Poetry News For July 20, 2009
- — NEW PUBLICATIONS.; MRS. ROSSETT’S POEMS. {SIC} POEMS by CHRISTIANA G. ROSSETTL. {SIC} Boston: ROBERTS BROTHERS. July 6, 1866, Wednesday —
- — Amy King’s Comprehensive List Of Poetry Events and Calendars [Please post addt'l venues in comments to be added!] —
- — [Harvard UP books on Scribd] range from the $68 digital version of “General Equilibrium, Overlapping Generations Models, and Optimal Growth Theory” to the 17.95 poetry collection, “Invectives.” —
- — Ekleksographia —
- — Shorties (Seamus Heaney, Neko Case, and more) —
- — Banned Books: The Power of the Word —
- — The gatekeeper analogy seems suspect to bother me most, and I’m not sure why. That somehow there is a test you have to pass that allows you into the poetry world and that you can try and yet be found wanting. —
- — Debra Kang Dean reads her poems “Adam’s Apple,” “Medicine Ball,” “Antennas,” and an excerpt from “Traces” on this edition of The Poets Weave. [mp3] —
- — Canadian literature has always been distinguished by its relationship to the environment, be it the wilderness or the urban jungle. —
- — An Egyptian civil servant sentenced to three years for writing a satirical poem about President Hosni Mubarak is to be freed on appeal, a justice official said on Sunday. —
- — What does the Dharma share with 19th-century German poets? American Transcendentalism —
- — The Blood Jet Writing Hour with Rachelle Cruz: Join Rachelle as she Talks to John Boucher and Sylvia Sukop John Boucher started writing in 2005 in HIV+ Writing Workshops sponsored by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AIDS Project Los Angeles, and the LA Gay & Lesbian Center. —
- — read your poetry on the radio! —
- — WERD Hosted By Veronica Rivera – Veronica will review a cd and three books Al young audio cd – the sea the sky and you and I Robert edwards – transparencies Jim harrison – in search of small gods Lightsey darst – ginnungagap [mp3] —
- — Millicent Graham, Jamaican poet and author of the book, The Damp in Things, has been selected one of 17 persons worldwide to receive full funding from the US Department of State to participate in the prestigious International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, —
- — This month on Michigan Writers on the Air, Elmore Leonard and his son Peter will talk about crime fiction and their newest books, Road Dogs and Trust Me. College professor and summer resident Mary Beth Pope will read some of her new work, and Poet Fleda Brown will provide a thoughtful commentary. —
- — Derek Walcott with Glyn Maxwell from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [mp3] –
- — B. H. Fairchild is one of those poets prose readers love: Meaty, maximalist, driven by narrative, he stakes out an American mythos in which the personal and the collective blur. —
- — Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts Beth Gylys —
- — What Neil Armstrong Should Have Said —
- — “this new book—a selection of my syllabic verse—can be downloaded free from my Lulu.com page (see first link in sidebar to the right)” —
- — In David Constantine’s latest volume of poetry, eyes are gouged out, a girl walks in the grounds of a crematorium, seeds fall on concrete, and a dying mother is “frail as the moon in daylight”. —
- — playlist 16 july from Wordsalad by paul [mp3] —
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