- — It’s the birthday of the woman who wrote “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — / It gives a lovely light!” —
- — Charles Bukowski Stamp Running Out of Time —
- — Poem provides evidence that Anne Boleyn had numerous affairs —
- — Ancient Poet Joins WWE Smackdown —
- — Köhler painted the American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski— uninhibited, antisocial spokesman for drinking, fighting, and fucking; defender of the inescapable squalor, oppressiveness, and futility of life—in an earthy, visceral red. —
- — Honan channels the worst poet ever in Portland Stage’s ‘Real McGonagall’ —
- — The last time an opponent of the communist government died in Cuba during a hunger strike was 1972 with poet and activist Pedro Luis Boitel. —
- — As a young child, Edward Hirsch mistook Emily Bronte’s work for his grandfather’s. —
- — It’s not possible to bring back the dead, but yesterday the final work of Australian poet Dorothy Porter was bought vividly to life by actress Cate Blanchett in a sold-out Things On Sunday event at the Malthouse Theatre —
- — Rare Disease Day designed to raise public awareness of uncommon illnesses —
- — At the age of 17 Sylvia Plath referred to herself in her diary as ‘the girl who wanted to be god’, this use of the past tense perhaps foreshadowing her early demise. —
- — Bolano’s early novella reimagines the last days of Peruvian writer Vallejo during Spanish Civil War. —
- — Poems by Olympic poet-in-residence soar with athletes —
- — Book Review | ‘Leavings’ by Wendell Berry —
- — If Emily Dickinson had wanted to make a spectacle of herself, she could have wandered solo into a disreputable “rum resort” to sit on the lap of a not-so-gentlemanly scholar, as Jerome Charyn has her do in his daring novel about the Emily who might have been —
- — The Millay Society plans to open Steepletop, the home of the late poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, to the public for tours starting May 28. —
- — Israel turns down bid to teach Palestinian poems in schools —
- — When is a consonant a vowel? —
- — Feds push for tracking cell phones —
- — In poem after marvellous poem, Robertson creates a series of elusive identities. —
- — Keep and Give Away is driven by, as one reviewer has said, the central paradox of loving and letting go. —
- — 112-year-old Mother Ruby Muhammad plans to sing, read poetry on stage —
- — 5 Questions with Gary Young, Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County —
- — Michelangelo drawings of his muse go on display —
- — Juliana Gray, assistant professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Alfred University, received the 2010 Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry —
- — Reviews of new Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, Romance, Science-Fiction, and Graphic Novels [and poetry] —
- — Nazi spoons, robots vie for oddest title —
- — In this week’s poem, a beautiful nocturne, the New York poet Samuel Menashe finds transcendence in everyday images —
- — To recognize and help celebrate the start of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, P&PC goes into its archive to reprint this posting on Olympians and Olympic poetry. —
- — Five Questions with Collin Kelley, author of “Conquering Venus.” —
- — Ask a Poet: Why do women seem so normal at the workplace or in a board meeting or in evening classes, but then when you get to know them, you find out that they’re just so damn unreasonable and complicated? I like your column, but I bet you’re obnoxious, too. Just like the rest of them. —
- — Roger Robinson responds to your poems on fatherhood —
- — The dark horse candidate who would be Oxford’s new professor of poetry —
- — `Forty Rules of Love’ tells story of Rumi’s life —
- — A piece of history is lost as bookstore closes —
- — Poet-professor takes aim at women’s issues in ‘Hot Bullets’ —
- — Poem of the week: A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation by Aphra Behn —
- — In my memory it goes like this: I wrote the poem in one sitting after watching a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in January or February. The poem just sprang out of me, needing no revision. Everything in the poem happened just as I describe it. But here’s the truth: I keep a little “events” journal, and I still have the drafts of the poem, so I decided to check. —
- — … Louisville man charged with threatening to kill president in poem. —
- — Terza Rima – a defence of rhyme —
- — free verse done right —
- — Vile Poetry Hardly Worst Unwanted Detritus Stuffed in SF Weekly Box —
- — Fairy Tale Review: Call for The Brown Issue —
- — A short story collection by a Vanderbilt University professor described as “an amazingly original Flannery O’Connor/Loretta Lynn collision” is one of five nominees for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. —
- — This is the first Plath audio release in more than three decades with new, previously unreleased recordings!! —
- — “Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present,” the first serious anthology of law-related poetry ever published in the United States, will become available March 1 from the University of Iowa Press. —
- — Poetry magazine Free Lunch ends its run —
- — The Saturday poem – On Lacking the Killer Instinct by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin From The Sun-fish —
- — Tuesday and Wednesday this week I had the great fortune to interact with Kay Ryan, our current U.S. Poet Laureate. She came to the University of Tennessee to give a poetry reading and interact with students and various campus groups. —
- — Fringe interview: Poet Bryan Roth on the Meaning of Poetry —
- — Covers and texts from underground poetry journals in “Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Issue #10” at White Columns, a show organized by Thurston Moore, Byron Coley and Eva Prinz. —
- — Chickens ‘one-up’ humans in ability to see color —
- — A dispute with Borges’s estate has left works he produced with the translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni in publishing limbo —
- — “Learning to Write the MFA Poem” [by Nin Andrews] —
- — Beware of Fake Awards —
- — John Ashbery Visits, Presents His Poetry —
- — Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Intricacies of Black Lives, Dies at 73 New York Times —
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- — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – join Rachelle as she talks to Ruth Forman A Poetry for the People alum, Ruth Forman is an award-winning young writer and filmmaker. Her first book of poetry, We Are The Young Magicians, won the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. In its starred and boxed review, Booklist said, “Ruth Forman[’s]… poems are alive and kicking; they pound and pulse with a hard-won sense of self, beauty, femininity, strength and righteous indignation.” Renaissance, Ruth Forman’s second book, is written with the same irrepressible voice. A graduate of UC Berkeley and the famed USC film school, Ms Forman works to inspire others with the power and magic of language, frequently collaborating on music and film projects, and providing readings and workshops to a wide variety of audiences. She most recently received the 2001 Durfee Artist Fellowship to continue work on Mama John, her first novel, as well as a third volume of poetry. [mp3] —
- — Margo Jefferson Reminisces about Langston Hughes [mp3] —
- — This program is devoted to two classic tales of terror. We begin with Bram Stoker’s “Dracula’s Guest,” which almost makes you hear the sound of the wolves on the windswept moor, as delivered by the regular performer on television’s “Daily Show,” Aasif Mandvi. Second, a privileged aristocracy can’t cheat death in this chiller by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death.” The reader is Fionnula Flanagan. [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Patrick Lawler: Feeding the Fear of the Earth is out on Many Mountains Moving Press. Patrick Lawler’s two earlier collections of poetry are: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (U of Georgia Press) and reading a burning book (Basfal Books). He has been awarded fellowships by the NY State Foundation for the Arts, the NEA, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. In addition to being an Associate Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where he teaches Environmental Writing and Nature Literature, he teaches creative writing at Onondoga Community College. He is also part of the Creative Writing Program at LeMoyne College, where he teaches creative writing, playwriting, and writing for performance. [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Ted Mathys: Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils, forthcoming from Coffee House Press, and Forge, from the same publisher. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in such venues as American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and Jubilat. His work has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, and Verse, 1994 – 2004: The Second Decade, as well as translated into Italian for La nuova poesia Americana: New York. Originally from Ohio, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Berlin, and New York and currently studies international affairs at Tufts University in Boston. [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Jerry Williams: With breakup and divorce rates so high in the United States, who wouldn’t want to read an eclectic volume of poems on the subject? Therapeutic and transformative, edgy yet sincere, enlightening, wideranging, female and male, gay and straight, innocent and guilty, It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Breakup incorporates work from as many different perspectives as possible in order to explore the exquisite pain of heartbreak. Such top-shelf contributors as National Book Award finalist Kim Addonizio, bestselling author Denis Johnson, former poet laureate Mark Strand, Edward Hirsch, Maxine Kumin, David Lehman, and many others proudly offer up their wisdom on the various pains (and humors) of heartbreak. In this stunning collection, readers will not find false hope, but the real hope of genuine sympathy in love, hate, fury, and recuperation. [mp3] —
- — Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay personified the life of a liberated, bohemian poet in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. [mp3] —
- — PBS: Former Maryland poet laureate and National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton died Saturday at age 73 after a long battle with cancer. [mp3] —
- — Join Beth Chang As She reviews E.E. Cummings Erotic Poems & Honor Comes Hard Wrintings from The California Prison System Honor Yard Edited by Luis J Rodriguez & Lucinda Thomas Prison writing has a long and illustrious history in the United States – home of the modern correctional system. In the first decade of the 21st century, this country also garnered the distinction of having more prisoners per capita than any other nation in the world. We need to hear from the incarcerated writings of incarcerated men and women. The largest state prison system is in California with some 175,000 people behind bars in close to 35 facilities. Yet the only approved Honor Yard in the Department of Corrections is at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster, California. These are the men that despite often-horrendous crimes – many are lifers, with a few going on three decades – have proven their capacity to dream, to create, to write, to change. From poems, to stories, to novel excerpts, to reportage, to personal essays – and a few drawings – “Honor Comes Hard” depicts what can happen to people who are given, as Clarence Darrow expressed many years ago, ‘a chance to live’. The work is drawn from writing classes that Lucinda Thomas helped organize in the Honor Yard over several years, and from workshops conducted by Luis J. Rodriguez on most Sundays, for eight hours a day, through eight months in 2007-2008. [mp3] —
- — Join Rafael and Brett-Candace as she talks Erica Miriam Fabri – Erica Miriam Fabri is the author of “Dialect of a Skirt,” a collection of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press (November 2009). She is a writer and performer and a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and received her MFA in Poetry from The New School. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including: New York Quarterly, Texas Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Hanging Loose Magazine, Good Foot Magazine, Paper Street and more. She has performed and facilitated workshops and seminars at: Cooper Union School of the Arts, New York University, Columbia University, Penn State University, The Brooklyn Public Library, Poet’s House, The Fortune Society, The Robin Hood Foundation, and the PEN Prison Writing Program. She has worked on projects as a writer, editor and performance director for The New York Knicks, HBO and Nickelodeon Television. [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Show | Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils, forthcoming from Coffee House Press, and Forge, from the same publisher. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in such venues as American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and Jubilat. His work has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, and Verse, 1994 – 2004: The Second Decade, as well as translated into Italian for La nuova poesia Americana: New York. Originally from Ohio, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Berlin, and New York and currently studies international affairs at Tufts University in Boston. [mp3] —
- — Lucille Clifton, Reading, 21 May 1996 video —
- — “Hole” is from Naomi Ayala’s “This Side of Early” (Curbstone Press, 2008). Her first collection, “Wild Animals on the Moon,” was published in 1997, and a third is forthcoming. She lives in Washington, D.C., and works as an education consultant, translator and teacher. [mp3] —
- — Lucille Clifton with Quincy Troupe, Conversation, 21 May 1996 from Lannan Foundation video —
- — Willie Perdomo riffs on discovering the work of Hughes for the first time, as part of PEN’s Tribute to Langston Hughes. [mp3] —
- — The Expatriates By Anne Sexton from Poem of the Day [mp3] —
- — The Poetry Show: Friends from Cabrillo College honor the departed poet Jeff Towle [mp3] —
- — Poetry from In Celebration of the Muse, hosted by Susan Freeman [mp3] —
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- — Archival recordings of poet Anne Sexton, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1960. [mp3] —
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Poetry News For February 23, 2010
Poetry News For January 8, 2010
- — Distinguished Poet and Playwright Afaa Weaver to Read at APSU —
- — bpNichol Lane and the place of poetry —
- — Allen Tate’s wife, Helen, remembers her late husband and discusses his role in the Fugitive Movement —
- — It must have tickled Plath, particularly, to be mentioned in the same breath as Marianne Moore who snubbed Plath on a number of occasions —
- — I couldn’t ask for better news to kick off a year: I’ve learned that my poem “Unit of Measure” has been selected by guest editor Amy Gerstler for inclusion in the 2010 Best American Poetry anthology, which will be published in the fall.
— - — A fiercely independent and seriously spunky grand dame of quick wit, tremendous wisdom and enormous talent, poet Leila (Danny) Pepper passed away New Year’s Eve at the age of 96 —
- — There’s a reason we don’t hear “T-Will” attached to Ted Williams; it just sounds silly. —
- — Seeking Establishment recognition of Beat hangout’s importance —
- — Writers’ groups lobby US Congress against Google books deal —
- — Serkis uncovers Ian Dury’s poetic depths —
- — The editors, Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz, are pleased to announce a call for submissions for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. —
- — Literature After Taboo —
- — School Library Book Returned 73 Years Overdue —
- — North Bay poets offer thoughts on end of ‘aughties’ — in Haiku form —
- — One is a series of poems examining some Japanese myths as well as female identity in anime. There are some really wonderful archetypes in Japanese mythology you just don’t see in Western folk tales – avenging/rescuing sisters is a common trope, as are disappearing/transforming wives. —
- — MARGARET RAAB: In Memoriam —
- — His literary influences include many classic poets such as Walt Whitman, Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, Walcott, WS Graham, WS Merwin and Geoffrey Hill. —
- — Anne Sexton reads “The Starry Night” you tube —
- — premature babies who are exposed to music by 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gain weight faster — and therefore become stronger — than those who don’t —
- — Schools are failing to stretch pupils after resorting to football chants and rap lyrics to get them interested in poetry, according to Sir Andrew Motion —
- — A group of writers and artists are creating a unique calligraphy work with 1000 poems printed on a 1000-meter-long piece of silk —
- — Poetry Picks — The Best Books of 2009 —
- — James Tate at the Key West Literary Seminar. [mp3] —
Poetry News For November 25, 2009
For those of you celebrating Thanksgiving this week, have a happy Thanksgiving.
- — scorching criticism —
- — Psychological therapy 32 times more cost effective at increasing happiness than money —
- — Can Nick Cave rival Bad Sex Award favorite Philip Roth? —
- — A list of Thanksgiving poems for family and friends. —
- — Just in time for Thanksgiving – a PennSound podcast excerpting poems of giving thanks from the PennSound archive [mp3] —
- — Comestibles that are too tempting to terrorists include: gravy…. —
- — A Dinner to Make Even Futurists Happy —
- — Providence Poet Wins National Book Award —
- — Framing W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten at the National Theatre —
- — Urgent: Check Your Withholdings (Americans) —
- — In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O’Connor collection “The Complete Stories” was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest’s 60-year history & the Flannery O’Connor episode of Religion and Ethics Newsweekly —
- — Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Asshole, and the Haiku of Fight Club —
- — Poetry reading honors late haiku professor —
- — Co-vocabularists may be interested to know that the promised broadcast on Oulipo is now available online here —
- — Serious plagiarists have been at it forever; it’s a way of life —
- — Writing poems doesn’t mean he’s gay —
- — Chapbooks Make Great Stocking Stuffers —
- — Director Andy Goldberg links speech with movement in his Bard boot camp. —
- — A lot of archived audio and video files from the Poem Present Reading and Lecture series at U of Chicago —
- — Poetry Series Spurs Debate on the Use of an Old Slur Against Latinos —
- — Fathers and fatherhood have spawned much great poetry, and this month poet and creative writing teacher Roger Robinson wants to read your take on this most intimate of subjects —
- — PEN American Center is accepting submissions and nominations for the 2010 Literary Awards. —
- — Weekly Poems: Keith Waldrop, 2009 National Book Award Winner from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — A “boxer” recites as her opponent looks on at the 7th annual national poetry boxing competition in 2007. (Photo courtesy of the Japan Reading Boxing Association) —
- — True poetry fans ‘love’ Dante’s Inferno game —
- — When is a Poetry Workshop not Really a Poetry Workshop? —
- — The 11 Most Fashionable Pulitzer Prize Winners —
- — Miserablist Larkin loved his mum and dad after all —
- — Robo-Rocky vs. Edgar Allen Poe vs. JCVD. Fight! Fight! Fight! —
- — City boss ’shocked woman with vile email’ quoting Latin poet —
- — Books on Basho and his haiku at the library —
- — Portland’s Gertrude Press and The Little Journal That Could —
- — Reading John Ashbery’s Poetry —
- — Little Richard is asking fans to pray for his speedy recovery after undergoing hip surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville —
- — it seems to combine elements both from that safe-as-houses mediaeval form, the sestina, and from the intricate pantoum: its accumulative structure also suggests folk-tales such as The House That Jack Built. —
- — New collection of T.S. Eliot’s letters sheds light on the poet’s day job and troubled home life —
Poetry News For October 6, 2009
- — Why would a poet, whose business is language, seek outside help with putting together a poetry manuscript? For me, the answer is complicated, but I can readily think of a one-word answer: contests. —
- — Veronica Forrest-Thomson, (1947-1975) brought her interests in critical theory to bear on arrestingly subtle and original poetry. —
- — Bats, to me, are cute. —
- — Leonard Cohen’s Temple of Doom —
- — It is a mistake when translators translate an obscure word in one language to make it easier to understand in a new. I try to go with my judgement of how awkward, hard, stuck up, dusty, a word is. —
- — Poetry needed! —
- — Lange, Dorothea, photographer. Fourth of July, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Rural filling stations become community centers and general loafing grounds. The men in the baseball suits are on a local team which will play a game nearby. They are called the Cedargrove Team —
- — Poems without a definite meaning tend to engage a reader’s attention more than those that can be clearly understood and analyzed by the intellect. Ambiguous poetry has a mystery that fascinates.
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*** - — You may accidentally get caught by something you didn’t mean to read. Like a column on poetry. —
*** - — I think there should be a level of enjoyment, of ideas and ways of expressing them, new things the reader has yet to be exposed, but also a healthy flirtation with the uncomfortable. —
*** - — Elizabeth Bishop Pulitzer Prize-winning poet —
*** - — “I wanted to write poems of religious devotion in a less obvious and, I hope, more humble way — one people might more easily identify with,” says poet Franz Wright —
*** - — Why do some book publishers seem intent on wandering off a cliff? —
*** - — Anne Sexton Letters Part I —
*** - — The engravings, drawings, watercolors and handmade books of William Blake, the artist, poet and irritated ecstatic at the Morgan Library & Museum gets the fall season off to a transporting start. —
*** - — The contest invites Filterfresh customers to write a tribute to the celebrated beverage, explaining why “Coffee is the Greatest Beverage of All Time!” —
*** - — Fall Guide: Books: The Southern Festival of Books, new work by Alice Randall, Madison Smartt Bell and others jumpstarts the literary fall —
*** - — One burning question I remember having at the time was: Why doesn’t poetry rhyme anymore? —
*** - — Concrete Poetry – Let It Hit Your Head —
*** - — Whipping up a storm over the BBC shipping forecast sacking —
*** - — Some may say Shampoo is eclectic to a fault. I’d argue rather it’s been generous, broad rather than narrow, and actually quite consistent in its poetic pitch over the last ten years —
*** - — Chapbook Makes Its Debut – I’m so excited and grateful about this. Please check out the amazing job qarrtsiluni has done with the poems. —
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Poetry News For August 7, 2009
- — DEMOCRACY IN VERSE AND ART; James Oppenheim Disagrees with Some of the Views Expressed by Josephine Preston Peabody and Pleads for Every Form of Expression. By James Oppenheim. January 30, 1916, —
- — Poetry Corner: Missing by Frances Cornford from mirror.co.uk – Life & Style – Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry Corner —
- — Oprah faces $1 trillon lawsuit —
- — You Can Help Save Small Mags —
- — KC poet Linda Rodriguez gets noticed on Garrison Keillor’s radio showcase —
- — Francesca Rheannon talks with children’s book author and illustrator Peter Brown about THE CURIOUS GARDEN and Katy Lorah of Friends of The High Line. Also, poet Arecelis Girmay talks with guest host, Christian MacEwen —
- — Living Writers w T Hetzel WCBN FM Ann Arbor 88.3 FM – poet Robert Fanning [mp3] —
- — Madonna ‘borrowed Sexton love poem’ —
- — Wallace Stevens’s poems are ‘elusive to the point of incomprehension.’ Not so Robert Frost’s. —
- — Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche | Cynical Letter, A Letter to Marpa, Sound Cycle (Aham) (7:05, Recorded Boulder, Colorado, March 1974) — [mp3] —
have a nice weekend
Poetry News For June 23, 2009
- — Jordanian court convicts poet over Quranic verses —
- — As to why such ethical concerns are important, look at Linda Gray Sexton’s 1994 book “Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton,” which is nothing if not a cautionary tale —
- — Poems play an important role here. Nothing influences Iranians like poetry. And these days, everything is about influence and fear. —
- — Family, friends mourn Iranian woman whose death was caught on video —
- — Poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler is teaming up with two younger poets, Cassie Poe and LaShaun (Phoenix) Moore, to write a collaborative poem about summer in the city —
- — Here’s the last published poem by late Brooklyn poet laureate, Ken Siegelman, who died on Friday at his home in Gravesend —
- — mistakes in Iqbal’s poem in handbook, seven suspended —
- — A nap that includes a period of REM sleep seems to improve performance on word-association tests, a new study shows. —
- — On the podcast with Alok Jha are Poet Laureate Ruth Padel, University College London’s Steve Jones, and Cambridge University’s Gillian Beer, to discusses Darwin’s writings and what he read. [mp3] —
- — What is American about this poem? —
- — Tim Burton Unveils Alice in Wonderland Stills —
- — “Please forward me the names of poets and the title of poems which you feel have some connection to a miraculous birth” —
- — When Einstein and Bohr clashed over quantum theory —
- — Poem of the week: Frieze by David Constantine from Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk by Carol Rumens —
- — Colbert Report: Paul Muldoon with Stephen Colbert —
- — At meeting of scholarly presses, directors trade stories about layoffs, consider ways to better connect themselves to their universities and hear some dire warnings. —
- — It’s good that painters and poets mock politicians | Germaine Greer —
- — In Studio Performances: Neko Case 6-5-09 Recording engineer: Steven Kray —
- — “I have always believed in Jean Cocteau’s dictum that the artist should find out what he can do and then do something else.” —
- — Last week, after Pasha Malla delivered his acceptance speech at the Trillium Book Awards — he won for his debut collection of short stories, The Withdrawal Method — we (almost) immediately asked him if we could share it with our readers. —
- — Translator accused of stealing poems —
Poetry News For May 21, 2009
- — The Sonnets at 400 and also Did Shakespeare Want To Suppress His Sonnets? —
- — Poet’s Choice: ‘Turning’ By Janice Harrington —
- — We Got a Yeats, You Got a Wallace Stevens —
- — Dharma Poetry: Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche —
- — Monkeys playing a game similar to “Let’s Make A Deal” have revealed that their brains register missed opportunities and learn from their mistakes. —
- — Sadly, the mythology of poet Bob Kaufman almost rivals all we have left of his poetry. —
- — a nervy and rich collection of poems in the voices of women both infamous (Moors murderer Myra Hindley and fascist moll Unity Mitford) and writerly (Carson McCullers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jane Bowles) —
- — Her latest collection of poetry proves Frieda Hughes to be a writer capable of standing on her own —
- — And then there’s the triumph of free verse, which to many people turns poetry into largely banal or incoherent stream of consciousness prose —
- — Naughty Classical Chinese Poetry, And What It Means Today —
- — From Page to Pixels: The Evolution of Online Journals —
- — Boyd argues that art, including fiction, is a unique human adaptation whose chief function is “for improving human cognition, cooperation and creativity” —
- — Diane di Prima — a beat poet, prose writer, playwright, teacher and Excelsior resident — has been named San Francisco’s fifth poet laureate —
- — Yoko Ono to judge Twitter haiku competition —
- — Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites audience to jury duty —
- — Pet Haiku Contest: my top 26 picks (so far) —
- — Pa. poet wins undergraduate literary prize —
- — Pinoy poet to receive Italy’s top prize —
- — The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, HD and the Imagists —
- — ‘YouTube’ for books signs up Random House, Simon & Schuster —
- — Dahlia Ravikovitch, one of Israel’s major poets, played a formative role in both the poetic culture of the state and the undoing of the male dominance in Israeli poetry and culture. —
- — Daring poet mortified by blasphemy case —
- — Are litmags facing more funding cuts? —
Here is another Ebay scan. New Poetry 1964. [20mb PDF] If there are any copyright objections I’ll take it down.
Poetry News For April 13, 2009
Poetry News For April 13, 2009 < -- not really haha.
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This is the best scanning job I can do right now. I don’t have PDF editing software. Just one of my cheapo past Ebay finds I’d like to share.
1961 American Poetry Now edited by Sylvia Plath PDF
If there are any copyright objections
I’ll take the PDF file down.
I saw the specialist in Baltimore last week. Baltimore has a good vibe – I like it. I was only there for a day. Met up with my brother, who took the train down, and had dinner, which was nice. I’m going to be an Aunt again. 
My visit with the Dr. was very thorough – almost 4 hours – & I found out a lot of things I didn’t know. The whites of my eyes are turning blue-grey. (!) My elbows bend back the “wrong way” 20 degrees – she said that I score 6 out of 9 on the Beighton scale. I’m going to try to get some braces for my fingers. Scanning that chapbook took an embarrassingly long time haha.
I don’t know what the status of this site is. I hope to be back after a while. I’m still recovering from the trip last week. That is from a person who, when I attended college in my mid-20’s, worked 3 part-time jobs and went to school full-time etc etc. I’m not used to this new mode. Frustrating, grrrr! I made Easter dinner for me and Darryl and then slept for 6 hours. Good thing we never had kids!
