Poetry News:
- — David Wagoner’s new collection of poems, “A Map of the Night,” feels like a summing-up by the author many consider the dean of Northwest poetry. —
- — For days, I’ve trolled my poetry shelves for the right words to grieve with, the way an insomniac pharmacist — desperate for sleep — might pick through her tinctures —
- — Film takes look at life of Emily Dickinson —
- — But this remarkable collection by someone who perhaps invented the concept of “oversharing” long before it became fashionable, reminds us of why he mattered then, and still does now —
- — Poets have always been fascinated with dreams. Please share yours —
- — The poem is one of 20 that have started appearing in sidewalks since July —
- — Burmese papers report losses due to strict policies of censor board deputy chief —
September is Pain Awareness Month. Good timing, what with the stock market & everything.
My town has been out of gasoline for a while. A lot of Nashville is out, too. A station here in town got some gasoline yesterday, Darryl said, and the Sheriff had a squad car in the parking lot & there is a huge line. Reminds me of the 1970’s lines at gasoline pumps, which I do remember. I don’t understand the CNN article that says it is panic. Kingston Springs was out of gas on the Sunday of the hurricane. I haven’t been too mobile lately so I’m not sure what the heck is going on.
Dear Onion Radio News: if you are going to make fun [MP3] of my State, at least learn how to pronounce the Governor’s name haha.
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Poetry News:
- — Langston Hughes, the first poet especially devoted to jazz, got the idea to use it from Vachel Lindsay, his mentor. In the 1920s and 30s, Hart Crane, Carl Sandburg, and Mina Loy were pioneers of jazz poetry. —
- — Executive Director needed for award-winning online magazine —
- — Though not an obvious family man, Ben Jonson’s epigrams on the deaths of his children testify to his strength of feeling about fatherhood —
- — Faculty and staff vacate Antioch College campus this week —
- — This year, there is actually something to celebrate—something that cuts against the industry’s self-fulfilling death wish: One hundred new independent bookstores opened in America last year. {fixed thanks Collin} —
- — children with speech and language difficulties can benefit from integrating creative writing with traditional articulation and language therapy —
- — Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives February 4, 1959, Vol. IV, No. 15 —
- — Jasper native named Indiana poet laureate —
- — Field Guide To Poets —
- — Florence ‘to revoke Dante exile’ —
The trigger point injections weren’t as bad as I feared. I’m extremely sore but I’d rather be almost too sore to move than to be in pain. I don’t know if that makes any sense…. I never had any anatomy classes & didn’t even dissect anything in biology, so I am just learning about the structure of the human body & finding it all amazing. Collagen (helix) is pretty.
Happy Solstice.
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Poetry News:
- — You’re saying to the world, this is how I want to be read, this is how I want to be seen, and those are hard decisions to make —
- — Poetry in Motion, Thanks to YouTube —
- — The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce Hall —
- — Manitoba Authors Honoured at Manitoba Book Awards —
- — Gioia’s Poetry Set to Music as Hudson Review Turns 60 —
- — It’s time for difficult writing to step up —
- — Elegy for a Scarred Shoulder will debut May 1, 2008 at free reading and booksigning at 7:00 pm in Kalman Auditorium at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center, 18101 Oakwood Blvd in Dearborn, Michigan —
- — A Spring Bouquet of Poetry —
- — Nuyorican Poets Cafe celebrates 35 years of odes —
- — He currently writes for the New York Review of Books and is Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He answered your questions on the state of poetry today. [links to MP3] —
- — Fifteen months in India in the early 1960s had a lasting influence on Allen Ginsberg. —
- — The metrical pattern, with its short, tumbling line, is sometimes known as “skeltonics” —
- — Groundbreaking Book: Ariel, by Sylvia Plath —
- — Cinderella Schools for Writers —
- — Former beat movement member Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize —
Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation, by Some Chinese Intellectuals
Ach, my appt at the pain clinic got moved back a week, due to a conference. You’d think a pain clinic consultation would be zippy.
How to be a jerk
1. Read a lukewarm review of your book on Amazon.
2. Explain to reader how she is mistaken.
3. Encourage deletion of reader’s review.
4. Have friends / fellow authors harass reviewer?
5. Have Private Investigator dig up personal information on reviewer. (?!)
6. There is no #6.
7. Amazon bans the reviewer.
8. Profit?
(there’s a boycott amazon group at Facebook BTW.)
And Writers call for 1 May Amazon, eBay boycott
…RSS feed backlog.
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Poetry News:
- — In a sequence about T.S. Eliot in California with his love interest Emily Hale, the couple visits the In-N-Out hamburger chain —
- — At the point where one stage of our lives draws to a close and we are about to enter the next stage, there is always room for the hope of great things —
- — Larry Matsuda & Tess Gallagher —
- — John Hartley Williams is impressed by the responses to his tricky exercise on adapted adages —
- — Via extremely rare recordings, Radio Beats will also feature the voices of other seminal American poets including Anne Sexton, Beat-era godfather Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Beat icon Allen Ginsberg —
- — The poems that Auden came to dislike, including “Spain,” “Sir, no man‘ enemy,” and “September 1, 1939,” are not to be found here —
- — Jeffery Brown reports on how poetry publishers keep turning out new material in today’s fast-paced commercial media culture —
- — Allen Ginsberg, American poet and Buddhist, was also eloquent about dictators like Than Schwe: In a work he called “Wichita Vortex Sutra”¦” —
“…it‘ more like copping-a-feel reading. There‘ something yucky about it ….” Well I guess that argument does apply to poetry, nowadays, above all, if you agree with his reasoning.
There’s more here at this article too, which says “… longer-standing online ventures include Blackbird [which is fresh btw], failbetter.com, storySouth, Drunken Boat, and The Barcelona Review. Newer online journals ““ Memorious, GutCult, Small Spiral Notebook ” pop up on the NewPages site.”
(This was the last short story collection I read — if you don’t count Sentence — and it was great.)
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Poetry News:
- — The Happy Endings Foundation hoax —
- — Vendor of verse: It’s personal at NYC street ‘poem shop’ —
- — “Poetry arises out of a mind that feels itself in some way to be cracked” —
- — Editorial: A Muse Unplugged —
- — In three books, over eight years, Matthea Harvey has moved to the front of the pack of interesting poets writing in English —
- — New Tay disaster: William McGonagall faces challenge to title of world’s worst poet —
- — Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts —
- — A monument to the outstanding poet Joseph Brodsky will be set up nearby the American Embassy —
- — Former state poet laureate Grace Paley was remembered in a memorial service —
– Physics Nobel winner(s) will be announced today. This link’ll probably tell you the winners.
– Your cabbage: now with 100% more anti-depressants and oral contraceptives.
– Ron Paul was in Nashville this weekend & I attended. He seems like the only antidote to this, to me. I think our Constitutional Republic has been replaced by a corporate-controlled oligarchy. There are a bunch of videos of the rally at You Tube.
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