Poetry News for November 20, 2007
Poetry News:
- — Do Women Lack Cultivated Literary Taste?; Harry Leon Wilson Thinks They Do and Deplores the Condition of Modern Fiction ;- Criticises Scathingly the Trade Novels Written to Order By Joyce Kilmer —
- — Rusty Barnes talk about life on the ‘Night Train’ —
- — “A magazine living to 50?” Le Guin questioned, speaking to the publication’s unusually long run. “It’s like a dog living to 50.” —
- — “This is not a study about literary reading,” Gioia said. It’s a study about reading of any sort … —
- — The basic “deck” for uta karuta is the Hyakunin Isshu, a compilation of one hundred poems by one hundred poets originally assembled by the thirteenth-century imperial poet Fujiwara Teika —
- — Although it’s a difficult business with high turnover, small presses can be successful if run in a businesslike fashion [requires bug me not I think] —
♫ ♫ la la la la la … wow that is stupefyingly ugly. You’d think that Amazon could afford a good industrial designer. Plus it could use a few more buttons.
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