Poetry News For June 12, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Written on the body: literary tattoos —
- — Guy Maddin is planning on writing an upcoming feature with a longtime friend. “It’s called Keyhole,” Maddin tells Paste. “Which I’m co-developing with the poet John Ashbery.” —
- — Literary magazines: grotesque and Gaitskill —
- — Opposing Ezra Pound’s dictum to “Make It New,” conceptual poetry responds with “Why Make It New If You Can Reframe the Old?” —
- — I’ve never found anything cool in used books —
- — Darkness surrounds the wit, lightning flashes of sheer intelligence transform the darkness, and, it must be said, great windy stretches of self-indulging discourse blow throughout —
- — On this episode of “Studio 360,” radio personality and poet Sean Cole takes a closer look at Emily Dickinson’s legendary poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” —
- — This is my goodbye and thank you after almost two years of writing my Times poetry column. —
Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure. — Hans Scholl
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