Poetry News For May 10, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs the New York Times and a permanent marker — and eliminates the words he doesn’t need —
- — On an unconscious level, this final replication exceeds the early rhyme but also thwarts it when the two sounds become identical (as the mother and daughter must not) —
- — The idea that science and poetry are mutually exclusive realms is a widespread misconception. Please prove it wrong here. —
- — In A Birthday, from her first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), the sensuous aesthete is in the ascendant —
- — What, if anything, is Arab American poetry? —
- — “It would seem soft for instance to look in my life for the sentiments in ‘The Death of the Hired Man.’ There’s nothing to it believe me.” —
- — Nevertheless, she apparently did and wrote the poem the “Mother’s Day Proclamation” as a call for a Mother’s Day for Peace to be established in the United States. —
6 days until a very special episode of Poetry Hut Blog.
…I’m off to pretend that I’m a lipstick. (MRI). 
Tags: Austin Kleon, Christina Rossetti, Julia Ward Howe, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Robert Frost, Sarah C Harwell
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