Poetry News For October 1, 2009
I’m back I think. In another clinical study – I think it is helping. 
- — WCBN Living Writers with T Hetzel – interview with Henry Grimes [mp3] —
- — Oh, Walt Whitman, And Jeans, and Walt Whitman —
- — Poetry is rubbish. —
- — Here some famous writers, looking sensitive: Exhibit A, B, C, D, E. —
- — Poetic Form: Sevenlings —
- — Brian Turner, a poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, has been awarded the 2009-10 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship —
- — The poet as the letter ‘I’ —
- — Poem of the week: Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar —
- — Chappell Invents Fresh Form with ‘Shadow Box’ —
- — The Last Days of The Writer Jim Carroll —
- — Dharma Poetry: Jane Hirshfield —
- — C. Dale Young —
- — ‘Smell of space’ strong, metallic and unique —
- — The World According to Philip Levine —
- — 40 poets, including McHugh, have received MacArthur Fellowships since the MacArthur Foundation began offering them in 1981. Here they are, from least recent to most recent recipient —
- — Then she started singing and stopped making sense —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Erasers’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Mary Jo Salter [mp3] —
- — TS Eliot rejected Bloomsbury group’s ‘cursed fund’ to work in bank —
- — Hockey poetry? Check. [ok that made me laugh] —
- — Former poet laureate Robert Hass discusses the power of poetry, particularly during times of great loss and confusion. [mp3] —
- — Kafka — and Eraserhead — can make you smarter: Study says surrealism can improve learning by compelling the brain to seek out structure —
- — Poetry and Information Are NOT free —
- — Poet’s Wordplay Leads To MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award —
- — Tracy K. Smith: “Alternate Take: Levon Helm” —
- — An award-winning University of Maryland professor who founded the school’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing has been named the state’s poet laureate. —
Hurrah!
Thanks