Poetry News For December 4, 2007
Poetry News:
- — JOYCE KILMER SLAIN ON THE WEST FRONT; Former Member of Times Staff Had Won Sergeantcy in the 165th of Infantry. HIS WRITINGS WELL KNOWN —
- — Sometimes I’ve felt as if I’ve spent my whole life trying to make a poem shimmer, just shimmer just above the page, to make it just lift a little off the page. —
- — We reflect on the music that’s been inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, with her daughter Linda Gray Sexton and Robert Clawson who managed the Sexton’s experimental band “Anne Sexton and Her Kind.” —
- — He’s a major force, not just in Long Beach poetry, but he’s been a major force in Southern California poetry —
- — Neruda Songs, a cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Peter Lieberson, has won the 2008 Grawemeyer Award —
- — In the late 1970s, John Phillip Santos, a young, award-winning poet, wrote a letter to Laura Riding Jackson, whose poetry he admired —
Collin Kelley responds:
Posted: December 4th, 2007 at 8:20 am →
Great article about Gerry Locklin. Thanks for posting it.
Collin Kelley responds:
Posted: December 7th, 2007 at 8:46 pm →
Oh, and for Anne as well.