Poetry News For January 20, 2008
Poetry News:
- — “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —
- — Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —
- — City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across racial and socioeconomic lines to promote literacy through poetry —
- — Poet Li-Young Lee achieves transcendence in works such as ‘To Hold’ —
- — Maya Angelou’s poem in praise of Hillary —
- — Lilya would become the muse for Mayakovsky’s poetry for the next 20 years, and the couple a key presence in the Soviet Union’s new literary and artistic movements —
- — Brian Turner had a master’s in fine arts degree tucked in his ruck sack when he enlisted at the age of 30 —
- — Poetry turns out to be a better survival tool than you might think —
- — Gloomy poets are rarely very good, and good poets rarely very gloomy —
So what’s the deal? Why do the mainstream media hardly ever do articles or reviews about women poets? It is often hard to find ANY article to link to.
Are there more men poets than women poets? (When I got my MFA, the poetry students were mostly women.) Are men poets simply better poets than women poets? More interesting? Better at self-promotion maybe? Do articles in which the subject has a penis make for increased sales or something? Are men poets more likely to get published by a large press? What? Is? The? Deal? Here?
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162 delegates! My mistake . . . I guess we can say Clinton has the best chance at winning to date?
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