Poetry News For July 6, 2009
- — A HUMAN ANTHOLOGY OF SPOON RIVER; An Entertaining Comedie Humaine of Village Life as One Finds It in the United States Furnished in a Volume of Vers Libre by Edgar Lee Masters THE SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. By Edgar Lee Masters. Macmillan Company. $1.25. July 18, 1915, Sunday Section: Review of Books, —
- — Her Mule, Count No-Count’s Steam Locomotive —
- — The World’s Oldest Basketball Shoes! —
- — The Creative Process: Painting, Writing, and the Case for Ruthlessness —
- — William Orbit, the Grammy award-winning producer and composer who collaborated on hit albums with Blur and Madonna, is to give a live performance of his new setting of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s epic poem In Memoriam on BBC Radio 3 on Friday night. —
- — Poetry? Dead? Naaaah… —
- — Meet the authors to be featured at Clarksville Writer’s Conference —
- — Female touch in Prince of Poets competition —
- — The three Australian dinosaurs were named after Banjo Paterson and characters in his poetry, because he is said to have composed Waltzing Matilda in Winton —
- — Mystery tiles in St. Louis covered in asphalt —
- — Chapter by short chapter – they are hilariously vicious – Pope praises poets’ mediocrity, giving examples of their abuses of rhetoric and their bad verse. —
- — Picador published his selected poems here in Britain in 2000 under the title Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes —
- — Solution to a Longtime Mystery in Utah Is Questioned —
- — The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown —
- — Ten of the best shipwrecks —
- — Discovery of a previously unknown song cycle adds to our knowledge of composer Franz Liszt —
- — A writer’s meditation on a Japanese poet-priest springs from an unexpected, private source of inspiration. —
- — Ernie Harwell: Questions remain about fake Cobb diary —
- — “Don’t you feel bad that you made fun of Michael Jackson after hearing the tragic news of his death? “ —
- — ‘American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry’ takes 73 different directions —
- — Detroit Writers’ Guild produces new poetry CD —
Cool painting. Originally saw it here thank you. Info about the painting.
That is an awesome painting. Wow. Thanks for that.
Thanks for the link, Jilly!
I considered taking out a reference to Michael Jackson from my novel, but decided to leave it in. There’s been a lot of revisionist history going on since his death.
Sure has, Collin.
I did some proper magic yesterday for the full moon – first time since the late 80s. I think that painting inspired me to haha.