Poetry News For September 1, 2008
Poetry News:
- — Jazz Age poet’s NY home, grounds are being restored —
- — But the plight of being an old man in a country that values youth is just one of the many strands of this complex, sentimental yet transcendant poem —
- — Missouri’s poet laureate highlights area writers —
- — Q&A: Twichell Passes Ausable Torch —
- — This week we capture the sensitive, romantic and ultimately tragic talent of early 20th-century poet and prose writer Charlotte Mew —
- — College maintenance worker honored for his poetry —
- — The unique library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, buried beneath lava by Vesuvius’s eruption in AD79, is slowly revealing its long-held secrets —
- — Poets and critics have been around for a long time, and some writers have been both poets and critics, but the “poet-critic” was invented in the 20th century —
- — Leontia Flynn emerged fully-formed in 2004 with a first collection, These Days, that placed her at the centre of a new wave of Belfast poets —
- — In prosperous America, the poet’s economic reality usually involves working a crap job while scribbling nightly in a cheap apartment —
Tags: Adam Kirsch, Ausable Press, Charlotte Mew, Chase Twichell, Edna St Vincent Millay, Jane Henderson, John Engman, Larry Schug, Walter Bargen, William Butler Yeats
