Poety News For November 19, 2009
- — Love poetry, hate the insular nature of the poetry community. Should I jump ship? —
- — Native American poetry gets a voice in locally produced documentary —
- — He was able to talk to me about form in such a way that I began to understand the physical implications of it, where iambic pentameter resided
in your body — - — Guerrilla Girls On Tour breaks from our policy to not comment on living artists in light of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2009 Top Ten List that contained ZERO books by women and an almost total absence of books by people of color. HERE, for the first time, is GUERRILLA GIRLS ON TOUR’s BEST BOOKS OF 2009 —
- — A Shetland project which aims to put new writing in public toilets attracted poets from all over the world —
- — Jordan is the author of “Beyond Bougie” (2006) and “Cold, Black, and Hungry” (2007), collections of essays and poems —
- — Online Robert Louis Stevenson archive is a treasure —
- — Welsh Poet Thomas to Materialize in Do Not Go Gentle Off-Broadway —
- — Brown Prof. Keith Waldrop, 76, shows no signs of slowing down. His latest book is in the running for this year’s National Book Award for poetry. —
- — T.J. Stiles’ biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, “The First Tycoon,” was the nonfiction winner; Phillip Hoose’s “Claudette Colvin” won for young people’s literature and Keith Waldrop’s “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy” for poetry. —
- — “Bill’s volume did leave a mark — the poems rang true to this landscape and the people who make the Great Basin home,” said fellow poet and friend Shawn T. Griffin. “He articulated a clear vision of the West … and he did it with careful attention to detail, to sound, to imagery.” —
- — Cathy Smith Bowers: now up on the Wordplay Archive … —
- — “People identify with Theo so much, they come to see me with one preconceived notion — and that’s cool,” he said. “But for people who don’t know what I do as a poet and a musician, they’re always so pleasantly surprised. —
- — Words of War: Comparing Veterans’ Experiences With War Poetry —
- — Donations for Sam Hamill —
- — Skrief’s nature poems sidestep the ‘egotistical sublime’ by allowing nature to speak —
- — What Kind of Writer Are You? —
- — WILLA’s take on Pub Weekly in the NY Times —
- — Ed Skoog. You can’t do much better than to be a poet with a name like Skoog. Half a verb, half a Seussian entity. —
- — Poet Joanna Rawson’s challenging but stimulating “Unrest” will make you feel just a little bit more alive —
- — “SHANGRI-LA” CAVE PICTURES: Art, Texts, Bones Revealed —
- — Unconventional poet examines motherhood —
- — The object lessons of recent American poetry —
- — Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic – Debut Trailer | HD LOL [You Tube] —
- — Spirit bears become ‘invisible’ —
- — Flarf, the poetry of Googled search term -Toronto Star —
- — Dharma Poetry: Octavio Paz —
- — The poetry posters are also being pasted up in Sydney, Paris, Nashville, Knoxville, Portland, Seattle, Chicago and Philadelphia. —
- — University of Nebraska literary journal to accept comics submissions —
- — “Mistakes We Knew We Were Making: Life Outside the Poets and Writers ‘Top 50 MFA Programs’”. —
- — The National Book Awards, By the Numbers —
- — Herta Müller combining poetry and politics —
- — Q&A: The Poet of Baghdad – Aljazeera.net —
- — Add to The WILLA list Great Books by Women that Publishers Weekly Missed in 2009 —
- — Simon Armitage and Tim Dee’s top 10 bird poems —
- — Susan Holbrook: POETSMART™ —
- — How Can a Print Publication Survive? —
- — New Pages’ Lit Mag Reviews Are Fresh —
- — Another University Joins Kindle Boycott —
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