Poetry News for July 24, 2007
Poetry News:
- — I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers —
- — Fiona Sampson admires the responses to her exercise on listening poems —
- — Fitzpatrick painstakingly filled the three-car driveway with T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” —
- — Two skulls, one poet —
- — Penguin in battle over Parker poems —
- — Massachusetts is even more spectacular with offbeat author Henry Thoreau as a guide —
- — 100 unpublished poems along with photographs and other belongings of Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral have been found —
- — William Carlos Williams wrote to Mary Ellen Solt on April 25, 1960, concerning her poem “With Child” —
- — The Speed of Dark —
Today is the Feast Day for St. Christina the Astonishing (of Brustheim). And Amelia Earhart’s birthday.
Tags: Fiona Sampson, Friedrich Schiller, Gabriela Mistral, Gervaise de Bus, Ian Duhig, Mary Ellen Solt, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Thoreau
