Poetry News For February 3, 2009
Poetry News:
- — Reaction to the cancellation of The Dodge Poetry Festival —
- — Marilyn Hacker among new Chancellors for Academy of American Poets —
- — The Original Confessional Poet Tells All W.D. Snodgrass interviewed by Hilary Holladay: Poetry Foundation —
- — Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s (mis)reading of Tennyson is awash in dramatic irony. —
- — Weekly Radio Program Looking For Poetry —
- — Was Adrian Mitchell right about why people ignore poetry?
— - — Poet and the Poem Webcasts at the Library of Congress —
- — Hank Crawford, Memphis Rhythm King [and TSU Alum] —
- — Wordplay welcomes the poets of the Pisgah Review [MP3] —
- — This is not the end of magazines, it’s not even the beginning of the end. (But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning) —
- — A. E. Stallings on rhyme —
- — In a new fMRI study researchers found differences among male and female groups on activation strength linked to verbal fluency (words generation). —
- — Pablo Neruda’s Shoes —
- — Do Writers’ Futures Lie in Indie E-Publishing Platforms? —
- — NEA Poetry Grant application window is open [but not if you've self-published] —
- — Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab —
- — Poster poems: haiku and senryu —
- — Thomas Sayers Ellis: Perform-A-Form: A Page Vs. Stage Alliance —
- — Stanford researchers have reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world’s smallest writing —
- — Google has failed me, so I turn to the Varied Reader. Are any of you familiar with this allusion? —
- — Animal skin DNA could be used to date medieval manuscripts —
- — **You’re Going to Die!** —
- — Academic jailed for two years for vandalising antique books —
- — What motivates poets to labour in this particularly exclusive field of dreams where readership numbers are so minuscule because accessibility to their work can be daunting and not for the faint-hearted? —
- — Gunman Robs English Class at College in Memphis —
- — In Apparent Reversal, Americans Are Reading More Literature, Report Says —
- — Is Poetry For Chicks? —
- — Thomas Rain Crowe and Nan Watkins dropped in to talk about their new book of interviews with great composers and players, Rare Birds —
- — Seeking poems that explore the twisted world of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet for The Private Press’s next chapbook anthology. —
- — Scientists ‘Write’ With Atoms Using An Atomic Force Microscope —
- — Market for Science/Biomedicine Poems —
- — The Irony Of Harmony: Why Positive Interactions May Sometimes Be Negative —
- — A Life Shaped by Walt Whitman and Lessons From Vietnam [MP3] —
- — Top 25 Censored Stories For 2008 —
- — Project Verse Seeks Applicants —
- — Mick Imalh’s death is a multiple loss to poetry —
- — Zen Meditation Alleviates Pain, Study Finds —
- — Ange Mlinko on Rae Armantrout for The Poetry Reader —
- — Saudi female poetess resists pressure to quit —
Popping in for a bit. Life is pretty sucky right now but I’m trying to be grateful.
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Thanks for that mega round-up. Good to see you. Hope the sucky passes soon.
I’ve missed you! Hang in there, Jilly. I’m a fellow Tennessean who’s thinking of you.
Thanks for the mention, Jilly! But the link is booboo. Pls fix kthxbai.