Poetry News For August 24, 2008
Poetry News:
- — This month, your task is to carry on with Coleridge’s unfinished masterpiece Kubla Khan —
- — Was New American Review the Best Literary Magazine Ever? —
- — Nike Langston Hughes commercial [you tube] —
- — “An important piece from poet (and good friend) Stacey Brown on an unethical press and its dealings with her and her book.” —
- — With a fresh, wry voice, Meghan O’Rourke can make the quotidian sound strange, the same way Joseph Cornell could assemble a magical collage —
- — One of the problems with political poetry, then, is that like all speech, it exists at the mercy of time, history, and other people. —
- — 50 Greatest Books: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats —
- — Lansing Community College Professor Dennis Hinrichsen has won the 12th annual FIELD Poetry Prize for his manuscript, “Kurosawa’s Dog.” —
- — Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak about “The State of the Humanities” at Vanderbilt University, on Friday, Sept. 5, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. —
- — Virgil, Monteverdi, James Joyce, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ralph Ellison and Derek Walcott are just a few of the artists to have transformed this spellbinding and mysterious epic into powerful works of their own —
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