Poetry News For June 19, 2009
- — “I wish there was a way to make a real living at it because I would love to do this all the time, but there is no money in poetry,” —
- — A poet must know how to kick —
- — What book, chapbook, performance, or poem by a woman poet published/presented in the last year or two has left you speechless? How might that speechlessness manifest itself visually, sonically, or through another nonverbal medium? —
- — Whatever happened to Michelle Shocked? —
- — This less recognized group included Maurice Samuel, Marie Syrkin, Charles Reznikoff, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin and Will Herberg, who didn’t appear in the pages of Partisan Review, like their counterparts, but rather chose to publish in places like Jewish Frontier and Menorah Journal. —
- — “The Washington Caravan” Exhibit Opens at American Poetry Museum — hmmm americanpoetrymuseum.org
- — A Short Canto for Ron Santo —
- — “My new boss discusses her hostile takeover of Bookslut” —
- — new research shows that over the last four decades, medical studies of intercessory prayer — the prayer of strangers at a distance — actually say more about the scientists conducting the studies than about the power of prayer to heal —
- — In the Twitter revolution, echoes of one of the great modern poets —
- — Wordsalad: Ann Lauterbach, Barbara Guest, C.D. Wright, Charles Bernstein, Claudia Rankine, Coleman Barks, Crag Hill, James Joyce, Jorie Graham, Nico Vassilakis, Susan Howe, Tan Lin [mp3] —
- — Allen Ginsberg as Neoformalist —
- — Iran, You Will Make Progress For You Stand on the Shoulders of Burma, Tienamen, Budapest 1956 —
- — Kids, pet deaths and the poetic aftermath —
- — Ted Hughes’ 1998 translation does not opt for Alexandrine couplets, but renders the text in a sinewy, visceral verse of his own. It’s not pure Racine, but it works in its way. —
- — This is our quarterly round-up of information about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). —
Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport
I think it is so perfect that Bobbie Bautista is on the Onion News Network.
Happy Friday. Have a good weekend and Happy Father’s Day.
