Poetry News For January 8, 2009
Poetry News:
- — “The book tends to polarize opinion,” he said. “Poets tend to like the work a great deal … or tend to dismiss the book as the work of a charlatan indulging in a kind of literary gamesmanship.” —
- — Next week, the Atheist Bus Campaign plans to place 1,000 advertisements in the subway system, featuring enthusiastic quotations from Emily Dickinson, Albert Einstein, Douglas Adams and Katharine Hepburn —
- — Based on a Pushcart Prize–nominated essay, this clear-eyed, candid work portrays the immense emotional toll that two daughters’ illnesses take on a family living in Atlanta. [congrats Jessica]—
- — More on the death of the Nashville Scene’s book section —
- — The Bookslut website posts a long interview with Clayton Eshleman, a poet, translator, essayist – and Ypsilanti resident —
- — Finally Marie found a suitable partner in Charles Reznikoff, the poet, whose idealism and reluctance to seek steady employment made him highly reminiscent of her father —
- — Properly understood, wabi-sabi is not limited to Japanese arts, like pottery and poetry, but can be applied to many aspects of our lives, willy-nilly —
- — Many of Lowell’s longer letters are hilarious comedy-of-manners send-ups of illustrious contemporaries and skewered, crank ancestors —
I am going to Baltimore for a couple days (in April). If any readers of this blog will be in the the area and would like to have lunch (and you aren’t an axe-murderer), email me.
If you've enjoyed this blog, how about buying me a cup of coffee?
I thought wabi-sabi was that green stuff that came with sushi.