- — Trailing the Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Dark Lady of the Sonnets March 20, 1921, Sunday —
- — Elegant Thorn Review – ETR seeks to present spiritually conscious poetry, short fiction, and photography —
- — Playing Moneyball with Poetry —
- — What is the profile of the average poetry book buyer?” —
- — Poetry of David Wagoner – Whistling… from WFIU: The Poets Weave Podcast [mp3] —
- — I am not mentioning his name on purpose —
- — Alexander Pope’s “Epistle” and the art of making poetry from normal, banal, petty life. —
- — poetry social networking —
- — Seattle translators Carolyne Wright, Robert McNamara and the late Ron Scollon bring local readers poetry from India and tales from the far north of Canada in this week’s roundup of books with Northwest connections. —
- — THE MOE GREEN POETRY DISCUSSION hosted By Rafael F J ALVARADO – Aug 02,2009 Join Rafael as he talks to Andrea Scarpino – Andrea Scarpino is the author of the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press). [mp3] —
Jul 062009
- — A HUMAN ANTHOLOGY OF SPOON RIVER; An Entertaining Comedie Humaine of Village Life as One Finds It in the United States Furnished in a Volume of Vers Libre by Edgar Lee Masters THE SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. By Edgar Lee Masters. Macmillan Company. $1.25. July 18, 1915, Sunday Section: Review of Books, —
- — Her Mule, Count No-Count’s Steam Locomotive —
- — The World’s Oldest Basketball Shoes! —
- — The Creative Process: Painting, Writing, and the Case for Ruthlessness —
- — William Orbit, the Grammy award-winning producer and composer who collaborated on hit albums with Blur and Madonna, is to give a live performance of his new setting of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s epic poem In Memoriam on BBC Radio 3 on Friday night. —
- — Poetry? Dead? Naaaah… —
- — Meet the authors to be featured at Clarksville Writer’s Conference —
- — Female touch in Prince of Poets competition —
- — The three Australian dinosaurs were named after Banjo Paterson and characters in his poetry, because he is said to have composed Waltzing Matilda in Winton —
- — Mystery tiles in St. Louis covered in asphalt —
- — Chapter by short chapter – they are hilariously vicious – Pope praises poets’ mediocrity, giving examples of their abuses of rhetoric and their bad verse. —
- — Picador published his selected poems here in Britain in 2000 under the title Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes —
- — Solution to a Longtime Mystery in Utah Is Questioned —
- — The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown —
- — Ten of the best shipwrecks —
- — Discovery of a previously unknown song cycle adds to our knowledge of composer Franz Liszt —
- — A writer’s meditation on a Japanese poet-priest springs from an unexpected, private source of inspiration. —
- — Ernie Harwell: Questions remain about fake Cobb diary —
- — “Don’t you feel bad that you made fun of Michael Jackson after hearing the tragic news of his death? “ —
- — ‘American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry’ takes 73 different directions —
- — Detroit Writers’ Guild produces new poetry CD —
Cool painting. Originally saw it here thank you. Info about the painting.
May 232009
- — Controversial humanist and bioethicist Leon Kass delivers Jefferson Lecture, warning that, like the sciences, the humanities seem to have lost their soul. —
- — Pope, Smart: Poets who had their way with words —
- — Poppies, Poems, And Photography Honor Military – A Look At The History, Traditions Of Memorial Day —
- — Philip Pullman interview: Chapter and verse —
- — What puts a lot of people off poetry is the perception that many hardened aficionados of famous poets are plainly dickheads, who often regard their gurus to be political prophets. —
- — It’s not the hottest of elections, even with added sex. —
- — Self-publishing finds commercial niche in digital age —
- — Here is one of the holy grails of interviews, with visionary writer Kathy Acker quizzing the legendary William Burroughs. and William Burroughs astrology—
- — Tough shit. If we are going to play the poetry game, let’s play it right: first things first, what matters is if you can write or if you can’t. If someone can’t write, tell them to fuck off. link from no tell books thank you.—
- — Is This Your Brain On God? —
- — Rite of Spring: 1924 —
- — Off the Shelf: How Chaucer Gives Ye Goode Tymes —
- — What I Learned in the Pacific University MFA in Writing Program —
- — Dharma Poetry: Mark Strand —
- — Jake Adam York, associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Colorado-Denver, has been named third Summer Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi. —
The new American Science and Surplus catalog arrived this week. Normally I’m not allowed near it LOL but it’s OK since we’re out of money due to my health issues. That catalog cracks me up. If I did my own 1000 awesome things blog, then “The American Science and Surplus catalog arrived in the mail” would be one of the 1000 awesome things.
I realize I’m a weirdo it’s ok.
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