Poetry News For June 26, 2009
- — Unusual Calls for Submissions —
- — Issue #1 rat’s ass review (David is my neighbor and came over and helped me bury my cat after she died. Thanks David. Go see his first issue.) —
- — Who will succeed late great poet laureate Ken Siegelman? The Brooklyn Paper offers a guide. —
- — Labour MP Denis MacShane charged taxpayers more than £8,000 for ‘translation services’ carried out by a mysterious think-tank run by his poet brother. —
- — Say the words “literary magazine” to anyone—your mom, your coworkers, a random librarian—and watch as they try to conceive of some way to end the conversation. —
- — Court rules against S&S in Stephen King text messaging case —
- — They came to praise Assia —
- — Poetry sales have rocketed since the BBC’s Poetry Season began last month across TV, radio and online. —
- — The 100-Year Anniversary of James Agee’s Birth in Tennessee —
- — Friends and fellow writers salute poet who vanished on trek —
- — 3 Nationals Haiku —
- — Local Welder Suffering From Welder’s Block —
- — Poetry pamphlet award goes to Elizabeth Burns —
- — The Chelsea Hotel, a famed hub of artistic activity, phases out its long-term residents —
- — This extraordinary historical novel, about the life (and death) and times of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, is a masterpiece —
- — Newpage lit mag reviews June 2009 —
- — Literary walks: William Blake —
- — Readers respond to “tepid” Map review —
- — Artists’ colonies are peculiar institutions, but if any has come to define the breed it is Yaddo, a 400-acre estate in upstate New York. —
- — “We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high.” —
Have a nice weekend.
Excellent round up without one oblique or direct Farrah or MJ reference
there will be one tomorrow haha