Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Blas Falconer’s collection of poems, A Question of Gravity and Light, is about nameless people, perennial outsiders who find themselves in situations they hadn’t planned upon —
2. — Professor denied tenure. Reason? Flarf. —
3. — Bangor publisher suing Amazon in anti-trust case —
4. — For the first time, anyone with access to the Internet can hear tapes of Robert Penn Warren’s 1964 interviews with prominent Civil Rights activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and the Rev. James Lawson —
5. — Surrealism’s founding texts sold —
6. — A collection of 35 of William McGonagall’s poems fetched more than $13,000 at auction. —
7. — Isn’t it a little bit late to be claiming you wrote “Footprints in the Sand” —
8. — Queen is asked to appoint first female Poet Laureate after 22 men in 340 years —
9. — It pains me to say it, but I used to hate Emily Dickinson —
10. — Frieda Hughes reflects on the aviary she built in her garden —

I had a nice visit with my sister. It was weird to visit Knoxville again after almost (exactly!) a decade. (My M.S. degree is from UT.) Some things looked different, some things looked the same. Looks like they fixed up World’s Fair Park and that area by the Tennessee Theater downtown. I’m really looking forward to having my sister only a few hours away, though I know she’ll be busy with grad school. We had a lot of fun together — always do — and she cut my bangs for me, whoo! I cried when I dropped her off at the airport yesterday, though I’ll see her again in July LOL.

Thanks for your support of my book. I haven’t got any complaints but I guess the people who think that I’m a blowhard or that I’m talentless aren’t apt to email me about it. I am also behind on my email right now — I’m not ignoring anybody.

Poetry News:

1. — The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by César Vallejo —
2. — Jane M. Cooper, Faculty Emerita, Helped Create SLC’s Writing Program —
3. — MFA alumni program at Queens —
4. — Culture Project Asks ‘Question of Impeachment’ Nov-Dec —
5. — Rafael Campo rescues language and meaning from politics —
6. — New lit mag alert —
7. — In Praise of Online Journals —
8. — The late poet, playwright, novelist, and longtime Columbia University professor Kenneth Koch (1925–2002) may have been the great exception —
9. — Press starts up at APSU and more at Making Sure Poetry Still Matters —
10. — UNMARRIED LITERARY WOMEN —

That anthology mentioned in the NYT article from yesterday is digitized at Google books.

Poetry News:

1. — Through his prodigious output and a hugely influential blog that has attracted more than a million hits, Silliman has become a kind of elder statesman in the world of innovative literature —
2. — Poet, Snubbed, Still Every Inch a Laureate —
3. — Recent poetry collections highlight local, regional authors —
4. — Crain says if you know how to fix a Zon-O-Phone, call her —
5. — Chains of poets, and a poet of chains —
6. — Fisher’s poems render the world in fractals through the mind’s sight, valued more than visibility itself —

Glad to see Joseph Millar get some press, and good for the MSM to publish a review of Mr. Silliman.

To certain visitors: please stop posting your poems in the comments boxes. There are a zillion lit mags out there, but this isn’t one of them. Besides, this blog just gets    billions       millions       thousands    a couple hundred human being readers every day & doing that only appears desperate.