Jan 072010
- — Metrophobia: Are We Afraid Of Poetry? —
- — Nurse-Poet-Writer Cortney Davis Responds To Thomas Long’s Blog On Nurse Writers —
- — Professor’s essay on John Keats recognized as one of the best of 2009 —
- — Biographers have a vested interest in hyping their subjects, but when Paul Celan’s biographer, John Felstiner, calls the latter “Europe’s most compelling postwar poet,” surely few can argue. —
- — Madeleine Albright’s penchant for pins became newsworthy in the 1990s after the Iraqi press published a poem calling her an “unparalleled serpent” for daring to criticize Saddam Hussein. —
- — I read sometimes when I get stuck. I read other people to relax, and to get a perspective — in lieu of being able to ring up a poet on the phone and ask, how would you do this, it’s nice to see how they would do it, reinterpret it. —
- — Baseball Hall of Fame: Andre Dawson (and his .323 OBP) inducted. Trammell, Morris get the shaft —
- — Robert Peake will answer one poetry-related question from a Read Write Poem member each month here at Read Write Poem —
- — Patricia Smith Motown Crown —
- — Which Minnesota poet ran for president five times and once said, “If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency?” —
- — Funeral for poet Margaret Rabb will be held Friday —
- — I’ve come to accept the frustrating fact that poems have minds of their own, and that they have a tendency to override, or even contradict, whatever sights I’ve set for them.
— - — Yemen poet has a line on the region —
- — Archival recordings of poet William Stafford, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1970 and 1978, Library of Congress. —
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