Feb 242010
This is the last post for a while. Good luck with your poetry. 
See you in the funny papers lit mags.
- — British publishing house Faber & Faber said it’s setting up its first creative writing school in Canada. —
- — Lately, poems happen because I work for them. —
- — Hulu – The Nobel Prize: Exiled Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz Wins 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature —
- — More poetesses close to Million’s Poet title —
- — Are your poems flat as a family snapshot? Learning to release the energy in your images can open up your poetry’s hidden depths. —
- — workshop redux: give me a (line) break —
- — Inauguration poet praises virtue of work —
- — Hearing people talk at cocktail parties may be easier if you’ve been musically trained, according to new research that shows music fine-tunes certain language abilities in the brain. —
- — Insect Museum’s annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge returns —
- — An analysis of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing and song writing is presented in light of the effects of his mixed-right-handedness on motoric and conceptual processing. It is argued that (i) his mixed-handedness allowed him greater integration of the roles of his left and right hands in guitar playing and (ii) his right-handedness conferred specific benefits in playing a left-handed guitar. In terms of his song writing, the greater interhemispheric interaction (and consequent greater access to right hemisphere processing) associated with mixed-handedness is argued to characterise aspects of his lyrics and vocal delivery —
- — Asahi Haikuist Network —
- — A turn from recent trends in literature, this book trusts language to reveal the world. —
- — Your rules for writing-Saturday’s selection of expert advice on how to write fiction has generated a lot of interest. But we’d like to know your maxims, too —
- — NewPages February Lit Mag Reviews —
- — Literary legacy: In 1899, Paul Laurence Dunbar visited Denver to ease his TB and write. Today, a British scholar is intrigued by three of the pivotal figure’s works that saw print only in this paper —
8 Responses to “Poetry News For February 24, 2010”
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Come back when you can, Jilly! Love and warm wishes!
Hi Jilly, Thanks for the mention of the review of Better With Friends in The Pedestal Magazine.
Take care of yourself Jilly! Thanks for the blog mention
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will wait patiently for your return and do indeed hope to see you in those lit mags!!!
shann
Hang tight’ — and salud!
The Jimi Hendrix piece (among the others) was really interesting and makes a lot of sense . . .
Please do be well, Jilly. Cheers and moonbeams.
Thanks I’ll update after this clinical trial.