Feb 092010
- — Understanding Haiti’s Catastrophe through a Poet’s Eyes —
- — An octogenarian lensman yesterday unveiled never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe lounging around a New York apartment with poet Carl Sandburg nine months before her death. —
- — Like Larkin, Tony Hoagland seems to draw inspiration and fluency as a poet from his disappointment and frustration as a human being. —
- — There are 15 or 20 better poets in America than Tony Hoagland, but few deliver more pure pleasure. —
- — For the second year running, a poet published by Twin Cities publisher Graywolf Press has won the prestigious (and lucrative) Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. —
- — Cathy Smith Bowers joins Wordplay! —
- — The 5,000 students graduating each year from creative writing programs (not to mention the thousands more who attend literary festivals and conferences) do not include insecurity, rejection and disappointment in their plans. —
- — Butter leads to lower blood fats than olive oil —
- — Fence Seeks Poetry Editor to Fill Open Spot —
- — poetry advice column: what should you learn from rejection letters? —
- — Colum McCann reads “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats at the 2008 Tribute to Chinua Achebe. [mp3] —
- — Language and Listening —
- — Sun Microsystems CEO’s 17-syllable resignation announcement is a useful innovation that could be more widely applied —
- — I wrote this poem at the end of the Fall semester of 2008, so it’s about a year old. I usually begin a poem with one line that I mutter under my breath for days, until I can’t hold it in any longer. —
- — Historically Speaking: Colonial-era female poet born in Lebanon, Conn. —
- — Gil Scott-Heron, survivor —
- — Is it vanity to self-publish? —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
- — It’s a profound statement, which is why in the 500+ pages of The Pleasure of the Damned you’ll find no sonnets, no sestinas, no haiku. —
- — The Winter of Our Self-Doubt: Writing, Solitude, and Companionship —
- — Minister to order poetry reading sessions in all radio stations —
- — Aberystwyth University in poetry ‘fevered brow’ test —
- — Ignorance as an asset —
- — Selected as the first place winner of qarrtsiluni’s 2009 poetry chapbook contest, Pamela Johnson Parker’s A Walk Through the Memory Palace is a gorgeous little treasure–a glossy chapbook with ten poems that sing as if they are 100. —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
- — Jack Kerouac’s Literary Estate in Limbo —
- — Defacing books: effluence of engagement —
- — Joe Milford Hosts WF Roby – Feb 07,2010 from Joe Milford Show | Great language poet and bad-ass. [mp3] —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — Poet Langston Hughes was born on 1 February 1902 in Joplin, Missouri.Personal planets in a combination of Aquarius, Pisces and Capricorn can be translated to humanitarian (Aquarius) dreams (Pisces) relating to (what ought to be) reality (Capricorn). —
- — SPD’s Poetry Bestsellers Jan 2010 —
- — “Dizzy in Your Eyes:” El Paso poet and author Pat Mora’s poetry gives voice to teen angst —
- — Joanna Rawson’s collection of poems unrest is one of four books of poetry nominated for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards. —
- — Ex-Iowa Poet Laureate Robert Dana dies —
- — When do you think a writer crosses the line between helping a publisher sell their book and entering into a cycle destructive to their creativity? —
- — … Fifteen Poems from Europe. —
- — This time, a simultaneously hardbitten and tender example of ‘cowboy poetry’ —
- — American Poetry Review, The, Jan/Feb 2010 —
- — With its daintily drawn cover artwork on a purple ground, this selection from the Poet Laureate’s work comes all tricked out like some Valentine’s Day gift. Beware. —
- — Steve Castro’s “Un monstruo oscuro encima de una gente clara” —
- — This program was inspired by an exhibition of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans.” Frank’s book first appeared in 1959, and presented an unvarnished view of American life in all its hope, despair, and diversity. Our program includes two stories inspired by pictures in the exhibition; a rollicking poem by Frank’s friend Allen Ginsberg; and stories by two contemporary ?migr?s: Alexsandar Hemon (“Good Living,” read by Boyd Gaines) and Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie (“The Thing Around Your Neck,” read by Condola Rashad.) [mp3] —
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