Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Moving Pictures Have Commercialized Writers; Says Charles Hanson Towne, Poet and Editor, Who No Longer Finds Magazine Editing an Adventure, as It Was Years Ago —
2. — Reason lives in a haunted house —
3. — Although her beloved team is not in this year’s World Series, she shares a poem about being at the event years ago with her daughter [mp3] —
4. — The most ambitious contemporary poets tend to be haunted by the ridiculousness of poetry, its irrelevance, its pretentiousness … —
5. — A Poet in the Supermarket By Dana Gioia —
6. — Peter McDonald is delighted by Ciaran Carson’s translation of the blood-and-guts Irish saga The Tain —

Wow that baseball game took forever. That’s OK though.

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?

Poetry News:

1. — Paul Guest, a poet who teaches at West Georgia, will be in New York Wednesday to accept the prestigious $50,000 Whiting Prize and Whiting Award Winners Announced — [congrats]
2. — Indian politician and wife jailed for murder plot against Hindu poetess —
3. — Solitary Woman in a Glass House: Visual Translations of Emily Dickinson Poems —
4. — Poetry unlocks woman’s memory —
5. — She also sent poems, letters, packages saturated in perfume, a petrified alligator head, dead beetles and other items —
6. — From Old to New Media: Blog Begets Publishing House —
7. — These excerpts from Moore’s letters feature her correspondences with numerous literary figures, including Pound, Cummings, and William Carlos Williams —
8. — 13 Percent of Collection Misplaced, Survey Finds —
9. — Our findings suggest that it is in fact Democrats, not Republicans, who tend to favor the DH. In addition, we find no effect for respondents”™ proximity to American or National League teams, though older respondents were consistently more likely to oppose the rule. —

Today is my honey’s birthday. It’s celebration week.

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Poetry News:

1. — ‘Poet cannibal’ arrested —
2. — Editor meets Henry Rollins —
3. — Writers Debate the Net’s Effect on Their Craft —
4. — A Lawyer, a Poet, and a Love Rekindled —
5. — Poet Hass’ ‘Time’ does not live up to ‘Praise’ —
6. — Robert Lowell’s 1960 statement regarding the state of poetry not only pitted the Beats against “cat-nip” academics, but publicly declared them to be a force —
7. — Writing Aplenty on the Web, but Where’s the Cash? —
8. — …but back to the apparently quite lucrative Beat industry —
9. — The first story on this program is a Eudora Welty classic about the rebellious daughter of a somewhat bizarre Southern family, “Why I Live at the P.O.”, read by Stockard Channing [mp3] —
10. — Writers, publishers gather to celebrate Twin Cities literary scene —
11. — Oct 24: Sonia Sanchez to Present next Joseph N. Patterson Lecture (Winston-Salem) —
12. — Poet Laureate Simic: ‘I grew up bent over a chessboard’ —
13. — Series A: Evan Willner and Joshua Corey —

“Our idea was to go beyond merely displaying how badly a baseball can be thrown.”

The Reanimation of Ted Williams’ Frozen Head

It is almost imperceptible — the twinkle of ice rime thawing
in an interior steel room filled with exaggerated gases,
near a regal super-neuro-unificator machine.

Everything is silent but for a discontinuous tinkling,
which means the enfolding of the field begins,
which is a prognostication of the heft of the bat,

which means science is in the catbird seat,
conquering the poke and stir of ashes,
so the scientists all incant: whosoever

liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
The super-neuro-unificator goes “ding”
and Ted Williams’ head twitches, and

Ted Williams’ head opens his eyes,
and the scientists all step forward,
and the scientists peer down

like Zeuses. They ask: tell us how
it was, when the air was good,
and tell us about baseball

and green grass Sundays of
left field. Please do
begin.

I haven’t posted a poem/draft here in … forever. So here’s a newish one from last month. My poetic output has been slim for a while, due to not feeling too hot, but I’m starting to feel better. I’m pretty slow and picky during the best of times, anyway. Bishopian, even. (I recently took apart my book manuscript & halved it to chapbook size.)

I keep taking the first stanza of this poem out, putting it back in, taking it out, putting it back in, standing back, squinting, taking it out again, putting it back in again.

Also, I’ve come to the conclusion that I think that ding in quotes:

“ding”

is somehow funnier than ding in italics:

ding

But maybe it is just me, LOL.

ps Ted Williams for non-baseball fans. Also, no news this weekend. And no weekend news for the rest of the summer probably. Have a good weekend.

Poetry News:

1. — Mashile Scoops Pan African Book Prize —
2. — Sharing her personal history with a major literary and countercultural movement has been a mixed blessing —
3. — written poetry among Tibetans remained largely the work of scholars until the exile to India in 1959 —
4. — ‘Bard of Belltown’ a ‘great poet’ and a man of mystery —
5. — “I Have Been Given a Baseball … ” By Alan Michael Parker —
6. — The ‘raging bull’ of Russian poetry —
7. — Reclusive Nobel laureate publishing latest novel online —

Hands Up! To Hold Your Books.

Curious.

Not sure if I am going to post this weekend. If not, have you a good weekend.

Poetry News:

1. — Baseball is all about loss and failure,” he joked. “So what better subject for poetry? —
2. — Online, Second Life avatars are prosing and poetizing —
3. — He turned ‘unschooled’ from insult into a compliment and ‘rule-bound’ from a compliment to an insult —
4. — He ruled, in effect, that only readers had the right to censor publications - by simply refusing to buy or read any that offended them —
5. — As a poet, Chase Twichell tells the plain truth and tries to surprise herself —
6. — Carl Phillips is a master of expressive syntax, athletic turns of sentence that mime feeling —

Yeah, pretty much.

Top 3 links for June, as far as Feedburner is concerned:

* The Scorn of the Literary Blog

* by the time the poetry awards were announced, three hours into the event, the theater was half empty

* Poet Accused of Harassment