- — 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] —
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Poetry News For February 9, 2010
Poetry News For July 31, 2009
- — POET CANNOT KEEP LOOT.; War Stores Seized at Allied Bases Will Be Returned, Rome Warns. Copyright, 1920, by The New York Times Company. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. January 1, 1920, Thursday —
- — Olivet College (MI) Humanities Department 2011 Sandburg-Auden-Stein Residency. Intensive Learning Term poet-in-residence program, late April to mid May 15, 2011. Submissions are due on September 10, 2009. —
- — In a Book of the week poetry special, Claire Armitstead talks to Ledbury festival winner Mick Wood and discusses this week’s Forward prize shortlists with Sarah Crown and Nicholas Wroe —
- — Do collected poems provide a complete account of an author? —
- — Listen To Genius —
- — Philip Levine with Kate Daniels from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [mp3] —
- — As we prepare for the funeral of Harry Patch, the last British soldier to fight in the First World War, new Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has marked the occasion with a sombre yet supremely uplifting poem. —
- — Carol Ann Duffy is already reviving public verse —
- — As storm-tossed and shock-filled as the times that bred it, Marina Tsvetaeva’s ruggedly spectacular poetry traces the path of one smouldering genius through Russia’s revolution —
- — Cures for the Common Cold War: Postwar Polish Poetry —
I hope this doesn’t suck:
Poetry News For July 13, 2009
- — SOUTHERN LITERATURE.; Facts about Southern Authors. November 12, 1865, Wednesday —
- — For the first time in its ten-year history, Drunken Boat is offering the chance to get email-delivered updates. —
- — Like dangerous toys or perilous amusement park rides, Matthea Harvey’s poems careen into the unknown… [mp3] —
- — Thom Gunn’s “Selected Poems” shows his development was steadier than often thought. —
- — The handful of his poems in the anthology stuck with me over the years since, poems of gritty working-class grappling with life, an unsentimental warmth, and at times nightmare visions of the political events of the larger world. —
- — The poetry of Fred Marchant explores literal battles as well as those of the mind and spirit. —
- — This gives some suggestion of the scale on which Stone has been working for the past 50 years: at one end, something as tangible as a spider’s web; at the other, the entire cosmos. —
- — Mass. lawmakers weigh creating poet laureate post —
- — ‘Deep in my heart I see poetry as a branch of the entertainment industry. I’m trying to do a song and dance act’ —
- — Dolly Parton poems @ Project Verse —
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- — The afternoon before Michael Jackson died, David Blair told BTL how his poetry collection would unite life in Detroit and the Jackson family. —
- — St. Clair Shores poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler has received double literary honors for his 2008 book —
- — Poet, 80, has first book published —
- — Writer, Poet Jim Harrison Is a Determined ‘Outsider’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — The poems of Grand Rapids poet Robert VanderMolen are sly, ingeniously crafted and indebted to film as well as to 20th century poets. —
- — Campaign to protect Margate shelter where TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land —
- — Daniel Radcliffe revealed as a budding poet —
- — The Poetry of Dick Cheney —
- — Remixed Messages —
- — Stop for a sonnet before catching bus —
- — Nashville poetry calendar new
— - — Paul Hemphill, whose 1970 nonfiction work The Nashville Sound was one of the first serious popular studies of country music and stands among the most important books ever written on the subject, died Saturday in hospice care in Georgia. —
- — Tennyson was ideally suited to radio, argues Michael Symmons Roberts, who has adapted his epic Arthurian cycle for broadcast —
- — Hundreds memorialize James Baker Hall —
- — Does God Hate Women? —
- — Piercy’s latest collection, The Crooked Inheritance, features poems on the U.S. occupation of Iraq , health care, “the poet as a young nerd”, hospital hallways, and mangoes at the beginning of a new love affair. [mp3] —
- — Carol Ann Duffy : ‘I was told to get a proper job’ —
Poetry News For July 1, 2009
- — A Talk with Sir Rabindranath Tagore; Bengali Poet, Nobel Prize Winner, Now in This Country, Gives His Poetic Creed and Explains Oriental Attitude Toward Literature By Joyce Kilmer. October 29, 1916, Sunday —
- — Frieda Hughes: why I love motorcycle racing —
- — The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, Mr. Carroll’s hometown, has agreed to install a marker that commemorates a moment on Nov. 27, 1925, when the poet Vachel Lindsay was timidly approached at dinner by a busboy who placed three poems he had written next to Lindsay’s plate. —
- — This month’s Across the Page features four noteworthy poetry collections, including: Mary Oliver’s new release, Evidence; Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn; Marilyn Hacker’s Desesperanto, and British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s Rapture. —
- — As you can see, at least two letters at the start of every word are the same as the ending letters of the previous word. Can you make such word-chain sentences that make sense? —
- — 5 Awe-Inspiring Poetry Reads, by Katha Pollitt —
- — Denton woman selected as 2010 Texas poet laureate —
- — D’oh! on a Grecian Urn —
- — Miss Conduct’s 2nd Annual Clerihew Contest! —
- — Like the Levi’s(R) brand, Walt Whitman stands for the democratic power of real people – the self-reliant young men and women who make this country a better place. —
- — “Over the coming weeks, we’ll also be posting a second set of poems by the contributors to the issue. These poems will be ‘made’ using the texts from other contributors’ poems.” —
- — Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2009 Results —
- — “…about the experience of putting together the Multiformalisms anthology I recently edited with Susan Schultz and how the formalism/language poetry are not at all the opposed forces people imagine they are but are practically in cahoots” —
- — Marianne Moore’s five-decade struggle with “Poetry.” —
- — An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs <-- updated link to free access to full article thank you ---
- — Santa Clara County unveiled its first-ever word collage – a collection of lines from county residents organized by county Poet Laureate Nils Peterson. —
- — Poetry presses, getting published & the delightful ampersand
— - — In her collection, “Honeybee” (Greenwillow, 2008), writer Naomi Shihab Nye finds a metaphor for our constant busy–ness in the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder — the unexplained demise of thousands of honeybees. [mp3] —
Hey, happy Canada Day!
Poetry News For June 27, 2009
- — I thought I’d hop into a recent discussion begun here which proposed to consider the prose poem as a medium, a la Marshall McLuhan, rather than as a poetic form and was based on a quote to that effect made… —
- — All that remains of Denver’s once- vital Beat scene are the memories of those who took part as well as the literary and visual artworks and scattered residue from that creatively fertile, topsy-turvy time from around 1965 through 1987 —
- — “He touched my life. His influence was profound. He will always be part of me, down where the deep-feeders lie.” —
- — Dharma Poetry: Gary Synder’s “Riprap” —
- — “I’m at the point where I don’t really know what’s going on–I really haven’t been in touch for 10 years.” —
- — Cambridge University launched a campaign on Thursday to buy an important collection of personal papers belonging to Siegfried Sassoon, the British anti-war poet noted for his bravery in battle. —
- — But there is one element in the story of the fall of Palmyra and of Queen Zenobia that is not usually mentioned in the history books: namely, the fact that there was also a “poet” in this story, who played a central role in the unfolding drama by proffering “advice.” —
- — Hassett vs. Hasselbeck: What A Plagiarism Lawsuit Reveals About Writers’ Fear of Theft —
- — Women in science —
- — However, she is keeping the 600 bottles of complimentary sherry written into the ancient terms and conditions. —
- — Two words on love —
- — The Library of Congress posted a photo: —
- — The Poetry Media Service offers free content about poetry to newspapers and online publications. Its book reviews, profiles, interviews, and poetry columnists will engage a general readership in poetry. —
- — Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman enter the blogosphere, with a whole age in train. ( —
- — “I’ve gotten a healthy amount of queries asking for clarification on a couple points surrounding our first reading period, so I figured it’s better late than never to clarify” —
- — William Carlos Williams reads his poems in New York City in 1942 and at the Library of Congress in 1945. [mp3] —
- — On Poetry: Contemporary American poetry needs a literary revival —
- — A former poet laureate on haiku and the responsibilities of writers. —
- — Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing —
Poetry News For June 17, 2009
- — While there are many female poets in Korea, her lyrical poems from a woman’s perspective on life and things show boldness and beauty, and have made her a favorite of Korean poetry lovers —
- — Cirque founder will take poetry into orbit —
- — Malla, Dodds take home Trillium Book Awards —
- — Ask a Poet —
- — Catherine Carter, an assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University, has won the 2009 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, —
- — Poem of the week: The Parable of the Old Man and the Young, by Wilfred Owen —
- — Poem of the week: From A Midsummer Night’s Dream —
- — Exclusive: Patti Smith interview —
- — Obama Picks G.O.P. Ex-Congressman to Lead National Endowment for the Humanities —
- — The 13th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest is now open! For information on the contest and how to apply, please click here. —
- — Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective. —
- — ‘Poets for Palestine’ negotiates an imagined better future, harsh reality —
- — Based on the turbulent life of the celebrated Russian poet, The Ships Pass Quietly was originally produced at The Blue Room to acclaim with Vivienne Glance as Akhmatova. —
- — Spirit bear captured on camera —
- — Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Half of the World in Light” collection wins the International Latino Book Award. —
- — The new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has chosen to attack politicians in her first composition in the post —
- — Poets reveal the strangest places they’ve ‘done it’ —
- — Nonfiction/Poetry Reviews: Publishers Weekly, 6/15/2009 —
- — Women of the futurists —
- — Paul Muldoon reads and discusses his own work. [mp3] —
- — Happy Birthday, Gwendolyn Brooks! —
- — Higher-ed pinching pushes college presses to brink —
- — Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet and Dramatist —
My brother is looking for someone to translate a passage in Dutch – helpful if you know some trigonometry. $.
Poetry News For May 29, 2009
- — The Urdd Eisteddfod, Wales’ largest youth festival, has failed to award the main poetry prize for the first time in 25 years. —
- — “Part of a poet’s job, I think, is to be receptive, and that isn’t something you can or should turn off.” —
- — Another Damn Fine Wordsalad Show! —
- — Photo —
- — Things have been a bit hectic around here what with the Bee-In and all, but we have finally made a decision in our Poem-In-Which-Every-Word-Is-Spelled-Wrong Bee. —
- — Love poetry is hardest to write, says new poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy —
- — Already Poor, Poets Don’t Much Mind The Recession —
- — Eva Touster, a poet and emerita professor of English at Peabody College, died May 26, 2009, at St. Thomas Hospital at the age of 94. —
- — Science v Art: Nobel Prize winners take on the big question
— - — Poetry plasters New Zealand and Nashville —
- — Funding cuts threaten Louisiana State University Press, the Southern Review, and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities —
- — Maine gallery to auction off two Emerson works —
- — As you’ve probably heard, PLR is no longer in print. However, we will contine to run online issues, beginning with the Health & Illness issue that is slated to go live on June 1 —
Poetry News For May 12, 2009
- — Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell is one of 100 people nationwide invited by President Barak Obama [sic] to attend the premiere White House Poetry Slam on Tuesday. —
- — Debra Kang Dean is the author of Back to Back, a chapbook of poems, News of Home, and Precipitates. She teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington and also in Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA in Writing Program. [mp3] —
- — Right now there is a glut of guides to “Being an Author in the Age of Web 2.0!” We’re told to use blogs in the following ways… —
- — Pilot Books will hold our first open reading period in May of 2009 to select a manuscript to be published in our new Meddling Kids Series. —
- — Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhumed his wife seven years after her death to retrieve an unfinished manuscript of his poems —
- — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, great grand-niece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, felt overshadowed by her illustrious ancestor, but hers was nonetheless a talent to reckon with. —
- — Sonnets are dotted about the collection like neat islands, composed with an easy skill and a musicality that reminds us of the melodic origins of the form —
- — Nicole Rubin, 18, of Norwich won the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, sponsored by the University of Connecticut. —
- — After a considerable delay (see previous post) I’ve released Issue 23 into the wild this afternoon. —
- — Louisiana State U. Press Might Get the Ax —
- — Happy Short Story Month! —
- — Political poetry and change in Latin America —
- — In the first of a series of collaborations between poets and photographers, Sarah Maguire and Martin Argles present an illustrated performance of her poem, ‘My Father’s Piano’ —
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Poetry News For May 11, 2009
- — I’d be happy if the new laureate blew all her money on the horses or invested in fetish gear —
- — The Connecticut Review, a literary journal published twice a year by the state university system, is dedicating its next issue to veterans’ writing, according to Lisa Siedlarz, one of its editors. —
- — Why You Are Probably Not an Independent Author (or, Another Post for Which I Expect I Will Get Some Flack) —
- — Wordfest was still underway, and I had to record the 3:00 o’clock reading at Malaprops, so last Sunday I replayed a show featuring Wordfest director Laura Hope-Gill. [mp3] —
- — Fifty years is an astoundingly long lifetime for a literary magazine, and what this book shows is that early on SPR was publishing emerging writers who would go on to become well known. —
- — Our second installment of the Spring 2009 Online Edition is now ready for reading! Featuring an interview with David Hoenigman; features on Jack Smith and Emma Bee Bernstein; and reviews of books by Rainer Maria Rilke, Amélie Nothomb, Andrew Schelling, Edmund White, and more! —
- — Wikipedia hoax shames major publishers —
- — When Elizabeth Alexander presented Barack Obama’s inaugural poem, few of us had considered that in the history of the United States there had been only three previous inaugural poets… [mp3] —
- — A Cantata Inspired by Mystics and Poets —
- — DesRuisseaux Named Next Parliamentary Poet Laureate —
- — Bloomington poet Anne Haines reads a selection of her recent work. Haines is a member of Five Women Poets and Source: Women Writers.? Her first chapbook, Breach, is now available, published by Finishing Line Press. [mp3] —
- — New Letters magazine receives three national awards —
- — “Florence” by Barbara Adler — a powerful videopoem on illiteracy. —
- — Each poem embeds a poet into life’s everyday urgencies, because the world must have poetry to survive. Without it, “ours would be a history of chronic needs.” —
- — Moxley knows all about political poetry. She was asked to be the poetry editor of the political and cultural criticism magazine The Baffler by its founder and editor Thomas Frank, who is best known for writing What’s the Matter with Kansas? The book persuasively argued that voters, swayed by the intangible forces of the culture wars, vote against their own economic interests. —
- — I wonder how many big book award winning books will be around that long. Do we care? —
- — Poem Inspires U.S. Sculptor To Honor Quake Victims —
- — Poet-moms are held to a higher standard. Expected to perform superhero feats minus the superhero status. —
- — Dylan and McCartney don’t mix —
- — The iambic pentameter is five heartbeats, to be exact: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” – with “Horse, horse, king, for, horse” being the strong beats —
- — Krysl often experiments with sestinas, a form that braids six repeating words into six six-lined stanzas, ending with a three-lined stanza, a grand finale. —
- — the case for non-poetry-writing poetry reviewers (cont’d) —
- — “Paradise Lost” movies face off in Hollywood —
- — A street vendor sells photographs of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore on a pavement in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata May 9, 2009. —
- — Maria Miranda Maloney is Managing Editor of Mezcla, a bilingual anthology dedicated to publishing poetry, fiction, and art. Maria was born in El Paso, Texas. “To be born in El Paso,” she says, “is to be born a poet, living at the seams of two worlds.” [mp3] —
- — The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds’s account of the madness of the poet John Clare is itself poetic, says Neel Mukherjee —
- — On Poetry: First thought, full bloom —
- — THE race to win poetry’s most prestigious academic post has turned dirty after Oxford academics were anonymously sent a lurid dossier accusing Derek Walcott, the frontrunner and Nobel laureate, of being a sex pest. and It is a scandal which has rocked the normally sedate world of poetry. —
- — The effect of the poem “Lighthouse” by Jane Hirshfield is to create in the reader a sophisticated sense of friendship toward humanity —
- — One more to tide you over —
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These PenAgain ergonomic pens are great. I just started using one. If you have finger pain, joint pain, arthritis etc you might want to try one. Or if you are such a prolific poet that you get writer’s cramp haha.
Poetry News For May 3, 2009
- — Chris Arnold is embarking on the journey of a lifetime to help save his brother — prize-winning poet Craig Arnold, who disappeared on a remote volcano in Japan five days ago. —
- — too bad they’ll not be around to see it —
- — The ABA has announced its “2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten” based on “the enthusiastic nominations of independent booksellers nationwide.” —
- — BBC falls for Bono’s ‘poetry’ —
- — Carol Anne Duffy ticks many boxes for being unique in a chain of laureates that goes back further than Chaucer /// After 341 Years, a Woman Is British Poet Laureate /// Poet Laureate says she ‘never liked’ her banned poem /// ‘It was my daughter who made me accept Poet’s job’ /// —
- — U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, has died at age —
- — mind fcuk —
- — Answers About Poetry in Brooklyn, Part 3 —
- — He has recently completed the Proteus Cycle, a trilogy of texts-in-collaboration with numerous authors, dead and alive, which exerts a rigorous effort to play out a musics, a poetics and a shift of authoratative duties to the reader. It includes The Proteus (Moria Books, 2008), Joys: A Catalogue of Disappointments (BlazeVOX, 2008), and Ore (twentythreebooks, 2009). —
- — The editors of the magazine discuss Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic”, Inger Christensen’s musical poetry, and Hanoch Levin’s “Lives of the Dead.” [mp3] —
- — Why are poets so fascinated with birds? —
- — New: Poetics Forums at Delirious Hem —
- — The joy of exclamation marks! —
- — Online literary magazine Oeuvre debuts —
- — Tiananmen Anniversary: Memory of executed poet resonates —
- — Dismissed editor of Monthly stays silent —
- — Anne Waldman Saves the Chapbook —
- — A professor from Austin Peay State University, Blas Falconer, has been named a recipient of the Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award —
- — William Wordsworth’s letter to fellow poet sells for £8,825 —
- — Dharma Poetry: Allen Ginsberg’s Wichita Vortex Sutra —
- — Reading a poem by John Ashbery ’49 for the first time feels like walking into the room of a stranger. —
- — Indeed, the easiest explanation for the striking numbers the Harriet blogger decries has nothing to do with how many people read, or don’t read, contemporary poems: it has instead to do with the passing away, due to simple old age, of the last cohort in America to … [link from here thanks] —
- — An Irish singer is teaming up with Michael Madsen, the American actor, to make a spoken-word album of poetry —
- — Brain Processes Written Words As Unique ‘Objects,’ Neuroscientists Say —
- — “Kathryn Stripling Byer, NC Poet Laureate, has posted her reaction to and six poems from my new book of poems, Better With Friends, on her Laureate Blog.” —
- — Wordplay celebrates Wordfest with Patricia Smith [mp3] —
- — The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hear Komunyakaa’s voice as he reads his poetry. These poems are about love and war simultaneously, traumatic upheavals that may often be conjoined in this poet’s vision of life. [ mp3] —
- — Bob Hicok was born and raised in Michigan, worked in factories and once owned an automotive die design business there before becoming a professor at Virginia Tech. His poetry reflects on the economic hardships suffered in his home state. [MP3] —
Poetry News For Aprille 28, 2009
- — 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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