Poetry News For December 2, 2007
Poetry News:
- — Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —
- — The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —
- — “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —
- — West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a ‘Soldier’s Heart’ [links to MP3] and more here at Ron Slate’s blog —
- — Poet Confidential: I WAS A GREETING CARD WRITER —
- — A new collection from America’s most playful poet —
- — It is one of the more delicious workings of karma that Singapore, which criminalizes homosexuality, should have as its leading young poet an openly gay man —
- — Interview with wordsmith Gary Snyder —
- — But The Stray Dog Cabaret is as compelling for the poems included as for its back story, which tells us a great deal about Russian society and literature in the period preceding the revolution —
- — A.Van Jordan writes books of poetry that approach a subject the way a filmmaker or nonfiction writer might —
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