Poetry News For June 29, 2009
- — chicago poetry calendar —
- — Summertime Poetry Picks —
- — Tony Hoagland on Dean Young —
- — Iran’s National Poet Speaks Out —
- — Four Virginia poets — two well-known, two not so, offer anthologies that make summer a time to savor the poetic as well as lighter reading. —
- — Darth times indeed: The Give Dick Cheney’s Memoir A Title contest —
- — bill moyers’ in-depth interview with w.s.merwin —
- — Four Ears: the Curse of the Metrical Code —
- — ron slate on stacie cassarino —
- — The Waste Land, according to Ezra Pound, is “the longest poem in the English langwidge”. As his spelling suggests, he was not being entirely serious. —
- — “Those good folks, The Joiners, are offering up their latest song as a free download this weekend. Hurry and listen to their wonderful “Tennessee.” It’s really, really good.” —
- — How David Trinidad’s collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry. [mp3] —
- — PICTURES: Hand Stencils Through Time —
- — “fire” – lou pinella as bukowski poem —
- — Spanish Poet Victoriano Cremer Dies at 102 —
- — New tartan commemorates Burns’s 250th anniversary —
- — Arty Party Food —
- — no wonder print media is “dying” —
- — Psychjourney Podcast & “Invisible Sisters.” —
- — “Never Land” Yusef Kumunyakaa —
- — Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winner Matthew Dickman writes emotional and accessible poetry… [mp3] —
- — A recent search through the vast holdings of the Vrzhu Research Bureau archives uncovered the draft of a previously unknown poem by John Keats. —
- — Weird book of the week: Poems About Horses —
- — Book Review: The Bloodless Stigmata by Dee Kite —
- — An array of poems printed on heavy stock hang above elegantly carved wooden Japanese-style prayer sticks —
- — Best documentary award was taken by Aliona Van der Horst of The Netherlands with a lament for cult Russian poet Boris Ryzhy, who committed suicide in 2001 —
- — Gordon Brown turns to former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion for advice —
- — It was not unitl later, when I was readling through Tupelo Press’s free downloadable Reader’s Companion [PDF] for Calendars that I realized the poem is written in dactylic tetrameter. The dactyl is one of the most scorned metric feet in English prosody. —
- — “He probably wrote some poems for some of you bimbos out there…” —
- — On this edition of The Poets Weave, Jenny Kander reads poems by Maxine Kumin from the book Say This of Horses: a collection of poems, edited by C.E. Greer and Jenny Kander. —
- — Back to the Futurists: Italy’s First Avant-Garde Turns 100 —
I felt bloggy for this post of Poetry Hut Blog. Lotsa good links out there.
I think I linked to this cartoon a long time ago, but I’m easily amused:
I like Shakespeare’s cartoon-panel-exasperation-sweat-drops in that last panel. Have a nice Monday.
Shakespeare has such deep worry lines.
That’s cuz writin’ is hard.
The RI Daily News can kiss its ass goodbye.
I’m sure it will.