Poetry News for August 21, 2007

Poetry News:

— Fred Chappell reading on the Wordplay program [links to MP3] —

— Prisons have always been surprisingly fruitful places for the production of poetry —

— The avant-garde wish and struggle to stay young — which means not to change — involves the fear of growing old and becoming traditional —

— Professors draft guidelines for violence in student writing —

— The road to oblivion —

— Donald Hall and Martin Lammon discuss the revision process —

— Priceless manuscripts among contest entrants —

I had the stomach flu or something this weekend/yesterday. Not fun.

Someone arrived here by searching for “poetry therapy lawsuits.” The mind reels, doesn’t it?

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3 comments

Greg:

Hope you’re all better — that stuff can be nasty. Poetry therapy lawsuits indeed makes the mind reel…. All this being an excuse to say thank you for your tireless labors in posting this great stuff nearly every day!

August 21st, 2007 at 1:09 pm

Anne:

Ooh, I really like the Donald Hall interview. At least now I know that no matter how much I revise, there will always be someone more maniacal about it! Hope you are feeling better —