Poetry Hut Blog

I had to modify my RSS feed to show only a post’s snippet, sorry. This blog is getting splogged and scraped like mad lately and I find that very irritating.

Poetry News:

1. — Call for poets! —
2. — Using verse as a kind of verbal massage for your emotions cheapens it terribly. And it won’t do you much good —
3. — What’s the big deal about Small Press Month? —
4. — Why isn’t there more poetry on the Op Ed and opinion pages of this country’s newspapers? —
5. — new litmag alert —
6. — Being several & a few responses to the trio of “Numbers Trouble” articles in last fall’s Chicago Review (w/Juliana Spahr, Stephanie Young, Jennifer Ashton, Nathaniel Mackey, Kamau Brathwaite, Gloria Steinem, Ishmael Reed, Edouard Glissant, Erica Hunt, Tisa Bryant, M. Nourbese Philip, Julie Patton, Joan Retallack, Audre Lorde, Bhanu Kapil, James Scully, Paolo Friere, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and Barbara Foster) [link found here thank you] —
7. — Is this true? … I will send some positive vibes for Mr. Tate —
8. — Poets & Writers redesigned their website —
9. — The poet is himself subject to this illusion, and a great part of what is called poetry, although by no means the best part of it, consists in this sort of idealization by proxy —
10. — The Dictator in Prison, by Adélia Prado / translated from the Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson from Poetry Daily —

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