Poetry News For October 26, 2009
- — Kindred Souls of Knoxville: Singer-songwriter-poet-playwright R.B. Morris orbits in the literary gravity of James Agee and their shared city —
- — Poster poems: Butterflies – A perennially popular subject for poetry, this time I want your flights of fancy about butterflies —
- — Poetry & Class —
- — Mute thy Coronation – —
- — A new, uncut version of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s ninth and final Green Gables volume unveils a more complex Anne – and a meaner Gilbert —
- — “Being a poet is to be a member of what seems to be an ever-diminishing community,” —
- — Ripping Off Writers Since 1852: The Literary Industrial Complex —
- — For the lyric poet reading Queneau, it’s revelatory to see such concentrated differences in how a text can be constructed. —
- — Fairlawn woman’s poetry helps her cope with disease —
- — when is it a poem? when is it prose? —
- — Seven full days to the deadline for the 2nd Annual Bashô Haiku Challenge. 11:59 pm, Saturday, October 31st will be the final postmark. —
- — The sequence of 66 poems that makes up this ambitious first collection looks deliberately back towards Whitman —
- — I often write narrative poetry, which is likely a reflection of my inability to answer the question “and then” “and then”. —
- — Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds —
- — A literary journal so good it makes you drool —
- — This year U.S. Poets in Mexico is offering our first annual Mérida Fellowship Award to be awarded to an American poet over 18 years of age. Judge: Tony Towle. Deadline: November 1, 2009. —
- — Bungling doctor “killed” John Keats —
- — Archaeologists dig for remains of Spain’s Federico Garcia Lorca —
- — Lions coach has a thing for the arts —
- — Luckily for readers, poet Matthea Harvey has a delightful denouement that is sure to satisfy everyone —
