Poetry News For October 17, 2008
Poetry News:
- — The death of the poet Reginald Shepherd has Alan Contreras puzzling over how to judge a student prize in his memory. —
- — Those eleven [poems] were composed at the ages of twenty-three, forty-one, forty-eight, forty, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty, twenty-eight, thirty-eight, forty-two, and fifty-nine, respectively. There is no evidence, Galenson concluded, for the notion that lyric poetry is a young person’s game. [link thanks] —
- — Mills College will be the first college in the nation to offer a graduate degree in book art and creative writing. —
- — Gen Xers and Academia, Revisited —
- — If you find her elusive approach vexing, there’s an aesthetic and moralistic reasoning behind it: “Fables” is, in part, a protest against the trend toward confessional literature, and the notion that the self represented is the author’s real one. —
- — Can’t we leave Hughes and Plath alone? —
- — Burger King Restaurants of Canada Inc. has announced the launch of MeatHaiku.com —
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