- — Joanna Lumley leads way as actors launch charity album of poetry —
- — [African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia] (LOC) —
- — “The first function of a literary magazine is to introduce the work of new or little-known writers of talent.” —
- — From the archive: Death of Lord Tennyson —
- — Whitman’s beard filled with butterflies —
- — Three-strikes-and-you’re-out can suddenly seem like a dangerously liberal policy with 160 collections of poetry to read —
- — EXCERPT: ‘Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies’ —
- — Professor Says She Was Retaliated Against for Objecting to Colleague’s S&M Sex Scandal —
- — Wednesday through Sunday, the city of Baltimore will host a lavish funeral for writer Edgar Allen Poe, more than a century and a half after his death. T —
- — Tension Between Formalism and Lyricism Gives Ravi Shankar`s Poems Elegance —
- — Carl Phillips Will Speak Low: Poet highlights lecture honoring Robert Lowell —
- — Sorry To Say No —
- — Killer poet pleads for release —
Poetry News For October 8, 2009
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- — SOUTHERN LITERATURE.; Facts about Southern Authors. November 12, 1865, Wednesday —
- — For the first time in its ten-year history, Drunken Boat is offering the chance to get email-delivered updates. —
- — Like dangerous toys or perilous amusement park rides, Matthea Harvey’s poems careen into the unknown… [mp3] —
- — Thom Gunn’s “Selected Poems” shows his development was steadier than often thought. —
- — The handful of his poems in the anthology stuck with me over the years since, poems of gritty working-class grappling with life, an unsentimental warmth, and at times nightmare visions of the political events of the larger world. —
- — The poetry of Fred Marchant explores literal battles as well as those of the mind and spirit. —
- — This gives some suggestion of the scale on which Stone has been working for the past 50 years: at one end, something as tangible as a spider’s web; at the other, the entire cosmos. —
- — Mass. lawmakers weigh creating poet laureate post —
- — ‘Deep in my heart I see poetry as a branch of the entertainment industry. I’m trying to do a song and dance act’ —
- — Dolly Parton poems @ Project Verse —
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- — The afternoon before Michael Jackson died, David Blair told BTL how his poetry collection would unite life in Detroit and the Jackson family. —
- — St. Clair Shores poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler has received double literary honors for his 2008 book —
- — Poet, 80, has first book published —
- — Writer, Poet Jim Harrison Is a Determined ‘Outsider’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — The poems of Grand Rapids poet Robert VanderMolen are sly, ingeniously crafted and indebted to film as well as to 20th century poets. —
- — Campaign to protect Margate shelter where TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land —
- — Daniel Radcliffe revealed as a budding poet —
- — The Poetry of Dick Cheney —
- — Remixed Messages —
- — Stop for a sonnet before catching bus —
- — Nashville poetry calendar new
— - — Paul Hemphill, whose 1970 nonfiction work The Nashville Sound was one of the first serious popular studies of country music and stands among the most important books ever written on the subject, died Saturday in hospice care in Georgia. —
- — Tennyson was ideally suited to radio, argues Michael Symmons Roberts, who has adapted his epic Arthurian cycle for broadcast —
- — Hundreds memorialize James Baker Hall —
- — Does God Hate Women? —
- — Piercy’s latest collection, The Crooked Inheritance, features poems on the U.S. occupation of Iraq , health care, “the poet as a young nerd”, hospital hallways, and mangoes at the beginning of a new love affair. [mp3] —
- — Carol Ann Duffy : ‘I was told to get a proper job’ —
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.
