- — This week, Poets & Writers issued online rankings of all the MFA programs in creative writing across the country for the upcoming academic year of 2010. —
- — For instance, here is Natalie Latta, a reader who hung out beneath a bridge like a troll for 2 hours, and wait for each group to arrive and be startled shitless when she began reading a section of a writer’s work. —
- — Long Feared Extinct, Rare Bird Rediscovered —
- — Ten Poems I Love to Teach -Surefire poetry hits for the classroom and beyond. —
- — Composer premieres Angelou poetry piece with PSO —
- — Cornell University Assistant Professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. —
- — Washington University professor Carl Phillips is a poetry finalist for this year’s National Book Awards. —
- — Chapter 16 is, in part, a response to our sense that local culture and local community have been diminished by the disappearance of locally generated reviews and coverage of books in Tennessee newspapers and other media. —
- — Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1928 poem will be celebrated at Harpers Ferry this weekend. —
- — American poet has big Czech connections —
- — Poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler, a prominent figure on the Detroit literary scene, has won a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award for 2010 —
Poetry News For October 15, 2009
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Oct 152009
- — “Now everything comes from China,” said Brian Campbell, whose book of prose poems, Passenger Flight, invokes global warming, globalization, 9/11 and state-sanctioned torture. —
- — “Ninety-eight percent of the time I agree with them,” said Graham, referring to the current processes that her book is undergoing. “It really shows how important revision is.” —
- — McSweeney’s Next Incarnation: An Old-Fashioned Broadsheet —
- — Transcript: James Wright on the Poetic Prose of H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, E. M. Forster, and Leo Tolstoy —
- — Astrology chart Walt Whitman —
- — Rosmarie Waldrop on Metaphor & Metonymy —
- — Bonnie Jo Campbell Rocks the Twittersphere —
- — Lunch Poems: Tracy K. Smith – UCTV – University of California Television —
- — St. Teresa of Avila (October 15, 2009) from Saint of the Day —
- — Monitor reviews of National Book Award nominees -The 2009 National Book Award nominees are out. You can see the full list below, but for now I’m simply going to quote blogger Laura Nathan who notes, “I recognize the names of far more National Book Award judges than I do book titles and authors.” —
Poetry News For October 8, 2009
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Oct 082009
- — Joanna Lumley leads way as actors launch charity album of poetry —
- — [African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia] (LOC) —
- — “The first function of a literary magazine is to introduce the work of new or little-known writers of talent.” —
- — From the archive: Death of Lord Tennyson —
- — Whitman’s beard filled with butterflies —
- — Three-strikes-and-you’re-out can suddenly seem like a dangerously liberal policy with 160 collections of poetry to read —
- — EXCERPT: ‘Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies’ —
- — Professor Says She Was Retaliated Against for Objecting to Colleague’s S&M Sex Scandal —
- — Wednesday through Sunday, the city of Baltimore will host a lavish funeral for writer Edgar Allen Poe, more than a century and a half after his death. T —
- — Tension Between Formalism and Lyricism Gives Ravi Shankar`s Poems Elegance —
- — Carl Phillips Will Speak Low: Poet highlights lecture honoring Robert Lowell —
- — Sorry To Say No —
- — Killer poet pleads for release —
Poetry News For August 3, 2009
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Aug 032009
- — Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Unhappiness; Now That Our Bronze Goddess Enlightens the World With Wood Alcohol, the Inalienable Right to Decline a Drink Is Alienated By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. January 18, 1920, Sunday —
- — A poet’s homecoming: Carl Phillips explores ‘the conundrum moments’ —
- — Anne Waldman guides us through this book-length poetry-and-prose meditation on endangered species by describing an initiation ceremony designed to instill a deeper sense of compassion…. [mp3] —
- — Many cultures associate crows with death. Some Native Americans see crows as the mediators between human and spirit worlds. Tibetans once placed pieces of bodies on top of temples so that crows could carry them to the next life. [mp3] —
- — Raymond Danowski Has Your Chapbook —
- — Creative writing on the rise in bad economy —
- — What is Poetry? —
- — First Book Interviews #22 and #23 – Andrew Kozma and Anna Journey —
- — Major Jackson’s Favorite Covers —
- — Each poem in Diorama With Fleeing Figures challenges the reader to work as hard as the speaker to cull meaning from memory, re-envision history and transcend self, so that an “unlanguaged” country may emerge in the imagination —
- — I believe most poets are Hegelian thinkers, and this is why: Most poets will admit they have had a life-long internal dialogue with themselves over this very issue. —
- — AWP: The Monopoly Game —
- — Only you can improve the audience for poetry. —
- — Have you recently lost a small Tomato? —
- — Poetry collections by W. S. Merwin, G. C. Waldrep, Angie Estes and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain. —
- — Join Rachelle as she talks to Tara Betts, the author of Arc and Hue. [mp3] —
- — Q&A with Rachel Kushner: “What you learn in creative writing … —
- — “This is too cool” —
- — The Spamsicle —
Hope you all had a nice weekend.
- — Dharma Poetry: Stephen Dunn —
- — Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing’s media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage [mp3] —
- — The Annual Return of Sunny the Turtle —
- — Barn Owl Review 3 Call for Submissions —
- — Artists Find Inspiration In Genetic Research —
- — People with a family history of genetic disease are often discriminated against by insurance companies and their relatives and friends, according to new research. —
- — Who Buys Poetry Books? —
- — playlist 11 june from Wordsalad by paul —
- — R.I.P. Shaman Drum —
- — What Really Prompts The Dog’s ‘Guilty Look’
— - — “A lot of people have already pointed out Louis Menand’s (that’s him at right) article on MFA programs in The New Yorker, but I just finally read it, so I’m joing in with a passage I liked” —
- — Poetry of Rumi Spans Across Centuries, Cultures from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — “Tim Green has some interesting thoughts on print vs online publication and on poetry publishing in general.” —
- — Hucksters, mavericks and visionaries: Ian Sansom savours the detail in a mammoth celebration of early 20th century avant-garde poets —
- — NP Books Podcast: Summer Books preview, The Griffin Prize and introducing The Gentlemen’s Reading Society [mp3] —
- — An Invitation into the Wilderness with Kim Stafford [mp3] —
- — ‘Frog And Toad’ Leap Off The Page Again —
- — Ten Questions for Poetry Editors – Justin Evans —
- — The Poetry Show: Michael and Mathew Dickman [mp3] —
- — Werd is a book review show this Week Veronica reviews King By Rebecca Wolff , B.H. Fairchilds, Usher, & Brendan Constantine’s Letters to guns [mp3] —
- — Poet’s Choice by Carl Phillips: ‘Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices’ by Carl Phillips —
- — The general assumption seems to be that poetry is a good thing and we should all have more of it in our lives. But what if poetry is not a thing at all? —
- — Maxine Kumin: “Seven Caveats in May” —
- — “Hat tip to Max Boot. Here’s Harlan Ellison in a very memorable rant about why you should pay writers if you want them to write something for you.” —
- — WS Merwin’s “The Shadow of Sirius” deserved to win the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and not just because the book is one of his strongest in years. —
- — An Oulipo Mini-Anthology: When members of the Oulipo convened in New York, Bookworm was there to record this mini-anthology of the transcendentally witty, sometimes hilarious goings-on. [mp3] —
- — “But a new release would reconcile the division “between the experimental and the conventional,” we were promised, and this year Norton released its hybrid (as if all serious poems didn’t arise from a mixture of styles and influences) anthology.” —
- — Behind the recent scandal at Oxford lies a more intractable conflict between the myths of poetry and the realities of the modern university. —
- — George Oppen: New Poems, Audio, and Biography —
- — “I’m wondering why we hate poetry. I don’t mean people who don’t write it. I mean people who do.” —
- — Poet’s Choice by Jeanne Larsen: ‘Wrong All These Years — It Isn’t’ by Jeanne Larsen —
- — Canadian university welcomes Derek Walcott to teaching post —
- — Possible sound recording of Walt Whitman reading from “America” —
- — Dan Albergotti from Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio [mp3] —
- — “We are all delighted to announce the release of the 12th issue of Galatea Resurrects, with a record number of 87 new reviews! “ —
- — Modernist minotaurs —
- — A.F. Moritz and C.D. Wright are the winners of the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize —
- — The Surprising Advantages of Being a Poet —
- — Elvis inhabits the psyche of poet CaConrad, author of Advanced Elvis Course, an odd compendium of poems, dialogues, quotations, dreams and anecdotes. The first half describes the poet’s pilgrimage to Graceland, Mecca for Elvis fans, consisting of a gauche plantation-style mansion and museum complex. —
- — Lost Ted Hughes children’s poem discovered —
- — “10 or 15 years ago a large state press like Shanghai Literature Press would not have gone near these poets. Things are opening up. But…the in-house censor chopped out a few of my favorites.” —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Luminous Great Mass’
from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS — - — Judge Orders Former Bristol-Myers Executive to Write Book —
- — Poster poems: Fame —
- — Linklog: How the web changes readers, lit-Twitters and more —
- — How to Sleep, by Dorianne Laux from Poetry Daily —
- — Israel’s oldest newspaper surprised 50,000 readers this week, giving the paper’s journalists a vacation–turning over the newspaper to writers and poets. —
- — Tim Martin explores the mad humour of nursery rhymes in foreign tongues —
- — Beat poet Harold Norse dies at 92 —
- — Articles in May/Jun 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
- — Locating Narrative In Medicine’s Moral Domain: Notes (Musical And Otherwise) From A Recent Presentation —
- — Bloomsday around the world —
- — Poet’s Choice By Edward Hirsch: Claribel Alegría trans. by Carolyn Forché —
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- — Poetic Form: Found Poem —
I’m just posting poetry news every Bloomsday from now on. 
Since I last posted I lost my job (I need ADA Accommodations), I had to have Betty “put to sleep” (our 18-year old cat who slept on my feet each night), I’m dealing with being broke (being sick and out of work for months will do that), I’m dealing with my husband being on the road all year (I don’t mind saying that online because I believe in all the Amendments of the Constitution and I can still lift things haha) and I got my job back (I think).
More tomorrow.
Poetry News For Aprille 28, 2009
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- — Should blog comments be moderated to reduce the number of inevitable “angry, scatological discussion threads?” —
- — Conversation: Poet Carl Phillips from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — Author Makes Famous Poems Fun For Kids —
- — Paul Guest’s Body of Poetry — The Story from American Public Media —
- — For Your Health, Pick A Mate Who Is Conscientious And, Perhaps, Also Neurotic —
- — Today is the annual Dining Out For Life, and dozens of local eateries are donating anywhere from 30-100% of the day’s sales to Nashville Cares, a locally-based AIDS service organization. —
- — Ursula K Le Guin wins sixth Nebula award —
- — Margaret Walker might be the “most famous person nobody knows” but the poet, whose works about African-Americans bridged the gap between the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s and the black arts movement of the 1960s, will take center stage May 3 at the University of Kansas in a unique musical collaboration not to be missed. —
- — Falling In Love With Ideas from David Lynch Foundation Television —
- — My book, finalist yet again, has been selected for publication by Dream Horse Press. —
- — This week, Michael Tyrell, co-editor of “Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn” (NYU Press, 2007), will be answering readers’ questions about the history of Brooklyn’s literary landscape, its place in American poetry and the poets who live and work in the borough. —
- — LETTERS: Laureate of the Louche —
- — Afghan poets tackle scars of war —
- — An Essential American Poet from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine’s poems. [mp3] —
- — Poem of the week: The Mangel-Bury by Ivor Gurney —
- — Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Awarded —
- — Francisco Goya from Pallimed: Arts & Humanities —
- — Are there any ways a smaller publisher can subvert the larger book publishers? To work the currents as a raft in an ocean of big, hulking vessels? —
- — West Tisbury Poet Wins Lilly Prize —
- — In that 10% are poems about a deathmatch between friends, fantasy role-playing games and the people who love them, and closing time at a bar. Schroeder’s been praised by River Styx’s Richard Newman for his distinctive voice, in which he spins lines such as “Nature is a MILF.” —
- — This year’s Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, which took place last month, was more evidence, if one needed any, that Buffalo remains a hotbed of small press activity. —
- — Georgia Review ‘throws great parties’ —
- — That there might be a Ponzi element in all this is something Mr. McGurl never considers. He thinks that writing programs are the best thing that ever happened to American fiction…. —
- — Art mags decry double standard —
- — Miss the Tweet? Here are the Minnesota Book Awards winners —
- — The Poetics of Hip-Hop | New Hampshire Public Radio | Word of Mouth —
- — Jim Powell: Irascible poet with stolen license —
- — ‘Casey at the Bat’ author had local roots —
- — What poem are you going to carry in your pocket on April 30 [Poem in Your Pocket Day]? —
- — Boston honors Poe, a native son who shunned the city —
- — Deborah Digges, distinguished poet and memoirist, dies at 59 —
- — But there is one tombstone at which many women stop and genuflect. It is that of a 25-year-old woman called Nadia Anjuman, and the flowery Persian engraving describes her as a poet who risked her life to keep writing under the Taliban. —
- — In an essay on the poet Muriel Rukeyser, Rich says that Rukeyser “was one of the great integrators, seeing the fragmentary world of modernity not as irretrievably broken, but in need of societal and emotional repair.” —
- — The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 8 —
- — Hobble Creek Review …is fresh. —
- — Poet’s Choice: Susan Wheeler —
- — Poet’s Choice by David Hinton: ‘Drinking Wine’ by T’ao Ch’ien —
- — Woeser, one of China’s best-known bloggers chronicling life in Tibet, has become an accidental hero to a generation of disenfranchised young Tibetans. —
- — The poet-critic William Logan continues his assault on the state of American poetry in these essays. —
- — Marshall is the author of “Meaning a Cloud” (Oberlin College Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 Field poetry prize. With his wife, the poet Christine Deavel, Marshall owns and operates Seattle’s poetry–only bookstore, Open Books, in Wallingford. [mp3] —
- — New collections by Stephen Dunn, J. D. McClatchy, Sharon Olds and Charles Wright. —
- — … Poetry Through the Ages. —
- — Why the Telegraph is wrong on women in IT —
- — Betting closed on next poet laureate amid speculation that Carol Ann Duffy has been chosen —
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