Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Dreams for the waking mind —
2. — Movie Review — Patti Smith: Dream of Life [and a big list of movies with poetry] —
3. — How To Write Suspense Without Punching Your Reader in the Nose —
4. — Are there certain things that you will never do in a poem, either intentionally or unintentionally? —
5. — Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New Criticism —
6. — Springsteen’s Ten Suggestions for Spiritual Living —

Poetry News:

1. — Soon, she was weaving together poems about the employees’ experiences in America and at work at the factory —
2. — In the meantime, his poetry is massively overrated: rhymes are amateur, scansion is sloppy and the content is unintelligible, bordering on insane —
3. — Armed with magnifying glasses and mirrors, the censors are on a mission to root out hidden political messages in poems, novels, stories and advertisements —
4. — Robert Frost, shown above circa 1915, wrote to his son that “you can say a lot in prose that verse won’t let you say.” —
5. — Toledo helped shine light on gifted black poet —
6. — “To me, this is the Grammy of poetry” —
7. — College Restores Artwork by Poet E.E. Cummings —
8. — the day Wallace Stevens punched out Ernest Hemingway —
9. — Because language isn’t simple and poetry isn’t simply language, translation is never a zero-sum game —
10. — Robert has good news, congrats —
11. — Massive gathering celebrates Stegner as bard of the West —
12. — Free online barcode generator for DIYers —
13. — Edward Limonov, a poet-turned-populist, has joined the chess master Garry Kasparov to form a threadbare alliance that constitutes the only genuine opposition to President Vladimir Putin —

Poetry News:

1. — ‘Penelopiad’ Opens on Stage —
2. — What makes Stevens tough to interpret is his unique diction, which is a mixture of the hymn, the ornate and the bizarre —
3. — Inductee Sanders turns poetic —
4. — In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black writers —
5. — Visiting poets use tools like ‘wormhole haiku’ to inspire young writers —
6. — Here is an awesome one minute trailer for the Roethke Readings —
7. — How does one journey from opacity to transparency? —
8. — what a gifted stand-up artist or actor does with face, body and voice, poetry does with the rhythms of words and the rhythms of thought, in language —

me at myspace

Lead Less Toxic to the Well-Read

Yay!: my new niece, Abigail, and some word puzzles. (And physics.)

Poetry News:

1. — Poets Speak Out —
2. — We want to believe the omission was related to space and not because city leaders thought it was too gay —
3. — In 1923, Alfred A. Knopf published the first book of poems by Wallace Stevens —
4. — Take 20-minute trip to poet’s birthplace —
5. — The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova once said her country silences poets by sending them to a gulag, while America silences poets by ignoring them —

Pals with work up now at storysouth:

J Lynn Laughlin’s story at StorySouth

3 poems by Susan Meyers at storysouth

Also do you guys know about the dead mule? (It was [really] dead for a while but has been back for a long time I guess and I didn’t know that.)

 Cliff nominated me as a thinking blogger. That is kind, thanks. Passing it on:

Radish King

Emperor of Ice-Cream Cakes: Poems Are Jokes

Erik’s Choice