Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —
2. — The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —
3. — “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —
4. — West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a ‘Soldier’s Heart’ [links to MP3] and more here at Ron Slate’s blog —
5. — Poet Confidential: I WAS A GREETING CARD WRITER —
6. — A new collection from America’s most playful poet —
7. — It is one of the more delicious workings of karma that Singapore, which criminalizes homosexuality, should have as its leading young poet an openly gay man —
8. — Interview with wordsmith Gary Snyder —
9. — But The Stray Dog Cabaret is as compelling for the poems included as for its back story, which tells us a great deal about Russian society and literature in the period preceding the revolution —
10. — A.Van Jordan writes books of poetry that approach a subject the way a filmmaker or nonfiction writer might —

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Poetry News:

1. — The [Washington] state Arts Commission is taking applications for the job of poet laureate —
2. — An ex-soldier’s take on recent war poetry —
3. — in giving MacNolia a voice, the poet, A. Van Jordan, deals with the subject of balancing our love —
4. — The poems aren’t irreverent ““ they don’t mock the grave or its tenant ““ but some of them do seem, well, a touch indiscreet —
5. — we are less willing to be repulsive and repugnant in our poems, so caught up in our quest for linguistic and emotional beauty and earnestness —
6. — Student safety, creative rights clash [and Bob Hicok's poem about VA Tech] —
7. — Wilkes receives approval for MFA in creative writing —
8. — Almost single-handedly, as poet, editor and propagandist, he had engineered a “Scots Renaissance” in literature —

hahahahahahahaha — this is great. (and WTF?)

Poetry News:

1. — How much should a poet be paid per line? —
2. — Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg … —
3. — Rutgers-Newark Offers New MFA Program In Creative Writing —
4. — “Physicists talk in metaphor all the time,” says Mr. Jordan, 41, who weaves theories and theorems into his latest poetic examinations [link good for a few days] —
5. — Naomi Shihab Nye: Streets (from Poets.org) —
6. — My sex in the convent - by Nobel poet —
7. — Renaissance for Harlem literary giant’s home —

More here about the commencement speech: NEA chairman blasts American culture in commencement talk Speaker tells grads to reject passive consumerism … wasn’t Dana Gioia the Vice President for MARKETING at General Foods Corporation????

I think I may have to modify my “if you don’t vote you can’t b*tch” rule to “if you don’t vote, then you can’t b+tch AND ALSO if you have an MBA, you were the Vice President of Marketing for General Foods Corporation for 15 years, where you helped create Jell-O Jigglers,^™ then you may not make any pronouncements about how consumerism is pooping with confidence onto US culture.”