Poetry News:

1. — What The “Subprime Poetry Crisis” Means For The Overheated Metap[h]or Market —
2. — Poster poems: The rhythm of the falling rain —
3. — Wordplay with Pat Reviere-Seel and Jessica Newton [MP3] —
4. — A report on the new poet laureate of the U.S. A question from Yemen about Emily Dickinson. And poetry set to music, on a new album from France’s first lady, Carla Bruni. —
5. — This story of a wife’s betrayal and her husband’s fidelity unto death stings me with the awareness that small, unnoticed nobility endures in our midst —
6. — Poets, we think, can’t help but be poets and do poet-ish things. —

McCain’s Economic Plan For Nation: ‘Everyone Marry A Beer Heiress’ (ONN)

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry Buying Survey (3 questions) —
2. — Fitting farewell to Palestinian poet —
3. — Counter-Revolution of the Word:The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960 —
4. — San Francisco looking for next poet laureate —
5. — Library of Congress Adds New Authors to Eighth Annual National Book Festival; Free Podcasts Invite Nationwide Participation in Celebration of Reading —
6. — Poet Ricardo Pau-Llosa Reflects on Influences, Art [MP3 @ PBS] —
7. — A question about scansion in a country music song —

If anyone would like a review copy of my book or chapbook, email me. I have a few that I bought to send out (other than the ones I have already sent as a thank-you to folks who have published my poems before). Lotsa publications won’t accept a review a self-published/DIY-published book, however, so be aware of that before you email me. If you want to review it on your blog that’s fine.

Poetry News:

1. Poems and Lectures by Paul Muldoon —
2. Fragments must be honored as fragments —
3. Listen as Auden reads his 1957 poem “The More Loving One” —
4. Poets are extraordinary persons: Minister —
5. The Penn professor and poetry critic is still exploring various modes of the satirical, political and philosophical —
6. When it comes to poetry, a book’s title is a kind of shorthand that signals the main focus of the work —

Year of Pig will bring disaster.

Happy Monday.

Here are some links from my blogroll:

• Untalented Writer
• Valerie Loveland
• Very Like A Whale
• visualizing poetics
• vowel movements
• Watermark
• Weirdness …
• WhimsyLand
• Whiskey river
• Winter Spring Summer
• Woman-Stirred
• Wordsalad
• worldwright
• Writer Beware Blogs
• Yes, Starlings! Yes!
• You Are Here
• Yuckelbel's Canon
• Zeitgeist Spam
• {Never Neutral}
• ~~ululations~~

Poetry News:

1. Penn online poetry project rooted in culture of accessibility —
2. ‘Every essay is like an adventure’ —
3. Lauded poet stays positive —
4. the current obsession with plagiarism stands at the precise intersection of the cult of celebrity and what he calls “the cult of originality” —
5. What the Romans did for Julie Andrews —
6. In praise of a guilty genius —

Well I was close Peyton Manning had 247 passing yards. hahaha

Poetry News:

1. The more you like the poetic equivalent of a nice tune, easy to hum, the more Bernstein means to disrupt your complacency —
2. Last year, I decided to run for the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle —
3. The number of independent bookstores has been steadly growing. But will they survive? —
4. Asahi Haikuist Network —
5. While many of the poems we feature in this column are written in open forms, that’s not to say I don’t respect good writing done in traditional meter and rhyme —
6. Avant-garde writer’s poetry rediscovered in English translation —

Poetry News:

1. Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize, died 50 years ago this week —
2. Heaney wins TS Eliot poetry prize —
3. Asahi Haikuist Network —
4. I should be inclined to rank her second, then, in importance among our women poets [Monday, Aug. 13, 1923] —
5. Mongoose Civique, Thunder Crester, Dearborn Diamante…. [Monday, Apr. 22, 1957] hahaha —
6. What does it mean to be a poet in our time: Interview with Charles Bernstein —

Womb Poetry Vol.1 is up.

Maybe because I’ll be 40 this year (?) I can’t read light text on darker backgrounds online anymore. Ow. ow ow. I hate to pick on specific sites but my freakin’ eyes! I WANT TO READ YOUR CONTENT. I’m using the bookmarklet that I found here to turn light-text-on-dark to dark-text-on-light. Though in 1996 the first non-Lynx website I made had light text on a black background, hee. Don’t even get me started on Macromedia Flash-turbation.