Poetry News For February 3, 2010
Not sure if there will be poetry news tomorrow.
- — “Check it out. (And hopefully laugh a bit, too.)” —
- — Midwives use poetry to help women in labour —
- — Free association, creative conversation, and the mean old world —
- — Building a writing career requires making requests from people you know and people you don’t know. —
- — two reviews in new issue of poets’ quarterly —
- — Your chance to hear the stunning new Gil Scott-Heron album before anybody else —
- — … Blue Collar Poet by G Emil Reutter. —
- — William Logan says changes to the new edition of Frost’s notebooks constitute “every evidence of the pernicious and corrosive errors” the editor initially denied. —
- — If MFA programs are attracting so many eager young poets, why is it that —
- — Ask a Poet: I’m having a baby this year. What name or names would a poet recommend? —
- — Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Gives Rare Interview —
- — This is the poet and here is the tale of an e-mail tribute to Auden’s Night Mail —
- — Despite her MS diagnosis, Exene Cervenka lives for the moment —
- — The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got her middle name from the hospital —
- — The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Dominion Foundation selected English Prof. Lisa Russ Spaar to receive one of the 2010 Outstanding Faculty awards last Wednesday. —
- — Western Michigan University graduate student Gary L. McDowell has won the 2009 Orphic Prize for Poetry from Dream Horse Press and will have his manuscript, “American Amen,” published in late 2010. —
- — D.A. Powell, who teaches at the University of San Francisco, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
- — DOD Identifies Marine Casualty —
- — For James Dickey: A birthday interview with his son, Christopher Dickey —
- — W.S. Merwin & Friends: Four Poets Share the Stage and Their Thoughts —
- — Amiri Baraka reflects on James Baldwin’s place in the “tradition of the Afro-American intellectual, artist, teacher” at the 2001 event, Tribute to James Baldwin. [mp3] —
- — The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion hosted Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace – Join Rafael & Brett-Candace as they talk to Connie Wanek Connie Wanek was born in 1952 in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the second of six children. Her family moved to a small farm outside Green Bay when she was very young, and they relocated to Las Cruces, New Mexico when she was twelve. In 1990 she moved with her husband, Phil, and her daughter, Hannah, and son, Casey, to Phil’s home town, Duluth, Minnesota, where she now lives. As a child in the country outside Green Bay, she attended a one-room school, where a single teacher taught all eight grades (no kindergarten) to seventeen students. Connie and her sisters read a great deal, and drew and wrote poems and stories. Later, in high school and college, Connie retained her interest in the arts, and also she participated in sports, especially tennis, which she played seriously for many years, along with her father and brother. Poetry was a constant, whatever her circumstances and enterprises. While raising two children, she worked in a family solar heating business, and later she learned the skills necessary to restore old houses. Also, she worked for years at the Duluth Public Library, from which she retired in 2007. [mp3] —
- — “Where Verse Becomes A Learning Lesson” Join Hip Hop Jazz Poet A K Toney as he reads and reviews selections from 4 chapbooks on Finishing Line Press out of Georgetown, Kentucky. [mp3] —
