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Poetry News For June 11, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Cornelius Eady and Toi Derricotte will receive the 2008 Elizabeth Kray Award for service to the field of poetry
  2. Homage to Pasternak, With Piano and Poetry
  3. Meanwhile, the boxes containing the legacy of the late poet — the first black woman and first Virginian to have her work included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry — had become nomads
  4. Alleged molester on FBI Most Wanted list faces NH judge
  5. New Audio: Jackson Mac Low reads “Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair”
  6. Everybody’s sad, except really dumb people
  7. Poet Honor Moore created waves with her memoir that in part talks about the double life of her father Paul Moore, an Episcopal bishop
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Poetry News For December 2, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —
  2. The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation
  3. “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.”
  4. West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a ‘Soldier’s Heart’ [links to MP3] and more here at Ron Slate’s blog —
  5. Poet Confidential: I WAS A GREETING CARD WRITER
  6. A new collection from America’s most playful poet
  7. It is one of the more delicious workings of karma that Singapore, which criminalizes homosexuality, should have as its leading young poet an openly gay man
  8. Interview with wordsmith Gary Snyder
  9. But The Stray Dog Cabaret is as compelling for the poems included as for its back story, which tells us a great deal about Russian society and literature in the period preceding the revolution
  10. A.Van Jordan writes books of poetry that approach a subject the way a filmmaker or nonfiction writer might

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Poetry News for August 2, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Poets of the magnitude and agility of Tsvetaeva and Pasternak are, in all senses, hard to follow
  2. Instead of love ballads sung by scantily clad singers, the contestants offered the rhyme and rhythm of a flowery style of Bedouin poetry known as Nabati
  3. Local writer wins poetry prize
  4. Rowling said in an online chat the Hallows were in part inspired by The Pardoner’s Tale, one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales [spoilers in this article!] —
  5. Sussex hotel linked to poet Shelley is sold
  6. for the first time since 1912, you too [americans] can legally partake of absinthe
  7. Try your hand at his workshop on dramatic poetry

“Who are the great deep dreamers of our culture now?

If you run a lit mag, Luna Park would like to speak with you.

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Poetry News For January 28, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Google mashes up books and maps
  2. “I hate publishing!” Alfred Tennyson complained
  3. Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road by Seamus Heaney
  4. The Man With Two Brains
  5. A New Book Promises an Intriguing Twist to the Epic Tale of ‘Doctor Zhivago’
  6. Remembering Brainard

Edwin Arlington Robinson article at the Wall Street Journal, if someone has access. I’d like to know what it says if anyone out there can view it. I’m a fan.

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