Poetry Hut Blog
Brian Turner

Poetry News:

1. — Nancy Galbraith; Led Center For Poetry —
2. — Reversing the Tide: Professor Gives Due
 to Self-Taught Poets —
3. — Journals that take summer submissions (3 recent blog posts) —
4. — Reb Livingston is guest blogging at The Best American Poetry (where I found the link below) —
5. — 68 new reviews of poetry books. Edited by Eileen Tabios —
6. — Bosnia’s butcher poet —
7. — poetry & rss I know that dead mule has an rss feed —
8. — Soldier-Poet Brian Turner, Framing War In Verse —
9. — WordPlay 7/20 Jeffrey Beam on Jonathan Williams [mp3] —

Poetry News:

1. — There is little that can make us as acutely conscious of the fact that we are still alive as being shown the body of someone who is dead —
2. — Start a Notebook on Poets.org - 30 Ways To Celebrate National Poetry Month —
3. — “if anything the poem and video are poking fun at a stereotype of libertarianism” —
4. — In recent years, the splendid American poet Elizabeth Bishop has undergone both a canonization and a demystification —
5. — Lighght Verse —
6. — The poem that saved a terribly English spy from death in Dublin —
7. — Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the great mongrels of American poetry, serving as a singular melting pot for a variety of traditions —
8. — Detroit Tiger Haikus —
9. — Fewer people may be reading, but everywhere you turn, Americans are sounding their barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world, as good old Walt Whitman, himself a self-published author, once put it —

My brother Jason has posted a bunch of word games / word puzzles on his blog.

Poetry News:

1. — Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon —
2. — U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician —
3. — New Buk on DVD —
4. — Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner —
5. — Al Young took to writing poetry, as he describes it in one poem, “to make out the sound of my own background music.” —
6. — An opportunity to do something good —
7. — What’s The Best Writing Tip of All Time? —
8. — Argentine poet wins Spain’s highest literary honour —
9. — Lifetime achievement ‘double’ for Cynthia Ozick —
10. — Bullies, Addicts and Losers: A Poet Loves Them All —
11. — A newly discovered cache of poetry video shorts —

See you Monday.

ps. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that evidence seized during arrests that are illegal under state law can still be used at trial.

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry workshop: Try Sean O’Brien’s exercise on poetic dramatisation —
2. — Brian Turner and Bruce Weigl from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [links to MP3] —
3. — The revival of Cid Corman’s journal Origin reminds me of when international discussion of poetry took place at a slower, more intense, pace —
4. — One includes “text, pictures, sound, video, liberation”; the other “development, marketing, immersion, adaptation, obsolescence, art.” —
5. — The hunt was on last night for an anonymous Cabinet minister said to have composed a deeply unflattering poem about Gordon Brown —
6. — Poet is a centerfold —
7. — Poet encourages masses to find their inner verse —

Poetry News:

1. — “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —
2. — Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —
3. — City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across racial and socioeconomic lines to promote literacy through poetry —
4. — Poet Li-Young Lee achieves transcendence in works such as ‘To Hold’ —
5. — Maya Angelou’s poem in praise of Hillary —
6. — Lilya would become the muse for Mayakovsky’s poetry for the next 20 years, and the couple a key presence in the Soviet Union’s new literary and artistic movements —
7. — Brian Turner had a master’s in fine arts degree tucked in his ruck sack when he enlisted at the age of 30 —
8. — Poetry turns out to be a better survival tool than you might think —
9. — Gloomy poets are rarely very good, and good poets rarely very gloomy —

So what’s the deal? Why do the mainstream media hardly ever do articles or reviews about women poets? It is often hard to find ANY article to link to.

Are there more men poets than women poets? (When I got my MFA, the poetry students were mostly women.) Are men poets simply better poets than women poets? More interesting? Better at self-promotion maybe? Do articles in which the subject has a penis make for increased sales or something? Are men poets more likely to get published by a large press? What? Is? The? Deal? Here?

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?)