Poetry News For May 7, 2009
- — reviews of books by BH Fairchild, Frieda Hughes, Michael Blumenthal, Farrah Field, Robert Polito, Ron Slate, Ann Lauterbach, Chelsey Minnis, Lucia Perillo, Joshua Beckman, Russell Edson, & Gregory Orr —
- — From the fuss that some are making – well, the BBC is making anyway – you would think [Bono's poem] was a long-lost sonnet of Shakespeare or at the very least a newly discovered poem by Philip Larkin. —
- — Is he messing with us?: Ethan Coen’s poetry —
- — Poetry Readings and Music by Poet Weldon Kees [mp3] —
- — This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like: what branch of feminism, model of feminist poetics, feminist icon, or etc. informs your poetry? Or, from which of these does your poetry diverge? —
- — Poetry from Duluth’s Holy Cow Press provides comfort for grief [you have to login now durrr] —
- — Police: Mom was writing poem when baby drowned —
- — State’s first poet laureate takes his job seriously —
- — Because most audiences may not know much about Dali, Garcia Lorca and Bunuel, it depends for its box-office appeal on the starring role of Robert Pattinson, the 23-year-old British star of “Twilight” (which was shot after this film). —
- — on Intruder, poems by Jill Bialosky (Knopf) – and an interview with the poet —
- — The decline and fall of books —
- — How Technology Is Changing What We Read —
- — That sensibility caught the eye of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of Saint Thomas, in St. Paul. They’ve awarded her the 13th annual Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. —
- — The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference, being held July 22-25, 2009, on the campus of Austin Peay State University. —
- — 150-year anniversary of translation of Khayyam’s Rubaiyat by Fitz Gerald —
- — The reclusive Christopher Tolkien has broken his silence to respond via fax to a series of questions about his father’s latest posthumous publication —
- — Welcome to Poetry – the Olympic games of creative writing. —
- — Each of the 29 poems in this collection is an example of a different form, from the familiar couplet, sonnet and haiku to the more exotic aubade (a poem lamenting or celebrating the coming of the dawn) and clerihew (two rhyming couplets that gently poke fun at a celebrity, where the first line is always the subject’s name). —
- — Thousands apply for ‘Prince of Poets’ contest held in Abu Dhabi —
- — Throughout her career as a poet, essayist, and activist, Adrienne Rich has been known for her progressive politics and sharp social critiques. —
- — While the book’s subjects — chiefly the writers Emily Dickinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, prominent clergyman Henry Ward Beecher (Stowe’s brother), and the painter Martin Johnson Heade — often share social and familial bonds, Benfey never makes much effort to present them as a unified intellectual movement. —
May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month so I thought I’d mention that here. Link: May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month. EDS is a debilitating, and potentially fatal connective tissue disorder.
Thanks for the Kees link!