Poetry News For February 4, 2010
One of my guinea fowl laid an egg. One. Egg. Right on the snow. First one.
- — Kearney’s The Black Automaton proves cryptic — it speaks a trickster’s hex, pushing us towards a sentiment that the tragedies of today might soon bleed into the mythologies of the past, if we’re not careful. —
- — Each poem in this sequence is packed to the brim with almost illicit words and inscapes — a mixture of the fantastical and the quasi-theoretical. —
- — It’s funny, I’ve never thought of food as a source of inspiration for my poems, but lately everyone has been pointing this out to me, as if I were obsessed with eating. —
- — They discuss, among other things, his insane use of exclamation points, how he wants you (befuddled & awestruck) while holding his hand, that flimsy curtain between Memory & Imagination, and his upcoming aesthetic compound. Look out New World! —
- — These three poems are some of the latest from Linh Dinh’s newest book, Some Kind of Cheese Orgy. —
- — Today we’ve released the newest episode of “PoemTalk”–number 28 in our series. This one is about Jack Spicer’s early poem, “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy. [mp3] —
- — Scott of the Antarctic’s final diary published online —
- — why poetry is awesome —
- — KQED: The Writers’ Block Podcast Patti Smith reads from JUST KIDS, her memoir about life with Robert Mapplethorpe. [mp3]—
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — Etta James, We’re Pulling For You —
- — Archival recordings of poet Weldon Kees, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in Berkeley, California in 1952. [mp3] —
- — The delightful folks at the Poetry Society of America have invited me to review chapbooks in this space, and I jumped at the chance. —
- — Pay It Forward: Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior —
- — Tigers GM fulfills an injured police officer’s dream —
- — Sheepfarmer’s Daughter download free —
- — Lee Mallory continues to wow crowds at Newport Beach coffeehouse with his words and antics. —
- — Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally. —
- — Living Writers WCBN – T Hetzel with Thomas Lynch [mp3] —
- — Beth Bachmann of Vanderbilt University is the 2010 winner of The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, given to honor a poet’s first book. —
- — Professor Laura Lomas Is Winner of 2009 Modern Language Association Prize, in United States Latina/O Literary and Cultural Studies —
- — Passion Maps explores the disorientation of a shift between cultures. —
- — Gherasim Luca, surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, has finally been translated into English, with two volumes this year: The Passive Vampire and Inventor of Love & Other Writings. —
- — The Art Of Poetry: A Conversation With W.S. Merwin —
That’s it for the week; I feel like crap. Have a good weekend.
LOL that last part wasn’t sarcastic.
