Poetry News for October 9, 2007

Poetry News:

— The Happy Endings Foundation hoax —

— Vendor of verse: It’s personal at NYC street ‘poem shop’ —

— “Poetry arises out of a mind that feels itself in some way to be cracked” —

— Editorial: A Muse Unplugged —

— In three books, over eight years, Matthea Harvey has moved to the front of the pack of interesting poets writing in English —

— New Tay disaster: William McGonagall faces challenge to title of world’s worst poet —

— Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts —

— A monument to the outstanding poet Joseph Brodsky will be set up nearby the American Embassy —

— Former state poet laureate Grace Paley was remembered in a memorial service —

– Physics Nobel winner(s) will be announced today. This link’ll probably tell you the winners.

– Your cabbage: now with 100% more anti-depressants and oral contraceptives.

– Ron Paul was in Nashville this weekend & I attended. He seems like the only antidote to this, to me. I think our Constitutional Republic has been replaced by a corporate-controlled oligarchy. There are a bunch of videos of the rally at You Tube.

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4 comments

ADT:

Ron Paul is interesting, as I find supporting him alluring despite many issue-specific conflicts I have. I think it’s refreshing to see someone who has a political philosophy worked out, rather than in-a-vacuum political beliefs or a special-interest political agenda. I think he may be painting things a little rosy by omission when it comes to what the fallout/economic adjustment from his policies would be, but I’m willing to forgive him this necessary evil.

Are you going to the Vanderbilt faculty reading on Friday? It’s at 3 p.m., but I’ll be getting out of work early. Let me know — I’d like to have someone to sit with.