Poetry News for October 16, 2007
Poetry News:
- — ‘Poet cannibal’ arrested —
- — Editor meets Henry Rollins —
- — Writers Debate the Net’s Effect on Their Craft —
- — A Lawyer, a Poet, and a Love Rekindled —
- — Poet Hass’ ‘Time’ does not live up to ‘Praise’ —
- — Robert Lowell’s 1960 statement regarding the state of poetry not only pitted the Beats against “cat-nip” academics, but publicly declared them to be a force —
- — Writing Aplenty on the Web, but Where’s the Cash? —
- — …but back to the apparently quite lucrative Beat industry —
- — The first story on this program is a Eudora Welty classic about the rebellious daughter of a somewhat bizarre Southern family, “Why I Live at the P.O.”, read by Stockard Channing [mp3] —
- — Writers, publishers gather to celebrate Twin Cities literary scene —
- — Oct 24: Sonia Sanchez to Present next Joseph N. Patterson Lecture (Winston-Salem) —
- — Poet Laureate Simic: ‘I grew up bent over a chessboard’ —
- — Series A: Evan Willner and Joshua Corey —
“Our idea was to go beyond merely displaying how badly a baseball can be thrown.”
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