Poetry News For May 6, 2009
- — With the assistance of the University of Wyoming, a fund has been established to support the search efforts to find Craig. —
- — As search ends, missing hiker’s family won’t give up —
- — How to find the inspiration to write —
- — Russell Goings studied writing at Fairfield University and the 92nd Street Y. Before he took up writing 15 years ago, he was a professional football player, the first African-American brokerage manager for a New York Stock Exchange Member firm and founder and chairman for Essence magazine. [mp3] —
- — Digestive CARE(TM), a medical group of 46 gastroenterologists in Broward and Palm Beach County, today announced the 16 finalists for the Bottom Line Poetry Contest offering a $500 cash prize (or the option of a free colonoscopy) to the poet who submits the best new original poem about colonoscopies. —
- — Poem of the week: Ibant Obscuri by Robert Bridges
— - — Is form the art for Stallings? Or does form impair the art? —
- — London’s Newest Lit Mag —
- — Theodore Roethke: Neither Fish nor Fowl —
- — The life and times of Taha Muhammad Ali, a gruff, working-class Palestinian poet whose work is less overtly political than that of some of his better-known peers. —
- — Vanity is the New Indie —
- — Galveston, 1961. by Richard Wilbur —
- — The Right to Write About It: Hurricane Katrina in Poetry —
- — The Book of Frank by CA Conrad: Reading The Book of Frank is like that first time when you realize the brutality and intimacy of childhood…. —
- — As Edwin Muir noted, Gunn was “endowed with and plagued by an unusual honesty; his poems are a desperate inquiry, how to live and act in a world perpetually moving.” —
- — Rachel Pollack’s new (and charmingly pocket-sized) book, Fortune’s Lover, is “a book of tarot poems” that toys and probes. —
- — Who Needs Poets? A brief essay by Borges —
- — Catch Felix Dennis’s swine flu poem here —
- — Poetess Afrin Siddique of Gulbarga has set a record by penning a longest poem in English —
- — The music of Irish writers —
- — The great poet James Wright was visiting poet for a semester at the University of Delaware when I was on the faculty there. —
- — A reminder: you can download my poetry books for free or buy if you liked it. —
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Buddhist “wrathful deities” lately.
Probably because I feel like the embodiment of destruction right now haha. That picture is of Lhamo riding her mule on a sea of blood. If you are an enemy of the Dharma she has a bag of diseases for you. Among other things.
Thanks!!
$500 or a free colonoscopy?!!?
I mean, I understand the practical usefulness of it, and I know medical care is expensive way through the roof — but a colonoscopy as a poetry prize?
I know, Lyle. Hilarious! Though I would gladly trade poems for medical tests LOL.