- — I’d be happy if the new laureate blew all her money on the horses or invested in fetish gear —
- — The Connecticut Review, a literary journal published twice a year by the state university system, is dedicating its next issue to veterans’ writing, according to Lisa Siedlarz, one of its editors. —
- — Why You Are Probably Not an Independent Author (or, Another Post for Which I Expect I Will Get Some Flack) —
- — Wordfest was still underway, and I had to record the 3:00 o’clock reading at Malaprops, so last Sunday I replayed a show featuring Wordfest director Laura Hope-Gill. [mp3] —
- — Fifty years is an astoundingly long lifetime for a literary magazine, and what this book shows is that early on SPR was publishing emerging writers who would go on to become well known. —
- — Our second installment of the Spring 2009 Online Edition is now ready for reading! Featuring an interview with David Hoenigman; features on Jack Smith and Emma Bee Bernstein; and reviews of books by Rainer Maria Rilke, Amélie Nothomb, Andrew Schelling, Edmund White, and more! —
- — Wikipedia hoax shames major publishers —
- — When Elizabeth Alexander presented Barack Obama’s inaugural poem, few of us had considered that in the history of the United States there had been only three previous inaugural poets… [mp3] —
- — A Cantata Inspired by Mystics and Poets —
- — DesRuisseaux Named Next Parliamentary Poet Laureate —
- — Bloomington poet Anne Haines reads a selection of her recent work. Haines is a member of Five Women Poets and Source: Women Writers.? Her first chapbook, Breach, is now available, published by Finishing Line Press. [mp3] —
- — New Letters magazine receives three national awards —
- — “Florence” by Barbara Adler — a powerful videopoem on illiteracy. —
- — Each poem embeds a poet into life’s everyday urgencies, because the world must have poetry to survive. Without it, “ours would be a history of chronic needs.” —
- — Moxley knows all about political poetry. She was asked to be the poetry editor of the political and cultural criticism magazine The Baffler by its founder and editor Thomas Frank, who is best known for writing What’s the Matter with Kansas? The book persuasively argued that voters, swayed by the intangible forces of the culture wars, vote against their own economic interests. —
- — I wonder how many big book award winning books will be around that long. Do we care? —
- — Poem Inspires U.S. Sculptor To Honor Quake Victims —
- — Poet-moms are held to a higher standard. Expected to perform superhero feats minus the superhero status. —
- — Dylan and McCartney don’t mix —
- — The iambic pentameter is five heartbeats, to be exact: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” – with “Horse, horse, king, for, horse” being the strong beats —
- — Krysl often experiments with sestinas, a form that braids six repeating words into six six-lined stanzas, ending with a three-lined stanza, a grand finale. —
- — the case for non-poetry-writing poetry reviewers (cont’d) —
- — “Paradise Lost” movies face off in Hollywood —
- — A street vendor sells photographs of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore on a pavement in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata May 9, 2009. —
- — Maria Miranda Maloney is Managing Editor of Mezcla, a bilingual anthology dedicated to publishing poetry, fiction, and art. Maria was born in El Paso, Texas. “To be born in El Paso,” she says, “is to be born a poet, living at the seams of two worlds.” [mp3] —
- — The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds’s account of the madness of the poet John Clare is itself poetic, says Neel Mukherjee —
- — On Poetry: First thought, full bloom —
- — THE race to win poetry’s most prestigious academic post has turned dirty after Oxford academics were anonymously sent a lurid dossier accusing Derek Walcott, the frontrunner and Nobel laureate, of being a sex pest. and It is a scandal which has rocked the normally sedate world of poetry. —
- — The effect of the poem “Lighthouse” by Jane Hirshfield is to create in the reader a sophisticated sense of friendship toward humanity —
- — One more to tide you over —
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These PenAgain ergonomic pens are great. I just started using one. If you have finger pain, joint pain, arthritis etc you might want to try one. Or if you are such a prolific poet that you get writer’s cramp haha. 
