Poetry News For October 7, 2009
- — Poet reflects on 30 years of publishing poetry —
- — Nobel Literature Prize could go to a poet this year —
- — Baseball team, Eymard Seminary, Suffern, N.Y. (LOC) —
- — At first glance it seems the relationship is largely one way – that modern cinema is less enamoured with poetry than with poets’ life stories. —
- — Astrology of Edgar Allan Poe’s life and death Oct 7, 1849 —
- — A list of small presses that publish poetry books outside of contests-
Please support these presses by buying their poetry books [US] — - — Poet and Zen Practitioner Jane Hirshfield at the Tricycle Community —
- — Not for Donne a sad parting at dawn: here he places himself and his lover at the centre of the universe, with the sun as their servant. It’s one of the most joyous love poems ever written —
- — Author Tess Gallagher: Cancer gave me courage —
- — On a late Saturday afternoon in August, Publisher Phong Bui and Art Editor John Yau drove up to High Falls, New York, to visit the poet and writer Robert Kelly at Consulting Editor David Levi Strauss’s library to discuss Kelly’s life and work —
- — The new album features romance with lyrics from Marina Tsvetaeva’s I Like The Fact That You’re Not Mad About Me, performed in both Russian and French —
- — Spain: Garcia Lorca grave to be opened in weeks —
- — Poets and artists join forces for Crow and Raven: Baskin, Hughes, Manet, Poe on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. This focused exhibition explores the nature of artistic collaboration as seen in two landmark publications that bring text and image together in celebration of a common subject: crows and ravens —
