Poetry News For October 16, 2009
- — This week, Poets & Writers issued online rankings of all the MFA programs in creative writing across the country for the upcoming academic year of 2010. —
- — For instance, here is Natalie Latta, a reader who hung out beneath a bridge like a troll for 2 hours, and wait for each group to arrive and be startled shitless when she began reading a section of a writer’s work. —
- — Long Feared Extinct, Rare Bird Rediscovered —
- — Ten Poems I Love to Teach -Surefire poetry hits for the classroom and beyond. —
- — Composer premieres Angelou poetry piece with PSO —
- — Cornell University Assistant Professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. —
- — Washington University professor Carl Phillips is a poetry finalist for this year’s National Book Awards. —
- — Chapter 16 is, in part, a response to our sense that local culture and local community have been diminished by the disappearance of locally generated reviews and coverage of books in Tennessee newspapers and other media. —
- — Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1928 poem will be celebrated at Harpers Ferry this weekend. —
- — American poet has big Czech connections —
- — Poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler, a prominent figure on the Detroit literary scene, has won a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award for 2010 —





The first listing, the rankings, is sobering. Who knew factory work was still available?
[...] to the Poetry Hut Blog for reminding me that time approaches for the National Book Awards. You can find the lists of [...]