Poetry Hut Blog
AE Stallings

Poetry News:

1. — Who can explain why the practice of poetry has become the object of so much satire and snide dismissal? [link found here thanks] —
2. — The Poem as Comic Strip #6 —
3. — For this, my farewell “Poet’s Choice” column, here are two poems related by a form: the sonnet —
4. — He is the leading New Zealand poet of his generation, but Bill Manhire prefers to “bump into meaning” rather have an agenda —
5. — How do you capture the tortured life of one of hockey’s greatest goaltenders? Why, you turn it into verse, of course —
6. — BBC to broadcast lost Philip Larkin poems —
7. — Classic Review: Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman —
8. — “Saliva Trails” - Currently the Best Selling Book of Poetry in English, Released from Korea Through Lulu.com —

Poetry News:

1. — Paris Poetess Links Geometry and Verse in Bizarre Fashion —
2. — Robert Shields, Wordy Diarist, Dies at 89 —
3. — UW Professor Uses Bush’s, bin Laden’s Words to Make Poetry —
4. — Report: The Poets Forum on Aesthetic Diversity —
5. — Jon Anderson, a celebrated lyric poet and longtime professor of English at the University of Arizona, died Saturday in Tucson —
6. — Stallings reads poetry influenced by life —
7. — Which is why poetry, combining our internal music and our emotional response to our world, is often an effective way of conveying our feelings —

Poetry News:

1. — We knew he was a genius all along [and more here]—
2. — Abu Dhabi TV crowns ‘Prince of Poets’ —
3. — his work draws parallels between the depiction of the war heroes in the Iliad and the Odyssey and the experiences of his patients —
4. — It was damned rot — rot of the worst sort — not insincere, perhaps, but rot, nevertheless —
5. — “Good God, I can”™t publish this,” his publisher told him. “We”™d both be in jail.” —
6. — What Did Shakespeare Look Like As a Kid? hahaha thanks Chad —

“The Anti-Muses

Like the Muses, they are attracted to talent and promising projects, and the presence of several at once probably means you are on to something big. Still, they can frustrate or even destroy the most inspired tender new poem, and send the poet into despair, alcoholism, or flash fiction. The more we know about them, the better.

Their mother is Amnesia, “Forgetfulness.”

They are goddesses, 13 in number….” [read the rest]