Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — There should be a place for more original poetry to be posted and shared - let’s start right here —
2. — Needed: Contemporary Visual Poetry for Poetry —
3. — Psalms offer source of inspiration for prayer —
4. — University Comes To Aid Of Literary Magazine —
5. — Here are 15 short poems as animated films. They’re the first in a series from Poetry Everywhere, a fresh initiative to introduce new audiences to poetry through cinema —
6. — Custom Ringtones From Poets.org —
7. — The UK’s biggest poetry competition, founded in 1978, attracts thousands of entries – here are this year’s winners —
8. — Mr. Williams founded the Jargon Society, a small publishing house that has introduced the works of little-known writers, photographers and artists —

A Veteran MAD Man Remains in the Fold

Yay, baseball. As always, there’s free baseball poetry in a PDF chapbook here. The Nashiville Sounds’ first home game is on the 11th.

Poetry News:

1. — Initially championed by TS Eliot, the poetry of Lynette Roberts has long since fallen out of fashion, but her voice remains fresh and challenging —
2. — MLB Poetry Previews —
3. — Inventory By Frances Richey —
4. — Frances Wilson’s The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth reveals a passionate, talented woman whose love for her brother defined her and finally destroyed her —
5. — Allen Grossman writes the poems that inspire poets —
6. — At home with Mary Jo Bang —
7. — How the complete works of four 20th-century poets with complicated publishing histories found their homes —
8. — 50 arts secrets revealed —
9. — Though it remains to be seen what will become of the new position, it augers well that the city has recognized a need to help foster the burgeoning literary scene. —

Poetry News:

1. — Blog or self-published (logroll) “reviews” are not reliable sources [link found here] —
2. — a unique film festival was held where poetry was the focus of the cinematic medium —
3. — Exploring Gertrude Stein’s nooks and crannies —
4. — Synchronously with the growing decline of the novel we are witnessing the beginning of a new golden age of poetry and the interesting spectacle of hard- headed publishers armed with fat contracts scrambling to annex each new poet of promise who “swims within their ken,” according to George P. Brett, President of the Macmillan Company, who is in London on business —
5. — A PRIZED POET: Winner of prestigious award links art form to influences of daily life —
6. — I, too, throw it: Marianne Moore tossing out the first ball, opening day at Yankee Stadium —
7. — “The blood jet is poetry / There is no stopping it” —
8. — In The Circuit by Alice Notley —
9. — Stray Questions for: Kay Ryan —

Well this was an icky experience yesterday & only partially successful due to my freakishly malformed interior nasal septum environment. But it was a good try. (Still having ear problems & quite a lot of pain.) Getting the septum fixed in Dec I think — I’m talking to the surgeon at Vanderbilt about it soon. They are supposed to be good, but, a.) it’s my face b.) it’s my freaking ***SKULL*** and c.) it’s my face. Plus like your brain is right there too, isn’t it?