Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Poet Langston Hughes has completed his latest book…which he claims is the first time that . . . . —
2. — Didn’t Martin Amis once claim that the modern world meant the only appropriate fiction was comic? It seems in poetry the only tone left is elegiac. —
3. — “Stepping Stones” is the title of these interviews by Dennis O’Driscoll, a friend of Heaney’s and an astute and diligent student of his poetry —
4. — In his foreword, W. H. Auden praised her dexterous, unostentatious rhyming and found in her familial sensibility a likeness to Austen and Woolf, yet also a singular, accessible voice. —
5. — “We were all maddened by his denial about his illness,” his friend the poet Marie Howe says, “but when we read the poems and his journals after his death, we saw that he had been addressing it in a way he could never say in life.” —
6. — “As editor of this _RCEI_ special issue on “Little Magazines of American Poetry in the Period 1970-2000″, I would welcome contributions from scholars around the world, and any others who have a stake in the understanding of this phenomenon” —

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