Poetry News For July 21, 2008

Poetry News:

— Why do his poems so often feature husbands who kill or resent their wives? —

— On The Gurlesque Part 3 —

— Poet keeps win close to chest —

— USC Pigskin Poets Get Kids Reading —

— Time, reconfigured by poetry, allows connection —

— Library of Congress Organizes Eighth Annual National Book Festival Hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush on the National Mall; Famed Authors To Participate —

— Southeast publishes 1921 poem by William Carlos Williams —

— Poet Hart Crane was born on this day in 1899 —

— Exactly why we take personal poems so, well, personally remains a mystery and a muddle. —

— Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity —

— a poem whose logic is a mockery of logic —

— Quantum poetics —

‘Frequency Hopping’ Showcases Screen Siren’s Smarts

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This is the idea I agree with the most:

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So do you think this poem is racist, as has been interpreted here? I can think of a few poems with the P word — Plath, Bukowski … Macbeth. Philip Levine I bet.

I am sooo getting sick of political-correctness groupthink. Die Gedanken sind frei.

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5 comments

Greg:

Why did you only link to a right-wing anti-PC site? They are equally guilty. Look at the way they try to demonize the word “liberal” or the use of the term “Islamofascism.”

July 21st, 2008 at 8:16 am

Jilly Dybka:

I couldn’t find a left-leaning (which I am) article about it (which explains my objections to PCness). If you can find one, let me know and I will add it.

July 21st, 2008 at 9:05 am

Angela G.:

Isn’t linking to either a “right-wing” anti-PC site or a “left-wing” anti-PC site, or a “pro-choice” or a “pro-life” PC site — isn’t this what you are objecting to (sick of)?

Why not just link to the Wikipedia article groupthink:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

which — although it might not be 100% accurate or was probably written/edited by people with biases, at least does what JMAC of the link you cited requests that we all do, in addition to critical thinking — which is to cite sources?

July 21st, 2008 at 7:22 pm

Jilly Dybka:

I was going to link to another site for the benefit of Greg & any other reader who felt the same way. I don’t really see things as right or left, but rather degrees of statism. So right and left nowadays are pretty much exactly the same thing.

I don’t like wikipedia very much, which is why I rarely ever give them a link.