Poetry News For November 25, 2009
For those of you celebrating Thanksgiving this week, have a happy Thanksgiving.
- — scorching criticism —
- — Psychological therapy 32 times more cost effective at increasing happiness than money —
- — Can Nick Cave rival Bad Sex Award favorite Philip Roth? —
- — A list of Thanksgiving poems for family and friends. —
- — Just in time for Thanksgiving – a PennSound podcast excerpting poems of giving thanks from the PennSound archive [mp3] —
- — Comestibles that are too tempting to terrorists include: gravy…. —
- — A Dinner to Make Even Futurists Happy —
- — Providence Poet Wins National Book Award —
- — Framing W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten at the National Theatre —
- — Urgent: Check Your Withholdings (Americans) —
- — In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O’Connor collection “The Complete Stories” was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest’s 60-year history & the Flannery O’Connor episode of Religion and Ethics Newsweekly —
- — Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Asshole, and the Haiku of Fight Club —
- — Poetry reading honors late haiku professor —
- — Co-vocabularists may be interested to know that the promised broadcast on Oulipo is now available online here —
- — Serious plagiarists have been at it forever; it’s a way of life —
- — Writing poems doesn’t mean he’s gay —
- — Chapbooks Make Great Stocking Stuffers —
- — Director Andy Goldberg links speech with movement in his Bard boot camp. —
- — A lot of archived audio and video files from the Poem Present Reading and Lecture series at U of Chicago —
- — Poetry Series Spurs Debate on the Use of an Old Slur Against Latinos —
- — Fathers and fatherhood have spawned much great poetry, and this month poet and creative writing teacher Roger Robinson wants to read your take on this most intimate of subjects —
- — PEN American Center is accepting submissions and nominations for the 2010 Literary Awards. —
- — Weekly Poems: Keith Waldrop, 2009 National Book Award Winner from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — A “boxer” recites as her opponent looks on at the 7th annual national poetry boxing competition in 2007. (Photo courtesy of the Japan Reading Boxing Association) —
- — True poetry fans ‘love’ Dante’s Inferno game —
- — When is a Poetry Workshop not Really a Poetry Workshop? —
- — The 11 Most Fashionable Pulitzer Prize Winners —
- — Miserablist Larkin loved his mum and dad after all —
- — Robo-Rocky vs. Edgar Allen Poe vs. JCVD. Fight! Fight! Fight! —
- — City boss ’shocked woman with vile email’ quoting Latin poet —
- — Books on Basho and his haiku at the library —
- — Portland’s Gertrude Press and The Little Journal That Could —
- — Reading John Ashbery’s Poetry —
- — Little Richard is asking fans to pray for his speedy recovery after undergoing hip surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville —
- — it seems to combine elements both from that safe-as-houses mediaeval form, the sestina, and from the intricate pantoum: its accumulative structure also suggests folk-tales such as The House That Jack Built. —
- — New collection of T.S. Eliot’s letters sheds light on the poet’s day job and troubled home life —
