Poetry News For February 7, 2009
Poetry News:
- — Cornell e-contest seeks bird art, poems, writings —
- — Whether you’re planning to grow old gracefully or otherwise, send in your poems about ageing —
- — Ruth Padel has achieved this feat by writing her great-great-grandfather’s life in a sequence of often quite short poems. Through her verses she seeks to capture the “voice” of Darwin —
- — Richard Leck, 75, poet and part of bohemian scene —
- — Flarf: From Glory Days to Glory Hole —
- — Matthea Harvey, a Brooklyn, N.Y., resident who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University —
- — Dr. Carolyn Mirriam-Goldberg’s two year term will begin in July and run through June 2011 —
- — A few weeks ago Professor J.D. “Sandy” McClatchy GRD ’74 received a phone call and learned he was elected to serve as the next president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters —
- — Ireland Uncloseted —
- — I actually became great friends with Ginsberg back in that era. He became a sort of poetry professor to me, which, of course, is also what he actually did. —
Jilly: The link for the Cornell e-contest actually takes one to an Albany newspaper website with nothing about Cornell, birds, etc.