Poetry News For October 15, 2009
- — “Now everything comes from China,” said Brian Campbell, whose book of prose poems, Passenger Flight, invokes global warming, globalization, 9/11 and state-sanctioned torture. —
- — “Ninety-eight percent of the time I agree with them,” said Graham, referring to the current processes that her book is undergoing. “It really shows how important revision is.” —
- — McSweeney’s Next Incarnation: An Old-Fashioned Broadsheet —
- — Transcript: James Wright on the Poetic Prose of H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, E. M. Forster, and Leo Tolstoy —
- — Astrology chart Walt Whitman —
- — Rosmarie Waldrop on Metaphor & Metonymy —
- — Bonnie Jo Campbell Rocks the Twittersphere —
- — Lunch Poems: Tracy K. Smith – UCTV – University of California Television —
- — St. Teresa of Avila (October 15, 2009) from Saint of the Day —
- — Monitor reviews of National Book Award nominees -The 2009 National Book Award nominees are out. You can see the full list below, but for now I’m simply going to quote blogger Laura Nathan who notes, “I recognize the names of far more National Book Award judges than I do book titles and authors.” —
