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Poetry News For August 15, 2008

Poetry News:

— The ethereal world of radio poetry —

— Beowulf Through the Eyes of Women —

— The poetry of pain —

— Byron, ghost and partisans enlisted to save Tuscan villa in ruins & Lord Byron’s fanmail uncovered —

— 100 Near Perfect Books of Poetry —

— Spillage from the Riptides of Desire: Poetry Blurbs —

— Mr. Alexander fashions from modern English a vivid reincarnation of Anglo-Saxon poetry — its grim pathos studded with brilliant figurations, its morbid griefs sung in an armorial tone of resolve —

— Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2008 Results —

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“A researcher argues in Science that a basic tenet of economics — that people always behave selfishly — can be wrong, sometimes badly so. He points to new experimental evidence that people do often act against their own personal self-interest in favor of the common good, and they do so in predictable, understandable ways. Poorly-designed economic institutions fail to take advantage of intrinsic moral behavior and often undermine it.”

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Steel Toe Books has an open reading period in October for formal-type full-length poetry book manuscripts.

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I don’t have any poetry rules. So I was reading Mary Biddinger’s blog post with everyone’s comments & I was going “I ummmmmmmm … errrrrrr … well … gee.” I ~~tend to need to have~~ require some sort of constraint to write up against, though. That’s not a rule though, it’s more like a pathology. I do like to see what I can get away with — in fact, I’ll probably use everyone’s rules about “what not to do” as writing prompts hardee har har har har.

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Tags: Anon, Ashley Crownover, Beowulf, Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, creative writing, Lord Byron, Mary Biddinger, Mary Jo Bang, Michael Alexander, Nashville, poet, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Steel Toe Books, Vic Peterson

Poetry News for November 19, 2007

Poetry News:

— A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —

— What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —

— Four of the most prestigious poetry prizes went to African-American women this year —

— Movies based on poems —

— Self-confidence is a definite advantage in most areas, but wingless flight is not one of them —

— Penguin should be ashamed of itself —

— If a more cringe-making book exists than Boris Johnson’s debut volume of poetry, Stuart Jeffries has yet to read it —

— Mark Strand’s New Selected Poems includes an evocation of food’s deep meanings, appropriate to the holiday, though the dish is not turkey: —

— Reed Whittemore: Telling it slant —

— Website of the Week — Poetry Foundation —

— One manuscript that escaped the blaze — just barely — contained an untitled poem of more than 3,000 lines —

Rare Spanish Coin Found in Nashville Cemetery. I once found an Imperial German Army uniform button. It was on top of a mole hill in our yard in Nashville on the Cheatham County line. Weird.

Collin kindly nominated Poetry Hut Blog for The Shameless Lions Writing Circle Award. Thanks, that is kind.

These are 5 blogs, poetry and not, that I also nominate:

WhimsyLand: Jeffrey Bahr deserves some kind of award for The Futility Review.

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: just because it always cracks me up & I like Chaucer.

rotten peaches: makes me want to do memoir-comics. But mine would look a lot more like a John Callahan cartoon.

pitcherlady: for pretty pictures and not-so-pretty pictures that aren’t afraid to shine a light on community problems. If I ever publish a book I’ll ask Susan for a pic. (Yes I realize this award is for writing but…)