Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Tomorrow (Thursday October 23rd), enthusiasts will be able to pay tribute to John Milton for a full 12 hours by tuning into the first live internet broadcast of his marathon masterpiece, ‘Paradise Lost’. —
2. — Laundromat writer takes his poetry to the cleaners —
3. — Yeats poem sold at auction —
4. — A look at how an iconoclastic young writer revolutionized the poetic form. —
5. — Grove Press will soon release a previously-unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac —
6. — Lines for Hard Times from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast [MP3] —
7. — Call for Submissions–2010 Poet’s Market! —
8. — Interviewed by Cortney Davis, physician and poet Rafael Campo discusses the shared attributes of caregiving and writing. —
9. — Bard is given Beatles treatment —

Poetry News:

1. — American poets, beloved by critics, have never passed muster with the Swedes —
2. — 50 of your favourite words —
3. — One would have to be a genius oneself to grasp the full significance of Arthur Rimbaud, or at least have the ability to hold many opposed ideas in one’s mind at the same time and still function fully —
4. — Boston Orchestra Makes Typewriters Sing —
5. — Nick Flynn at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival —
6. — The TLS’s poetry editor wins the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2008 —
7. — Emily Dickinson, Immoral Hussy?! —
8. — Chicago-based writer Brandi Homan’s first full length collection of poems, Hard Reds, is a fun read chock full of all those things hard red might suggest —
9. — Back in high school, I fell in love with Bill Knott’s visionary poems, some only a few lines long —
10. — And despite the narrative and emotional tilt of the passage, this is a collage —
11. — I’m sure that most of my neighbors don’t know I’m a poet —

Bossa Nova Still Sexy At 50

Hey I’m back. That was an interesting experience. If anyone has any questions about the Vanderbilt Autonomic Dysfunction Center (like if you got here through a Google search) you can email me. I have to eat 10 GRAMS of salt per day. hahaha. I might try a pair of these too. More tests next month. What a weird life.

Poetry News:

1. — Thanks to poetry, X=imagine the possibilities —
2. — Salt To Expand Its Stable Of Free Online Literary Magazines —
3. — His meteoric poetic output began with his first professionally published poem at 16, but by 20 he stopped writing poetry and would later declare of his work: “All of that was just pig swill.” —
4. — Bookstore and poet in war of words over reading —
5. — The work of American poet George Oppen is not widely known to a general audience, but some scholars at the University at Buffalo think it should be —
6. — Reading can generate as much of a hit as writing, says poet and author Edward Hirsch on today’s episode of Titlepage.tv —

Poetry News:

1. — Poet to be retried for illegal publishing —
2. — The gendered reader —
3. — It’s easy to find books on race and gender in academic life, but only a handful focus on social class [link good for a few days] —
4. — With humor, wisdom and bite, these new collections by Minnesota poets speak to illness, aging, desire and missing loved one —
5. — We shouldn’t be surprised; the M.F.A. has been under attack for some time now [link good for a few days] —
6. — Judge Rules on What Makes a Poem —
7. — Lannan Announces 2007 Literary Awards & Fellowships and Poet Wins $200,000 —
8. — Hospital remembers traumatised WWI poets [has video] —
9. — Poets’ legacy will live on at their old home —

Coin Meter Unlocks Typewriter