Poetry News For February 1, 2008

Poetry News:

— “… the legitimacy/relevance/absurdity of AWP” —

— Although it is less thematically unified than previous books, Rich shows a grasp of language and form here that is still impressive —

— I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse —

— Dear Lord, save Mississippi from the Paul Ott Verses —

— You are invited to submit an acrostic poem for a chapbook-sized edited collection entitled Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe —

— ‘Poetics Plus’ offers variety of events [Buffalo, NY] —

— Detained poet denied visits and parcels —

— Puck Poet; Grenfell professor’s book based on life of hockey great Terry Sawchuk —

Tags: Adrienne Rich, awp, John Newlove, Paul Ott, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Randall Maggs, Saw Wai, Writing and poetry
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3 comments

Greg:

#4 (Paul Ott) was amusing, but for someone far away from Mississippi it needs some context. Are there earlier stories/blogs on this you might be able to point us Inside-the-Beltway-Out-of-Touch-with-the-real-America types toward?

February 1st, 2008 at 8:12 am

Collin Kelley:

Thanks for the Pshare blog link. There has been a dust up over at Reginald Shepherd’s blog at Harriet over AWP, too.

February 1st, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Jackie:

This was interesting. I’m glad to see that somebody thinks poetry has some relevance in modern day America. So different from a society that thinks poets are so powerful they must be arrested, such as Burma has done.
We do a similar round up each week on Vulpes Libris (Book Foxes)
http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com

February 1st, 2008 at 8:40 pm