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Poetry News:

1. — The elements conspire against the harvest in Bernard O’Donoghue’s Ceo Draiochta (Magic Mist) —
2. — One image in this section shows CA Conrad and Linh Dinh reading from their work in the cold. Dinh wears a placard that reads, “Ape Laureate,” bringing a sense of humor to the high-minded seriousness often associated with poetry. —
3. — Sportswriter William Blake on the Yankees–Red Sox Game of 8/26 —
4. — Associated with the New York School of poetry and being a long time resident of Manhattan’s East Village, Godfrey is a master of writing city poems —
5. — Video: NEH Chairman Bruce Cole speaks about “The State of the Humanities” —
6. — Lee Ann Brown, Jerome Rothenberg, and Bob Perelman talk with me about Gertrude Stein’s verse portrait of Christian Bérard —
7. — “I’ve been fascinated with it ever since,” said Kooser, speaking by phone from his home in Garland, Neb. —
8. — To the heir of a family that prided itself on its artistic patronage, he submitted the outraged complaint “This is the way poets are treated!” —
9. — awww —

Poetry News:

1. — Well, William Logan is back —
2. — Amazon seems each year to go from one publisher to another, making increasing demands in order to achieve richer terms at our expense and sometimes at yours [link found here thank you] also see Borders Urged to Consider Sale to Amazon. I didn’t know Borders went up for sale in March. —
3. — Meet Raymond McDaniel, poet and University of Michigan instructor. —
4. — But there have lately been a number of feminist readings of Milton, and though they can’t explain away that primal inequality, certainly they have a lot to point to, such as Eve’s argument for independence in Eden —
5. — So where do poems come from? —
6. — Poet’s first collection a remarkable beginning —
7. — ‘Papers’ doesn’t quite capture new U.Va. collection —
8. — Bob Dylan is a real genius – just not when he has a paint brush in his hand —
9. — The poems in The Mechanical Bird explore the natural and man-made worlds with an imaginative mix of fact and invention —

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Poetry News:

1. — The poems of Melissa Green reflect an acute sensitivity and a troubled upbringing and Breaking a Long Poetic Silence [with poems] —
2. — How Ted Kooser wooed 2,600 women with a few yearly lines —
3. — Double dactyl keeps poet Hodge amused and busy —
4. — Seduced by Sylvia Plath’s gore and gloom —
5. — Ladies’ Home Journal? What’s that got to do with poetry? —
6. — What make us interesting to each other are our various miseries —

Poetry News:

1. — In ‘‘Elegy,’’ poet Mary Jo Bang has taken on one of the largest and most difficult subjects in all of literature —
2. — National Book Critics Circle finalists —
3. — John Milton: the poet who gave us ‘Star Trek’ and ‘The Matrix’ —
4. — Former poet laureate opening another chapter in his life —
5. — How lovely it is that there are words and sounds —
6. — John Ashbery, Octavio Paz, Stanley Kunitz and Robert Pinsky all wrote poems for him —
7. — he calls for the impeachment of George W. Bush, whom he calls “a booted, sombrero’d/cowboy Caligula/who couldn’t manage a straw/horse on a parade float…” —
8. — Ex-carpenter warms up tp poet laureate honor —
9. — Editorial: Frost home vandalism is deeply disturbing —
10. — Poets and jazz artists find rhythm and rhyme —
11. — Taslima Nasreen has been chosen for the prestigious Simon de Beauvoir feminist award in recognition of her writing on rights for women —
12. — Vendetta fear after poet murdered —
13. — Denise Clarke is entertaining as poet Anne Sexton in Sylvia Plath Must Not Die —
14. — If Fence magazine were an actual fence, it would be a portable one —
15. — A different kind of poetry concentrates more strikingly on expressiveness —

I’m going to Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness in March. I bought a plane ticket but I don’t know where I’m staying yet. I’ve only been to D.C. once, for some computer security training. But I took a train to the Mall area and wandered around for half a day. Saw about an hour’s worth of the Smithsonian. I wish I had more time to see stuff but I won’t. I’d like to meet with my members of Congress, too, but I won’t be there on those specified constituent days. After all the letters I’ve written them I’m not sure their staff would schedule me anyway hahaha.

Poetry News:

1. — “Poem for My Daughter Disparaging the Gossamer Depictions of the Women of Certain Southern Texts” By Adrian Blevins and a sh*tstorm of criticism LOL. Sheesh. If I ever start subbing poems again remind me to NOT send to Slate. Gee whiz. —
2. — The first reading on this program, “What is Poetry,” is an excerpt from Debra Weinstein’s novel Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z, and touches on both creative ambition and pretension [MP3] —
3. — State looks for a new poet laureate —
4. — The Poem as Comic Strip #5 —
5. — Through five collections of poetry, a short story collection and a nonfiction book, the author has celebrated the overlooked, the commonplace, the tossed-aside … —
6. — Literary self-publishing and comic self-publishing are perceived very differently —
7. — Amazon, Borders Launch Literary Contests [fiction only] —

I am rapidly losing hope. After such a joyful beginning, I now don’t believe that we will be able to change anything.

The post- post- post- post- generation.