Poetry News For April 30, 2008
Poetry News:
- — You’re saying to the world, this is how I want to be read, this is how I want to be seen, and those are hard decisions to make —
- — Poetry in Motion, Thanks to YouTube —
- — The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce Hall —
- — Manitoba Authors Honoured at Manitoba Book Awards —
- — Gioia’s Poetry Set to Music as Hudson Review Turns 60 —
- — It’s time for difficult writing to step up —
- — Elegy for a Scarred Shoulder will debut May 1, 2008 at free reading and booksigning at 7:00 pm in Kalman Auditorium at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center, 18101 Oakwood Blvd in Dearborn, Michigan —
- — A Spring Bouquet of Poetry —
- — Nuyorican Poets Cafe celebrates 35 years of odes —
- — He currently writes for the New York Review of Books and is Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He answered your questions on the state of poetry today. [links to MP3] —
- — Fifteen months in India in the early 1960s had a lasting influence on Allen Ginsberg. —
- — The metrical pattern, with its short, tumbling line, is sometimes known as “skeltonics” —
- — Groundbreaking Book: Ariel, by Sylvia Plath —
- — Cinderella Schools for Writers —
- — Former beat movement member Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize —
Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation, by Some Chinese Intellectuals
Ach, my appt at the pain clinic got moved back a week, due to a conference. You’d think a pain clinic consultation would be zippy.
How to be a jerk
1. Read a lukewarm review of your book on Amazon.
2. Explain to reader how she is mistaken.
3. Encourage deletion of reader’s review.
4. Have friends / fellow authors harass reviewer?
5. Have Private Investigator dig up personal information on reviewer. (?!)
6. There is no #6.
7. Amazon bans the reviewer.
8. Profit?
(there’s a boycott amazon group at Facebook BTW.)
And Writers call for 1 May Amazon, eBay boycott
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Dear Jilly:
Thanks so much for posting news of my book, Elegy for a Scarred Shoulder, on your blog. The debut reading went so well. I’m thankful for your support.
Please continue your work in helping us, fellow, poets acquire appreciative audiences, readers and hearers. People like you and blogs like yours make that happen.
Take care and thanks again. If there is anything I can do to be of support to you, do let me know.
Best,
Karen S. Williams
Author of Elegy for a Scarred Shoulder (2008, Aquarius Press)
Available on Amazon.com
Visit me on the web at http://www.kswpoetry.com
Hi Karen
Glad you book launch went well.
I grew up on Inkster Rd.
At the corner of Joy Rd.
Jilly