- — Lewis Turco: Odd and Invented Forms —
- — Fifteen-minute poetry theater: Wallace Stevens seduced by conflict —
- — Bei Dao’s interaction with Clayton Eshleman and his wife Caryl begins in 1992, when Eliot Weinberger wrote to ask if he would nominate Bei Dao for the semester-long MacAndless Chair in the Humanities at Eastern Michigan University —
- — Whether the MFA is useful or not continues to be an ongoing debate. But graduate school was important for you — do you think it’s a good path for aspiring writers to take? —
- — On Poetry: Poet’s personal life has no bearing on his or her work —
- — This is the America Whitman and Warhol never got to, and Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, and Charles Simic run away from —
- — Empathic people remember your smell —
- — Keats and His Beloved in an Ode to Hot English Chastity —
- — The uses of erotic poetry —
- — Book clubs don’t read poetry —
- — Massachusetts Poetry Festival —
- — Rattle e.7 – release [pdf] —
- — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Assistant Professor Kerry Madden, MFA, of Homewood has been named the new editor of the UAB women’s literary magazine, Poemmemoirstory (PMS). —
- — First book advice #2: no apologies, please —
- — Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer. Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. —
- — Rain Taxi’s one-day book fest is a feast —
- — The Poetical Power of Limits —
- — Authors pour worst scorn on each other —
- — World Books Review: A Crown of Thorns for Mandelstam —
- — The Young Poets Society: Meet Britain’s rising stars of verse —
- — Poetry collection ‘is more jig, swing, stomp, and swivel than intimate waltz’ —
- — Southern Festival of Books has something for everyone —
- — In another interview you talk of how “power hides reality, but poets bring it to light”. Can you extrapolate on the relationship between the poet and power, and also the poet’s role in the relationship between ordinary citizens and power? —
- — ‘Verse’ comes from Latin versus a furrow, and vertere to turn: a digging in, and preparing for new growth —
- — Poems discuss topics as diverse as saliva, dry skin, her childhood food preferences — stale Peeps made the list — and hitchhiking are discussed with wit, irony and mystique. —
- — Maya Angelou hospitalized? Not so fast, TMZ —
- — Terre Haute to honor poet Ehrmann with sculpture —
- — From left, front row, the 2009 award winners are Krista Bremer (nonfiction), Heidy Steidlmayer (poetry), and in the back row, Janice N. Harrington (poetry), Helen Phillips (fiction), Vievee Francis (poetry) and Lori Ostlund (fiction). Each will receive $25,000. —
- — Writer helped craft inscription on lunar plaque —
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