- — As Joanna Lumley records an album of poetry, and more performance poets are taking to the stage, is verse undergoing a revival? —
- — Nikolay Valuev, the tallest and heaviest champion in boxing history, has revealed that he would rather be writing poetry for his wife —
- — At the center of this song is Cleveland poet, d.a.levy, mystic, prophet, and cosmic cowboy with Beat sensibilities, an idealist who burnt as fast, hard, and, relatively, as brilliantly as Morrison, Hendrix, James Dean and many another counterculture figures of the Era of Change —
- — Many cross the Rhine —
- — The length of the line, it’s placement in the stanza, and the stanza’s relation to the poem as a single instant, is a way of creating an alternate sense of time via rhythm and musical momentum, much in the same way that a movie or song compresses time, and no two compress time in exactly the same way. —
- — Rigoberto González reviews Paul Martínez Pompa —
- — How does this poem differ from other poems of yours? It feels very heavy. It is in bondage to narrative, familiar surfaces, and an expected outcome, a poem composed on earth. —
- — I remember trying out couplets and quatrains, but the couplets gave the poem too much air, and the quatrains were too much like bricks. —
- — The deadline for submitting an entry is Nov. 2, 2009, with the winners to be announced by the end of the year. The top prize in each age category is a $50 Kentucky State Park gift card. —
- — A Loved One’s Photo Helps Reduce Your Pain —
- — hearing a poet reading his work aloud is crucial to appreciation of the poetry —
- — Ada Byron Lovelace – ‘Byron and Babbage: A Calculating Story’ a film by Rosemarie Reed —
- — “Did you see their faces? They were captivated. It was incredible. I’ve never seen anything like that.” —
- — Next week, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is publishing what it hopes will become the definitive English-language edition of Rilke’s poetry —
- — More than half of primary teachers ‘are unable to name three poets’ —
- — there’s still something about the process of writing poems that is more satisfying than any other form of writing —
- — EMMA JONES, a Sydney-born poet, has become the first Australian to win Britain’s prestigious Forward Prize for best first poetry collection with her book The Striped World. —
- — I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was…. —
- — Articles in Sep/Oct 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
- — Poets deserve our thanks for their dedication to the craft of capturing and preserving experience —
Internet access went down Friday, but at least I didn’t see this….
The Southern Festival of Books seemed like it was more subdued/less people. Long lines for Buzz Aldrin and Kate DiCamillo signings & nobody in line for anyone else, it appeared, even non-poets.


