yesterday. Sheesh.

I won’t know what is in the cards for this blog until I get some more medical information / tests. Which the staff of my doctor’s office doesn’t seem too [can't think of the word] to get scheduled.

Poetry News:

1. — Politics and poetry should not be mixed —
2. — You are putting together an anthology called the “Best New Poets”. You make this claim, but then you want the poet to pay to submit? —
3. — In his newest collection, “The Extremities” (Oberlin College Press, 2008), Timothy Kelly combines his dual skills as physical therapist and poet to reveal the body as the source and site of human connection [MP3] —
4. — Tackling the poetry patriarchy —
5. — The Alphabet will further cement Silliman’s reputation as one of our greatest innovators of the mundane —
6. — The winner of this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award is Rachel Johnson, the novelist sister of Tory London Mayor Boris Johnson. —

Poetry News:

1. — “David Alpaugh, who has both run and won a poetry book contest himself, offers his astute analysis of the business of selecting poetry books for publication by holding a competition…” —
2. — Colossus of Rhodes to be rebuilt as giant light sculpture —
3. — Trinity Rep Radio Theater: This program will feature stories and poems that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters. [MP3] —
4. — In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours —
5. — Not the original? A new translation by Burton Raffel offers a modern version of Chaucer’s medieval masterpiece. —
6. — The National Book Awards winners —
7. — The Review Review reviews lit mags (just print ones?) —
8. — DIY Poetry Movements from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast: How Zukofsky and the Language Poets got started, and the rules for starting a movement of your own. [MP3] —
9. — What is the social role of a micro-press in today’s literary marketplace, environment, and economy? —

Google has Life Magazine photo archives online. Not too many poets & no women. Some Millay, etc if you search “poetess” though. (And you better behave or Bette Davis is going to get you. I have to say, that is a very weird combo of reader/poet.)

Is there anyone out there who has cable TV / Discovery Health & can tape a show for me?

Dec 08, 10:00 pm
(60 minutes)

repeat:
Dec 09, 2:00 am
(60 minutes)

Mystery Diagnosis
The Baby Who Wouldn’t Stop Crying

Baby Averi Williams develops a bluish tint to the whites of her eyes and a bulging forehead; 15 year-old, Lynn Sanders is leading a normal life when she begins to experience a deep nagging pain in her hands during swim practice.

Poetry News:

1. — WORD is year-long interactive performance art piece that will form the cornerstone of a broader exhibition exploring the meaning of text, poetry, and the possibilities of mutual participation through the internet… —
2. — Surrealist Migrations Wins Poetry Film Prize —
3. — “Al was one of the most important mid-Michigan poets in the state, one of the finest,” said M.L. Liebler, a Detroit poet, professor at Wayne State University and small-press publisher who published three of Hellus’ books. —
4. — Trinity Rep Radio Theater: Report on the Barnhouse Effect by Kurt Vonnegut, Lafayette Farewell by Ray Bradbury, My War by Diane C. Jaeger, a poem about the lasting effects of her time as a nurse in Vietnam. [MP3] —
5. — Bristol Pomeroy plays Richard Hartels of Montville, at left, in the movie “Marathon,” a look at the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Meredith … —
6. — “I think Theodore Roethke is the only poet who thinks like a flower.” —
7. — Cardiff South and Penarth AM Lorraine Barrett, along with South Wales West AM Peter Black, have invited author Patrick Jones to read his work in the Assembly next month. —
8. — Have a little poetry with your gum —

Speaking of Al Hellus & Theodore Roethke, there are almost 400 Michigan poets here. Except me hahaha. Autumn is the time when I really miss Michigan - cider mills, etc.

Poetry News:

1. — Pioneering small publisher New Rivers Press marks 40th anniversary —
2. — The 11th Resurrection of Galatea looks to be yet another faboo read. The official deadline is today but I can keep taking reviews through Monday. —
3. — Troubled Sleep: A Discussion of Ezra Pound’s “Cantico del Sole”
   from PoemTalk, Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Charles Bernstein, Rachel Levitsky, & Joshua Schuster [MP3] —
4. — Center For Book Arts: Our complete catalogue of broadsides from the Center’s Poetry Broadside Reading Series is now available online with images - click here to take a look! —
5. — How complete should a complete works be? —
6. — Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association are appalled to learn that detained poet Aung Than, a member of the opposition National League for Democracy, was probably infected with the HIV virus when he was forcibly injected —
7. — The first £50,000 biannual prize is dedicated to “complexity” and nominations - invited from all university staff - have produced a list of 20 titles —
8. — Waterstone’s should not have been shouted down by Christian Voice —
9. — Poetry’s roots in sacred song are undeniable. —
10. — In the case of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, the myth made by gossip has long obscured the art made by a couple of poets. That’s a pity. —

woot:Sun Shows Signs Of Life: Long-Awaited Solar Cycle 24 Starting To Take Off

Poetry News:

1. — A poet has been forced to launch his new collection in the street after a bookstore cancelled the event because of a campaign by Christian activists. —
2. — Cocktails and prostate jokes —
3. — For the first time on the iPhone, poetry fans can make their own poems —
4. — Contrary to the popular myth, we don’t all have a book in us and pretending otherwise devalues great writing —
5. — Never one to waste words, he gets mileage out of each of these possibilities in this chapbook’s mixture of short essays, poems, and prose poem —
6. — Despite the promising subject, the poems do not quite work —
7. — Harjo, the University’s only Joseph Russo Endowed Professor, said her resignation was a result of the administration’s decision to retain associate professor Lisa Chavez. —

ALERT: I have stopped using Feedburner to distribute my RSS feed, due to continuing problems/unresponsiveness to my customer service inquiries. The latest saga was an out-of-control Feedburner bot, which crashed my webhost’s server, where this blog resides.

This is my RSS feed address, which will no longer redirect to Feedburner. I think they have a courtesy redirect, but that eventually will time out. Unless you subscribed directly to the Feedburner feed, you should be OK. And in that case, Feedburner will eventually warn you.

Also, if you get this blog via email (through Feedburner) it no longer works. You can re-subscribe if you want, but you have to sign up at RSSFwd to complete the process. Sorry. Between Feedburner blowing me off, and Technorati dropping this blog from their indices because it doesn’t measure up to their standards, I’m getting the feeling that Web 2.0 hates me.

Last chance to vote in my lit mag subscription poll.

Poetry News:

1. — In a certain sense, poet Jane Augustine also owes a lot to Snyder: like him, she is an enthusiastic mountain climber, a devoted student of Buddhism, an erudite reader of world literature, and a poet who, despite traveling the world, has maintained her roots in the West where she was born. —
2. — M. Rahimi was inspired to write the book as a tribute to an Afghan poetess, Nadia Anjuman, who was beaten to death by her husband in 2005 —
3. — Though he can recite Ashbery and Tate from memory, his own poems are more deeply indebted to the music of Junior Brown, Paul Butterfield, and Sonny Boy Williamson. —
4. — Blue Positive, Martha Silano’s second collection of poems, reveals an intimate knowledge of the brightest and darkest aspects of motherhood. [MP3] —
5. — Winner of the eleventh annual Boston Review poetry contest —
6. — Jane Crown show with Kenneth Pobo —
7. — No Tell Books has a new blog. Go look. —

Poetry News:

1. — Prison court sentences blogger to 20 years, poet to two years —
2. — In “Ballistics,” the poet continues his vein of poetry that holds one-sided, intimate conversations with the reader —
3. — Child’s Garden of Hip-Hop (for Mom to Love, Too) —
4. — In his new collection of poems, Warhorses, Yusef Komunyakaa explores familiar themes with idiosyncratic grace and musical intensity. —
5. — Poetry Roundup —
6. — Harjo, Cazimero win $50,000 USA Fellowship grants —
7. — Wordplay with Peter Culley & Ezra Pound [MP3] —
8. — A Guilty Conscience for her Time —
9. — Poem of the week: In the Trenches —

Poetry News:

1. — Whitman a ‘poet of democracy’ —
2. — Archive of original WWI poem manuscripts goes online & link—
3. — Mitchell said the poem “In Flanders Fields,” written by John McCrae in 1915, inspired the Buddy Poppy program. —
4. — Steele is thought to be the first poet accepted in the artists program, whose roots reach back to the First World War. —
5. — Blood, bombs and bards: poetry from the frontline —
6. — new book out this week compiles poems and memoirs from women veterans —

Poetry News:

1. — Best of Southern literature honored —
2. — Robert Frost removed his coat to show the ruffians at Methuen’s Second Grammar School he wasn’t someone they should mess with —
3. — Miami a natural haven for persecuted writers —
4. — It may sound cliché, but every once in a while a writer, musician or anyone who calls himself an artist presents the world in a way that teaches a unique perspective on the beauty of life —
5. — The Bat Poet Needs Your Help —
6. — Tightrope Books Launches The Best Canadian Poetry 2008 —
7. — Antiques dealer in Bard probe bailed —

The lit mag readership poll is still open.

Poetry News:

1. — Poster poems: Terza rima —
2. — Those overly punctuated lines make you stop and start, forcing you to inhabit a mind formulating an opinion, one phrase at a time —
3. — Though the lives of poets often remain mysteriously veiled during our earliest encounters with poetry, biographical details can provide an important bridge of accessibility for young readers —
4. — I was engaging in a dubious art form that has no audience —
5. — Like the 18th-century Galante style in music, Merrill’s work has a high, almost lacquered finish and prizes the qualities of refinement, intricacy of design and formal containment —
6. — Irish poet Ciaran Berry has won the £3000 Jerwood Aldeburgh first collection prize for what judges described as an unusually assured and mature collection of poetry. —

Lit mag readership poll is still open.

Poetry News:

1. — Despite the tough publishing climate, Graywolf Press’ art before profit philosophy has given rise to both —
2. — A recently discovered version of “Irene” or “The Sleeper,” one of Poe’s most important poems, has surfaced in rural Virginia. —
3. — Derek Walcott explains why, as Pasternak said, ‘great poets have no time to be original’ —
4. — Otoliths #11 has gone live! —
5. — Bob Stein invites you to help spend his latest NEH grant —
6. — WordPlay with William Matthews, Ranier Maria Rilke, Robert Bly, Lee Ann Brown, Peter Culley, & Cathy Smith Bowers [MP3] —
7. — Prof structurally liberates classic waka —
8. — Search and Destroy was born, with $100 seed money from Allen Ginsberg and matching funds from his boss Lawrence Ferlinghetti. —
9. — When I first got exposed to the study of Native writers in literature, a lot of (them) were poets —

Absolutely petrified. Blah.

Poetry News:

1. — The book-length poem is presented in a series of atmospheric vignettes written primarily in brief couplets, interrupted periodically with parentheticals and postcards and another review here at Ron Slate’s blog —
2. — At the risk of oversimplification, there’s a schism in American poetics: writers who live in the world (so-called lived experience) vs. writers who live by the word —
3. — Poet lands book deal with major publisher —
4. — Anne Sexton’s Scrapbook: A look inside the young poet’s life 16 years before she won the Pulitzer Prize. —
5. — Myth and magic of Wilfred Owen —
6. — In just a few lines, Joe renders redundant the contents of entire libraries on aboriginal dispossession and cultural destruction. —
7. — The Measure of Democracy By John Ashbery, August Kleinzahler, Joshua Mehigan, Mary Jo Bang and J. D. McClatchy—
8. — PW’s Best Books of the Year —

Court Green wants poems about the ’70s &
Shenandoah wants poems and stuff about Flannery O’Connor &
tuesday;an art journal is fresh &
Anti- is fresh &
dead mule is fresh & so is
womb poetry too &
deadline is about a month away: “Initiated in 1998, the Stadler Fellowship offers a recent MFA, MA, or PhD graduate in poetry the opportunity to receive professional training in arts administration and literary editing.”

Poetry News:

1. — Without context, Linda Bierds’ poems are strings of carefully chosen words — burnished and honed, linked with obvious intention and care, hinting at images of loveliness or grotesquerie, but ultimately arcane —
2. — Dante’s Inferno is to be made into a game by Electronic Arts and a movie by Universal Pictures. —
3. — It should be unsurprising to devotees of Kapuściński that such a poetic journalist also pursued a secondary career in poetry. —
4. — At the ceremony, they gave us each a library edition of someone. I got Walt Whitman. He’s been a huge, well, for me, an abundant source. —
5. — There is nothing medieval about Kristin Bock’s latest collection of poetry in Cloisters. —
6. — It seems he sent his neighbor a number of poems on the topic of loud leaf-blowing and was charged with harassment. —
7. — A good electronic reader is just the right mix of book and nonbook. —

I thought this day wouldn’t never get here. Finally.