Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Despite the tough publishing climate, Graywolf Press’ art before profit philosophy has given rise to both —
2. — A recently discovered version of “Irene” or “The Sleeper,” one of Poe’s most important poems, has surfaced in rural Virginia. —
3. — Derek Walcott explains why, as Pasternak said, ‘great poets have no time to be original’ —
4. — Otoliths #11 has gone live! —
5. — Bob Stein invites you to help spend his latest NEH grant —
6. — WordPlay with William Matthews, Ranier Maria Rilke, Robert Bly, Lee Ann Brown, Peter Culley, & Cathy Smith Bowers [MP3] —
7. — Prof structurally liberates classic waka —
8. — Search and Destroy was born, with $100 seed money from Allen Ginsberg and matching funds from his boss Lawrence Ferlinghetti. —
9. — When I first got exposed to the study of Native writers in literature, a lot of (them) were poets —

Absolutely petrified. Blah.

Poetry News:

1. — Pallimed: Arts & Humanities (current posts about Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, “pain poet” Jane Cave Winscom, etc.) —
2. — poets transform the mountain lit scene & article is here —
3. — Win Tin, a poet, journalist and democracy advocate, was freed Tuesday after 19 years in prison —
4. — This month’s workshop is an exercise in self-portraiture, and it takes as its starting-point a quotation from the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda —
5. — Collins are to exuviate abstergently 2,000 rarely used words from their dictionaries to make way for new ones … but can we smell an olid rattus rattus? —
6. — “Should we have had more of a business plan?” he added. “Probably. But then the publishers that did have business plans didn’t do any better.” —

“What is it about this painting that such infamous people in history have owned it?”

Poetry News:

1. — Some poems seem inaccessible. But when one resonates, it changes our perceptions.
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2. — Poet Cathy Smith Bowers has made a career of nudging writers along —
3. — An icon sees poetic justice — and a conspiracy —
4. — Fairfield U offers new MFA in writing —
5. — An interview with poet Jorie Graham —
6. — Writers awarded Stegner Fellowships —

Nikki Giovanni at TSU today has been rescheduled, TBA.

Poetry News:

1. — Usually when I think, “Here’s something a poem needs to be written about,” I get as far away from pen and paper as I possibly can —
2. — Here is a poem giving pi to 21 digits when you replace each word with the number of letters in that word —
3. — Small Press and Publishing Panel —
4. — I am Cathal’s publisher for 20 years and I don’t think his poems should be used in this film. I have asked for them to be removed…. —
5. — Forage a fierce achievement —
6. — Vanishing Point by Robert Thomas —
7. — Why you should be enraged by literary liars —
8. — the 100 best last lines from novels —

Someone arrived at this blog yesterday via a Google search for “poem, the shepherd to hip love” and that made me laugh. Hmm “S” and “P” are kinda far away on the keyboard.

Maybe that poem appears in an anthology alongside “Stopping By The Foods On A Snowy Evening.” Feel free to post, in the comments, what other titles appear in that anthology. That cracks me up. And I could use some levity.

Poetry News:

1. — In the summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans —
2. — An Interview with Cathy Smith Bowers —
3. — “Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry — transcript —
4. — From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts? —
5. — Basho’s Irish echoes —
6. — Why devote seven years to proving an esoteric theory — in four volumes amounting to more than 2,000 pages — about which many academics remain skeptical and most people are unaware? —

I’ve been meme tagged — so here are 7 things and you consider yourself tagged, you hear?

1. I grew up in Michigan but have never been on a boat. (I’m not counting rowboat or canoe.)
2. My favorite Christmas Carols are O Holy Night and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen but I couldn’t tell you many of the words.
3. As part of my spiritual practice I try to keep an open heart but I’m naturally kind of melancholy and leery.
4. I think I am going to adopt this slogan for the near future hahaha. (Link found here)
5. More of a cat person but I like dogs too.
6. Men from both sides of my dad’s family first came to America to avoid serving in the military.
7. I like vanilla.

check out the skeletons