Poetry News For June 4, 2008 — 2/2
Poetry News:
- — Vandals Forced to Study Poetry of Frost & CNN, WSJ —
- — Jason’s poem “One Day I Will Die” enjoins us to hug each instant hard enough to forge a diamond from the coal —
- — So why does poetry matter? —
- — Remembering Joseph Brodsky —
- — Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumble —
- — He believed that bad writing destroyed civilizations and that good writing could save them, and although he was an élitist about what counted as art and who mattered as an artist, he thought that literature could enhance the appreciation of life for everyone —
- — Czechoslovakia is the setting for Poem of the End, which re-lives the last phases of Marina Tsvetaeva’s most intense love affair —
- — What happens to creativity and imagination as we get older? —
- — Dearborn Suite by Philip Levine Another Michigan poem —
- — Detroit, 1972, by Jim Daniels And another Michigan poem —
- — Making a Lyrical Return to the Sunken Garden —
Tags: Ezra Pound, Jason Shinder, Jay Parini, Jim Daniels, Joseph Brodsky, Lynda Barry, Marina Tsvetaeva, Philip Levine, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Robert Frost
