Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — If we could read the poets that move huge audiences elsewhere in the world, would it wake up our own? —
2. — “Accident Plays a Part in Art” from Poetry Magazine Podcast … with Kasischke on Ken Burns, Lindsay on Krakatau, Sheffield on fishing, and Logan on Hart Crane (and David Foster Wallace). [mp3] —
3. — Ted Hughes’s letters contain some splendid perceptions and useful biographical material among a mass of interminable explication. —
4. — As the title suggests, Cities of Flesh and the Dead isn’t afraid of addressing loss or fear or violence. —
5. — Hey Bookslut reviewed my book thanks some happy in a cruddy week. Thanks for getting my jokes. —
6. — Poetry that doesn’t toe a party line —

Yep - testing is all scheduled. I’m looking forward to a resolution.

Poetry News:

1. — People believing that’s Angelou’s best poem ever, I figured, is justice enough —
2. — Sekou Sundiata: Defying Labels —
3. — Bookslut is looking for a columnist and also for a book designer —
4. — The Impoverishment of American Culture by Dana Gioia —
5. — Poetry doesn’t make a lot of money, and the quiet time doesn’t mean it’s easy —
6. — the e-mail congratulation ratio for the two achievements ran about 50 to 1 —
7. — A (Slightly Qualified) Defense of MFA Programs: Six Benefits of Graduate School by Arielle Greenberg —
8. — After the 1-0 loss, the Twins express themselves in Haiku and other verse —

I’ve been tagged:

Here are the rules:

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.

2. Players start with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.

3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their 8 things and post these rules.

4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 8 people to get tagged and list their names.

5. Don”™t forget to leave them a comment telling them they”™re tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I am an extraordinarily patient person but waiting in/on line/queue gives me the creeps/anxiety. Waiting rooms are OK though. It’s just standing in line.

2. If a poem doesn’t tickle my ear somehow it doesn’t resonate with me.

3. In 1983 I won a Spin Magazine trivia contest about the Flintstones. I received a t-shirt.

4. I have only workshopped poems in grad school. Not before nor since, I think. Can’t stand it. Never had a bad experience though. Not a fan.

5. I rarely write poems about myself (explicitly).

6. I hate talking about myself.

7. Thanks for reading.

8. The End.

I tag these 8 random people: tag, tag, tag, tag, tag, tag, tag, tag.

A new low. Dear 5th Amendment — I’m so sorry. !$@%# !&#*&#^ King George @)$ *#(#( @**!&!

Yay to Carol! Her chapbook is being published by Finishing Line Press because it was a top-ten finalist in their 2007 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry.