Poetry Hut Blog

[still getting splogged/scraped, sorry. Turned off the full RSS feed again.]

Poetry News:

1. — Pinned in a subway car with arms at your sides, you can call up a poem and enter a cathedral of words that anoints you again in your singular passions —
2. — Mary Jo Salter came of age as a poet in the 1970s when two tribes, the Language poets and the New Formalists, were sparring —
3. — Red Morning Press is now reading manuscripts for publication —
4. — Lost for words: The misery of a deleted manuscript —
5. — Writers like Flaubert have been accused of over-using metaphor, but is it possible to have too much of such a good thing? —
6. — PEN America is trying to get China to free nearly 40 writers —
7. — Why poetry still matters —
8. — With “In Praise of the Unfinished: Selected Poems,” Hartwig, author and editor of more than a dozen books, at last has a collection in English —
9. — Horton hears Dr. Seuss – rotating in the grave [download here I think] —
10. — Objectivist poet Louis Zukofsky once confided, “the poet’s form is never an imposition of history, but the desirability of making order out of history as it is felt and conceived —
11. — OOpen-faced wunderkind from the Southern States —

“It puts the owl in the basket ….”

The Pentagon’s Information Operations Roadmap is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in direct opposition to their goals.

I got this from the informative CRWOPPS list. Good luck, youngsters:

Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships

http://poetryfoundation.org/programs/2008_Lilly_Fellowship_app.pdf

(go to this address to download entry form)

Five Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships in the amount of  $15,000 will be awarded to young poets through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry. Established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the fellowships are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry. Applicants must be US citizens between the age of twenty-one and thirty-one as of  March 31, 2008.

Applicants should submit:

Completed application form

Ten pages of poems, double spaced

One paragraph explaining how the fellowship would aid the applicant’s work

A publication list (optional)

Do not include any additional material at this time (cv, cover letter, references, etc.). If you wish to be notified of receipt of your application, include a self-addressed, stamped postcard. Application materials will not be returned. Applications must be postmarked during the month of March 2008. Electronic submissions will not be considered. Finalists will be announced on August 1, 2008 at poetryfoundation.org. Winners will be announced by September 1, 2008.