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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Poetry News:

1. — I think that is a hilarious ad campaign —
2. — Saving Bukowski’s Bungalow —
3. — Local artist’s Jarrell portrait finds famed venue —
4. — Books on tools, trains and ranching are among the most sought after titles in the US, a new report reveals —
5. — Tess Gallagher: living proof of the power of poetry —
6. — For me, what started as an over-earnest graduate thesis (”Transparent Spring: Problems Translating Osip Mandelshtam‘ Tristia into English”) quickly graduated from a pet project to an obsession —
7. — Poetcast: September 18th, 2007 A poem by James McMichael, winner of the 2007 Academy Fellowship [links to MP3] —
8. — All about the latest Best American Poetry Wow —

Poetry News:

1. — The hijacker of everyday logic —
2. — Writers and Poets on Film —
3. — Pothole Poet Guilty —
4. — Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects In The Brain —
5. — Here is a poem by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh —
6. — Stage work dissects complexity and demons of poet Roethke —
7. — But I had recited three poems, each with its own theme —
8. — it was Raymond Queneau, founder of Oulipo (Workshop for Potential Literature), though, who wrote the first proper example of the genre in 1967 —
9. — In recent collections, poets from Ireland and Scotland artfully offer truth, wisdom, and remembrance —
10. — Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers collectively more than doubled the world’s supply of singable tunes, he declares —

Poetry News:

1. — A book with no words wins major literary award in Australia —
2. — Ancient coffin with scenes from Homer’s poems unearthed —
3. — it can pass for basic Olden-speak, the lingua franca of so many fantasy novels these days —
4. — Fran Brearton finds emotional power in Dear Ghosts, a timely collection of poems by Tess Gallagher —
5. — Defending free speech case leads to documentary [and more here] —
6. — Uni sacks literary board —
7. — Found this via my day job —

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