Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Blog or self-published (logroll) “reviews” are not reliable sources [link found here] —
2. — a unique film festival was held where poetry was the focus of the cinematic medium —
3. — Exploring Gertrude Stein’s nooks and crannies —
4. — Synchronously with the growing decline of the novel we are witnessing the beginning of a new golden age of poetry and the interesting spectacle of hard- headed publishers armed with fat contracts scrambling to annex each new poet of promise who “swims within their ken,” according to George P. Brett, President of the Macmillan Company, who is in London on business —
5. — A PRIZED POET: Winner of prestigious award links art form to influences of daily life —
6. — I, too, throw it: Marianne Moore tossing out the first ball, opening day at Yankee Stadium —
7. — “The blood jet is poetry / There is no stopping it” —
8. — In The Circuit by Alice Notley —
9. — Stray Questions for: Kay Ryan —

Well this was an icky experience yesterday & only partially successful due to my freakishly malformed interior nasal septum environment. But it was a good try. (Still having ear problems & quite a lot of pain.) Getting the septum fixed in Dec I think — I’m talking to the surgeon at Vanderbilt about it soon. They are supposed to be good, but, a.) it’s my face b.) it’s my freaking ***SKULL*** and c.) it’s my face. Plus like your brain is right there too, isn’t it?