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Poetry News For May 11, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is so moved by a shipwreck that he starts writing again
  2. Quiet, dear, Mummy’s writing
  3. Pulp Fiction was a seminal film. Will Shakespeare was a seminal poet. Obviously it follows that the two should be mixed together, which is exactly what has been done at Pulp Bard. LOL —
  4. But Pritikin is taking nothing for granted, and continues to promote Wrigley’s salvation. Here is his poem to rally the troops
  5. Pupils were asked to imagine how it feels to be imprisoned without access to a fair trial and then express their feelings in the form of a poem
  6. Alexander Pope’s longest and most elaborate poem, The Dunciad, has a good claim to be the greatest unread poem in the language.
  7. place the pauses in his lines in different places and you get different poems, like removing the dashes from Emily Dickinson’s poems

Guns buried in flowers” is how Schumann described them.

ha.

ps. I hope you moms have a nice Mother’s Day today.

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Poetry News For April 4, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Opening Day in the Motor City
  2. — These 2 links might not be safe for work: UNM’s director of creative writing said she will resign because her colleague has not been punished for posing in sexually explicit photos with students. and more here
  3. The sheer aesthetic appeal of the poem, to which critics have paid too little attention and given too little credit, transcends, time and time again
  4. A poet hits with an ear for music
  5. Documentary records life of poet Stanley Kunitz
  6. Daniil Kharms’ miniatures might well be required reading for anyone out to revolutionize literature
  7. Meet the 2008 Guggenheim Fellows in Poetry

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This great poets list has only one woman. About right, too

the 100 best last lines from novels

Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt

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Poetry News for September 12, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Joe Zawinul, jazz musician behind Bitches Brew, dies at 75
  2. Number of these [books sold in the USA] that sold fewer than 99 copies: 1,123,000 [link good for a few days] —
  3. ‘Uncanny coincidences’ lead police to explore Taslima angle to Hyderabad [bombings]
  4. A thinking parrot’s loving good-bye
  5. Poets with local ties honored [ congrats Amanda ]—
  6. Scandalous poem, novelized
  7. look down this list of 10 words, choose seven of them, and immediately write a poem incorporating those seven words and your warped catchphrase or proverb
  8. Jarman to read from new book at APSU
  9. Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance [link good for a few days] —

Does anybody have any tips about teaching someone the idea of stressed /unstressed syllables? Ironically, I had a hard time getting this across to my adult literacy student last time. (Totally my fault.)

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When I saw Hairspray: the Musical (a while ago), the theater also showed a trailer for the forthcoming Beatles-based musical/music-video-thing, Across the Universe. Alright already, Baby Boomers — I get it! The ’60s were revolutionary. Sheesh. Oh and there are Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin biopics forthcoming too and Oliver Stone is doing another Vietnam movie.

Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Tool

There are 69 Poets born between 1931 and 1940

There are 112 Poets born between 1941 and 1950

There are 61 Poets born between 1951 and 1960

There are 10 Poets born between 1961 and 1970 (My generation — I’ll be 40 next month)

There are 0 Poets born between 1971 and 2007 Sorry, 36-year-olds!

Of course, there isn’t enough information to be statistically significant, really, but it does make me laugh. Har. Hee.

Epilogue:

A blogger (?) 20 years from now:

“When I saw Movie X, the theater (?) also showed a trailer for the forthcoming U2-based musical/music-video-thing, With or Without You. Alright already, Generation X — I get it! The ’80s were [I can't think of anything except "crappy"]. Sheesh. Oh and there are Joe Strummer and Ronald Reagan biopics forthcoming too and Oliver Stone is doing another Vietnam movie.

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