Poetry News for October 24, 2007

Poetry News:

— Psychologists Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University ran three experiments to study existential dread in the laboratory —

— Three Reasons Why We Don’t Read Poetry —

— I guess this collection is about the shadowy presences and outlaw characters who haunt the margins of American, particularly Southern, history —

— He is, we are constantly told, a great poet and a big wind-bag, a profound seer and a boisterous humbug —

— Jennifer Grotz once wrote poetry like a drunken Patsy Cline, sick on love —

— Akron poet Thomas Dukes wins prestigious national book prize; and some thoughts on poetry for profit —

There are a lot of sleep / dream articles up at the NY Times. “Once seen as a blank screen, a metaphor for death, it has emerged as an active, purposeful machine, a secretive intelligence that comes out at night to play and to work during periods of dreaming and during the netherworld chasms known as deep sleep”

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2 comments

poet with a day job:

OK. My mother once said to my sister (of course not to my face) about my being a poet:

“I don’t understand why people have to talk in riddles.” Which is so hilarious on so many levels. And I feel it should be added to this list:

“1. I Never Understood It
2. I Can’t Get Past the Whole Rhyming Thing
3. Poetry is for angst-ridden teens, hopeless romantics and the aforementioned weirdos in berets.”

October 24th, 2007 at 10:09 am

Joey Quinton:

Thanks for #2!!!

October 24th, 2007 at 8:59 pm