Poetry News For May 26, 2009
- — Poetry professor quits over ’smear tactics’ allegation —
- — Poem of the week: To his Mistress, Objecting … by Robert Herrick —
- — The first issue of Poe from BOOM! Studios promises a Hellboy-esque supernatural mystery with everyone’s favorite dyspeptic poet (and his brother) at the helm. —
- — Karla Morton learned that she would be the Texas poet laureate of 2010 on the one-year anniversary of the day she was to begin treatment for breast cancer. —
- — “The entire Delirious Hem series on feminism is awesome” —
- — Gaspereau cuts staff, postpones fall titles and an interview with the founder here —
- — Bookmarks: Student hides banned books in locker, more kids lit on the big screen, BBC war poet? —
- — Rooks show intelligence to rival chimpanzees in tests with tools —
- — The Wordplay Archivew —
- — Brontë Parsonage library and collections officer Sarah Laycock with the picture drawn by Branwell Brontë, which has the lewd sketches on the reverse —
- — All-woman shortlist for Wales book of the year —
- — A keen reader, David started to write experimental poetry a few years ago, finding the process therapeutic. —
- — John Clare (1793-1864) is one of English poetry’s most enduring hardship cases. —
- — The book that changed my life —
- — Disintegrating Poems —
- — Happy Birthday Ralph Waldo Emerson, Father of Transcendentalism —
- — “Employing strikingly different means, a pair of books by two New York-based, very cosmopolitan poets demonstrates an unseemly interest in God,” writes Ange Mlinko. “Robert Polito’s title, ‘Hollywood & God,’ and the title of ‘Money and God,’ a selection from Susan Wheeler’s ‘Assorted Poems’ (her first retrospective), are just the most obvious references to a desire to commune with the divine…. —
- — “they didn’t have too many questions about the actual poetry. They asked about how to move up in the ranks….” —
The Oxford poet saga made me pull out my Oxford photos from a long time ago.
That’s the Bodleian fortress Library in the bottom photo. (“I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, or to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document, or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library or kindle therein any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library.”)
