Dec 112009
- — In the excited chatter around a green revolution, it can be easy to forget that nature remains indifferent to us. —
- — Dan’s Sestina Self-Study: The Pie Chart. —
- — You essentially have the entire marriage and what went wrong in this marriage. You have it in a nutshell. —
- — Chip Kidd Designs Cover for Poets & Writers —
- — E&P and Kirkus Review to Close as the Other Nielsen Trade Papers Are Sold —
- — Getting Editors to Read Your Poetry Manuscript During a Recession —
- — Dante’s Inferno has a comic book miniseries, and you can read the first part right here. —
- — Alexie’s latest collection will please fans, may shock newcomers —
- — Seeing the poetry in doubt —
- — I’ve heard it said recently that poetry is a vocation not a profession. What do you think about that? —
- — Two days, two mail deliveries, two works by our two favorite Big Town poets, Cal State Long Beach English profs Rafael “Ray” Zepeda and Gerald Locklin. —
- — Can’t afford $30,000-plus for a poetry MFA program? Engaging with poetry blogs can advance your education in the art of poetry-free of charge. —
- — Of dead mules and Southern lit —
- — POV on PBS: Patti Smith Dream of Life Premiere Date: December 30, 2009 —
- — Today is the first day this film has been available online, and it has left us completely changed with a new belief in the beauty and good in humanity. We are so honored to be able to share it with you this holiday season. Experience the film The Captain at www.poetryspeaks.com/thecaptain. —
- — The daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes on the Welsh home she shares with three dogs and an owl —
- — Faber & Faber 80th Anniversary Collection of Poetry: These are lovely paper-on-board hardbacks, all featuring excellent cover designs that also feature on the inside cover. —
- — Oxford University to reform voting rules for poetry professor post —
- — What were your worst books of the decade? —
- — How long do you let a poem “sit” before you send it off into the world? Do you have any rules about this or does your practice vary with every poem? —
- — Recordings of Robert Hass, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2007, New York, NY. [mp3]—
- — Best Poetry Books of 2009 —
- — This month marks the 150th anniversary of FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat. —
- — Blake’s notebook Sketches and poems, including ‘The Tyger’ —
- — Alice’s Adventures Under Ground Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll —
- — Announcing the Not-Hulu for Digital Magazines —
- — Recently one of our Yosemite – Mono Lake Paiute elders found an old book of poems about the first Native people of Yosemite. —
- — A Conversation with Jimmy Santiago Baca —
- — Herta’s Muller’s acceptance speech for her Nobel Prize for literature is a moving essay that entwines a piece of cloth with human emotions. Love, dignity, kindness — these and more are captured in the handkechiefs that flutter through her life under a Romania’s oppressive Communist regime. —
I don’t think anyone is reading this blog anymore – sorry linkees.
I now have a handicapped parking placard 
and will have to resign my job soon. The autonomic nervous system malfunction (POTS) & the Ehlers Danlos Syndrome are kicking my butt.
I’m the primary breadwinner so this is all worrisome. I’ve tried to be a generous and good person so hopefully it’ll come back & we’ll be OK but it doesn’t always work out that way, does it?
11 Responses to “Poetry News For December 11, 2009”
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Still reading and enjoying. Good luck and salud — I know it’s brutal, the climate and health on top. All good wishes your way . . .
Still reading, yes — It’s been a hard long while for you, I know — hope it starts to turn around soon. All my best.
Of course we’re still reading it! I completely understand why you can’t do it every day, so the excitement I get when I see a new Poetry News on Google Reader is all the greater!
i am also still reading.
Yes, we’re still reading your posts! I’m so sorry about your health.
If it helps, I’ve been through that breadwinner role-reversal. It was a little rocky at first, but now it seems to be working out even better than I could have imagined. I will be wishing you good luck, good fate, and food times this holiday…
I’m reading. I, too, am sorry about your health. May things get better for you.
Not true! I check daily, sometimes through my blog reader but I always check.
Hang in there.
I’m still reading, Jilly. Sending you good vibes for your health and wealth. x
Definitely still reading. Truly hope you get through what you’re contending with, and that you will be well.
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