Poetry News For December 5, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Grace Cavalieri Projects Herself Into Her Latest Famous Woman–Anna Nicole Smith —
- — The recent controversy over Jacob Scheier’s winning of the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry is both interesting and dull. —
- — Fresh from winning this year’s National Book Award, the poet invites you to make a close study of another species —
- — “We are just not prepared to hear rhyme and meter from Whitman, our first great free-verse poet.” —
- — List of NEA Grant Awardees: Literature Fellowships (Poetry) —
- — The reason why deception was essential to the Yasusada hoax and not to Issue 1 may have something to do with the fact that the former was a product of the print era and the latter a creature of the web. [link from here thanks] —
- — Eighth century Chinese poet Du Fu, one of the most admired lyric poets in the world, left behind some 1,400 poems and a record of a life that translator and editor David Young has now turned into a biography in verse. —
- — Johhny Depp’s Hand of Dante —
