- — It’s the birthday of the woman who wrote “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — / It gives a lovely light!” —
- — Charles Bukowski Stamp Running Out of Time —
- — Poem provides evidence that Anne Boleyn had numerous affairs —
- — Ancient Poet Joins WWE Smackdown —
- — Köhler painted the American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski— uninhibited, antisocial spokesman for drinking, fighting, and fucking; defender of the inescapable squalor, oppressiveness, and futility of life—in an earthy, visceral red. —
- — Honan channels the worst poet ever in Portland Stage’s ‘Real McGonagall’ —
- — The last time an opponent of the communist government died in Cuba during a hunger strike was 1972 with poet and activist Pedro Luis Boitel. —
- — As a young child, Edward Hirsch mistook Emily Bronte’s work for his grandfather’s. —
- — It’s not possible to bring back the dead, but yesterday the final work of Australian poet Dorothy Porter was bought vividly to life by actress Cate Blanchett in a sold-out Things On Sunday event at the Malthouse Theatre —
- — Rare Disease Day designed to raise public awareness of uncommon illnesses —
- — At the age of 17 Sylvia Plath referred to herself in her diary as ‘the girl who wanted to be god’, this use of the past tense perhaps foreshadowing her early demise. —
- — Bolano’s early novella reimagines the last days of Peruvian writer Vallejo during Spanish Civil War. —
- — Poems by Olympic poet-in-residence soar with athletes —
- — Book Review | ‘Leavings’ by Wendell Berry —
- — If Emily Dickinson had wanted to make a spectacle of herself, she could have wandered solo into a disreputable “rum resort” to sit on the lap of a not-so-gentlemanly scholar, as Jerome Charyn has her do in his daring novel about the Emily who might have been —
- — The Millay Society plans to open Steepletop, the home of the late poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, to the public for tours starting May 28. —
- — Israel turns down bid to teach Palestinian poems in schools —
- — When is a consonant a vowel? —
- — Feds push for tracking cell phones —
- — In poem after marvellous poem, Robertson creates a series of elusive identities. —
- — Keep and Give Away is driven by, as one reviewer has said, the central paradox of loving and letting go. —
- — 112-year-old Mother Ruby Muhammad plans to sing, read poetry on stage —
- — 5 Questions with Gary Young, Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County —
- — Michelangelo drawings of his muse go on display —
- — Juliana Gray, assistant professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Alfred University, received the 2010 Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry —
- — Reviews of new Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, Romance, Science-Fiction, and Graphic Novels [and poetry] —
- — Nazi spoons, robots vie for oddest title —
- — In this week’s poem, a beautiful nocturne, the New York poet Samuel Menashe finds transcendence in everyday images —
- — To recognize and help celebrate the start of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, P&PC goes into its archive to reprint this posting on Olympians and Olympic poetry. —
- — Five Questions with Collin Kelley, author of “Conquering Venus.” —
- — Ask a Poet: Why do women seem so normal at the workplace or in a board meeting or in evening classes, but then when you get to know them, you find out that they’re just so damn unreasonable and complicated? I like your column, but I bet you’re obnoxious, too. Just like the rest of them. —
- — Roger Robinson responds to your poems on fatherhood —
- — The dark horse candidate who would be Oxford’s new professor of poetry —
- — `Forty Rules of Love’ tells story of Rumi’s life —
- — A piece of history is lost as bookstore closes —
- — Poet-professor takes aim at women’s issues in ‘Hot Bullets’ —
- — Poem of the week: A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation by Aphra Behn —
- — In my memory it goes like this: I wrote the poem in one sitting after watching a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in January or February. The poem just sprang out of me, needing no revision. Everything in the poem happened just as I describe it. But here’s the truth: I keep a little “events” journal, and I still have the drafts of the poem, so I decided to check. —
- — … Louisville man charged with threatening to kill president in poem. —
- — Terza Rima – a defence of rhyme —
- — free verse done right —
- — Vile Poetry Hardly Worst Unwanted Detritus Stuffed in SF Weekly Box —
- — Fairy Tale Review: Call for The Brown Issue —
- — A short story collection by a Vanderbilt University professor described as “an amazingly original Flannery O’Connor/Loretta Lynn collision” is one of five nominees for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. —
- — This is the first Plath audio release in more than three decades with new, previously unreleased recordings!! —
- — “Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present,” the first serious anthology of law-related poetry ever published in the United States, will become available March 1 from the University of Iowa Press. —
- — Poetry magazine Free Lunch ends its run —
- — The Saturday poem – On Lacking the Killer Instinct by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin From The Sun-fish —
- — Tuesday and Wednesday this week I had the great fortune to interact with Kay Ryan, our current U.S. Poet Laureate. She came to the University of Tennessee to give a poetry reading and interact with students and various campus groups. —
- — Fringe interview: Poet Bryan Roth on the Meaning of Poetry —
- — Covers and texts from underground poetry journals in “Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Issue #10” at White Columns, a show organized by Thurston Moore, Byron Coley and Eva Prinz. —
- — Chickens ‘one-up’ humans in ability to see color —
- — A dispute with Borges’s estate has left works he produced with the translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni in publishing limbo —
- — “Learning to Write the MFA Poem” [by Nin Andrews] —
- — Beware of Fake Awards —
- — John Ashbery Visits, Presents His Poetry —
- — Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Intricacies of Black Lives, Dies at 73 New York Times —
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- — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – join Rachelle as she talks to Ruth Forman A Poetry for the People alum, Ruth Forman is an award-winning young writer and filmmaker. Her first book of poetry, We Are The Young Magicians, won the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. In its starred and boxed review, Booklist said, “Ruth Forman[’s]… poems are alive and kicking; they pound and pulse with a hard-won sense of self, beauty, femininity, strength and righteous indignation.” Renaissance, Ruth Forman’s second book, is written with the same irrepressible voice. A graduate of UC Berkeley and the famed USC film school, Ms Forman works to inspire others with the power and magic of language, frequently collaborating on music and film projects, and providing readings and workshops to a wide variety of audiences. She most recently received the 2001 Durfee Artist Fellowship to continue work on Mama John, her first novel, as well as a third volume of poetry. [mp3] —
- — Margo Jefferson Reminisces about Langston Hughes [mp3] —
- — This program is devoted to two classic tales of terror. We begin with Bram Stoker’s “Dracula’s Guest,” which almost makes you hear the sound of the wolves on the windswept moor, as delivered by the regular performer on television’s “Daily Show,” Aasif Mandvi. Second, a privileged aristocracy can’t cheat death in this chiller by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death.” The reader is Fionnula Flanagan. [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Patrick Lawler: Feeding the Fear of the Earth is out on Many Mountains Moving Press. Patrick Lawler’s two earlier collections of poetry are: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (U of Georgia Press) and reading a burning book (Basfal Books). He has been awarded fellowships by the NY State Foundation for the Arts, the NEA, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. In addition to being an Associate Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where he teaches Environmental Writing and Nature Literature, he teaches creative writing at Onondoga Community College. He is also part of the Creative Writing Program at LeMoyne College, where he teaches creative writing, playwriting, and writing for performance. [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Ted Mathys: Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils, forthcoming from Coffee House Press, and Forge, from the same publisher. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in such venues as American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and Jubilat. His work has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, and Verse, 1994 – 2004: The Second Decade, as well as translated into Italian for La nuova poesia Americana: New York. Originally from Ohio, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Berlin, and New York and currently studies international affairs at Tufts University in Boston. [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Jerry Williams: With breakup and divorce rates so high in the United States, who wouldn’t want to read an eclectic volume of poems on the subject? Therapeutic and transformative, edgy yet sincere, enlightening, wideranging, female and male, gay and straight, innocent and guilty, It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Breakup incorporates work from as many different perspectives as possible in order to explore the exquisite pain of heartbreak. Such top-shelf contributors as National Book Award finalist Kim Addonizio, bestselling author Denis Johnson, former poet laureate Mark Strand, Edward Hirsch, Maxine Kumin, David Lehman, and many others proudly offer up their wisdom on the various pains (and humors) of heartbreak. In this stunning collection, readers will not find false hope, but the real hope of genuine sympathy in love, hate, fury, and recuperation. [mp3] —
- — Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay personified the life of a liberated, bohemian poet in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. [mp3] —
- — PBS: Former Maryland poet laureate and National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton died Saturday at age 73 after a long battle with cancer. [mp3] —
- — Join Beth Chang As She reviews E.E. Cummings Erotic Poems & Honor Comes Hard Wrintings from The California Prison System Honor Yard Edited by Luis J Rodriguez & Lucinda Thomas Prison writing has a long and illustrious history in the United States – home of the modern correctional system. In the first decade of the 21st century, this country also garnered the distinction of having more prisoners per capita than any other nation in the world. We need to hear from the incarcerated writings of incarcerated men and women. The largest state prison system is in California with some 175,000 people behind bars in close to 35 facilities. Yet the only approved Honor Yard in the Department of Corrections is at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster, California. These are the men that despite often-horrendous crimes – many are lifers, with a few going on three decades – have proven their capacity to dream, to create, to write, to change. From poems, to stories, to novel excerpts, to reportage, to personal essays – and a few drawings – “Honor Comes Hard” depicts what can happen to people who are given, as Clarence Darrow expressed many years ago, ‘a chance to live’. The work is drawn from writing classes that Lucinda Thomas helped organize in the Honor Yard over several years, and from workshops conducted by Luis J. Rodriguez on most Sundays, for eight hours a day, through eight months in 2007-2008. [mp3] —
- — Join Rafael and Brett-Candace as she talks Erica Miriam Fabri – Erica Miriam Fabri is the author of “Dialect of a Skirt,” a collection of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press (November 2009). She is a writer and performer and a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and received her MFA in Poetry from The New School. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including: New York Quarterly, Texas Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Hanging Loose Magazine, Good Foot Magazine, Paper Street and more. She has performed and facilitated workshops and seminars at: Cooper Union School of the Arts, New York University, Columbia University, Penn State University, The Brooklyn Public Library, Poet’s House, The Fortune Society, The Robin Hood Foundation, and the PEN Prison Writing Program. She has worked on projects as a writer, editor and performance director for The New York Knicks, HBO and Nickelodeon Television. [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Show | Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils, forthcoming from Coffee House Press, and Forge, from the same publisher. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in such venues as American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and Jubilat. His work has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, and Verse, 1994 – 2004: The Second Decade, as well as translated into Italian for La nuova poesia Americana: New York. Originally from Ohio, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Berlin, and New York and currently studies international affairs at Tufts University in Boston. [mp3] —
- — Lucille Clifton, Reading, 21 May 1996 video —
- — “Hole” is from Naomi Ayala’s “This Side of Early” (Curbstone Press, 2008). Her first collection, “Wild Animals on the Moon,” was published in 1997, and a third is forthcoming. She lives in Washington, D.C., and works as an education consultant, translator and teacher. [mp3] —
- — Lucille Clifton with Quincy Troupe, Conversation, 21 May 1996 from Lannan Foundation video —
- — Willie Perdomo riffs on discovering the work of Hughes for the first time, as part of PEN’s Tribute to Langston Hughes. [mp3] —
- — The Expatriates By Anne Sexton from Poem of the Day [mp3] —
- — The Poetry Show: Friends from Cabrillo College honor the departed poet Jeff Towle [mp3] —
- — Poetry from In Celebration of the Muse, hosted by Susan Freeman [mp3] —
- — rules grammar change onion radio news [mp3] —
- — Archival recordings of poet Anne Sexton, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1960. [mp3] —
- — Why danger can be good for children guess it is time to bring back these toys [youtube] —
- — Jeff Bezos in Disagreement With A Major Publisher, Pulls All Their Works’ “Buy Buttons” Off Amazon —
- — After years of mimicking her betters at poetry, she found her calling —
- — Zora Neale Hurston remembered on 50th anniversary of her death —
- — Fine writers, lousy spouses —
- — Accompanying the photos is a sestina by Mr. Trinidad called “Playing With Dolls,” in which his mother defends his doll habit —
- — A Reading List for the Grieving —
- — A Kittery Point poet and teacher, Green spent four weeks at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., working on a manuscript of 100 poems that she wanted to revise. —
- — Ruth Padel on Derek Walcott, ‘dirty tricks’, and the worst mistake of her life —
- — A love poem is principally a way of wooing, a strategy for seduction – and the Poetry Archive has compiled a collection you can send to your beloved on their mobile phone —
- — New Lit Mag Alert —
- — Unusual Calls for Submissions —
- — Pros and Cons of Interning at a Lit Mag —
- — Homeless young adults express themselves through poetry, build community, better lives —
- — 3 questions with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky —
- — Rarely do I come across a book of poems that reads as though it had to be written. When I do, I’m reminded why I read poems in the first place —
- — For starters Bukowski’s assertion that he was born a bastard is inaccurate: he was born on August 16th, 1920; his parent had married, albeit only a month before, on July 15th. —
- — Yet without medical classification, but real in its effects, let us call this pandemic by the name poet-oxemia. —
- — Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur Product Reviews —
- — “What is a cat but a reduced lion?” So muses the fictionalized Joseph Brodsky character in Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s whimsical and inventive film, A Room and a Half. —
- — There are a few things that make Wendy Barker, poet-in-residence and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, angry. One of them is how intimidated people can be of poetry. —
- — Reviews of New Fiction, Poetry, Mystery, Science Fiction and Comics — Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2010 —
- — Can creative writing ever be taught? —
- — Spitball The Literary Baseball Magazine has moved —
- — Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter: the case for a new Formalism —
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- — Poetry roundup | Book review —
- — Uncovered: Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner —
- — How does an outfielder know where to run for a fly ball? —
- — Alan Lightman—scientist, essayist, novelist, and poet—takes on the big questions —
- — Patricia and Edward Submitted by Ryan from My Parents Were Awesome —
- — Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude —
- — The Romantic poets: The Human Image and The Divine Image by William Blake —
- — Invictus aside, poetry in cinema is embarrassing —
- — Poetry, in its power to burn experience into the soul in a concentrated perfection of language often becomes an unlikely balm. —
- — NaPoWriMo 2010 is coming! [from No Tell Motel thank you]—
- — A few years after the dedication, he decided to revisit “his” high school. By then a different principal was in charge. The new man thought Sandburg was a panhandler and threw him out. —
- — George Tsongas dies: poet, North Beach fixture —
- — Women and Disability and Poetry (Not Necessarily in That Order) —
- — More drawings from my notebook that is so small, I can only fit the faces of people I draw. Not to be confused with the online social network Facebook. —
- — Cerebral Meditation Hosted Roy Johnston – Join Roy as he talks to Stanley Plumly about his Keats Bio Poets who die young often have surprisingly lively posthumous careers. John Keats (1795-1821) provides the most celebrated example: Almost immediately after his death in Rome, at the age of 25, he entered the realm of legend. Though his poetry wasn’t much read at the time, he himself was quickly transformed into a figure of myth. For Shelley — who drowned with a copy of Keats’s last book in his pocket — he was “like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherished,” as he put it in “Adonais,” his elegy for the poet. At the opposite extreme, Shelley’s good friend Lord Byron detested Keats and snubbed him, referring to him in one letter as “a dirty little blackguard.” For the aristocratic Byron, Keats was a “Cockney” upstart — more a rank weed than a pale lily. But for Keats’s admirers, his humble origins only enhanced the pathos of his fate. For William Butler Yeats, Keats was both the “coarse-bred son of a livery-stable keeper” and a woebegone schoolboy “with face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window,” the very epitome of sensuousness unsatisfied. [mp3] —
- — The Reading Is Poetry Review – “Where Verse Becomes A Learning Lesson” Join Hip Hop Jazz Poet A K Toney as he reads and reviews selections from “Skovbo” by Viggo Mortenson. (Perceval Press 2009) A Collection of photographs, poems, and quotes. (in English, Spanish, and Danish [mp3] —
- — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – Join Rachelle as she Talks to Alicia Ostriker – Alicia Ostriker, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven. Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. Ostriker lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of New England College. ***** Rachelle Cruz, Poet and Host of “The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com www.rachellecruz.com [mp3] —
- — Jo Mcdougall – from Joe Milford Show | Jo McDougall is the author of five books of poetry: The Woman in the Next Booth, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City; Towns Facing Railroads and From Darkening Porches, University of Arkansas Press; and, most recently, Dirt and Satisfied with Havoc, Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh. Her memoir in progress, Daddy’s Money, focuses on growing up on a rice farm in the Arkansas delta. [mp3] —
- — Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter. [mp3] —
- — The best thing that could happen to poetry is to drive it out of the universities with burning pitch forks. Starve the lavish grants. Strangle them all in a barrel of water. Cast them out. The current culture, in which poetry is written for and supported by poets has created a kind of state-sanctioned poetry that resists innovation. —
- — New Non-Contest Poetry Book Publishers —
- — If grown-ups don’t read poetry, it’s not because they have a bone to pick with poets. The truth is even more intolerable: they prefer not to. —
- — Lit mags were once launching pads for great writers and big ideas. Is it time to write them off? —
- — The Death of the Slush Pile —
- — Logue casts a darker light on proceedings in the last stanza when, finally departing from Antigone, the poem evolves into a fatalistic tragedy-in-miniature, a progression of violence where man “becomes his own enemy”. —
- — Cantor and Cox argue that Austrian economics, which focuses on the freedom of the individual actor and the subjectivity of values, is suited to the study of literature and artistic creativity. —
- — Poetry Tips: Requesting a Review —
- — I’m also at work on my fourth collection of poetry (the third, “Fancy Beasts,” will be published by Milkweed Editions in March). This new collection is a sequence of poems in dialogue with Emerson’s “Beauty.” —
- — Poetry can be written with the potage of blood, sweat and tears. It survives less well on adrenaline and testosterone. —
- — The Law Finally Catches Up With Faux Literary Agent/Film Producer Robin Price —
- — Reading in private homes ensures that at least one other person will be embarrassed if nobody shows up. —
- — Former poet laureate defends merits of creative writing courses —
- — To this, I would remind Rasmusen that in academia, Ph.Ds in creative writing do not exist. —
- — A call to poets: stay alive —
- — It’s hard to write love poems because the tendency is to swoon, and it’s hard to swoon in an original way. So I took my time with this poem; I wasn’t in a hurry to finish it. I’d put it away for long periods of time and then come back to it and fiddle around with the metaphors and the sequence. —
- — Thick coats of black and green eye makeup partially made from lead may have boosted the immune systems of ancient Egyptians, a new study suggests. —
- — Alicia Ostriker’s new poetry collection, which won the National Jewish Book Awards’ top poetry prize last week, succeeds in making the “matter” of aging — bodily fatigue and mental dismay, vanishing beloveds and the hazards of longevity — fascinating and deeply moving. —
- — A former math and chemistry major with a love of NASCAR racing, Edward Byrne might not seem to be a typical poet. —
- — Jim Harrison’s love for northern Michigan helps drive his recent burst of productivity —
- — Oregon fisher poets gather to share lyrical lines in Astoria, Newport —
- — Poetry: To consider history, we must make it ours —
- — If it’s approachable, sincere and focused on love, family, motherhood, trust and/or gratitude, it was probably written by prolific poet and greeting card magnate Susan Polis Schutz. —
- — KUOW’s Amanda Wilde has been listening to an infectious Latin tune that’s kept toes tapping for more than 90 years. [mp3] —
- — Theodore Roethke astrology —
- — On Poetry: Choices in the new year —
- — The Poem’s Force: Images —
- — At Sotheby’s, Tracing the Lives Behind the Letters —
- — Ask a Book Question #76 (Good Readers, Good Readings)
- — MLK Jr. Art & Poetry Competition: Winners, grades 4-5 —
- — “Poetry is dead,” one of my students informed me from the back row of the classroom. These are not words that a high school English teacher likes to hear. —
- — Could it be that the author of Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice was not only a woman, but a clandestine Jew? —
- — Country Music Hall of Famer Carl Smith dies at 82 —
- — Taken together, these two complementary lines of investigation provide, to our knowledge, the first quantitative description of larva fishing by wild crows in its full ecological context. —
- — Somehow, when PK broke the syntax of a line – and you heard it best when she read her poems aloud – something cracked in you and opened out to the light —
- — There are poems in Kathleen Driskell’s Seed Across Snow (Red Hen, 2009) that delight, lines that electrify. —
- — and this is very much my argument about fairy tales – they are about women’s things that are being discussed in a kind of code —
- — I think of the first draft of a poem as a block of marble and, I am the sculptor carving away at it until the poem itself emerges from that bulk of stone. —
- — With its cover and endpapers the brilliant red of a chough’s beak, The Poetry of Birds begins with Marianne Moore’s ostrich (“He ‘Digesteth Harde Yron’”) and ends with Emily Dickinson’s “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”. The book is arranged by species, rather than by author, which seems only fitting. —
- — Saturday poem: funhouse by Charles Bukowski —
- — Robert Philbin reviews Amy King’s Slaves to Do These Things on The TOWER Journal. —
- — The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion hosted Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace – Join Rafael and Brett as they talk to Judith Kerman thee translator of Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic View Larger Image Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic Translated by Judith Kerman Aida Cartagena Portalatín Angela Hernández Núñez Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo While the three poets presented in this bilingual collection present a rich contrast of linguistic and stylistic elements, each of them addresses shared political and cultural issues, illuminating what it means to be a woman living in the modern day Dominican Republic. Judith Kerman, who has translated a number of female poets from the Caribbean, notes that “contemporary women poets from the Dominican Republic are the most under-served group when it comes to English-language translation, in particular full-length collections or anthologies.” Thus, this exciting new anthology from BOA contains much that was previously unavailable to the English reader, and is a unique lit [mp3] —
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- — WB Yeats and Sigmund Freud works posted on Wikipedia as copyright expires —
- — A celebration of the great writers who died in the past decade —
- — Rachel Wetzsteon, Poet of Keen Insights and Wit, Dies at 42 —
- — PBS NewsHour : A profile of Russian poet Vera Pavlova, who will release her first collection of poems in English, “If There is Something to Desire,” next month. —
- — Though the strategies of women writing in Ireland today are various, most avoid the lure of idyll. Campbell’s own cunning sideways take on the masculine pastoral has Mother Ireland as a furious farmer’s wife, while These Women is her tribute to the work-hardened women who “make happen the full wake, /the kettle hopping, the oven warm”. —
- — W.H. Auden turns out to have been a huge fan of Lord of the Rings —
- — A Scottish poet who killed himself after being rejected by a publisher is to be remembered on the 200th anniversary of his death. —
- — The results of the 13th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest are in! —
- — Co-created by Mike Hazard and Deb Wallwork, the half-hour film is a look at the mysterious Chinese poet Han Shan, or “Cold Mountain” (no one knows his birth name – he took the name of the place where he lived). —
- — tag cloud for this blog sorry it disappeared when I changed servers/hosts and reinstalled this blog. I have a new post on my “affliction blog” too. —
- — Poet James M. Nack was born 4 January 1809, and wrote a poem for New Year’s Day for his daughter Eveline —
- — Connecticut Puts Out Call For New Poet Laureate —
- — Lake Superior State University 2010 List of Banished Words —
- — Amy Goodman: The poetic justice of poet Dennis Brutus —
- — Author creates home for misfit words —
- — “It’s fair to say that piracy of e-books is exploding,” said Albert Greco, an industry expert and professor of marketing at Fordham University. —
- — There is no better way to get words on paper than letterpress,” Mr. Torosian said. “The beauty, the letter forms are so architectural and sculptural, they are so tangible,” —
- — Running the small press section at Powell’s in Portland and running my own little press has put me in a position to see a lot of cool stuff from authors before anyone else has even heard of them. 2009 was no exception. Here are the highlights from my own personal reading list… —
- — Is it time to revive the Christmas tradition of the chapbook? —
- — To MFA or Not to MFA? —
- — Obsessive Freak Abner Doubleday Forces Locals To Play Nonsensical Game —
- — “….essays on Sylvia Plath and Material Culture. We’re still accepting submissions…” —
- — The hymn-like metre combines with the Romantic, Keatsian image of the thrush to produce one of Hardy’s most lyrical poems —
- — For Rumi, love is the astrolabe of God’s mysteries and the animating force of creation —
- — the next review submission deadline for Galatea Resurrects has been set at April 15, 2010. —
- — kelsey letterpress (chattanooga) $450 —
- — In her final installment of “In the Pursuit of Happiness,” Maira Kalman considers George Washington’s extraordinary life. —
- — Tom Waits reads Charles Bukowski —
- — For all those poets who died young of tuberculosis, alcoholism, drug abuse or suicide, there are many who aged gracefully and expired of old age. —
- — the southern review seeks submissions from women poets —
- — Small Publisher Finds Its Mission in Translation —
- — On Reviewing: Ron Silliman [and a blogfull of other interviews about reviewing] —
- — ypolita press is back! —
- — DIAGRAM is fresh & congrats on turning 10. —
- — Wallace Berman created a Beat poet’s version of Pop Art. —
- — A Centennial Salute To Johnny Mercer —
- — Although he felt his position as Poet Laureate cramped his creative style, Sir Andrew Motion, pictured, is now considering throwing his hat into the ring for the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. —
- — There are different kinds of sweat and tears—the hours spent on the particular poem and the hours spent in the reading and writing and thinking involved in learning the craft. Often long hours and days and weeks of work on a poem that never works out or comes to life precedes a poem that seems to come almost fully formed. —
- — Saturday poem: Andrew Motion’s elegy for WG Sebald —
- — A poet translates the Hebrew Bible in a contemporary idiom. —
- — The idea is basically to publish a bi-monthly poetry newsletter highlighting new and recently published work by Michigan writers (or writers with connections to Michigan). —
- — Angelique Irvin isn’t your typical defense contractor: she’s a suburban mom who swears by organic products, and the daughter of the founder of the literary journal Calyx (which was started in her childhood bedroom). —
- — Recently he watched all 80 of the Chaplin movies and wrote a series of 106 haiku about them; this chapbook is a selection of 52 of these —
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- — Poetry You Need To Read: Nin Andrews’ ‘Southern Comfort’ — Entertainment Weekly —
- — Forgotten Authors No.45: Winifred Watso —
- — Poetry: “Boys Born Zombie” —
- — A grant will take poetry off the pages and put it in the paths of city residents and visitors. —
- — MilSpeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience New coupon code for the anthology eBook – NC64F. This code is good until Jan 31, 2011! Download a FREE copy of the anthology and help raise awareness about creative works by military people. Your action will also help to keep Milspeak Foundation programs free. You can also choose to pay for the book – the entire purchase price, less distributor cost, goes directly to Milspeak Foundation, a charitable organization that exists to serve those who serve.—
- — The group’s third album, “London Calling,” which was released in the US on Jan. 5, 1980 — 30 years ago Tuesday — expanded the definition of punk rock, and brought music in general to new heights —
- — Digital distractions hinder productivity, creativity, UW media expert says —
- — Consider this Part II of Poetry Collections to come in 2010 —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Longing’ from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS – Dennis Brutus was a South African poet and activist up until his death on Saturday at the age of 85 at his home in Cape Town. —
- — Vic Chesnutt On Mountain Stage —
- — Join Rafael & Brett-Candace as they talk to Afaa Michael Weaver http://www.afaamweaver.com/ In 1951, Afaa Michael Weaver (Michael S. Weaver) was born in Baltimore. He attended the Baltimore Public Schools, and at sixteen began studying at the University of Maryland in College Park as an engineering student. He left the university to begin his fifteen year career as a blue collar worker, which was his literary apprenticeship. During this time he wrote and published poetry, short fiction, and journalism. In addition, he founded 7th Son Press and the literary magazine Blind Alleys. From 1970-73, He served in the armed forces in the 342nd Army Security Agency as a reservist and received an honorable discharge. [mp3] —
- — Living Writers – WCBN Ann Arbor: T Hetzel interviews Matthew Dickman [mp3] —
- — Helen Losse is the author of Better With Friends, published by Rank Stranger Press in 2009 and the Poetry Editor of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She has two chapbooks, Gathering the Broken Pieces and Paper Snowflakes. Her recent poetry publications and acceptances include The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Review, Blue Fifth Review, Heavy Bear, and Hobble Creek Review. She has poems in two anthologies: In the Arms of Words: Poems For Disaster Relief and Washing the Color of Water Golden: A Hurricane Katrina Anthology. Four of Losse’s poems were selected by NC Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer to be included with the works of two other poets in “August 21-27, 2006: A Bouquet of Poems by Winston-Salem Poets” on the website of the North Carolina Arts Council. Losse’s poem, “Four Snapshots of the Sea-Going Boats” won first place for poetry, 2009 Adult Writing Contest of the Davidson County (NC) Writer’s Guild. Educated at Missouri Southern State and Wake Forest Universities, Helen Losse lives in Winston-Salem, NC. She occasionally writes book reviews for various venues. [mp3] —
- — Heather Derr-Smith was born in Dallas, Texas in 1971. She spent most of her childhood in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She received her undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of Virginia, where she also took poetry workshops with Charles Wright, Rita Dove, and Greg Orr. She went on to earn her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book, entitled “Each End of the World”, was a collection of poetry about the war in Bosnia in the 1990′s and was published my Main Street Rag Press in 2005. Her second collection, entitled “The Bride Minaret” was published at University of Akron Press. [mp3] —
Poetry News For July 21, 2009
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Jul 212009
- — AURORA LEIGH. December 9, 1856, Wednesday —
- — On self-confidence and suckage —
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- — “I find it clairvoyant, by the way, that he refers to Munch in relation to “Brainpan”. This very image flashed in my mind as I wrote that poem” —
- — Dear Landlord, Plz Stop Trying To Kill Me —
- — “I keep a list of Jew haters from history. T.S. Eliot, for one. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a letter to his wife describing how he had to sit next to a Jew on a coach, how this disgusted him.” —
- — Farts in folktales —
- — JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis joint work discovered —
- — The Ambassador Poetry Project aims to showcase poetic talent from and about Ontario and Michigan. —
- — Poem of the week: Martial Diptych by Glyn Maxwell —
- — though many of poets of the Harlem Renaissance drew their inspiration from African-American culture, Cullen often looked elsewhere —
- — In “Monologue for Some Prince of Denmark,” the poem that opens the volume, Gustafsson begins with a highly impersonal and un-lyrical kind of language —
- — Fresh New Pages Lit Mag Reviews —
- — Publishers Weekly: Charles Bukowski, Bin Ramke, John Koethe, Dara Wier, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Brenda Hillman, Kazim Ali, Kiki Petrosino, Novica Tadic, Charles Simic, Robert Burns —
- — “Young Charlotte” began life as a poem. It’s a cautionary tale that eventually was set to music and has traveled widely around the country. —
- — Please Help Billy Lee Riley —
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- — Bukowski letter sells for $1,500 —
- — A Dream by Jorge Luis Borges, New Yorker July 6, 2009 —
- — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu believed that satire should be sharp and fine as a razor, sliding into its subject deeply but barely discernibly. Her quarrel with Pope, said to originate in her rejection of him as a suitor, produced some particularly cutting strokes. —
- — Lawrence resident Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, left, will take the reins as Kansas Poet Laureate as Denise Low, right, finishes her two-year term. —
- — “In order to earn quick money, some people through their substandard creations has rendered Hindi poem/literature into a laughing matter” —
- — Twitter freakout du jour: Alice Hoffman v. Boston Globe and an apology: Author Apologizes for Twitter Outburst About a Bad Review —
- — Latest translation of ‘Aeneid’ lacks vitality, power —
- — “A good if eerie example of what happens when the shutter opens before the flash goes off.” —
- — Weekly Poem: Natasha Trethewey ‘Myth’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — Wish Away Cancer! Get A Lunchtime Face-Lift! Eradicate Autism! Turn Back The Clock! Thin Your Thighs! Cure Menopause! Harness Positive Energy! Erase Wrinkles! Banish Obesity! Live Your Best Life Ever! —
- — In Search of the Science Behind the Healing Powers of Art —
- — Harvard professor David McCann says America is ready for sijo —
- — Although Matt Simpson, who has died aged 73, was never one of the Liverpool poets, the city is at the heart of nearly all his work —
- — After an 18-Year Mission, the Solar Probe Ulysses Retires —
- — The Pulse’s Stephanie Smith interviewed four of the writers who will be attending this year’s conference: playwright Marco Ramirez, essayist Sam Pickering, poet/critic Wyatt Prunty, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Henley —
- — “The real essence of poetry comes before the words. So it’s something unthinkable, but it’s feel-able, you feel it,” McKinney said. —
- — It is the pots-and-pans “homeliness”, the always contemporary and “unpoeticized” quality of Pushkin’s verse, that Stanley Mitchell aims to preserve in his translation, which supersedes Charles Johnston’s influential version —
- — Welty home added to Southern Literary Trail —
- — Doom (AKA MF Doom, AKA Daniel Dumile) has a secret weapon on his new album, previously untapped in the annals of hip hop — the poetry of Charles Bukowski. —
- — Tim Appelo talks to Brian Culhane, winner of the 2007 Emily Dickinson First Book Award for a poet over the age of 50. —
- — etsy chapbooks from dancing girl press —
- — UK poet laureate swears off ‘no-good poems’ —
- — National League Central 2009 Haiku Forecasts —
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