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Poetry News:

So while I’ve been out Hayden Carruth died, the fake anthology was published (which I think is funny - the Rod McKuen is a nice touch) and the Nobel Committee said American writers are unworthy ….

1. — Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan’s ‘Tell Tale Signs’ —
2. — Picasso’s interest in poetry comes as no surprise to those familiar with his life. —
3. — The Jane Crown Show: Joe Milford Hosts Jill Alexander Essbaum —
4. — Why do you write? Why did you start? —
5. — Linking Physics and Language Art through Tetractys Poetry —
6. — During the war, my own father was a sailor on the New York docks; had Crane survived and picked him up for some rough trade, I’d have been flattered. —
7. — “There’s Something Haunting and Nihilistic About Your Hairdresser” —

I’ve lost almost 10 pounds on my “OMG I feel like I’m going to throw up” diet LOL. I think I’m going into the hospital for 3 days for a bunch of tests (related to the dysautonomia; gravity I hate you.) I’ll find out in the morning. I’ll be back next week I reckon. xxxooo

Poetry News:

1. — The Rebirth of a Suicidal Genius —
2. — Poetry, Pottery & Pies Raises Funds for Poet Laureate’s Medical Bills —
3. — Shakespeare’s Bootlegger, Dylan’s Biographer, Nabokov, and Me —
4. — Nadine Chapman: Colleague and friend —
5. — Alum’s Passion for Poetry Pays Off —
6. — There’s an inherent interest in Knight’s personal experiences within the asylum, and all of the poetry contains a deep introspection that opens a thin sliver of light into the line between sanity and insanity. —

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry workshop: After Kubla Khan — Fred D’Aguiar looks at readers’ many different continuations of Coleridge’s masterpiece —
2. — Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age? —
3. — “Not Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan. Two poems at The New Yorker.” —
4. — In Downtown Brooklyn, a Sort of Circus in Celebration of Everything Literary —
5. — Poem of the week: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau —
6. — Poetry Roundup [link found here thank you] —

Technorati has delisted this blog (after 5 years LOL) for not being up to their standards of quality. So if you are one of the 20 or so folks who read PHB via the Technorati “favorites” interface, etc., it isn’t going to work anymore, sorry. Out of my control.

Poetry News:

1. — Is it harder to write a great sonnet than a great hip-hop verse? —
2. — The reclusive Dickinson had a worldly mentor and friend —
3. — Dylan’s Poetic Pause in Hollywood on the Way to Folk Music Fame —
4. — The 2008 recipients of the Iowa Poetry Prize —
5. — Philip Larkin almost tried to sound unattractive and misanthropic —
6. — LOL —

Poetry News:

1. — A 54-year-old former schoolteacher has won the poetry category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards —
2. — Using a pack of tarot cards as an early writing exercise, Kay Ryan says, forced her “to start dealing with these abstractions like love, death, the wheel of fortune.” and “I’ve always been able to count on the world to humiliate me. Now I’ve been elevated to a post where I can humiliate myself.” and A Small Taste of Kay Ryan —
3. — Thirtysomething love poetry —
4. — We should appreciate execrable poetry with an axe to grind - it teaches us a lot about the good stuff —
5. — Bob Dylan does not deserve this snobbery and pedantry —
6. — It’s not every day that a new magazine is launched in Philadelphia, and even rarer still does a literary journal make its debut —

Poetry News:

1. — Well, William Logan is back —
2. — Amazon seems each year to go from one publisher to another, making increasing demands in order to achieve richer terms at our expense and sometimes at yours [link found here thank you] also see Borders Urged to Consider Sale to Amazon. I didn’t know Borders went up for sale in March. —
3. — Meet Raymond McDaniel, poet and University of Michigan instructor. —
4. — But there have lately been a number of feminist readings of Milton, and though they can’t explain away that primal inequality, certainly they have a lot to point to, such as Eve’s argument for independence in Eden —
5. — So where do poems come from? —
6. — Poet’s first collection a remarkable beginning —
7. — ‘Papers’ doesn’t quite capture new U.Va. collection —
8. — Bob Dylan is a real genius – just not when he has a paint brush in his hand —
9. — The poems in The Mechanical Bird explore the natural and man-made worlds with an imaginative mix of fact and invention —

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Poetry News:

1. — The day Thoreau died —
2. — Sexually explicit poetry forces educator out —
3. — Dylan’s mystery girl tells it like it was —
4. — Poetry readers tend to lead active lives, listen to music, read a lot, use the Internet and volunteer at significantly higher rates than non-poetry readers, according to a study looking at U.S. involvement with poetry —
5. — A Lone Tibetan Voice, Intent on Speaking Out —
6. — Regarding the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize —

Poetry News:

1. — Morphine —
2. — The Author Will Take Q.’s Now —
3. — Major Jackson: Where He‘ From —
4. — Clueless CBI gives up Nobel theft probe after three years —
5. — Why Attempt Suicide? Evidence from the Poetry of Suicidal Poets —
6. — Mothers’ reading style affects children’s later understanding of other people’s minds —
7. — Philomene Long, 67, poet [may require bug me not] —
8. — Four of the most celebrated living poets — John Ashbery and former poet laureates Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Mark Strand — have new collections —
9. — Bob Dylan is a genius, but he’s no poet —
10. — The owner of a midtown bookstore set fire to hundreds of books on West 39th Street on Sunday —
11. — Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness Treatment and the Creative Process —
12. — ‘Myth’ A poem by Natasha Trethewey [thanks Jessica -- can't wait to hang out at Poet @ Tech on the 21st weee tell the cats I am on my way] —
13. — Interview with Appalachian beat poet Thomas Rain Crowe [links to MP3 & courtesy of WPVM] —
14. — Musical settings of poetry remain rare in jazz —

I don’t know how I missed this post but you should go read it. (I still mispronounce “big words” sometimes LOL.) I’m pretty much done with the “legitimate po-biz world” not that I have ever been in it really hahahahah. Taking a break from sending out stuff to lit mags for sure. Geez o pete, I have poems out from *last summer* that I never got a response back from. :/ That’s not 100% of the reason. I’m just finding the “legitimate po-biz world” increasingly icky-seeming & I’m happy enough just posting poems here, even if folks don’t seem too thrilled, ha. (No offense to anyone in the “legitimate po-biz world” who is reading this blog, I’m sure you are nice people < -- not being a smart ass.) Why, again, did I go into debt for an MFA? hahaha No, I don't regret that, I learned a lot and that is what I wanted to do, learn. I didn't particularly want to teach. I wanted to learn about poetry. Because writing it is fun & I wanted to find out how to write it better. :)

This is my favorite Beatles song.

Hell. It has rained 1 time since I last wrote here of rain. Usually at this time of year our porch/deck here in the woods is full of fallen acorn mast and dropped walnuts. I found one pea-sized acorn yesterday. The poor squirrels. I bought a bag of corn for them at evil Wal-Mart™. It is probably from China so I am probably poisoning them. But yesterday there were 7 squirrels stuffing their faces on the corn and not even hissing at each other. (And some stale Cheerios™ I put out there as well. I eat Cheerios every day. Or oatmeal. Oats and corn are 2 of my very favorite foods. Usually I live on corn during the summer, but not this year.) Poor squirrels so mangy and skinny. I’ll have to go to the farmer’s co-op and get some feed corn this week.