Feb 012010
- — Why danger can be good for children guess it is time to bring back these toys [youtube] —
- — Jeff Bezos in Disagreement With A Major Publisher, Pulls All Their Works’ “Buy Buttons” Off Amazon —
- — After years of mimicking her betters at poetry, she found her calling —
- — Zora Neale Hurston remembered on 50th anniversary of her death —
- — Fine writers, lousy spouses —
- — Accompanying the photos is a sestina by Mr. Trinidad called “Playing With Dolls,” in which his mother defends his doll habit —
- — A Reading List for the Grieving —
- — A Kittery Point poet and teacher, Green spent four weeks at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., working on a manuscript of 100 poems that she wanted to revise. —
- — Ruth Padel on Derek Walcott, ‘dirty tricks’, and the worst mistake of her life —
- — A love poem is principally a way of wooing, a strategy for seduction – and the Poetry Archive has compiled a collection you can send to your beloved on their mobile phone —
- — New Lit Mag Alert —
- — Unusual Calls for Submissions —
- — Pros and Cons of Interning at a Lit Mag —
- — Homeless young adults express themselves through poetry, build community, better lives —
- — 3 questions with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky —
- — Rarely do I come across a book of poems that reads as though it had to be written. When I do, I’m reminded why I read poems in the first place —
- — For starters Bukowski’s assertion that he was born a bastard is inaccurate: he was born on August 16th, 1920; his parent had married, albeit only a month before, on July 15th. —
- — Yet without medical classification, but real in its effects, let us call this pandemic by the name poet-oxemia. —
- — Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur Product Reviews —
- — “What is a cat but a reduced lion?” So muses the fictionalized Joseph Brodsky character in Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s whimsical and inventive film, A Room and a Half. —
- — There are a few things that make Wendy Barker, poet-in-residence and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, angry. One of them is how intimidated people can be of poetry. —
- — Reviews of New Fiction, Poetry, Mystery, Science Fiction and Comics — Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2010 —
- — Can creative writing ever be taught? —
- — Spitball The Literary Baseball Magazine has moved —
- — Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter: the case for a new Formalism —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — Poetry roundup | Book review —
- — Uncovered: Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner —
- — How does an outfielder know where to run for a fly ball? —
- — Alan Lightman—scientist, essayist, novelist, and poet—takes on the big questions —
- — Patricia and Edward Submitted by Ryan from My Parents Were Awesome —
- — Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude —
- — The Romantic poets: The Human Image and The Divine Image by William Blake —
- — Invictus aside, poetry in cinema is embarrassing —
- — Poetry, in its power to burn experience into the soul in a concentrated perfection of language often becomes an unlikely balm. —
- — NaPoWriMo 2010 is coming! [from No Tell Motel thank you]—
- — A few years after the dedication, he decided to revisit “his” high school. By then a different principal was in charge. The new man thought Sandburg was a panhandler and threw him out. —
- — George Tsongas dies: poet, North Beach fixture —
- — Women and Disability and Poetry (Not Necessarily in That Order) —
- — More drawings from my notebook that is so small, I can only fit the faces of people I draw. Not to be confused with the online social network Facebook. —
- — Cerebral Meditation Hosted Roy Johnston – Join Roy as he talks to Stanley Plumly about his Keats Bio Poets who die young often have surprisingly lively posthumous careers. John Keats (1795-1821) provides the most celebrated example: Almost immediately after his death in Rome, at the age of 25, he entered the realm of legend. Though his poetry wasn’t much read at the time, he himself was quickly transformed into a figure of myth. For Shelley — who drowned with a copy of Keats’s last book in his pocket — he was “like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherished,” as he put it in “Adonais,” his elegy for the poet. At the opposite extreme, Shelley’s good friend Lord Byron detested Keats and snubbed him, referring to him in one letter as “a dirty little blackguard.” For the aristocratic Byron, Keats was a “Cockney” upstart — more a rank weed than a pale lily. But for Keats’s admirers, his humble origins only enhanced the pathos of his fate. For William Butler Yeats, Keats was both the “coarse-bred son of a livery-stable keeper” and a woebegone schoolboy “with face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window,” the very epitome of sensuousness unsatisfied. [mp3] —
- — The Reading Is Poetry Review – “Where Verse Becomes A Learning Lesson” Join Hip Hop Jazz Poet A K Toney as he reads and reviews selections from “Skovbo” by Viggo Mortenson. (Perceval Press 2009) A Collection of photographs, poems, and quotes. (in English, Spanish, and Danish [mp3] —
- — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – Join Rachelle as she Talks to Alicia Ostriker – Alicia Ostriker, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven. Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. Ostriker lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of New England College. ***** Rachelle Cruz, Poet and Host of “The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com www.rachellecruz.com [mp3] —
- — Jo Mcdougall – from Joe Milford Show | Jo McDougall is the author of five books of poetry: The Woman in the Next Booth, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City; Towns Facing Railroads and From Darkening Porches, University of Arkansas Press; and, most recently, Dirt and Satisfied with Havoc, Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh. Her memoir in progress, Daddy’s Money, focuses on growing up on a rice farm in the Arkansas delta. [mp3] —
- — Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter. [mp3] —
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