Poetry News:

1. — He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an “inner space explorer”, but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing a microphone —
2. — Our poet is in a far colder place than we are —
3. — Featured Book Review: Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford —
4. — the only time I’m a poet is when I am drafting and revising a poem, only in those moments —
5. — Indiana looks for successor poet to fill government post —
6. — Blogging the AWP, Round Two —
7. — Stanzas of Sin With a 21st-Century Spin —

Poetry News:

1. — In a sequence about T.S. Eliot in California with his love interest Emily Hale, the couple visits the In-N-Out hamburger chain —
2. — At the point where one stage of our lives draws to a close and we are about to enter the next stage, there is always room for the hope of great things —
3. — Larry Matsuda & Tess Gallagher —
4. — John Hartley Williams is impressed by the responses to his tricky exercise on adapted adages —
5. — Via extremely rare recordings, Radio Beats will also feature the voices of other seminal American poets including Anne Sexton, Beat-era godfather Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Beat icon Allen Ginsberg —
6. — The poems that Auden came to dislike, including “Spain,” “Sir, no man‘ enemy,” and “September 1, 1939,” are not to be found here —
7. — Jeffery Brown reports on how poetry publishers keep turning out new material in today’s fast-paced commercial media culture —
8. — Allen Ginsberg, American poet and Buddhist, was also eloquent about dictators like Than Schwe: In a work he called “Wichita Vortex Sutra”¦” —

“…it‘ more like copping-a-feel reading. There‘ something yucky about it ….” Well I guess that argument does apply to poetry, nowadays, above all, if you agree with his reasoning.

There’s more here at this article too, which says “… longer-standing online ventures include Blackbird [which is fresh btw], failbetter.com, storySouth, Drunken Boat, and The Barcelona Review. Newer online journals ““ Memorious, GutCult, Small Spiral Notebook ” pop up on the NewPages site.”

(This was the last short story collection I read — if you don’t count Sentence — and it was great.)

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