Poetry Hut Blog

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.

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