Poetry News:

1. — A 24-year-old who called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist” won her appeal in London in Tuesday against conviction for collecting information which could help plan a terror attack —
2. — Why everyone wants to make a Dylan Thomas movie —
3. — For more than 30 years, poet and professor Richard Shelton has traveled to a high security prison in Arizona to run a program that encourages prisoners to write and read poetry —
4. — Transcript, Book World: Poet’s Choice — Poetry, Writing and ‘The Liars’ Club’ — Mary Karr —
5. — “I would like to explore the statistical chances of getting such a line …” —
6. — Young American Indians Find Their Voice in Poetry —
7. — In celebration of Father’s Day, Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet E. Ethelbert Miller —
8. — Reviews Needed for Experimental Fiction Poetry Blog —
9. — Coffee’s Aroma Kick-starts Genes In The Brain —

Poetry News:

1. — Scratching poems on cell floors, or making ink from the brick powder of the walls, Burmese writers have managed to continue writing despite imprisonment and censorship —
2. — Haiku Poet Documented Life in Japanese Camps —
3. — To write vital poems, Notley has said, “it’s necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against … everything.” —
4. — The End of America: Naomi Wolf’s Call to Action —
5. — poetry written by English colonists before there was a United States, and by citizens of the new republic shortly after its founding —
6. — Poetry can’t topple dictatorships or stop fascist terror, but… —
7. — As human beings we should be judged by our minds, by our creativity, not by our biology —
8. — Terrible. (That looks like a good documentary.) —
9. — Questions You Should Never Ask a Writer —
10. — When You Have Ideas You Cannot Yet Execute —
11. — Walnut Hill School in Natick will name its new residence hall in honor of poet Elizabeth Bishop —
12. — He wakes from dreams and walks into the woods, sometimes for hours, reciting and memorizing the poems that come to him in his sleep —
13. — Poetry Center design an exacting, contradictory task for architects —
14. — it displays a line from one of Shelton’s poems that appears in computer punch-card code similar to that of the 1970s —
15. — You”™re a Good Prop, Cruel Muse —

Today is the Feast Day of St. Teresa of Avila, who wrote “I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself” and “”May God protect me from gloomy saints.” My Grandma, Theresa (Korte) Zimba, was named after her. And I was named after my Grandma Zimba (one of my middle names is Theresa). There is a famous statue of her.

St. Teresa of Avila was a mystic and the first female Doctor of the Catholic Church & is the Patron Saint of:

headache sufferers
(protection from?) heart attacks
sick people
Spain
Pozega, Croatia
laceworkers
loss of parents
people in need of grace
people in religious orders
people ridiculed for their piety
and she could levitate

So the word of the day is transverberation

Rosmarie Waldrop — Our Moments
Thomas Sayers Ellis — Mr. Drum
Jonathan Weinert — Solving for y
Jilly Dybka — Obstacles I Have Faced in Life and How I Have Overcome Them
Mary Tautin Moloney — Damage Reflected
Nubar Alexanian — Fisheye
Greg Delanty — Prayer in Summer
Frannie Lindsay — After a Sermon on Giving Up Everything
Jeffrey McDaniel — Confessions of a Flawed Diety
Jeffrey Perkins — Squirrel
Ravi Shankar — Rodeo Cowboy No. 1, Oil on Canvas, 1978
John Caserta — Keys
Joan Houlihan — The New Cruel
Mike Perrow — In a Time of the Tendered Ocean
Don Share — Symbiosis
Bill Gallery — Chair & Palm Trees, California, 1997
Steven Cramer — Rereading Stevens in Mid-February
John Hodgen — For Mr. Grimes Who Tried to Teach Me Physics After My Father Died
Noelle Kocot — The Peace That So Lovingly Descends

hahaha I am in a funny mood. I think they’re going to take my webmaster license away for using that <blink> tag. I’m cracking myself up. That really is a beautiful journal though so go buy one.