Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Some poems seem inaccessible. But when one resonates, it changes our perceptions.
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2. — Poet Cathy Smith Bowers has made a career of nudging writers along —
3. — An icon sees poetic justice — and a conspiracy —
4. — Fairfield U offers new MFA in writing —
5. — An interview with poet Jorie Graham —
6. — Writers awarded Stegner Fellowships —

Nikki Giovanni at TSU today has been rescheduled, TBA.

Poetry News:

1. — Says “Vers Libre” Is Prose, Not Poetry; Robert Underwood Johnson Deplores Excesses of Ultra-Modern Writers in Rebellion Against What They Call Tyranny of Form By Joyce Kilmer —
2. — Working Collaboration at The Wave Poetry Farm —
3. — the Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear an appeal from poet Amiri Baraka —
4. — Two Requiems, different paths —
5. — The Double Life of Robert Louis Stevenson —
6. — Former VT State Poet a finalist for National Book Awards and also winners probably announced here tonight —

Keep your fingers crossed for me today.

Poetry News:

1. — We old white geezers never heard of him until last month when his suit against the governor of New Jersey reached the U.S. Supreme Court. —
2. — Trial Run for LongPen in Bookstores —
3. — …villanelles aren’t standard fare on the wings of most category B prisons —
4. — 2007 National Book Festival —
5. — Poetry-only shop well-versed in success —
6. — The Problem Solvers investigate Vanity Press companies —
7. — Sharing memories of poet Anne Sexton —

Still over 100F. Ugh.

Yesterday I was walking to my car after work when I saw a giant black mushroom cloud. Bert the Turtle would have been very disappointed. I just stood there and did not duck and cover. (And I am old enough to have experienced nuke drills in school.)

Some adorability.

Does anyone have a really good (tomato) gazpacho recipe they would care to share?

Poetry News:

1. — ‘Penelopiad’ Opens on Stage —
2. — What makes Stevens tough to interpret is his unique diction, which is a mixture of the hymn, the ornate and the bizarre —
3. — Inductee Sanders turns poetic —
4. — In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black writers —
5. — Visiting poets use tools like ‘wormhole haiku’ to inspire young writers —
6. — Here is an awesome one minute trailer for the Roethke Readings —
7. — How does one journey from opacity to transparency? —
8. — what a gifted stand-up artist or actor does with face, body and voice, poetry does with the rhythms of words and the rhythms of thought, in language —

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Yay!: my new niece, Abigail, and some word puzzles. (And physics.)