Poetry News For September 9, 2008
Poetry News:
- — The elements conspire against the harvest in Bernard O’Donoghue’s Ceo Draiochta (Magic Mist) —
- — One image in this section shows CA Conrad and Linh Dinh reading from their work in the cold. Dinh wears a placard that reads, “Ape Laureate,” bringing a sense of humor to the high-minded seriousness often associated with poetry. —
- — Sportswriter William Blake on the Yankees–Red Sox Game of 8/26 —
- — Associated with the New York School of poetry and being a long time resident of Manhattan’s East Village, Godfrey is a master of writing city poems —
- — Video: NEH Chairman Bruce Cole speaks about “The State of the Humanities” —
- — Lee Ann Brown, Jerome Rothenberg, and Bob Perelman talk with me about Gertrude Stein’s verse portrait of Christian Bérard —
- — “I’ve been fascinated with it ever since,” said Kooser, speaking by phone from his home in Garland, Neb. —
- — To the heir of a family that prided itself on its artistic patronage, he submitted the outraged complaint “This is the way poets are treated!” —
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