Poetry News:

1. — Poetry workshop: After Kubla Khan — Fred D’Aguiar looks at readers’ many different continuations of Coleridge’s masterpiece —
2. — Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age? —
3. — “Not Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan. Two poems at The New Yorker.” —
4. — In Downtown Brooklyn, a Sort of Circus in Celebration of Everything Literary —
5. — Poem of the week: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau —
6. — Poetry Roundup [link found here thank you] —

Technorati has delisted this blog (after 5 years LOL) for not being up to their standards of quality. So if you are one of the 20 or so folks who read PHB via the Technorati “favorites” interface, etc., it isn’t going to work anymore, sorry. Out of my control.

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. — In the summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans —
2. — An Interview with Cathy Smith Bowers —
3. — “Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry — transcript —
4. — From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts? —
5. — Basho’s Irish echoes —
6. — Why devote seven years to proving an esoteric theory — in four volumes amounting to more than 2,000 pages — about which many academics remain skeptical and most people are unaware? —

I’ve been meme tagged — so here are 7 things and you consider yourself tagged, you hear?

1. I grew up in Michigan but have never been on a boat. (I’m not counting rowboat or canoe.)
2. My favorite Christmas Carols are O Holy Night and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen but I couldn’t tell you many of the words.
3. As part of my spiritual practice I try to keep an open heart but I’m naturally kind of melancholy and leery.
4. I think I am going to adopt this slogan for the near future hahaha. (Link found here)
5. More of a cat person but I like dogs too.
6. Men from both sides of my dad’s family first came to America to avoid serving in the military.
7. I like vanilla.

check out the skeletons

Poetry News:

1. — Nothing But Itself Can Harm American Poetry; May Riley Smith Thinks Magazines Fail to Benefit It, Because They Do Not Demand a High Order of Verse — By Joyce Kilmer —
2. — Entries wanted for ‘Dylan Days’ creative writing contest —
3. — Flash of bad sex wins late Norman Mailer coveted book prize —
4. — Candle Vigil For Taslima —
5. — His own religion … the Blake window in St Mary’s Church, Battersea —
6. — After two previous nominations, Domanski earns Governor General’s Literary Award for latest collection —
7. — Any hope of life to come is removed; this place is born of the loss of her father and her mother’s betrayal —

My mom is still in ICU but stable after surgery and a couple blood transfusions. Thanks for your good wishes.

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I can’t help it. I’m rubbing my hands together in anticipation.

Poetry News:

1. — Poets Marched in the Van of Irish Revolt; Pearse and MacDOnagh, Executed Last Week, Well Known for Their Verse;;-Other Writers Prominent in Sinn Fein Ranks — By Joyce Kilmer —
2. — Interview: Author Kim Addonizio is fearless in verse and prose —
3. — The search continues for Missouri’s first poet laureate —
4. — Eleanor Rees enjoys the engagement with specific, sensual experience in the responses to this month’s workshop —
5. — American leaders have a history of writing, and inspiring, poetry that is mediocre or just plain bad. Ariel Ramchandani encourages poets, and presidents, to do better when the next inauguration comes round … —
6. — View from the lab: Science’s debt to William Blake —
7. — Bombed Baghdad book market turns the page —
8. — Workshop practices poetry as one of the healing arts —
9. — Kipling’s India home to become museum —
10. — Anne Shelby embraces Appalachian language in her daily life, writing and music —
11. — Ondaatje, Domanski win Governor General’s Lit Awards —
12. — The Iron Man who had a heart after all —

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Poetry News:

1. — Five years after Ruth Lilly’s $100 million gift to the Poetry Foundation, a mixed verdict —
2. — Singer gives Dickinson’s verse a new voice —
3. — Big brother is reading your poetry —
4. — University of Arkansas Press Poetry Book Wins Virginia Literary Award —
5. — Long-lost Blake watercolours shown for 1st time —
6. — William Matthews Birthday podcast with Sebastian Matthews too [links to MP3 at WPVM] —
7. — Jessica Smith podcast [links to MP3 at WPVM] —

Kate Light is reading tonight at Vanderbilt, Nashvillians.

Hedy Lamarr has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists, as an historical honorary member.

Yay! A bass poem! I’m still trying for the definitive Bootsy Collins poem. Someday.

Poetry News:

1. the true credit for the world’s first science fiction novel should go to Percy Bysshe Shelley —
2. Memorising poetry is a marvellous mental exercise to keep our minds alive and working —
3. It’s clear that Berryman is where Troy Jollimore started as a poet —
4. I want them all to just live literature, love poetry and love life —
5. And the Guggenheim (finally) goes to … Lompoc poet —
6. Mystery poem names murder suspect —

Poetry News:

1. It‘ God vs. Satan. But What About the Nudity? —
2. Blake once wrote that “I labour upward towards futurity” —
3. Mastering complexity is beautiful, a great human pleasure —
4. Poets’ daughter faces midlife with art —
5. The 3,000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, its unlikely rediscovery, and its echoes in literature and politics —
6. If you were to approach 10 people on the street and ask each one to recite from any narrative poem … —

newspaper blackout poems < -- link courtesy of pitcherlady (go look at some of her photos)

Poetry News:

1. the process of getting published didn’t involve a single rejection letter —
2. Blake used the notebook for more than 30 years —
3. It’s fitting that Ginsberg’s juvenilia should serve as a beacon in the night of bad poetry —
4. After 700 years, Dante gets nose job —
5. Better nature after incalculable loss —
6. This week belongs to Tatiana, because millions of eyes will focus on her 29 words —

Fascinating comparision between LBJ’s January 10, 1967 State of the Union speech and GWB’s (disappointing and vague, to me) speech January 10, 2007.