Poetry News For November 12, 2009
Posts will be sporadic because I’m getting smushed by the universe at present.
“At the diner the couple was known as Dot and Rip, and they were well-known for their doughnuts.”
- — SPD Poetry Best-Sellers Sep/Oct 09 —
- — Why so much casual talk in Yeats’ brilliant poem “Adam’s Curse”? —
- — Call for Submissions: Health —
- — If you want to contribute a review to H_NGM_N but have a different title in mind, please let me know. I would also be interested in gathering some chapbook reviews. —
- — Dominique Raccah, a longtime publisher, thinks there is good money to be made in poetry. And no, she’s not kidding. —
- — I really am defensive about my bone density —
- — Why people don’t like MFA program rankings —
- — Here is the painting and there is the experiencing poet. But the third thing, the poem, is all that matters. —
- — Just like last year, I will be aggregating every online “best of 2009″ book lists I find in this post. —
- — Who are you people and why don’t you like poetry the rest of the year? —
- — meet my submission managers: stew and panic —
- — TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land may have made him an international literary star but 12 months after it was published he was penniless exhausted and on the verge of a breakdown. —
- — Keats Poor Keats. A Scorpio with Virgo rising and, just to clinch the deal, his moon in Gemini. —
- — Musical prodigies are well known, as are science prodigies, maths prodigies, chess prodigies, but where are the poets? —
- — Hollywood should stop making films about our great writers —
- — Revisiting Rilke’s Translations —
- — 32 Poems features an eclectic range of poetry, from formal sonnets to prose poems. Does this reflect you as a poet? —
- — I took Nathan Moore’s poem “Matching” and turned each line into a literal line based on sentence length. This piece is a direct derivation of the series “Writing Without Words” by Stefanie Posavec, published in issue 22 of Salt Hill. —
- — The daughter that Jack Kerouac disowned and an apparently forged will ignite the dispute over ownership of his estate. —
- — Poetry you need to read: Robert Polito’s ‘Hollywood & God’ and Amy Gerstler’s Dearest Creature – Entertainment Weekly —
- — University of South Florida professor, poet wins Whiting Writers Award —
- — Poet Will Inman died October 3, of Parkinson’s disease, at the age of 86. —
- — The daughter that Jack Kerouac disowned and an apparently forged will ignite the dispute over ownership of his estate. —
- — Having wrapped up another round of revisions on my critical paper, which I have titled “Disturbingly Charming: On the Appeal and Practice of a Gurlesque Poetics”, I keep going back to the thought that the poems in the Gurlesque mode are primarily written by women for women. But my very unscientific research so far has shown that to be faulty thinking. —
- — What was the first story or poem you remember writing and thinking to yourself “This is something I really want to do”? —
- — Letters debunk myth of TS Eliot’s cruelty —
- — And we need to think about poets as sometime trendsetters of reality. Good poets reconfigure reality, make us have psychedelic experiences, make us time-travel and lose language. Perhaps the pleasure is the impenetrability? Perhaps this is an ideological position? —
- — Did Burns steal ideas from an English poet? —
- — Poet from China awarded $50,000 Neustadt prize —
- — This Just In . . . AWP’s Reasoned Response to Bogus MFA Ranking —
- — The following were the bestselling titles at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, Calif., during October —
- — (title unknown) from Vivian Maier – Her Discovered Work —
- — The inventor of arguably the world’s most infamous machine-gun wanted to be a poet in his youth, he has revealed. —
- — Poetry hit the big screen in some big and lasting ways in the 1930s. —
- — Featured Lit Mag: Cream City Review —
- — In his quietly charged, laconic poems, Rick Snyder adds something solid and useful to the long rich history of the poet walking alone in the city. —
- — Before the war, he had broken Bolshevik ciphers and reconstructed the mimes of Greek poet Herodas from fragments of papyrus uncovered by archaeologists —
- — given her Inupiaq heritage and the place Alaska holds in the American imagination, it would be easy for Kane to be adopted—and perhaps co-opted—by a popular strain of nature poetry that for the moment fills bookstore shelves and environmental studies curricula —
- — ‘Afternoon With Anne Bradstreet’ melds poet’s words with music —
- — A Middle Tennessee State University professor has told students to sign a pledge that they understand cheating on an exam would condemn them to eternal damnation. —
- — “Mary Biddinger has Done It Again or Defibrillating Your Poem While You Can” —
- — “An interview with Tony Hoagland, my favorite poet!” —
- — “Mad Girls’ Love Songs: Two Women Poets—a Professor and Graduate Student—Discuss Sylvia Plath, Angst, and the Poetics of Female Adolescence” —
- — So what if I copied work says Sir Andrew Motion, Shakespeare did all the time —
- — Performing horizontal eye movement exercises can boost your creativity —
- — Amy Gerstler’s poems skillful in every kind of comedy, yet deeply serious show a fondness for animals without sentimentalizing them. —
- — Indie Publishing: Two Questions, Many More Answers —
- — Wally Earhart of Carson City, the fourth cousin of Amelia Earhart, says the U.S. government continues to perpetrate a “massive coverup” about her mysterious disappearance in the Pacific 72 years ago. —
- — About two months ago, I invited a number of chapbook publishers to participate in a roundtable discussion for The Chapbook Review. I asked them to define the term “chapbook,” to talk about some favorite chapbooks that they haven’t published, to share when they first thought about publishing chapbooks. —
- — Fortunately, two Eastern European poetry divas, Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska and iconic Russian-Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova dig further into it —
- — Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker’s poetry editor and best actor in a supporting role in Nicholson Baker’s new novel, “The Anthologist,” answered readers’ questions earlier today in a live chat. A transcript of the discussion follows. —
- — By the late 14th century, Chaucer caught on, and in Canterbury Tales, said: “And on a Friday fell all this mischance.” —
- — second sex takes second place? —
- — Poet Dorianne Laux inspired by the outside world —
- — Poetry Web site offers “word music” in audio form —
- — Ten of the best examples of moon poetry —
- — Love And Envy Linked By Same Hormone, Oxytocin —
- — “We need more pictures of poets smiling” —
- — Do women write ‘female’ poetry? —
- — This pastoral vision of a country childhood shows how dialect can imbue language with fresh vitality —
- — Anne Sexton on Her Life and the Importance of Poetry —
- — ” No. I hate community. Community breeds lynch mobs and Hallmark cards. Writing is…” —
- — From the archive: Boris Pasternak, a man alone – Originally publshed on 3 November 1958 —
- — Richard Wilbur Interview —
- — The Poetry of Autumn by Annie Finch —
- — Morton Marcus, one of Santa Cruz’s most prominent literary figures, died today at his home in Santa Cruz after a long battle with renal cancer. —
- — Keats-Shelley prize goes to Buddhist poet —
- — Regarding my previous post on indie publishing, Glen has commented, “In some ways I feel like there’s too much poetry being published right now and not enough filtering, so it’s interesting to hear from people who feel the opposite.” —
- — Peg Boyle Single explains why you need to write regularly, write in the morning and get over the quest for the perfect word. —
- — Poem of the week: The Korean Memorial at Hiroshima by Andrew Motion —
- — Sotheby’s of London has sold a collection of racy letters written by Lord Byron, for $455,466, a record price for letters by a British Romantic poet. —
- — U-M research shows chronically ill may be happier if they give up hope —
- — Now Starring at the Movies: Famous Dead Women —
- — On Language – Keats Speaks – Did the real poet talk the way the movie version does? —
thanks for the link!
i do hope the universe gives you a break soon.