Poetry News For January 7, 2009
Poetry News:
- — A Sponsor of Literary Readings Gets a Little Help With Living —
- — “When Clay Risen emailed recently to share the sad news that the Nashville Scene’s books section was folding, I wondered how he thought local writers would be affected.” Durn. —
- — the 2009 perennial poetry postcard project —
- — The most overrated cultural icon of the late 20th century has just come grinding back into town, words trailing like bloody tendrils, gears shifting lugubriously, voice stentorian as ever. —
- — Allison Carter is a calculating scientist of the comma; she has found that this small protrusion in a thought’s trajectory can just as easily connect you to the matter as it can distance you from it. —
- — Kevin Brophy’s poem remakes the world in appropriately vivid, fresh colours —
- — Echoing Robert Graves’s famous statement of there being no money in poetry, Lederer writes early in the collection, “These poets speak of capital as if they had the least idea. / I ask you: what do poets know of capital?” —
- — Poetry: Repetition can be an intense experience —
Stooges’ guitarist Ron Asheton found dead in his Ann Arbor home
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I thought at first maybe Jonathan Jones was socially stunted, given his take on William S. Burroughs. Maybe he’s just joking.
Burroughs may well be the most “important” of the Beats in the long run, if that means anything anymore.
And RIP, Ron Asheton. The Stooges — also ahead of their time.
that poetry postcard thing is fascinating! i’m thinking about joining, but a little afraid of diving into it. but maybe it’s the discipline i need. have you tried it, jilly?
Jonathan Jones is the UK’s answer to our William Logan. Pay him no attention.