Poetry News For July 22, 2009
- — COSSIP {SIC} ALOFT-NO. III. July 17, 1852, Wednesday —
- — Luke Powers’ new song and music video commemorates the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing. The song and video evoke the awe and wonder Powers felt as a child watching the shadowy images of “spacemen” on the TV screen unbelievably walking on the moon. whoo hoo he taught me Chaucer and Shakespeare too —
- — These authors are confirmed to attend the 2009 Southern Festival of Books —
- — ‘Kids don’t get the chance to enjoy poetry. They’re too busy counting adjectives —
- — Ten of the best failed couplings —
- — ‘Emily’s Ghost’ is a Gothic novel starring the Brontes themselves —
- — The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn’t name her Eagle. —
- — Aaron Baker of Charlottesville, Va., has been named recipient of the 2009 Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, awarded annually by Shenandoah and Washington and Lee University, for his book Missionary Work from Houghton Mifflin (2008). —
- — US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan Dazzles With Terse, Witty Words —
- — The only other thing that I find bothersome are those poets who send another submission immediately after I reject them. Please. —
- — Literary awards are inherently subjective, potentially corrupting, and oftentimes humiliating. —
- — In London, Where the Writers Read —
- — Listen to podcasts from the Writing Studio’s symposium on Writing and Discipline and the Undergraduate Writing Symposium. —
