- — Adrienne Rich studies the space between art and politics in new collection of essays —
- — Discover poetry @ ALA Annual Conference —
- — It’s official: A Murmuration of Starlings is the winner of the 2009 Colorado Book Award in Poetry, given by the Colorado Center for the Book. —
- — Famous Quotes: democracy vs plutocracy —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Graffiti’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — Former U.S. Poet Laureate: The U.S. needs better poets —
- — “Poets aren’t recession-proof,” said Tom Cassidy, who supports his “poetry addiction” with a full-time job —
- — In the second of our walks, we explore the towns and countryside beloved by the iconic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas —
- — The idea is simple: write a short poem involving both dogs and physics in one of the usual short verse forms (haiku, limerick, double dactyl, whatever, as long as it has some sort of rhyme and meter). —
- — The spirit of Hughes and Plath is alive in West Yorkshire —
- — Translated By with Shaindel Beers: Shaindel will interview A. M. Juster, translator of The Satires of Horace. [mp3] —
- — An Appreciation of Ai —
- — New research from Vanderbilt University indicates the way our brain handles how we move through space–including being able to imagine literally stepping into someone else’s shoes–may be related to how and why we experience empathy toward others —
- — The public has been stirred by the scandal related to translator Dao Kim Hoa, a member of the Vietnam Writers’ Association, who has reportedly stole some poems by poets Huu Thinh and Lo Ngan Sun. Hoa said that it is a misunderstanding. —
- — How frequently do I get “exciting” submissions? More frequently than I thought I would. —
- — Publisher says it was a mistake to offer gift cards to those who would give top ratings on Amazon or Barnes & Noble to a new textbook. —
- — Baseball has become unruly By Hunter S. Thompson —
- — One video features Divine Comedy imagery while the other features imagery from the Biblia Sacra (Sacred Bible); all of the artwork comes from the Park West Dali Collection. The videos give viewers an opportunity to enjoy Dali artwork in a unique way; the works are shown one after the other, each one seemingly morphing into the next, all set to music that perfectly complements the imagery. —
- — ‘Dante’s Inferno’ (PS3/X360) – 12 New Screens —
- — Poet Elizabeth Alexander, DJ Spooky to honor NAACP with new works —
- — Corso: The Last Beat — Film Review —
- — MS Won’t Stop Exene Cervenka —
- — Novelists such as Salman Rushdie and Italy’s Umberto Eco, as well as Nobel laureates in literature including Irish poet Seamus Heaney have also campaigned for him to be set free. —
I forgot: yesterday was Anna Akhmatova‘s birthday. This is a Lomonosov cup and saucer I got on Ebay shortly after they launched as Ebay.
Haven’t found out anything about it, since then, really. That photo doesn’t do it justice, because the rest of it is just gorgeous & the saucer is too. If you click on the picture you can see a bigger one.
