Poetry News:
- — Beautiful vowels —
- — I’m not much for modern poetry, but I like Szymborska because of her compassion, her humility and her warm good humor. —
- — Whiting Writing Prize Winners Are Announced —
- — A fiddling poet reports from the road —
- — Major Project to Record the Voices of Ghana’s Poets —
- — Artist Jenny Holzer has been projecting Szymborska’s words on downtown buildings —
- — Poets see no rhyme or reason for Listener’s decision to drop odes —
- — Oppie’s wife, Kitty (played by sexy new mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke), sings a love poem by Muriel Rukeyser as an aria —
- — Joe Milford Poetry Show Hosts Ravi Shankar! - Nov 02,2008 —
- — Vanderbilt poet Rick Hilles wins Whiting Writers’ Award - $$50,000 prize goes to writers of exceptional promise —
- — What killed Dylan Thomas? —
- — Frieda Hughes at the Ted Hughes Festival —
- — A number of local councils in Britain have banned their staff from using Latin words, because they say they might confuse people—
- — Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists have found that different plant families near Walden Pond have borne the effects of climate change in strikingly different ways —
- — Wordplay this week: Lee Ann Brown [MP3] —
- — Unpacking the Boxes is a tale of a poet’s ambitions, but even more it is a tribute to poetry and the beauty and wonder it gives to life —
- — With the nights drawing in, it’s time to turn our attention to the poetry of snow, sleet and hail. —
- — Bishop for much of her life was a poet’s poet, which means a poet without an audience. —
- — Poet Charles Olson’s book Call Me Ishmael (1947) is a rare thing: a great book about a great book —
- — All this—the mediocrity, the obscurity (whether intentional or not)—stands in such marked contrast to the poetry —
- — Writing in Slate (2003), Adam Kirsch compared O’Driscoll to Philip Larkin, in part because, like Larkin, he has a day job that isn’t teaching, and he writes poems about it —
- — FSU professor puts jazz singer’s life in verse —
- — There’s an unwritten rule in the writing game that states, “The better you write, the less you make” and so most of Ottawa’s poets, and there are reams of them, do something else as well —
- — Poem of the week: Life —
- — Why a particular location can make a poem universal —
Mathematician Cracks Mystery Beatles Chord — the article can be downloaded at this link (PDF). Also see Einstein’s Music here hahaha.
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Friday is the day of my appointment with the retina specialist. I’m trying not to “google” the myriad of horrible scenarios. 
Trying not to freak out about it. Robert Hayden couldn’t see so good & he still wrote some pretty good poems. 
…in related news, the NYT has a weird body quiz.
I have poetry news scheduled for the rest of the week. Have a good Election Day. I have a feeling it is going to be a cluster-you-know-what, like the 2000 election. Hopefully I’m wrong.
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