Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Taking stock of the wood —
2. — Wordplay features Philadelphia-based poet Ross Gay [links to MP3] —
3. — This week’s poem is the delicate and flirtatious 16th-century French “Villanelle”, along with a brand new translation —
4. — Jonathan Thirkield has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Walt Whitman Award for his first book-length collection of poems, The Waker’s Corridor, chosen by poet Linda Bierds from over 1,000 entries —
5. — Have blogs been good for books? —
6. — Folk singer/activist Utah Phillips ’has caught the westbound’ —
7. — Interestingly, though, the omnipresence of words in artworks is a relatively recent phenomenon. —
8. — When she discovered that the feminist poet Adrienne Rich lived up the road, she asked her for a job and helped to work on Sinister Wisdom, a lesbian literary journal —
9. — Amy Winehouse lyrics analysed as poetry by Cambridge University students —

I have to take a break again - my body is  kind of  rebelling right now. This is gross - my joints are really cracking/popping. I’m like a sheet of bubble wrap! It’ll get sorted out.

I think this is my first review. Thanks Justin. And I think this is my second review - thanks Mary.