Poetry News:

1. — September, 1918 by Amy Lowell —
2. — Hundreds of small, independent publishers will have easier access to digital book technology under a new service offered by Perseus Books Group. —
3. — Nationally known author to serve as Roy Acuff chair at Austin Peay —
4. — Poet’s rhyming riposte leaves Mrs Schofield ‘gobsmacked’ —
5. — Baltimore Has Poe; Philadelphia Wants Him —
6. — “The result is greater than the sum of the three individual parts - painting, poetry, and calligraphy.” —
7. — For the July installment of the National Constitution Center’s Legacy of 1808 series, three accomplished writers join us for a conversation examining slavery through fiction and scholarship. [mp3] —

I thought Canada was supposed to be more liberal about marijuana? Or is that just the W Coast?

Poetry News:

1. — British publisher touts American Indian poets —
2. — Even 33 years after I first read Sharon Olds, I remember the fresh shock her poems delivered like a body blow —
3. — The Guardian reports that Carol Ann Duffy has written a poem called Mrs Schofield’s GCSE in response to the removal of her poem from the GCSE syllabus —
4. — Recently re-released in the U.S., Ian Monk’s Writings for the Oulipo dazzles with its display of samples —
5. — Toilet door poetry project launched —
6. — In praise of the praise of poetry —
7. — Hands That Speak, Hands That Rhyme —
8. — New Old Visual Poems Posted on Spore —

Where’s the rest of the review? It that all?

Poetry News:

1. — Simply setting a poem as powerful as this on an exam syllabus leaves it wide open to misuse —
2. — Jordan to Be Inducted into Affrilachian Poets Tonight —
3. — Watson’s river, like T.S. Eliot’s Thames, is a susurrus of pre-existing voices; Donne and Adorno surface, only to be “later undo[ne]” by the “erasures implicit in the water surface itself”. —
4. — Poetry Foundation is looking for a web manager —
5. — oddest book title of the past 30 years —
6. — We’ve all been through it. Now write a poem about it —

new lit mag fried chicken and coffee “a blogazine of rural literature, Appalachian literature, and off-on commentary, reviews, rants”. I’m 1/2 Appalachian on my mom’s side. Gr-gran:

Nancy Jacob Mooney Whisenant / Whisenhunt:

Nancy was a popular name because of Nancy Ward.

Poetry News:

1. — Emily Dickinson’s ‘White Heat’ from NPR Programs: Fresh Air from WHYY —
2. — How Keats’s most popular rival rescued him from the critics —
3. — Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky wins the 11th Triennial Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize —
4. — Williams turns 125 years old —
5. — Lucille Clifton’s poem “brothers” shines a bright new light on Lucifer, who answers God in a whirlwind of verse. —
6. — “This is a broad request. I’m compiling a list of contemporary poets from the South or poets that have moved to the South and adopted it as a home.” —

Poetry News:

1. — Sometimes life goes on happening at such a rate that we lose track of ourselves, then, when faced with what we have become, we find ourselves unrecognisable —
2. — join[ing] the rare company of living authors whose life’s work is enshrined in the Library of America —
3. — she wants to show how the west doesn’t get Africa —
4. — Skillfully used, jazz and poetry can complement one another —
5. — Haiku as a road rage management technique? —
6. — not amused —
7. — The first known evidence of the term is found in an English and Latin poem [not safe for work -- the "term" is the same one Ralphie said when he helped his dad change a tire] —

Freudian psychology makes me laaaaugh. [Edit: besides, it was the 12th house Saturn in Cap opposing her Cancer Pluto.] Duh.