Poetry News For March 9, 2009
- — With its change to a Web-only feature, Poet’s Choice is evolving. We’ll be asking a different poet each week to share with us a poem he or she has written. Mary Karr, who has been our eloquent columnist since March 2008, starts us off on this new format —
- — Saudi men arrested for seeking female writer’s autograph —
- — Why does Orr find it so hard to slap the shiny foil medallion of Greatness on the next generation? —
- — It may be surprising that there’s been no comprehensive history of women’s writing in America. But Elaine Showalter has now undertaken this daunting venture —
- — SPD Bad Poem Contest: Results —
- — Readers letters re: the NYT “poetry greatness” Orr article —
- — Where Is Our Radical Youth? —
- — National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony To Take Place On March 12, 2009 —
- — By launching this Bottom Line Poetry Contest, we hope to bring more attention to the life-saving value of regular colonoscopies —
Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands,
and some opinion on it.
You can read the bill here: H.R. 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009.
And you can send a message to Congress here if you so desire:
Educating Congress: Do Not Supress Organic and Small Farmers and Ranchers; Natural Food Products
