Poetry News For June 17, 2009
- — While there are many female poets in Korea, her lyrical poems from a woman’s perspective on life and things show boldness and beauty, and have made her a favorite of Korean poetry lovers —
- — Cirque founder will take poetry into orbit —
- — Malla, Dodds take home Trillium Book Awards —
- — Ask a Poet —
- — Catherine Carter, an assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University, has won the 2009 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, —
- — Poem of the week: The Parable of the Old Man and the Young, by Wilfred Owen —
- — Poem of the week: From A Midsummer Night’s Dream —
- — Exclusive: Patti Smith interview —
- — Obama Picks G.O.P. Ex-Congressman to Lead National Endowment for the Humanities —
- — The 13th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest is now open! For information on the contest and how to apply, please click here. —
- — Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective. —
- — ‘Poets for Palestine’ negotiates an imagined better future, harsh reality —
- — Based on the turbulent life of the celebrated Russian poet, The Ships Pass Quietly was originally produced at The Blue Room to acclaim with Vivienne Glance as Akhmatova. —
- — Spirit bear captured on camera —
- — Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Half of the World in Light” collection wins the International Latino Book Award. —
- — The new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has chosen to attack politicians in her first composition in the post —
- — Poets reveal the strangest places they’ve ‘done it’ —
- — Nonfiction/Poetry Reviews: Publishers Weekly, 6/15/2009 —
- — Women of the futurists —
- — Paul Muldoon reads and discusses his own work. [mp3] —
- — Happy Birthday, Gwendolyn Brooks! —
- — Higher-ed pinching pushes college presses to brink —
- — Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet and Dramatist —
My brother is looking for someone to translate a passage in Dutch – helpful if you know some trigonometry. $.
