Poetry News For March 25, 2009
- — A circuit bard for Silicon Valley —
- — The bohemian life of Robert De Niro, senior —
- — Call for Sonnets —
- — The First Light Touches Me —
- — Joyce Carol Oates, Peter D. Kramer, Erica Jong, Andrew Solomon and Elaine Showalter on why Sylvia Plath’s tragedy still resonates. —
- — You may wish to write your own Jabberwocky (56) poem, write with your non-dominant hand, or handicap a body part, say, one eye (59), just to shake things up … —
- — A bit of what is unique about Battle Creek will be buried Thursday. —
- — Local Print Shop Censors Zines —
- — Soaking in the sounds: Multilingual poetry reading focuses on sound, language, not comprehension —
Thanks for your good wishes. I have a different diagnosis as of Monday. (Still is Ehlers Danlos
but it’s a different type – “Classic.” 2nd verse, same as the first.) Perhaps I’ll find out definitively when I see the expert in Baltimore haha.
Here are random things I learned (or was reminded of) because of Ada Lovelace Day yesterday:
- — Susan Kare designed the icons for the original Mac GUI —
- — Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to orbit the Earth —
- — Lucille Ball produced the original Star Trek —
- — En Hedu-anna, c.2285 BCE: poet, Sumerian priestess, first female astronomer we know of and also first person to write in first person
— - — Rosalind Franklin sure got screwed over —
- — Only 1 thing can subdue poetry! —
- — Florence Nightingale & Information Visualisation —
Thank you most kindly for the link.
And, as always, do be well, Jilly.