Poetry News:

  1. Cornell e-contest seeks bird art, poems, writings
  2. Whether you’re planning to grow old gracefully or otherwise, send in your poems about ageing
  3. 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
  4. Richard Leck, 75, poet and part of bohemian scene
  5. Flarf: From Glory Days to Glory Hole
  6. 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
  7. Dr. Carolyn Mirriam-Goldberg’s two year term will begin in July and run through June 2011
  8. 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
  9. — Ireland Uncloseted —
  10. 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.

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One Response to “Poetry News For February 7, 2009”

  1. Greg says:

    Jilly: The link for the Cornell e-contest actually takes one to an Albany newspaper website with nothing about Cornell, birds, etc.

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