Poetry News For June 29, 2008
Poetry News:
- — William Logan in the NYT on Frank O’Hara —
- — Actually creating reading of substance trapped in constraints —
- — To annotate his poems is to realise how much cultural and metaphysical freight they carry —
- — Much of her work drew on the southern working-class milieu from which she sprang, and she produced powerfully evocative poems remarkable for their painful insights into people’s lives —
- — I am free to confess that my own poetry would have not developed in the direction it did, for better or worse, were it not for the spell that was cast over me as a boy by Warner Bros. cartoons —
- — Late Czech poet and immunologist Miroslav Holub mined greater treasure from the sciences than any other poet I know —
- — Friends of the Harvard Public Library announce 2008 poetry award winner —
- — Georgian budgie learns Stalin’s poetry —
I’m still waiting for the Wheel of Fortune episode where the puzzle turns out to be SCARLETT AND FRANK O’HARA (or JOEY AND ELIZABETH BISHOP).
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