- — Understanding Haiti’s Catastrophe through a Poet’s Eyes —
- — An octogenarian lensman yesterday unveiled never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe lounging around a New York apartment with poet Carl Sandburg nine months before her death. —
- — Like Larkin, Tony Hoagland seems to draw inspiration and fluency as a poet from his disappointment and frustration as a human being. —
- — There are 15 or 20 better poets in America than Tony Hoagland, but few deliver more pure pleasure. —
- — For the second year running, a poet published by Twin Cities publisher Graywolf Press has won the prestigious (and lucrative) Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. —
- — Cathy Smith Bowers joins Wordplay! —
- — The 5,000 students graduating each year from creative writing programs (not to mention the thousands more who attend literary festivals and conferences) do not include insecurity, rejection and disappointment in their plans. —
- — Butter leads to lower blood fats than olive oil —
- — Fence Seeks Poetry Editor to Fill Open Spot —
- — poetry advice column: what should you learn from rejection letters? —
- — Colum McCann reads “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats at the 2008 Tribute to Chinua Achebe. [mp3] —
- — Language and Listening —
- — Sun Microsystems CEO’s 17-syllable resignation announcement is a useful innovation that could be more widely applied —
- — I wrote this poem at the end of the Fall semester of 2008, so it’s about a year old. I usually begin a poem with one line that I mutter under my breath for days, until I can’t hold it in any longer. —
- — Historically Speaking: Colonial-era female poet born in Lebanon, Conn. —
- — Gil Scott-Heron, survivor —
- — Is it vanity to self-publish? —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
- — It’s a profound statement, which is why in the 500+ pages of The Pleasure of the Damned you’ll find no sonnets, no sestinas, no haiku. —
- — The Winter of Our Self-Doubt: Writing, Solitude, and Companionship —
- — Minister to order poetry reading sessions in all radio stations —
- — Aberystwyth University in poetry ‘fevered brow’ test —
- — Ignorance as an asset —
- — Selected as the first place winner of qarrtsiluni’s 2009 poetry chapbook contest, Pamela Johnson Parker’s A Walk Through the Memory Palace is a gorgeous little treasure–a glossy chapbook with ten poems that sing as if they are 100. —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
- — Jack Kerouac’s Literary Estate in Limbo —
- — Defacing books: effluence of engagement —
- — Joe Milford Hosts WF Roby – Feb 07,2010 from Joe Milford Show | Great language poet and bad-ass. [mp3] —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — Poet Langston Hughes was born on 1 February 1902 in Joplin, Missouri.Personal planets in a combination of Aquarius, Pisces and Capricorn can be translated to humanitarian (Aquarius) dreams (Pisces) relating to (what ought to be) reality (Capricorn). —
- — SPD’s Poetry Bestsellers Jan 2010 —
- — “Dizzy in Your Eyes:” El Paso poet and author Pat Mora’s poetry gives voice to teen angst —
- — Joanna Rawson’s collection of poems unrest is one of four books of poetry nominated for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards. —
- — Ex-Iowa Poet Laureate Robert Dana dies —
- — When do you think a writer crosses the line between helping a publisher sell their book and entering into a cycle destructive to their creativity? —
- — … Fifteen Poems from Europe. —
- — This time, a simultaneously hardbitten and tender example of ‘cowboy poetry’ —
- — American Poetry Review, The, Jan/Feb 2010 —
- — With its daintily drawn cover artwork on a purple ground, this selection from the Poet Laureate’s work comes all tricked out like some Valentine’s Day gift. Beware. —
- — Steve Castro’s “Un monstruo oscuro encima de una gente clara” —
- — This program was inspired by an exhibition of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans.” Frank’s book first appeared in 1959, and presented an unvarnished view of American life in all its hope, despair, and diversity. Our program includes two stories inspired by pictures in the exhibition; a rollicking poem by Frank’s friend Allen Ginsberg; and stories by two contemporary ?migr?s: Alexsandar Hemon (“Good Living,” read by Boyd Gaines) and Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie (“The Thing Around Your Neck,” read by Condola Rashad.) [mp3] —
Poetry News For February 9, 2010
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- — So how do funny poems actually work? Well, the same way serious poems work — there’s just, I think, less room for error —
- — Boris Pasternak -the Man who saw the other side of the Bolshevik Revolution —
- — Invicta: what a terrible choice of poem- The choice of Gordon Brown is also the choice of the Oklahoma bomber —
- — Ugly Reprint of Dante’s Inferno Aims For Gamers —
- — Once we understand Essbaum’s thrust, we can pierce her previous volumes, Necropolis (2008, neoNuma Arts) and Harlot (2007, No Tell Books). These books are best understood as two halves of the same quest: the reconciliation of spirit and flesh —
- — Machine Art lamps —
- — Minnesota Poetry: Sun Yung Shin’s “The House” —
- — Carol Anne Duffy’s Poetry corner – Snow Light —
- — I love spectator shoes —
- — Poem of the Week: “Airport Security” by Sherod Santos —
- — … On Poetry: Poets’ homes usually eccentric and full of character. —
- — CFS: Broadsided wants your poems. Once a month, Broadsided publishes a literary/artistic collaboration. —
- — Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense: The Chicago poet’s overlooked adventures in linguistic anarchy. —
- — Why do we end poems the way we do? —
- — There’s not a thing about this process that comes easy. I sweat and suffer every syllable. —
- — New Lit on the Block :: Southern Women’s Review —
- — Sinclair sponsors 25th annual Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Writing Contest —
- — A Look Back in Anger: Poet-Prophet Gil Scott-Heron —
- — The Nation profiles Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, author of the (creepy, wonderful) short story collection There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby. —
- — Poet Philip Levine Recalls Life at the Factory
from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Jeffrey Brown profiles Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. [mp3] — - — KUSP The Poetry Show with Dennis Morton James Scully, The Manhatten Review [MP3] —
- — “Mummies To Burn” from Slate Magazine – Poems by Charles Harper Webb [mp3] —
- — Puma Perl’s poetry and fiction have been published in over 100 print and online journals and anthologies.Her first chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends, published in 2008, was awarded the Erbacce Press 2009 Poetry Award; a full length collection, knuckle tattoos, will be published early in 2010. She performs her work in many venues, in and out of New York City, and was recently included in the Bowery Poetry Club’s yearly New Year’s Day Alternate Poetry Marathon. Upcoming features include Otto’s Shrunken Head Shout-Out, Cornelia Street Café’s Hydrogen Jukebox, as well as a book launch party at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 7,2010.She lives and writes on the Lower East Side and has facilitated writing workshops in community based agencies and at Riker’s Island, a NYC prison. She is a member of Harmattan Theater, a performance group dedicated to environmental and socially engaging theater. [mp3] —
Poetry News For December 16, 2009
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- — Talking Generosity-Based Publishing with Gregory Maguire —
- — Formula to Detect an Author’s Literary ‘fingerprint’ —
- — According to the researchers, structures such as these were quite common in the Roman era and were intended for poetry-reading performances and musical recitals for an elect audience —
- — “Inspiration,” in my experience, is a reward for persistent work when one is not in the least inspired. The “paragraph,” despite a name that makes it sound like a prose poem, is a fairly complex form. As Hayden Carruth used and described it, it is a fifteen-line poem, which, like a sonnet, can either stand alone or work in sequence. —
- — War is declared in the world of ebooks —
- — This time, a distinctly ‘cubist’ attempt to reclaim one of Picasso’s muses as her own woman —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘From Here to There’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Brad Leithauser [mp3] —
- — Emily Dickinson Birthday Radio Show now available —
- — When you pick a fight with a poet, you expect to win. You are likely to be outmatched, however, if the poet you are up against is Alice Quinn —
- — The end of that relationship prompted her discovery of St. Vincent Millay and was the turning point in her jewelry-making —
- — A survey of 2009′s notable new nonfiction, fiction, and poetry —
- — On Poetry: Gilbran’s ‘The Prophet’ resonates with readers today —
- — Walcott finally wins his poetry professorship —
- — Christmas roundup: poetry books —
- — Women of the Avant-Garde —
- — Podcast: Charles Wright Reads Selected Sestets and Other Poems from The New York Review of Books —
- — With Rolling Stone going into the restaurant business, Slate imagines the possibilities for other magazine/restaurant hybrids. —
- — He scanned it — Staggered — —
- — This woman was one of my initial inspirations for the chapbook–originally I planned to tell the story from her perspective. [as a radio geek I've heard that story before and I am apt to believe it. and that is a good chapbook.] —
- — At the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the works of T. S. Eliot and Beethoven come together in an arresting, profound and a theatrically stunning piece titled “Four Quartets.” —
- — Poetry so bad it’s good, plus other verse tragedies. [mp3] —
- — Canadian sci-fi author beaten, imprisoned at US border crossing —
- — Sometimes, I work my poems hard, running them through several stress tests and changing lots of little things or some big things. —
- — Best American Poetry 2009: Statistical Overview —
- — Carl Sandburg from Poetry Lectures Archival recording of Carl Sandburg from 1956. [mp3] —
- — torqued enjambment —
- — Dharma Poetry: Hafiz —
- — Teri Garr: Wake Up Call from The Moth Podcast by marianne —
- — Music and the arts fight depression, promote health —
- — KUSP The Poetry Show: Dennis Morton and Leslie Anne Taylor read several holiday poems and more [mp3] —
- — Sapphire, Brian Turner, and Ai Among United States Artist Fellows —
- — Rare Tsvetayeva Production Struggles to Succeed —
- — To sum up: Sestina + apparently obscure references to Roseanne and Seinfeld = —
- — For Rumi, the reality accessible to our senses often obscures the true meaning that lies beneath —
- — Three-minute poetry? It’s all the rage —
- — What effect has being the editor of a poetry journal had on your own poetry? Is that another kind of feast? Or do you risk losing your appetite? —
- — The Bestselling Contemporary Poetry of 2009 —
- — Mad Girls’ Love Songs: Two Women Poets-a Professor and Graduate Student-Discuss Sylvia Plath, Angst, and the Poetics of Female Adolescence-College Literature, Fall 2009 by Greenberg, Arielle, Klaver, Becca —
- — Articles in Nov/Dec 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
- — Tom Waits to star in The Hobbit? —
- — Sarah Palin and William Shatner do beat poetry on “Tonight Show” —
- — Letters to a Young Poet: “The Delicacy and Strength of Lace” The collected correspondence between Leslie Marmon Silko and the poet James Wright —
- — University Teams with Kundiman, Inc., to Support Poets —
Poetry News For May 8, 2009
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- — Marin Poet Laureate Albert DeSilver and sculptor Todd Pickering are seen in Point Reyes with the Marin Poetry Chair they created from 58 poetry books. —
- — The New Pages Literary Magazine Reviews are fresh —
- — Reevaluating the Ouvre of John Giorno —
- — The National Endowment for the Arts today announced that Copper Canyon Press, an internationally renowned nonprofit literary publisher, will be the U.S. publisher for its International Literary Exchange with the People’s Republic of China. —
- — 2009 “Discovery” Poetry Contest Winners —
- — Sandburg site reopens —
- — It’s A Happy Buddha Birthday at the Full Moon of Taurus-Scorpio, also known as The Wesak Festival! —
- — Changing Gulf, Verse by Verse —
- — The Mainichi Daily News: Haiku in English: Daily Haiku Selection Archives —
- — The future of the book turns a page —
- — Here’s how the Pet Haiku contest works: Through May 22 at 6 p.m., post your best pet-related haiku poems here in the comments section, email them to me at pets@sfgate.com or tweet them using #SFGhaiku. —
- — It is a goddamned crime that Harris and Parsons aren’t still singing together, aging gracefully, gazing adoringly at each other as they harmonize in perfect sync, and touring the world making people happy with their music. —
- — I already miss the dogwoods —
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