- — Poet cornered: Ruth Padel fights to keep Oxford post over tip-offs about her rival and A male poet wouldn’t have been blamed for rough tactics: Ruthless power plays in academia are as common as good wine and Oxford’s top poet urged to quit for sex slurs against literary rival —
- — It measures, perhaps, the success of New Formalism’s self-serving argument that writing in meter is difficult that Joel Brouwer (“Poetry Chronicle,” April 26) should be astonished to the point of italics at the news that J. D. McClatchy spoke an iambic pentameter line in his sleep. —
- — Why do women defend Walcott? —
- — BBC plans to send poet to Afghanistan battlefields —
- — Litterbug released after 4 years in jail —
- — The lousy economy might be bad for artists when it comes to paying rent, but after a decade of record prices — and what some might call wretched excess — it might actually be good for art. —
- — Film Made About Rebellious Chilean Poetess and —
- — Wee row erupts over old Robbie: Town resists call to remove statue —
- — Sunday Poetry for the New Moon Jupiter/Chiron/Neptune conjunction —
- — Poet’s Choice by Paul Otremba: ‘In an Adirondack With You’ by Paul Otremba —
- — Frederick Seidel has spent the last half-century being the darkest and strangest sort of poet. —
- — People By Nature Are Universally Optimistic, Study Shows —
- — A few years ago I used baseball as a metaphor to lament the lack of an amateur/professional split within the poetry world: no one thinks they have to be a major leaguer to have fun taking hacks at the batting cage, but for some reason the idea of being an amateur poet and having fun in the same way with words strikes us as embarrassing. —
- — French artist Bernard Pras (scroll for biography) arranges everyday objects, then photographs them at such an angle as to recreate iconic portraits and artworks. —
- — APSU literature professor to read his work in Nashville —
- — So, just to be clear, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as we have come to call it, is an untitled poem written by an unknown author in about 1400. It is 2,530 lines long and written in Middle English. —
- — Two engaging books in distinct styles and voices — clearly from male and female perspectives — experience our shared world, but translate it through individual visions worthy of a wide readership. —
- — Ros, who died in 1939, abused (some would say, tortured) the English language in three novels and dozens of poems. you can read some poems here —
- — Campbell McGrath’s anti-Tweet —
- — Doomed to neglect were any films the jury doubtless deemed too conventional and/or too warm. These included “Bright Star,” Jane Campion’s exceptionally intimate and restrained examination of the tragic romance of poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, and “Looking for Eric,” a genial change-of-pace for British director Ken Loach. —
- — The National Library of New Zealand is seeking nominations for the 2009-2011 New Zealand Poet Laureate Award. —
- — Poets of the Central Committee of the Writers Union of Korea produced more than 100 poems and words of songs encouraging the army and people by conducting dynamic creative activities in the seething reality. —
- — Computer scientist to ‘unroll’ papyrus scrolls buried by Vesuvius —
- — Rafael Escalona, 81, Folk Musician and Balladeer of Colombia, Is Dead —
- — The Futurists: masters of outrage who embraced the new —
- — Peter Sacks finds common themes between the paintings of Edward Hopper and the works of poets such as Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and TS Eliot. [mp3] —
- — Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques —
- — Joe Milford Show: John Poch is poetry editor of the journal 32 Poems. His first book, Poems (Orchises Press), appeared in 2004. His work has appeared in many journals, and in 2004, he was a Howard Nemerov Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches at Texas Tech University. —
- — Conferences, Festivals Taking a Hit —
- — The Jane Crown Show: Lyn Lifshin —
- — “If the occupation is afraid of a literature festival,” he said, addressing the elephant in the room of literature buffs and the culturally inclined, “than they are very fragile indeed.” —
- — In this essay Gary muses on how a poem or in
this case how a poem fragment works, complete with excellent illustrations. — - — How did you and your publishers decide that now was the time for your “Collected Poems”? —
- — The end of an era in American letters —
- — Recently, I’ve been reading through Jim Elledge’s Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock & Roll in American Poetry.” —
- — Anna Journey’s first book of poems, “If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting” (University of Georgia Press: 104 pp., $16.95 paper), is a deeply American debut —
Have you noticed lately that people are acting ugly all of a sudden out of the blue? I’m not sure what to make of it. Maybe I’m just being in the wrong time at the wrong place.
