Poetry News For September 6, 2008

Poetry News:

— Simply setting a poem as powerful as this on an exam syllabus leaves it wide open to misuse —

— Jordan to Be Inducted into Affrilachian Poets Tonight —

— Watson’s river, like T.S. Eliot’s Thames, is a susurrus of pre-existing voices; Donne and Adorno surface, only to be “later undo[ne]” by the “erasures implicit in the water surface itself”. —

— Poetry Foundation is looking for a web manager —

— oddest book title of the past 30 years —

— We’ve all been through it. Now write a poem about it —

new lit mag fried chicken and coffee “a blogazine of rural literature, Appalachian literature, and off-on commentary, reviews, rants”. I’m 1/2 Appalachian on my mom’s side. Gr-gran:

Nancy Jacob Mooney Whisenant / Whisenhunt:

Nancy was a popular name because of Nancy Ward.

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3 comments

Lyle Daggett:

I tried the “fried chicken and coffee” litmag link, however it took me first to what looked like a generic advertising webpage, with nothing about poetry or literature etc. I tried the same link a few minutes later, and then got a “page not found” error page. Not sure what’s up, but FYI.

September 7th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Rusty:

My bad, Lyle. I bought http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com and tried to point it toward my blog, but something got messed over in the translation. Look for it to get straightened out tomorrow. Sorry.

September 8th, 2008 at 1:06 am

Lyle Daggett:

Yup, the link works now.