Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — We are each a bundle of nervous impulses: to fidget, to gossip, to be distracted, to inquire, and especially to satisfy our scalding curiosity by looking at anything we’re told not to look at —
2. — Big is still best but not everything Americans do is supersized - a rich tradition of shorter verse percolates through to us today —
3. — Palestinian-American doctor turns suffering into song, wins top U.S. prize and a book review —
4. — Listen again: BBC censors Auden quip —
5. — The Economics Of Self-Publishing —
6. — National Poetry Award to go to VT and UVA professors —
7. — The author of three collections, Brock-Broido has been praised for poems that are “gorgeous and mournful, ornate and deeply felt” —

And the hits keep coming … hubby laid off from his 5 night a week gig at the swanky place. I guess people aren’t being swanky as much these days.

Poetry News:

1. — Thank you very much for inviting me to speak about Poetry and Power —
2. — the latest wrangle in the US reflects a wider problem in deciding what’s good poetry and what’s not —
3. — VA Tech professor writes poems about shooting —
4. — Poets are good at discerning life within what otherwise might seem lifeless [congrats]—
5. — Business of Words with Collin Kelley, Month of October, Guest: Reb Livingston —
6. — Sean O’Brien has become the first person to win the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry three times. —
7. — For years, Baltimore has laid claim to one of our greatest writers. Nevermore! —
8. — Old and, though no-one knew it then, close to death, Auden’s behaviour in Ilkley can best be described as eccentric —
9. — The court cited the lower court‘ findings of fact questioning the validity of the certificate‘ facts, such as … the publication of the poems without a copyright notice —
10. — ACLU “˜Howls”™ Against FCC Destroying the Best Poems of a Generation —
11. — Burma: Act Now! —

Congrats to Eclectica on its 54th issue. That’s quite an achievement, as online lit mags seem to come and go. In the latest issue, Scott Malby did a review of this site. Thanks, that is kind.

3 most popular links for last month (as far as Feedburner is concerned):

“This country’‘ best-selling contemporary poetry book, according to the most recent list on poetryfoundation.com”

All about the latest Best American Poetry

The announcement that Paul Muldoon will be the next poetry editor of The New Yorker provoked Ted Genoways, editor of VQR, to to call out American poets

Attn Nashville word nerds: this program (New PBS Series Probes the Origin, Technology and Art of Writing) begins tonight at 7pm on Nashville Public TV.

Poetry News:

1. — The [Washington] state Arts Commission is taking applications for the job of poet laureate —
2. — An ex-soldier’s take on recent war poetry —
3. — in giving MacNolia a voice, the poet, A. Van Jordan, deals with the subject of balancing our love —
4. — The poems aren’t irreverent ““ they don’t mock the grave or its tenant ““ but some of them do seem, well, a touch indiscreet —
5. — we are less willing to be repulsive and repugnant in our poems, so caught up in our quest for linguistic and emotional beauty and earnestness —
6. — Student safety, creative rights clash [and Bob Hicok's poem about VA Tech] —
7. — Wilkes receives approval for MFA in creative writing —
8. — Almost single-handedly, as poet, editor and propagandist, he had engineered a “Scots Renaissance” in literature —

hahahahahahahaha — this is great. (and WTF?)