Poetry News For June 19, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Langston Hughes, the first poet especially devoted to jazz, got the idea to use it from Vachel Lindsay, his mentor. In the 1920s and 30s, Hart Crane, Carl Sandburg, and Mina Loy were pioneers of jazz poetry. —
- — Executive Director needed for award-winning online magazine —
- — Though not an obvious family man, Ben Jonson’s epigrams on the deaths of his children testify to his strength of feeling about fatherhood —
- — Faculty and staff vacate Antioch College campus this week —
- — This year, there is actually something to celebrate—something that cuts against the industry’s self-fulfilling death wish: One hundred new independent bookstores opened in America last year. {fixed thanks Collin} —
- — children with speech and language difficulties can benefit from integrating creative writing with traditional articulation and language therapy —
- — Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives February 4, 1959, Vol. IV, No. 15 —
- — Jasper native named Indiana poet laureate —
- — Field Guide To Poets —
- — Florence ‘to revoke Dante exile’ —
The trigger point injections weren’t as bad as I feared. I’m extremely sore but I’d rather be almost too sore to move than to be in pain. I don’t know if that makes any sense…. I never had any anatomy classes & didn’t even dissect anything in biology, so I am just learning about the structure of the human body & finding it all amazing. Collagen (helix) is pretty.
Happy Solstice.
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