- — NEW PUBLICATIONS.; MRS. ROSSETT’S POEMS. {SIC} POEMS by CHRISTIANA G. ROSSETTL. {SIC} Boston: ROBERTS BROTHERS. July 6, 1866, Wednesday —
- — Amy King’s Comprehensive List Of Poetry Events and Calendars [Please post addt'l venues in comments to be added!] —
- — [Harvard UP books on Scribd] range from the $68 digital version of “General Equilibrium, Overlapping Generations Models, and Optimal Growth Theory” to the 17.95 poetry collection, “Invectives.” —
- — Ekleksographia —
- — Shorties (Seamus Heaney, Neko Case, and more) —
- — Banned Books: The Power of the Word —
- — The gatekeeper analogy seems suspect to bother me most, and I’m not sure why. That somehow there is a test you have to pass that allows you into the poetry world and that you can try and yet be found wanting. —
- — Debra Kang Dean reads her poems “Adam’s Apple,” “Medicine Ball,” “Antennas,” and an excerpt from “Traces” on this edition of The Poets Weave. [mp3] —
- — Canadian literature has always been distinguished by its relationship to the environment, be it the wilderness or the urban jungle. —
- — An Egyptian civil servant sentenced to three years for writing a satirical poem about President Hosni Mubarak is to be freed on appeal, a justice official said on Sunday. —
- — What does the Dharma share with 19th-century German poets? American Transcendentalism —
- — The Blood Jet Writing Hour with Rachelle Cruz: Join Rachelle as she Talks to John Boucher and Sylvia Sukop John Boucher started writing in 2005 in HIV+ Writing Workshops sponsored by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AIDS Project Los Angeles, and the LA Gay & Lesbian Center. —
- — read your poetry on the radio! —
- — WERD Hosted By Veronica Rivera – Veronica will review a cd and three books Al young audio cd – the sea the sky and you and I Robert edwards – transparencies Jim harrison – in search of small gods Lightsey darst – ginnungagap [mp3] —
- — Millicent Graham, Jamaican poet and author of the book, The Damp in Things, has been selected one of 17 persons worldwide to receive full funding from the US Department of State to participate in the prestigious International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, —
- — This month on Michigan Writers on the Air, Elmore Leonard and his son Peter will talk about crime fiction and their newest books, Road Dogs and Trust Me. College professor and summer resident Mary Beth Pope will read some of her new work, and Poet Fleda Brown will provide a thoughtful commentary. —
- — Derek Walcott with Glyn Maxwell from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [mp3] –
- — B. H. Fairchild is one of those poets prose readers love: Meaty, maximalist, driven by narrative, he stakes out an American mythos in which the personal and the collective blur. —
- — Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts Beth Gylys —
- — What Neil Armstrong Should Have Said —
- — “this new book—a selection of my syllabic verse—can be downloaded free from my Lulu.com page (see first link in sidebar to the right)” —
- — In David Constantine’s latest volume of poetry, eyes are gouged out, a girl walks in the grounds of a crematorium, seeds fall on concrete, and a dying mother is “frail as the moon in daylight”. —
- — playlist 16 july from Wordsalad by paul [mp3] —
- — Dharma Poetry: Stephen Dunn —
- — Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing’s media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage [mp3] —
- — The Annual Return of Sunny the Turtle —
- — Barn Owl Review 3 Call for Submissions —
- — Artists Find Inspiration In Genetic Research —
- — People with a family history of genetic disease are often discriminated against by insurance companies and their relatives and friends, according to new research. —
- — Who Buys Poetry Books? —
- — playlist 11 june from Wordsalad by paul —
- — R.I.P. Shaman Drum —
- — What Really Prompts The Dog’s ‘Guilty Look’
— - — “A lot of people have already pointed out Louis Menand’s (that’s him at right) article on MFA programs in The New Yorker, but I just finally read it, so I’m joing in with a passage I liked” —
- — Poetry of Rumi Spans Across Centuries, Cultures from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — “Tim Green has some interesting thoughts on print vs online publication and on poetry publishing in general.” —
- — Hucksters, mavericks and visionaries: Ian Sansom savours the detail in a mammoth celebration of early 20th century avant-garde poets —
- — NP Books Podcast: Summer Books preview, The Griffin Prize and introducing The Gentlemen’s Reading Society [mp3] —
- — An Invitation into the Wilderness with Kim Stafford [mp3] —
- — ‘Frog And Toad’ Leap Off The Page Again —
- — Ten Questions for Poetry Editors – Justin Evans —
- — The Poetry Show: Michael and Mathew Dickman [mp3] —
- — Werd is a book review show this Week Veronica reviews King By Rebecca Wolff , B.H. Fairchilds, Usher, & Brendan Constantine’s Letters to guns [mp3] —
- — Poet’s Choice by Carl Phillips: ‘Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices’ by Carl Phillips —
- — The general assumption seems to be that poetry is a good thing and we should all have more of it in our lives. But what if poetry is not a thing at all? —
- — Maxine Kumin: “Seven Caveats in May” —
- — “Hat tip to Max Boot. Here’s Harlan Ellison in a very memorable rant about why you should pay writers if you want them to write something for you.” —
- — WS Merwin’s “The Shadow of Sirius” deserved to win the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and not just because the book is one of his strongest in years. —
- — An Oulipo Mini-Anthology: When members of the Oulipo convened in New York, Bookworm was there to record this mini-anthology of the transcendentally witty, sometimes hilarious goings-on. [mp3] —
- — “But a new release would reconcile the division “between the experimental and the conventional,” we were promised, and this year Norton released its hybrid (as if all serious poems didn’t arise from a mixture of styles and influences) anthology.” —
- — Behind the recent scandal at Oxford lies a more intractable conflict between the myths of poetry and the realities of the modern university. —
- — George Oppen: New Poems, Audio, and Biography —
- — “I’m wondering why we hate poetry. I don’t mean people who don’t write it. I mean people who do.” —
- — Poet’s Choice by Jeanne Larsen: ‘Wrong All These Years — It Isn’t’ by Jeanne Larsen —
- — Canadian university welcomes Derek Walcott to teaching post —
- — Possible sound recording of Walt Whitman reading from “America” —
- — Dan Albergotti from Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio [mp3] —
- — “We are all delighted to announce the release of the 12th issue of Galatea Resurrects, with a record number of 87 new reviews! “ —
- — Modernist minotaurs —
- — A.F. Moritz and C.D. Wright are the winners of the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize —
- — The Surprising Advantages of Being a Poet —
- — Elvis inhabits the psyche of poet CaConrad, author of Advanced Elvis Course, an odd compendium of poems, dialogues, quotations, dreams and anecdotes. The first half describes the poet’s pilgrimage to Graceland, Mecca for Elvis fans, consisting of a gauche plantation-style mansion and museum complex. —
- — Lost Ted Hughes children’s poem discovered —
- — “10 or 15 years ago a large state press like Shanghai Literature Press would not have gone near these poets. Things are opening up. But…the in-house censor chopped out a few of my favorites.” —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Luminous Great Mass’
from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS — - — Judge Orders Former Bristol-Myers Executive to Write Book —
- — Poster poems: Fame —
- — Linklog: How the web changes readers, lit-Twitters and more —
- — How to Sleep, by Dorianne Laux from Poetry Daily —
- — Israel’s oldest newspaper surprised 50,000 readers this week, giving the paper’s journalists a vacation–turning over the newspaper to writers and poets. —
- — Tim Martin explores the mad humour of nursery rhymes in foreign tongues —
- — Beat poet Harold Norse dies at 92 —
- — Articles in May/Jun 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
- — Locating Narrative In Medicine’s Moral Domain: Notes (Musical And Otherwise) From A Recent Presentation —
- — Bloomsday around the world —
- — Poet’s Choice By Edward Hirsch: Claribel Alegría trans. by Carolyn Forché —
- — photo —
- — Poetic Form: Found Poem —
I’m just posting poetry news every Bloomsday from now on. 
Since I last posted I lost my job (I need ADA Accommodations), I had to have Betty “put to sleep” (our 18-year old cat who slept on my feet each night), I’m dealing with being broke (being sick and out of work for months will do that), I’m dealing with my husband being on the road all year (I don’t mind saying that online because I believe in all the Amendments of the Constitution and I can still lift things haha) and I got my job back (I think).
More tomorrow.
May 072009
- — reviews of books by BH Fairchild, Frieda Hughes, Michael Blumenthal, Farrah Field, Robert Polito, Ron Slate, Ann Lauterbach, Chelsey Minnis, Lucia Perillo, Joshua Beckman, Russell Edson, & Gregory Orr —
- — From the fuss that some are making – well, the BBC is making anyway – you would think [Bono's poem] was a long-lost sonnet of Shakespeare or at the very least a newly discovered poem by Philip Larkin. —
- — Is he messing with us?: Ethan Coen’s poetry —
- — Poetry Readings and Music by Poet Weldon Kees [mp3] —
- — This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like: what branch of feminism, model of feminist poetics, feminist icon, or etc. informs your poetry? Or, from which of these does your poetry diverge? —
- — Poetry from Duluth’s Holy Cow Press provides comfort for grief [you have to login now durrr] —
- — Police: Mom was writing poem when baby drowned —
- — State’s first poet laureate takes his job seriously —
- — Because most audiences may not know much about Dali, Garcia Lorca and Bunuel, it depends for its box-office appeal on the starring role of Robert Pattinson, the 23-year-old British star of “Twilight” (which was shot after this film). —
- — on Intruder, poems by Jill Bialosky (Knopf) – and an interview with the poet —
- — The decline and fall of books —
- — How Technology Is Changing What We Read —
- — That sensibility caught the eye of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of Saint Thomas, in St. Paul. They’ve awarded her the 13th annual Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. —
- — The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference, being held July 22-25, 2009, on the campus of Austin Peay State University. —
- — 150-year anniversary of translation of Khayyam’s Rubaiyat by Fitz Gerald —
- — The reclusive Christopher Tolkien has broken his silence to respond via fax to a series of questions about his father’s latest posthumous publication —
- — Welcome to Poetry – the Olympic games of creative writing. —
- — Each of the 29 poems in this collection is an example of a different form, from the familiar couplet, sonnet and haiku to the more exotic aubade (a poem lamenting or celebrating the coming of the dawn) and clerihew (two rhyming couplets that gently poke fun at a celebrity, where the first line is always the subject’s name). —
- — Thousands apply for ‘Prince of Poets’ contest held in Abu Dhabi —
- — Throughout her career as a poet, essayist, and activist, Adrienne Rich has been known for her progressive politics and sharp social critiques. —
- — While the book’s subjects — chiefly the writers Emily Dickinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, prominent clergyman Henry Ward Beecher (Stowe’s brother), and the painter Martin Johnson Heade — often share social and familial bonds, Benfey never makes much effort to present them as a unified intellectual movement. —
May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month so I thought I’d mention that here. Link: May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month. EDS is a debilitating, and potentially fatal connective tissue disorder.
