Poetry News For July 9, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Poet Saw Wai appeared at Insein prison court yesterday for the third time defending himself against accusations of violating section 505(b) of the penal code —
- — Unpublished Pablo Neruda poems highlight last romance —
- — Thomas Disch, Novelist, Dies at 68 —
- — Bad boy lit 101 —
- — Starting in Sept. 2008, Northwestern will offer, for the first time, a Master of Fine Arts program for students who write poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction —
- — Calif. woman pens a rant-and-rave for the D: An epic poem about the city —
- — White Stripes’ White pens poem about Detroit —
- — Osama’s son ‘writes terror poem’ —
you can still vote in yesterday’s poll if you’d like
Tags: detroit, Jack White, Jim Harrison, Kristin Palm, Pablo Neruda, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Saw Wai, Thomas Disch
Collin Kelley responds:
Posted: July 9th, 2008 at 7:25 pm →
Yay, your feed started working again today in my Google reader and it said there were 15 posts!
Michael Gushue responds:
Posted: July 9th, 2008 at 8:32 pm →
If folks want a sample of Disch’s poems, I’ve put a couple at the vrzhu blog (http://vrzhu.typepad.com/vrzhu/2008/07/thomas-disch-19.html), though I encourage everyone to seek out his books and read them.