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Poetry News For April 1, 2008

Poetry News:

— So what did Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, do to handle all the pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, woe, bitterness, unhappiness and misery in a life that lasted over 90 years? —

— Others believed poet Sylvia Plath was lead singer of pop group the Black Eyed Peas —

— Do not panic…yet. —

— Confusion in reading poetry, she says, is a “non-problem. I prefer to think of it as an alternative kind of knowing. It’s not one that gets a lot of credit in our culture.” —

— It’s hitting hardest the writers who write books that you dip in and out of: poetry, cookbooks, travel guides, short stories —

— Three Grand Prize winners will receive $100 each, plus their poems will be read to music, choreographed, costumed and danced by the Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company —

— O’Hara’s personality became famous long before his poetry did —

— From Punk Pioneer to Mother and Poet —

— Like many of the poet’s biographers, Greenblatt is convinced that Shakespeare despised his wife —

If you have any particular National Poetry Month resource you would like to share, email me or leave a blog comment and I will post it/them tomorrow.

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Poetry News For March 31, 2008

Poetry News:

— There should be a place for more original poetry to be posted and shared - let’s start right here —

— Needed: Contemporary Visual Poetry for Poetry —

— Psalms offer source of inspiration for prayer —

— University Comes To Aid Of Literary Magazine —

— Here are 15 short poems as animated films. They’re the first in a series from Poetry Everywhere, a fresh initiative to introduce new audiences to poetry through cinema —

— Custom Ringtones From Poets.org —

— The UK’s biggest poetry competition, founded in 1978, attracts thousands of entries – here are this year’s winners —

— Mr. Williams founded the Jargon Society, a small publishing house that has introduced the works of little-known writers, photographers and artists —

A Veteran MAD Man Remains in the Fold

Yay, baseball. As always, there’s free baseball poetry in a PDF chapbook here. The Nashiville Sounds’ first home game is on the 11th.

Poetry News For March 28, 2008

Poetry News:

— This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was “a wild little creature” —

— new small press alert —

— Byron, Shelley and Miss Havisham —

— MLB Poetry Previews: Boston Red Sox —

— Romantic, Surrealist, clear-as-glass, impenetrable charlatan: Ashbery has been called all of these —

— new lit mag alert —

— Markov chains appear in everything from mathematics to music to gambling to Google searches, but Allmann decided to put a different spin on the algorithm by feeding it poetry —

— Beth Ann Fennelly’s best poems are as noisy as a rat in a coffee can —

Could be worse.

Poetry News For March 27, 2008

Poetry News:

— The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —

— Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —

— He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, have been under house arrest in Beijing since the protests began —

— Ó Searcaigh in ‘an abyss’ after documentary —

— As for the first example, yes, a poem is marketing material to drive awareness of a poet —

— Backwards City Review is going out of business & Poetry magazine is now accepting electronic subs. —

— Nominations To Begin For 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere cast your vote —

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To whomever arrived here by searching “Did Anne Bradstreet win any awards?” … Thank you for asking! Yes! She did:

Agneſ Lynch ſtarrett Poetry Conteſt

Vaſſar Miller Prize

Good luck on your homework!

Poetry News For March 26, 2008

Poetry News:

— April approacheth, and stalking in its shadow is NAPOWRIMO —

— “It’s always important to have poems that will offend people,” she joked. —

— Exhibition in Petersburg Marks 70th Anniversary since Death of Poet Osip Mandelstam —

— This Saturday she returns to Boston’s Opera House to perform Homeland, an epic poem wrapped in a rock concert —

— Appeal launched for ladies’ tomb —

— She is considered one of the most widely read of American experimental poets —

— On Small Press Poetry Publishing —

— The sun shines on Detroit ad exec’s free verse novel —

Poetry News For March 21, 2008

Poetry News:

— He died from a love of poetry [thanks Lee!] —

— Theater For The New City will present On Naked Soil - Imagining Anna Akhmatova, a new play written and co-starring stage and screen veteran Rebecca Schull —

— Punishing the publisher —

— Stuck for a rhyming scheme? Try the ghazal. It’s wickedly difficult to use in English, but Mimi Khalvati has it to perfection —

— They do not constitute an exploration of a distant land so much as an incitement to appreciate that which lies outside the self: to feel the strangeness of the world, and one’s own strangeness in it. —

— Brevard College students protest banning of publication —

— More than 100 of his friends and fans gathered on Tuesday night at East Harlem’s Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center, not just to celebrate his work, but to help him in a time of need —

Do you have your March Madness brackets filled out? I have Memphis, Tennessee, Marquette, and UCLA in the final 4, with Memphis and UT going forward, and UT winning the whole thing.

Happy Solstice. Hope you have a good Easter too. I’m not at Split This Rock after all. I hope someone blogs about it.

Poetry News For March 18, 2008

Poetry News:

— A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —

— Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —

— What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —

— It seems that the challenges of living elicit the most eloquent and powerful verse, and sometimes that power is delivered in a quiet voice —

— Wordclay Recognized as Site of the Week by PC Magazine —

— He told his readers difficult truths about their lives … but he did so in a way which was oddly consoling in its honesty —

— Hughes is a vigorous poet and the muscle of his language lifts the ordinary or overlooked experience, turns it about, holds it up to the light —

— Jean Valentine, Poetry Faculty Member Since 1974, Named New York State Poet for 2008-2010 —

Poetry News For March 14, 2008

Poetry News:

— Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt —

— The mother of so much —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Minnesota Twins —

— English poetry masters: Percy Bysshe Shelley —

— Call for Entries to the Festival of Visual Poetry 2008 —

— It’s a great shame that the work of a great poet has spawned so many mawkish imitations —

— Revealed: how poet set up ‘charity’ fund —

Oklahoma! where the wind comes sweepin’ down [state legislator Sally Kern's] brain

Have a great weekend. No news this weekend.

Poetry News For March 13, 2008

Poetry News:

— The need for warmth is more important than people who have never been truly cold know —

— This great poets list has only one woman. About right, too —

— The poetry journal as mixtape —

— Two things often said about great poets are that they create the taste by which they are appreciated, and that they have the capacity to constantly reinvent themselves —

— Math lovers, teachers and families around the world are gearing up to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, or more precisely to the pi second, 3/14 (the American date format) at 1:59:26 p.m —

— The Resurrection Trade, Miller’s fifth book of poems, delves into the mysteries of early women’s anatomical studies and medical illustrations —

— New Vancouver opera focuses on poet Pauline Johnson - Margaret Atwood writes libretto, Christos Hatzis composes —

Poetry News For March 12, 2008

Poetry News:

— Why this bevy of bards, this plethora of poetry, this Vesuvian eruption of verse? —

— MLB Poetry Preview: Chicago Cubs —

— My first reaction was, “What are you smoking?” —

— This week, the Academy of American Poets announced the launch of … a mobile poetry archive providing free access to a collection of more than 2,500 poems —

— Today, Sam Leith profiles the highly-influential poet of the English revolution, John Milton —

— With 16 books between them, four authors will take part in the first “Gathering of Tennessee Writers” at MTSU, on Thursday, March 20, 4:30 p.m. —

— All contemporary poetry when it is contemporary is initially baffling to its readers —

— Introducing seven of the greatest poets of the 20th century —

Poetry News For March 11, 2008

Poetry News:

— The 5-minute Interview: Felix Dennis, publisher and author —

— Poetry workshop: David Morley finds variety and accomplishment in equal measure in the nature poetry prompted by his March poetry ‘field trip’ —

— First mantra of the Rig Veda is the first known poem in the world —

— 2008 is the 120th anniversary year of poet T. S. Eliot’s birth —

— For many career lawyers, poetry isn’t simply a weekend hobby; it’s a second calling —

— Are Smart People Drawn To The Arts Or Does Arts Training Make People Smarter? —

— Telegraph.co.uk’s week-long series celebrating the great poets of the English canon —

I’m going to Lulu.com my poetry manuscript. I don’t want to have my poems checked for dingleberries - I don’t like the contest system.

I need some help with the cover. If you are an artist & are interested, please email me. I can’t pay much, because of my medical bills.

Also, if you have any advice re: lulu.com layouts — fonts, etc — so the book doesn’t look stupid, that would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Poetry News For March 8, 2008

[still getting splogged/scraped, sorry. Turned off the full RSS feed again.]

Poetry News:

— Pinned in a subway car with arms at your sides, you can call up a poem and enter a cathedral of words that anoints you again in your singular passions —

— Mary Jo Salter came of age as a poet in the 1970s when two tribes, the Language poets and the New Formalists, were sparring —

— Red Morning Press is now reading manuscripts for publication —

— Lost for words: The misery of a deleted manuscript —

— Writers like Flaubert have been accused of over-using metaphor, but is it possible to have too much of such a good thing? —

— PEN America is trying to get China to free nearly 40 writers —

— Why poetry still matters —

— With “In Praise of the Unfinished: Selected Poems,” Hartwig, author and editor of more than a dozen books, at last has a collection in English —

— Horton hears Dr. Seuss – rotating in the grave [download here I think] —

— Objectivist poet Louis Zukofsky once confided, “the poet’s form is never an imposition of history, but the desirability of making order out of history as it is felt and conceived —

— OOpen-faced wunderkind from the Southern States —

“It puts the owl in the basket ….”

The Pentagon’s Information Operations Roadmap is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in direct opposition to their goals.

I got this from the informative CRWOPPS list. Good luck, youngsters:

Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships

http://poetryfoundation.org/programs/2008_Lilly_Fellowship_app.pdf

(go to this address to download entry form)

Five Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships in the amount of $15,000 will be awarded to young poets through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry. Established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the fellowships are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry. Applicants must be US citizens between the age of twenty-one and thirty-one as of March 31, 2008.

Applicants should submit:

Completed application form

Ten pages of poems, double spaced

One paragraph explaining how the fellowship would aid the applicant’s work

A publication list (optional)

Do not include any additional material at this time (cv, cover letter, references, etc.). If you wish to be notified of receipt of your application, include a self-addressed, stamped postcard. Application materials will not be returned. Applications must be postmarked during the month of March 2008. Electronic submissions will not be considered. Finalists will be announced on August 1, 2008 at poetryfoundation.org. Winners will be announced by September 1, 2008.