Poetry News For June 13, 2008
Poetry News:
- — When Hank Williams died on New Year’s day in 1953, he left behind a legacy of honky tonk hits as well as an extended family that would grow to include a son, daughters and grandchildren. Milo Miles reviews an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame called, “Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy.” —
- — alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast, Linh Dinh catalogues the myriad grades of Vietnamese chuckles. [MP3] —
- — John Ingram, Chairman of the Ingram Content Companies, announced last Thursday that the company would fold the leading print-on-demand publisher, Lightning Source, Inc. into its main book business to create Ingram Lightning Group. —
- — One of the failings of our education system is that we are educating people out of creativity. —
- — That era of the poetry readings was also the folk era. So our intermission would be a folk singer, usually playing the auto harp. —
- — Author of new book discusses his work linking corporate values with the decline of the tenure-track position, especially in the humanities. —
- — His latest collection, The Late Show, includes “Gloss of the Past,” composed entirely of the names of lip glosses —
- — ‘Paradise Lost’ poet turns 400 —
- — Poetry, our national art, has never been so neglected or unloved. —
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