- — 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 July 15, 2009
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Jul 152009
- — English Criticism Now Done by Maiden Aunts; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Says That the Young Men Who Try to Free Art from the Tyranny of Convention Are at the Front. January 14, 1917, Sunday —
- — “Learn the Language”: A Discussion of Bob Perelman’s “The Unruly Child” Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Tom Mandel, Rodrigo Toscano, and Sarah Dowling. [mp3] —
- — Marie Ponsot once told me years ago “Erin, you really need to lower your expectations” but I still struggle a lot with this self-sense of nothing ever being good enough. And pretending to be exacting is also a handy way of masking my inherent slothfulness. —
- — Poem of the week: The Cliffside Path by Algernon Charles Swinburne —
- — Meatloaf by Donald Hall —
- — This hour, On Point: the making of the sonnet. —
- — SPD Poetry Bestsellers May/June 2009 —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don’t Understand’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — An Interview With Gary Snyder: Walking Mount Tam —
- — Ode to Egyptian president lands clerk 3 years jail —
- — That dark, strange side informs much of Ms. Hahn’s work. “My husband would call it the shadow side of the self,” she told me. “I’m very interested in monsters. I grew up listening to Grimm’s Fairy Tales, to fairy tales from Japan and China that have to do with ghosts and demons. I love that stuff. Some of the material I find in Science Times — the way insects act and so forth — they are like little monstrous beings.” —
Poetry News For July 9, 2009
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Jul 092009
- — Theodosia Garrison on Magazine Poets and Poetry; Shouldn’t Take Themselves Too Seriously or Expect to Live Very Luxuriously on the Revenues Derived from the Sale of Their Product — Confessions of a Successful Magazine Poetess, Who Admits Having Written Miles of Verse. May 28, 1905, Sunday —
- — A few years ago the Brooklyn Academy of Music held a Jim Jarmusch retrospective. During a Q&A, an audience member asked the director why he put so much poetry in his films. “I like poets,” Jarmusch answered, “because I know they’re not in it for the money.” —
- — Literary Journal Meets Thrift Store —
- — What poetry needs is its own game show. A show staged like a cage match —
- — Out of Context Ad Challenge —
- — Beck Launches Website Interview Series With Tom Waits’ Help —
- — Small presses keep up the good fight —
- — Weekly Poem: C.D. Wright ‘Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — Harold Norse memorial to be held at Beat Museum —
- — Our poet today was the subject of a Picasso portrait but turnabout is fair play —
- — When Poets Were Scientists and Nature Their Mysterious Muse —
- — US poet wins fellowship to work with Galway poet —
- — 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.
