Poetry News For February 3, 2008
Poetry News:
- — The second part of this post is about my impression of the role that some phantasmatic nightmare image of AWP plays in the imaginations of many participants in the various online poetry worlds —
- — The poet laureate talks about how he’s not enamored of nature, his vote in the New Hampshire primary and the American preoccupation with happiness —
- — Robert Pinsky’s work speaks to us in our common language and relates that language to our hopes as citizens —
- — LOC Guide to Poetry & Literature Webcasts: Individual Poets, Novelists, and Writers —
- — McGrath’s audacity has a genial, sociable quality, often with a flippancy that he directs back at himself, in the American tradition of kidding —
- — Bukowski’s typewriter and night lair in daylight. Does this seem at all familiar to you? —
- — Drunk poet climbs over cliff, seeking inspiration —
This song is being beamed to the “North Star” tomorrow. Hint: John Lennon wrote it. link. Happy 40th birthday, cool song.
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