Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — “When women stop reading, the novel will be dead” —
2. — G. C. Waldrep Blood Ruminant [link found here thank you] —
3. — Woman visits her own heart at exhibition —
4. — Don’t blame Bukowski for bad poetry —
5. — A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow by Noah Eli Gordon —
6. — John Walsh reports on an extraordinary literary discovery that reveals the troubled adolescence of a poetic genius —
7. — Gibbon could not have chosen a more appropriate opening for this collection which is, at times, painfully visceral —

So I think: what kind of bizarro world have we stepped into? And the next day I think what kind of bizarro world have we stepped into? Tomorrow I will think: what kind of bizarro world have we stepped into?

My dad’s mother, Theresa Korte, her dad’s ancestors came to the USA from Schönholthausen, Prussia in the 1800s. So I looked in WikiPedia and got that translation. Very funny.

I was a Grand Prize winner in last year’s contest at Chronogram. They sent this email regarding this year’s contest:

Perhaps the true test of the enduring power of a great literary work is whether it can survive its incarnation”complete with pom-poms, falling chandeliers, and aggressively perky singers in spandex”as a Broadway musical. When last we looked, Big River had not dislodged The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its pedestal; on the other hand, most of our friends and neighbors can more readily mangle a tune from Man of La Mancha than provide a cogent exegesis of the Cervantes novel on which it was based. As for Cats, well.

For this year‘ HUMOR CONTEST, we invite you to create titles for the Broadway musical versions of classic works of literature that Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, et al have heretofore overlooked. Please provide a title and, for extra credit, a few representative songs,
e.g.:

Crack Your Cheeks!
King Lear, the musical
(”Oh Fool, Who‘ Fooling Who Now?” “Poor Tom‘ A”™Cool”)

The Ring and I
Lord of the Rings, the musical
(”These Are a Few of My Favorite Rings,” “They Call the Mines Moria”)

Bye-Bye Bertie
Jeeves and Wooster, the musical
(”Springtime for Butler,” “Gussie Fink-Nottle Keeps Newts in a Bottle”)

Contest judges are Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold, and winning entries will appear in the Literary Supplement of the November issue. Winners receive a Chronogram tee-shirt, suitable for wearing or framing. Contest deadline is October 1. Please send entries (no more than three per person, please!) to fiction@chronogram.com or Humor Contest, Chronogram, 314 Wall Street, Kingston NY 12401.