Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Articles in Sep/Oct 2008 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
2. — Eminem reveals life behind the fame in ‘The Way I Am’ —
3. — A newly discovered and previously unknown piece of wartime propaganda by Dylan Thomas is to premier at an annual festival to the poet. —
4. — A judge was wrong to reject expert literary analysis of the poem “Parked Cars and Potholes in the City of Mississauga,” an appeal court heard yesterday —
5. — Making poetry a vital part of life —
6. — Having worked in numerous positions in the small press world, I continue to be annoyed by the oddly prevalent idea that putting out more books — including those of low quality which you think will sell — somehow guarantees success —
7. — Barack Obama carries the book of poems in his right arm as he and his wife Michelle leave their daughters’ school —
8. — The Beat Generation, Before It Was Cool —
9. — On the one hand, there are those poets who excel in revealing everything, yawping and ranting their way to rhapsody…. —

Lucinda Williams Shines A Light On Darkness

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Poetry News:

1. — Poetic Theaters, Romantic Fevers [one can always check NYT for poetry-related articles here] —
2. — Sonnets served with a slice of pi —
3. — Revisiting North Carolina’s finest poet —
4. — “This is a clip from the new Bob Dylan movie. It stars Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan and David Cross as Allen Ginsberg.” —
5. — Palestinian Poet Blasts Infighting —
6. — He felt that doing the work was a rehearsal for the work itself, and each rehearsal then became its own work [Thanks to Helen Frost for the link] —
7. — Poetry of the beach —

This is from Crossing the Water. (I disagree & like it better than Ariel and I like how the metaphors act like small bombs of surprise as you read the poems.) And I wish she’d've written more poems like this because whoo:

Maudlin

Mud-mattressed under the sign of the hag
In a clench of blood, the sleep-talking virgin
Gibbets with her curse the moon’s man
Faggot-bearing Jack in his crackless egg:

Hatched with a claret hogshead to swig
He kings it, navel-knit to no groan,
But at the price of a pin-stitched skin
Fish-tailed girls purchase each white leg.

Poetry News:

1. — The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife by Jeannine Hall Gailey [congrats Jeannine] —
2. — ” … he cut through all the rubbish and I think that should be admired” —
3. — Art work marks end of poet’s walk —
4. — Momaday named state’s centennial poet laureate —
5. — I’d be out playing and I would hear a poem way off —
6. — They’ve convinced Congress to hold hearings on the matter [Yay! and you can keep an eye out here: there is an RSS feed] —
7. — First interview with JK Rowling —
8. — “Damn My Captain . . . I’m almost sorry I ever wrote the poem . . .” —

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