Poetry News For June 25, 2009
- — Snagged by Bishop—Hook, Line & Sinker —
- — Saba’s achievement overflows the boundaries of any single poem, and now with this new translation, and the help of Joseph Cary’s Three Modern Italian Poets and Cary’s translations of a few key poems in his A Ghost in Trieste, English-speaking readers can at last begin to take the measure of, and perhaps to learn from, this deeply haunting poet. —
- — Athens Museum Opening Reprises Debate on Elgin Marbles —
- — Can’t Get Enough of Ryan Raburn’s Walk-Off Homer? —
- — Seeking truth in case of poem theft —
- — “I dreamed last night that I won a consolation prize after being in a contest of a bat whom I named Freddy. “ —
- — Mouse With ‘Humanized Version’ Of Human Language Gene Provides Clues To Language Development —
- — Another exciting type of poem is the CONCRETE POEM: I know you know this has nothing to do with sand, cement and construction. Some writers know it as pattern or shape poems because of its ocular appearance. —
- — Can Flarf Ever Be Taken Seriously? —
- — Simon & Schuster gives architect of American pro-torture policy a platform and a huge advance (and John Yoo is a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer now. Blah.) —
- — I’m not going to link to the neocon-laden Washington Post anymore. So no more Poet’s Choice links from me. —
- — Turing believed that computers would eventually be able to model creativity. Now, 60 years later, we know that they can. —
- — Poetry’s life of grime: Why young rappers are the natural successors to Tennyson —
- — R.T. Smith Named Writer-In-Residence —
- — Though neither poet came away with a Minnesota Book Award, finalists Tim Nolan and Todd Boss have produced solid books of poetry unmistakably tinged with Midwestern sensibility and Minnesotan landscape —
- — On the heels of winning this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, W.S. Merwin joins Moyers for a wide-ranging talk about language, his writing process, the natural world, and the insights gleaned from a much-lauded career that’s spanned more than 50 years and 21 volumes of poetry. —
- — “Not infrequently, we get letters or blog-responses to individual poems published in Poetry that cite particular phrases or lines in order to prove somehow that a poem or poet (and, by implication, our taste) is lousy.” —
- — “I think my success as a writer comes from the fact that I don’t think that anything I write is much good—and so I’m always trying to make it better.” —
- — Permanent Bedtime: poetry, sedative, or just a weather report? —
They just showed up one day. I hose off the porch and they come back haha. I’ll have to put something over the window glass so they aren’t as fascinated.
Maybe they just see themselves in the glass.
They sure do. They’ll stand there for like a 1/2 hour, looking.
They look like meringues on sticks…