Poetry News For July 15, 2009
- — English Criticism Now Done by Maiden Aunts; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Says That the Young Men Who Try to Free Art from the Tyranny of Convention Are at the Front. January 14, 1917, Sunday —
- — “Learn the Language”: A Discussion of Bob Perelman’s “The Unruly Child” Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Tom Mandel, Rodrigo Toscano, and Sarah Dowling. [mp3] —
- — Marie Ponsot once told me years ago “Erin, you really need to lower your expectations” but I still struggle a lot with this self-sense of nothing ever being good enough. And pretending to be exacting is also a handy way of masking my inherent slothfulness. —
- — Poem of the week: The Cliffside Path by Algernon Charles Swinburne —
- — Meatloaf by Donald Hall —
- — This hour, On Point: the making of the sonnet. —
- — SPD Poetry Bestsellers May/June 2009 —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don’t Understand’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — An Interview With Gary Snyder: Walking Mount Tam —
- — Ode to Egyptian president lands clerk 3 years jail —
- — That dark, strange side informs much of Ms. Hahn’s work. “My husband would call it the shadow side of the self,” she told me. “I’m very interested in monsters. I grew up listening to Grimm’s Fairy Tales, to fairy tales from Japan and China that have to do with ghosts and demons. I love that stuff. Some of the material I find in Science Times — the way insects act and so forth — they are like little monstrous beings.” —
