Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Memorial for Idaho poet, kayaker Studebaker to be Saturday in Twin Falls —
2. — Poets, Fiddlers and Leaving Seattle —
3. — Exene Cervenka: Fom X To Missouri —
4. — Tuesday’s Poem: “Old Timers’ Day” by Donald Hall from White Apples and the Taste of Stone [mp3] —
5. — What Am I Doing Wrong With This Poem? —
6. — Milarepa picked for 22nd Napa Sonoma Film Festival 2008 —
7. — August Kleinzahler’s ugly gifts —
8. — What makes Shapiro so important to American poetry right now is the success with which he’s taken over the territory of fiction writers —

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Barack Obama was among the 69 senators voting to broaden government spy powers and give immunity to phone companies that aided in secret wiretapping. way to go.

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I must have been living in an alternate reality or am utterly clueless or oblivious because this confused the heck out of me:

“If born female into the majority of US American households, one will live 20, perhaps 30 years under the moniker ‘girl.’” [comments]

20 or 30 years?? What??

Has that really been your experience? Daaang! Personally, the only time I ever have had the adult moniker “girl” is with some of my mostly-African-American-coworkers at the HCBU I work at — and I have the feeling that the Gurlesque “girl” and the HCBU “girl” are not equivalent.

What do you think?

Why do most American women have the moniker “girl” ’til maybe age 30 nowadays? (?) Is that something they are self-identifying with? Or is it a generational thing that I am oblivious to? The comment that I linked to says that society is doing it to women. Powerfully.

Do you think you are a “girl?” Do others call you “girl”? How old are you? Where do you live? Help I’m confused.

– signed, 40-year-old woman

Poetry News:

1. — writers in their early careers today face a peculiar and sometimes unenviable set of circumstances —
2. — poems take on lives - people shouldn’t hold on to them, they should send them out so it has a chance to get a life —
3. — Each poem presents the dying thoughts of a different character —
4. — Call Me a Snob, but Really, We’re a Nation of Dunces —
5. — The surefooted mystery of this opens up possibilities beyond its recognisable elements —
6. — A couple of weeks ago, in a roundup of AWP blogging, we flagged a post by Reginald Shepherd over at Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog, in which he used the term “post-avant.” —