Poetry News For May 11, 2007
Poetry News:
- — You’ve probably seen it a thousand times today. Why? —
- — University is unsealing letters between author and friend after 20 years —
- — That [Roberto Clemente] quotation was the theme for this year’s poetry contest —
- — poet Tony Hillier spent the day paying people £1 to read them a poem —
- — Tourists destroying Il Postino beach —
Vanderbilt writer-in-residence Alice Randall shared her insights on country music lyrics with graduating seniors and their parents as part of the university’s Senior Class Day celebration May 10. [mp3]
Beware of Hillsboro Village, Nashvillians — Vandy’s commencement is today.
Tags: creative writing, Nashville, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Roberto Clemente, Tony Hillier
Lyle Daggett responds:
Posted: May 12th, 2007 at 11:58 pm →
The really absurb thing about that item about the Il Postino beach is that, while the film takes place in Italy in the 1950’s, the original novel on which the movie was based, by Chilean writer Antonio Skarmeta, takes place in Chile in the early 1970’s at the time of the military coup during which Pablo Neruda died. As far as I know, the beach in Italy has no connection with Neruda other than the fact that the movie was filmed there.
An English translation of Antonio Skarmeta’s novel was published some years back, under the title ‘A Burning Patience.”