Jan 182010
- — The best thing that could happen to poetry is to drive it out of the universities with burning pitch forks. Starve the lavish grants. Strangle them all in a barrel of water. Cast them out. The current culture, in which poetry is written for and supported by poets has created a kind of state-sanctioned poetry that resists innovation. —
- — New Non-Contest Poetry Book Publishers —
- — If grown-ups don’t read poetry, it’s not because they have a bone to pick with poets. The truth is even more intolerable: they prefer not to. —
- — Lit mags were once launching pads for great writers and big ideas. Is it time to write them off? —
- — The Death of the Slush Pile —
- — Logue casts a darker light on proceedings in the last stanza when, finally departing from Antigone, the poem evolves into a fatalistic tragedy-in-miniature, a progression of violence where man “becomes his own enemy”. —
- — Cantor and Cox argue that Austrian economics, which focuses on the freedom of the individual actor and the subjectivity of values, is suited to the study of literature and artistic creativity. —
- — Poetry Tips: Requesting a Review —
- — I’m also at work on my fourth collection of poetry (the third, “Fancy Beasts,” will be published by Milkweed Editions in March). This new collection is a sequence of poems in dialogue with Emerson’s “Beauty.” —
- — Poetry can be written with the potage of blood, sweat and tears. It survives less well on adrenaline and testosterone. —
- — The Law Finally Catches Up With Faux Literary Agent/Film Producer Robin Price —
- — Reading in private homes ensures that at least one other person will be embarrassed if nobody shows up. —
- — Former poet laureate defends merits of creative writing courses —
- — To this, I would remind Rasmusen that in academia, Ph.Ds in creative writing do not exist. —
- — A call to poets: stay alive —
- — It’s hard to write love poems because the tendency is to swoon, and it’s hard to swoon in an original way. So I took my time with this poem; I wasn’t in a hurry to finish it. I’d put it away for long periods of time and then come back to it and fiddle around with the metaphors and the sequence. —
- — Thick coats of black and green eye makeup partially made from lead may have boosted the immune systems of ancient Egyptians, a new study suggests. —
- — Alicia Ostriker’s new poetry collection, which won the National Jewish Book Awards’ top poetry prize last week, succeeds in making the “matter” of aging — bodily fatigue and mental dismay, vanishing beloveds and the hazards of longevity — fascinating and deeply moving. —
- — A former math and chemistry major with a love of NASCAR racing, Edward Byrne might not seem to be a typical poet. —
- — Jim Harrison’s love for northern Michigan helps drive his recent burst of productivity —
- — Oregon fisher poets gather to share lyrical lines in Astoria, Newport —
- — Poetry: To consider history, we must make it ours —
- — If it’s approachable, sincere and focused on love, family, motherhood, trust and/or gratitude, it was probably written by prolific poet and greeting card magnate Susan Polis Schutz. —
- — KUOW’s Amanda Wilde has been listening to an infectious Latin tune that’s kept toes tapping for more than 90 years. [mp3] —
- — Theodore Roethke astrology —
- — On Poetry: Choices in the new year —
- — The Poem’s Force: Images —
- — At Sotheby’s, Tracing the Lives Behind the Letters —
- — Ask a Book Question #76 (Good Readers, Good Readings)
- — MLK Jr. Art & Poetry Competition: Winners, grades 4-5 —
- — “Poetry is dead,” one of my students informed me from the back row of the classroom. These are not words that a high school English teacher likes to hear. —
- — Could it be that the author of Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice was not only a woman, but a clandestine Jew? —
- — Country Music Hall of Famer Carl Smith dies at 82 —
- — Taken together, these two complementary lines of investigation provide, to our knowledge, the first quantitative description of larva fishing by wild crows in its full ecological context. —
- — Somehow, when PK broke the syntax of a line – and you heard it best when she read her poems aloud – something cracked in you and opened out to the light —
- — There are poems in Kathleen Driskell’s Seed Across Snow (Red Hen, 2009) that delight, lines that electrify. —
- — and this is very much my argument about fairy tales – they are about women’s things that are being discussed in a kind of code —
- — I think of the first draft of a poem as a block of marble and, I am the sculptor carving away at it until the poem itself emerges from that bulk of stone. —
- — With its cover and endpapers the brilliant red of a chough’s beak, The Poetry of Birds begins with Marianne Moore’s ostrich (“He ‘Digesteth Harde Yron’”) and ends with Emily Dickinson’s “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”. The book is arranged by species, rather than by author, which seems only fitting. —
- — Saturday poem: funhouse by Charles Bukowski —
- — Robert Philbin reviews Amy King’s Slaves to Do These Things on The TOWER Journal. —
- — The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion hosted Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace – Join Rafael and Brett as they talk to Judith Kerman thee translator of Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic View Larger Image Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic Translated by Judith Kerman Aida Cartagena Portalatín Angela Hernández Núñez Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo While the three poets presented in this bilingual collection present a rich contrast of linguistic and stylistic elements, each of them addresses shared political and cultural issues, illuminating what it means to be a woman living in the modern day Dominican Republic. Judith Kerman, who has translated a number of female poets from the Caribbean, notes that “contemporary women poets from the Dominican Republic are the most under-served group when it comes to English-language translation, in particular full-length collections or anthologies.” Thus, this exciting new anthology from BOA contains much that was previously unavailable to the English reader, and is a unique lit [mp3] —
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Have a good holiday.
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Thanks for the link, Jilly! Hope you’re well. Or well-er. I did the Chase Giving thing, FYI — hope they win.