Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — How much should a poet be paid per line? —
2. — Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg … —
3. — Rutgers-Newark Offers New MFA Program In Creative Writing —
4. — “Physicists talk in metaphor all the time,” says Mr. Jordan, 41, who weaves theories and theorems into his latest poetic examinations [link good for a few days] —
5. — Naomi Shihab Nye: Streets (from Poets.org) —
6. — My sex in the convent - by Nobel poet —
7. — Renaissance for Harlem literary giant’s home —

More here about the commencement speech: NEA chairman blasts American culture in commencement talk Speaker tells grads to reject passive consumerism … wasn’t Dana Gioia the Vice President for MARKETING at General Foods Corporation????

I think I may have to modify my “if you don’t vote you can’t b*tch” rule to “if you don’t vote, then you can’t b+tch AND ALSO if you have an MBA, you were the Vice President of Marketing for General Foods Corporation for 15 years, where you helped create Jell-O Jigglers,^™ then you may not make any pronouncements about how consumerism is pooping with confidence onto US culture.”