Poetry News For July 14, 2009
- — MATTHEW ARNOLD. February 17, 1884, Wednesday —
- — Sue Sinclair and Ronna Bloom have both been nominees for the Pat Lowther Award (given to the best first book of poetry by a Canadian woman), both have just released their fourth collections, and both apply their muses to the philosophical-in-the-personal —
- — Empress’s poetic pursuits impress translator —
- — Nowadays, there’s always the quip, ‘Why do we sing, take me out to the ball game, when we’re already there?’ This has a classic Tin Pan Alley song structure of verse-and-chorus, verse-and-chorus, and you never hear the verses. —
- — Linda Gregg: Essential American Poets [mp3] —
- — Christopher Buckley, professor of creative writing at UC Riverside, has won the 2009 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry —
- — National Art Hate Week needs you —
- — Poetry in America is in crisis. It is irrelevant because it has lost its capacity to put a name to what is wrong, to blame squarely the perpetrators, to witness what is real, to not shy away from what is tragic, what is ruined, what is bereft of value and spiritually corrosive. —
- — Dharma Poetry: Anne Waldman —
- — Yemeni poets behind Gitmo’s bars —
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