Poetry News For August 25, 2009
- — Payment for Verse. SARAH JEANNETTE BUCKE. January 18, 1902, Saturday —
- — Poéfrika interview with Mike Cope —
- — Friday Fierceness: Gertrude $#&ing Stein! —
- — Killer Spices Can “Season” Pests to Death —
- — Ordinary objects can become beautiful through words —
- — Microsoft, Yahoo! and Amazon have joined forces to challenge Google’s efforts to create a vast virtual library —
- — Sunday Gramophone – Stravinsky: Persephone – Nicolai Gedda – Paris Conservatory – Andre Cluytens – 1955 —
- — Jack Henry – from Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio [mp3] —
- — ECU Notes: N.C. Literary Review focuses on state’s drama traditions —
- — Iowa poet hopes his work will inspire others to write about their families —
- — Marcella Durand, Eli Goldblatt, and Hank Lazer on Charles Bernstein —
- — Author withdraws from event after council refuses to print brochure showing her smoking —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Physical Portrait / Retrato fisico’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | Cecilia Vicuna [mp3] —
- — Welcome to Obscure Poets, a regular column in which I will discuss an obscure or lesser-known poet. —
- — Poetry confronts the Taliban in Pakistan —
- — You are a braver person than I, Yuki, and probably a lot braver than many on this Earth. I hope I have consoled you. If not, read more poems. That’s what they’re there for. —
- — Poem of the week: The Old Ships by James Elroy Flecker —
- — Open Competition for Emergent Woman Writer —
- — Scholars Dispute Authenticity of Frida Kahlo Find —
- — The LOC has posted a photo —
