Poetry News For August 24, 2008
Poetry News:
- — This month, your task is to carry on with Coleridge’s unfinished masterpiece Kubla Khan —
- — Was New American Review the Best Literary Magazine Ever? —
- — Nike Langston Hughes commercial [you tube] —
- — “An important piece from poet (and good friend) Stacey Brown on an unethical press and its dealings with her and her book.” —
- — With a fresh, wry voice, Meghan O’Rourke can make the quotidian sound strange, the same way Joseph Cornell could assemble a magical collage —
- — One of the problems with political poetry, then, is that like all speech, it exists at the mercy of time, history, and other people. —
- — 50 Greatest Books: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats —
- — Lansing Community College Professor Dennis Hinrichsen has won the 12th annual FIELD Poetry Prize for his manuscript, “Kurosawa’s Dog.” —
- — Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak about “The State of the Humanities” at Vanderbilt University, on Friday, Sept. 5, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. —
- — Virgil, Monteverdi, James Joyce, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ralph Ellison and Derek Walcott are just a few of the artists to have transformed this spellbinding and mysterious epic into powerful works of their own —
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Stacey’s post is why I’ll never enter another poetry contest again. EVER. I discourage all poets from entering contests and finding other ways to publish their manuscripts. If you want to play the lottery, run down to the 7-11 and buy a ticket. You have a better chance of winning there.
two of the chapbook contests I have entered this year had dates of when their results would be posted and yet there has been no posting and no response to inquiries. I thought I’d give it a try this year with chapbooks and then I have my manuscript (in the polishing stage) I wanted to try next year but I am starting to wonder if it is worth it.
I’ve thought of starting my own press and using lulu but then I would still be self-published even if I started editting/selecting work for other people to publish.
*double sigh*