Poetry News:

1. — Tam o’ Shanter kirkyard resurrected —
2. — Modern medievalists credit him with being the first scholar to treat Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as texts with literary depth —
3. — Korean Mummies Reveal Medical Clues, Love Poems —
4. — poetry therapy ” a field that’s little known but growing [may require bug me not] —
5. — Each week, Ed Shakespeare, the bard of Brooklyn baseball, will take a page from his ancient ancestor and add a bit of iambic pentameter to all our lives —
6. — Indian state mulls a dose of culture to reform prisoners —
7. — Poetry slam: Police raid Bridgeport ‘Printer’s Ball’ | Cops in combat gear make 1,000 leave party —
8. — Kjellberg tried to pin Calhoun down on the big issue that was raised yesterday, about when are Parker pieces [considered] poems, and when are they not —
9. — Senate panel approves expanding Sandburg home —

Happy Birthday Carl Jung

Attention Nashville: Rhino books has a new store in West Nashville and a new website.

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Poetry News:

1. — The great poet William Carlos Williams called [her] “one of the major phenomena of history” —
2. — Copper Canyon is the leading U.S. independent publisher of poetry —
3. — As these four collections show, the field’s “outsider” status lets poets pursue art for its own sake —
4. — Too many movies, poems, songs, TV shows deal in the familiar, offering the comfort of the predictable —
5. — Rowling has already expressed an interest in covering the classics after her studies in Greek and Roman mythology at Exeter University in the 1980s —
6. — Bold words: A poet pushes forward —
7. — Home of poet Langston Hughes experiences its own Harlem renaissance —
8. — Printers Ball shut down by police [wow, weird. link found here thanks] —
9. — when she evokes an environment, she does not efface herself from it, nor (despite the clarity of her eye) stand apart from it —
10. — Poet finds an unsentimental harbor for her love of life —

I picked up the new Harry Potter book when it went on sale at midnight and I have to say that was one of the strangest scenes I’ve encountered. 100s and 100s and 100s of kids going berserk over a BOOK going on sale.

Poetry News:

1. — How Jim Morrison Died —
2. — The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few” —
3. — We’re poets, so this was an amazingly stressful situation for us —
4. — Actress Katrice Monee Headd has more than the usual nervousness about her upcoming portrayal of poet Nikki Giovanni. —
5. — At 26, the youngest poet to be shortlisted for Forward Prize —
6. — The 3rd Annual Printers’ Ball is scheduled for Friday, July 20, at the Zhou B. Art Center in the heart of Chicago‘ Bridgeport neighborhood —
7. — Should peotry [sic] be outlawed? —
8. — Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish returned to Haifa Sunday night and read his poems in front of hundreds of cheering fans —
9. — Shapiro’s poems are levitations, magical and incantatory, or they are physics experiments that are also dreams —
10. — Linda Fiorentino Will Produce, May Star in Russian Poet Biopic —

“I’ve seen the miracles of God with my own eyes,” Yang said. “I did a lot of bluffing, also.”

In just a generation or so it has spread throughout much of the English-speaking world [link found here thank you]

What’s the difference between a blues musician and a jazz musician?

A blues musician knows 3 chords and plays in front of a thousand people and a jazz musician knows a thousand chords and plays in front of 3 people.

[Rimshot.]