Poetry News:
- — The newly released “Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook” pulls together as-yet uncollected essays and stories by Charles Bukowski, written from 1944-1990 —
- — Poetry being ‘frozen out of schools’ claims Children’s Laureate —
- — “A lot of my poems are informed by Detroit … Even when I wasn’t living in Detroit. I can’t help it.” —
- — The poetry of childhood is rarely simple; even an apparently straightforward poem of childhood memory, —
- — U.Va.’s Rita Dove to Receive Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award Oct. 18 —
- — Brad Pitt teams up with Warner Bros. for ‘The Odyssey’ —
- — Atkinson is as comfortable riffing on pop culture (Willie Nelson, “Three Days of the Condor”) as she is on Cicero, John Milton and Herodotus —
- — In this election year when the cost of health care looms large for most of us, anybody would profit from reading this sad lyric by Roger Fanning, an only child who nursed both parents to their expensive graves within a single year. —
Stories Of ‘Appalachia’ Unearthed In PBS Series
Eddie Holland is one of my favorite poets. I have a couple of very peripheral Motown Records stories (I was born in ‘67, after all.) Maybe I’ll write them out sometime.
The pride of Inkster, Michigan:
Marvelettes video.
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