Poetry News For March 31, 2009
- — The poems in Catherine Bowman’s new poetry collection The Plath Cabinet (Four Way Books, 2009) are inspired by Sylvia Plath. —
- — The word most frequently used to describe Frank Bidart’s poetry is “intense.” [mp3 part 1] —
- — For Frank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the entire body… [mp3 part 2] —
- — How restorers ruined the last portrait of Shakespeare —
- — The tangibility of this work, versus the prospect of “cuddling with your computer,” and the relative permanence of print versus online work is the intimacy and immediacy that Subraman valued in her return to chapbooks. —
- — The cool wit of Elinor Morton Wylie’s work has been unfairly eclipsed —
- — John Ashbery: ‘Look, Gesture, Hearsay’ from The New York Review of Books —
- — Authors fight free books site Scribd for ‘pirating’ their work —
- — Reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds, according to new research. —
