Poetry News For January 1, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Poetry Chronicle —
- — Poems on the frontiers; a lobster lesson on the sea
- — Jenny Holzer Makes Light of Poems and Beats Swords Into Paintings —
- — Pakistani’s Poem Offers Hope in Despairing Time —
- — In ‘Telephone Ringing,’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words —
- — Here is Arizona poet Steve Orlen’s lovely tribute to the great opera singer, Maria Callas —
- — Ferlinghetti argues that poetry can save the world —
- — Creative Work Has Health Advantages, Population Research Center Study Shows —
- — Dylan Thomas’s passport can now be viewed online thanks to the National Library of Wales [more] —
- — An “honest guildsman” of a poet melds the political and the personal —
- — Possibly the most moving use of a poet’s own name in English poetry is Ben Jonson’s “On My First Son —
“Life lived with poetry in mind is itself an art.” « Tiny Cat Pants responds:
Posted: January 1st, 2008 at 9:24 am →
[...] lived with poetry in mind is itself an art.” Posted on January 1, 2008 by Aunt B. Via Jill over at the Poetry Hut, we learn that Lawrence Ferlinghetti is still convinced that poetry can save the [...]