Poetry News For July 1, 2009
- — A Talk with Sir Rabindranath Tagore; Bengali Poet, Nobel Prize Winner, Now in This Country, Gives His Poetic Creed and Explains Oriental Attitude Toward Literature By Joyce Kilmer. October 29, 1916, Sunday —
- — Frieda Hughes: why I love motorcycle racing —
- — The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, Mr. Carroll’s hometown, has agreed to install a marker that commemorates a moment on Nov. 27, 1925, when the poet Vachel Lindsay was timidly approached at dinner by a busboy who placed three poems he had written next to Lindsay’s plate. —
- — This month’s Across the Page features four noteworthy poetry collections, including: Mary Oliver’s new release, Evidence; Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn; Marilyn Hacker’s Desesperanto, and British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s Rapture. —
- — As you can see, at least two letters at the start of every word are the same as the ending letters of the previous word. Can you make such word-chain sentences that make sense? —
- — 5 Awe-Inspiring Poetry Reads, by Katha Pollitt —
- — Denton woman selected as 2010 Texas poet laureate —
- — D’oh! on a Grecian Urn —
- — Miss Conduct’s 2nd Annual Clerihew Contest! —
- — Like the Levi’s(R) brand, Walt Whitman stands for the democratic power of real people – the self-reliant young men and women who make this country a better place. —
- — “Over the coming weeks, we’ll also be posting a second set of poems by the contributors to the issue. These poems will be ‘made’ using the texts from other contributors’ poems.” —
- — Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2009 Results —
- — “…about the experience of putting together the Multiformalisms anthology I recently edited with Susan Schultz and how the formalism/language poetry are not at all the opposed forces people imagine they are but are practically in cahoots” —
- — Marianne Moore’s five-decade struggle with “Poetry.” —
- — An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs <-- updated link to free access to full article thank you ---
- — Santa Clara County unveiled its first-ever word collage – a collection of lines from county residents organized by county Poet Laureate Nils Peterson. —
- — Poetry presses, getting published & the delightful ampersand
— - — In her collection, “Honeybee” (Greenwillow, 2008), writer Naomi Shihab Nye finds a metaphor for our constant busy–ness in the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder — the unexplained demise of thousands of honeybees. [mp3] —
Hey, happy Canada Day!
Have you given them names yet?
Thanks for mentioning the “Program Era” story. The Chronicle has created a free link for it: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i40/40programera.htm