Poetry Hut Blog

• — Talking Generosity-Based Publishing with Gregory Maguire —
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• — Formula to Detect an Author’s Literary ‘fingerprint’ —
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• — According to the researchers, structures such as these were quite common in the Roman era and were intended for poetry-reading performances and musical recitals for an elect audience —
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• — “Inspiration,” in my experience, is a reward for persistent work when one is not in the least inspired. The “paragraph,” despite a name that makes it sound like a prose poem, is a fairly complex form. As Hayden Carruth used and described it, it is a fifteen-line poem, which, like a sonnet, can either stand alone or work in sequence. —
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• — War is declared in the world of ebooks —
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• — This time, a distinctly ‘cubist’ attempt to reclaim one of Picasso’s muses as her own woman —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘From Here to There’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Brad Leithauser [mp3] —
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• — Emily Dickinson Birthday Radio Show now available —
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• — When you pick a fight with a poet, you expect to win. You are likely to be outmatched, however, if the poet you are up against is Alice Quinn —
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• — The end of that relationship prompted her discovery of St. Vincent Millay and was the turning point in her jewelry-making —
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• — A survey of 2009’s notable new nonfiction, fiction, and poetry —
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• — On Poetry: Gilbran’s ‘The Prophet’ resonates with readers today —
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• — Walcott finally wins his poetry professorship —
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• — Christmas roundup: poetry books —
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• — Women of the Avant-Garde —
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• — Podcast: Charles Wright Reads Selected Sestets and Other Poems from The New York Review of Books —
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• — With Rolling Stone going into the restaurant business, Slate imagines the possibilities for other magazine/restaurant hybrids. —
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• — He scanned it — Staggered — —
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• — This woman was one of my initial inspirations for the chapbook–originally I planned to tell the story from her perspective. [as a radio geek I've heard that story before and I am apt to believe it. and that is a good chapbook.] —
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• — At the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the works of T. S. Eliot and Beethoven come together in an arresting, profound and a theatrically stunning piece titled “Four Quartets.” —
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• — Poetry so bad it’s good, plus other verse tragedies. [mp3] —
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• — Canadian sci-fi author beaten, imprisoned at US border crossing —
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• — Sometimes, I work my poems hard, running them through several stress tests and changing lots of little things or some big things. —
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• — Best American Poetry 2009: Statistical Overview —
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• — Carl Sandburg from Poetry Lectures Archival recording of Carl Sandburg from 1956. [mp3] —
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• — torqued enjambment —
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• — Dharma Poetry: Hafiz —
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• — Teri Garr: Wake Up Call from The Moth Podcast by marianne —
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• — Music and the arts fight depression, promote health —
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• — KUSP The Poetry Show: Dennis Morton and Leslie Anne Taylor read several holiday poems and more [mp3] —
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• — Sapphire, Brian Turner, and Ai Among United States Artist Fellows —
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• — Rare Tsvetayeva Production Struggles to Succeed —
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• — To sum up: Sestina + apparently obscure references to Roseanne and Seinfeld = —
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• — For Rumi, the reality accessible to our senses often obscures the true meaning that lies beneath —
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• — Three-minute poetry? It’s all the rage —
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• — What effect has being the editor of a poetry journal had on your own poetry? Is that another kind of feast? Or do you risk losing your appetite? —
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• — The Bestselling Contemporary Poetry of 2009 —
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• — Mad Girls’ Love Songs: Two Women Poets-a Professor and Graduate Student-Discuss Sylvia Plath, Angst, and the Poetics of Female Adolescence-College Literature, Fall 2009 by Greenberg, Arielle, Klaver, Becca —
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• — Articles in Nov/Dec 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
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• — Tom Waits to star in The Hobbit? —
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• — Sarah Palin and William Shatner do beat poetry on “Tonight Show” —
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• — Letters to a Young Poet: “The Delicacy and Strength of Lace” The collected correspondence between Leslie Marmon Silko and the poet James Wright —
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• — University Teams with Kundiman, Inc., to Support Poets —
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• — chicago poetry calendar —
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• — Summertime Poetry Picks —
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• — Tony Hoagland on Dean Young —
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• — Iran’s National Poet Speaks Out —
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• — Four Virginia poets — two well-known, two not so, offer anthologies that make summer a time to savor the poetic as well as lighter reading. —
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• — Darth times indeed: The Give Dick Cheney’s Memoir A Title contest —
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• — bill moyers’ in-depth interview with w.s.merwin —
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• — Four Ears: the Curse of the Metrical Code —
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• — ron slate on stacie cassarino —
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• — The Waste Land, according to Ezra Pound, is “the longest poem in the English langwidge”. As his spelling suggests, he was not being entirely serious. —
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• — “Those good folks, The Joiners, are offering up their latest song as a free download this weekend. Hurry and listen to their wonderful “Tennessee.” It’s really, really good.” —
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• — How David Trinidad’s collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry. [mp3] —
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• — PICTURES: Hand Stencils Through Time —
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• — “fire” – lou pinella as bukowski poem —
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• — Spanish Poet Victoriano Cremer Dies at 102 —
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• — New tartan commemorates Burns’s 250th anniversary —
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• — Arty Party Food —
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• — no wonder print media is “dying” —
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• — Psychjourney Podcast & “Invisible Sisters.” —
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• — “Never Land” Yusef Kumunyakaa —
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• — Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winner Matthew Dickman writes emotional and accessible poetry… [mp3] —
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• — A recent search through the vast holdings of the Vrzhu Research Bureau archives uncovered the draft of a previously unknown poem by John Keats. —
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• — Weird book of the week: Poems About Horses —
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• — Book Review: The Bloodless Stigmata by Dee Kite —
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• — An array of poems printed on heavy stock hang above elegantly carved wooden Japanese-style prayer sticks —
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• — Best documentary award was taken by Aliona Van der Horst of The Netherlands with a lament for cult Russian poet Boris Ryzhy, who committed suicide in 2001 —
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• — Gordon Brown turns to former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion for advice —
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• — It was not unitl later, when I was readling through Tupelo Press’s free downloadable Reader’s Companion [PDF] for Calendars that I realized the poem is written in dactylic tetrameter. The dactyl is one of the most scorned metric feet in English prosody. —
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• — “He probably wrote some poems for some of you bimbos out there…” —
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• — On this edition of The Poets Weave, Jenny Kander reads poems by Maxine Kumin from the book Say This of Horses: a collection of poems, edited by C.E. Greer and Jenny Kander. —
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• — Back to the Futurists: Italy’s First Avant-Garde Turns 100 —
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I felt bloggy for this post of Poetry Hut Blog. Lotsa good links out there.

I think I linked to this cartoon a long time ago, but I’m easily amused:



I like Shakespeare’s cartoon-panel-exasperation-sweat-drops in that last panel. Have a nice Monday.

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• — Should blog comments be moderated to reduce the number of inevitable “angry, scatological discussion threads?” —
• — Conversation: Poet Carl Phillips from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
• — Author Makes Famous Poems Fun For Kids —
• — Paul Guest’s Body of Poetry — The Story from American Public Media —
• — For Your Health, Pick A Mate Who Is Conscientious And, Perhaps, Also Neurotic —
• — Today is the annual Dining Out For Life, and dozens of local eateries are donating anywhere from 30-100% of the day’s sales to Nashville Cares, a locally-based AIDS service organization. —
• — Ursula K Le Guin wins sixth Nebula award —
• — Margaret Walker might be the “most famous person nobody knows” but the poet, whose works about African-Americans bridged the gap between the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s and the black arts movement of the 1960s, will take center stage May 3 at the University of Kansas in a unique musical collaboration not to be missed. —
• — Falling In Love With Ideas from David Lynch Foundation Television —
• — My book, finalist yet again, has been selected for publication by Dream Horse Press. —
• — This week, Michael Tyrell, co-editor of “Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn” (NYU Press, 2007), will be answering readers’ questions about the history of Brooklyn’s literary landscape, its place in American poetry and the poets who live and work in the borough. —
• — LETTERS: Laureate of the Louche —
• — Afghan poets tackle scars of war —
• — An Essential American Poet from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine’s poems. [mp3] —
• — Poem of the week: The Mangel-Bury by Ivor Gurney —
• — Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Awarded —
• — Francisco Goya from Pallimed: Arts & Humanities —
• — Are there any ways a smaller publisher can subvert the larger book publishers? To work the currents as a raft in an ocean of big, hulking vessels? —
• — West Tisbury Poet Wins Lilly Prize —
• — In that 10% are poems about a deathmatch between friends, fantasy role-playing games and the people who love them, and closing time at a bar. Schroeder’s been praised by River Styx’s Richard Newman for his distinctive voice, in which he spins lines such as “Nature is a MILF.” —
• — This year’s Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, which took place last month, was more evidence, if one needed any, that Buffalo remains a hotbed of small press activity. —
• — Georgia Review ‘throws great parties’ —
• — That there might be a Ponzi element in all this is something Mr. McGurl never considers. He thinks that writing programs are the best thing that ever happened to American fiction…. —
• — Art mags decry double standard —
• — Miss the Tweet? Here are the Minnesota Book Awards winners —
• — The Poetics of Hip-Hop | New Hampshire Public Radio | Word of Mouth —
• — Jim Powell: Irascible poet with stolen license —
• — ‘Casey at the Bat’ author had local roots —
• — What poem are you going to carry in your pocket on April 30 [Poem in Your Pocket Day]? —
• — Boston honors Poe, a native son who shunned the city —
• — Deborah Digges, distinguished poet and memoirist, dies at 59 —
• — But there is one tombstone at which many women stop and genuflect. It is that of a 25-year-old woman called Nadia Anjuman, and the flowery Persian engraving describes her as a poet who risked her life to keep writing under the Taliban. —
• — In an essay on the poet Muriel Rukeyser, Rich says that Rukeyser “was one of the great integrators, seeing the fragmentary world of modernity not as irretrievably broken, but in need of societal and emotional repair.” —
• — The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 8 —
• — Hobble Creek Review …is fresh. —
• — Poet’s Choice: Susan Wheeler —
• — Poet’s Choice by David Hinton: ‘Drinking Wine’ by T’ao Ch’ien —
• — Woeser, one of China’s best-known bloggers chronicling life in Tibet, has become an accidental hero to a generation of disenfranchised young Tibetans. —
• — The poet-critic William Logan continues his assault on the state of American poetry in these essays. —
• — Marshall is the author of “Meaning a Cloud” (Oberlin College Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 Field poetry prize. With his wife, the poet Christine Deavel, Marshall owns and operates Seattle’s poetry–only bookstore, Open Books, in Wallingford. [mp3] —
• — New collections by Stephen Dunn, J. D. McClatchy, Sharon Olds and Charles Wright. —
• — … Poetry Through the Ages. —
• — Why the Telegraph is wrong on women in IT —
• — Betting closed on next poet laureate amid speculation that Carol Ann Duffy has been chosen —

• — Ex-Tiger Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych found dead —
• — “Blondes, Box Scores, and Elizabeth Bishop” —
• — Batter up! This very special baseball program of SELECTED SHORTS includes stories, memoirs, and poems that celebrate the national game, and an interview with radio sports commentator Bill Littlefield, host of NPR’s “Only A Game.” [mp3] —
• — The neglected war poet Francis Ledwidge’s pastoral work reflects on Irish nationalism after the Easter Rising —
• — I didn’t really expect my book to be reviewed in The Times (‘The London Times’ to those of you outside the UK), but there you go. Who knows how these things happen? —
• — Slash Pine Press is pleased to announce the first annual Slash Pine Poetry Festival, to be held in five distinct locations in the greater Tuscaloosa, AL area on April 24th and 25th —
• — Arts Friday: Commemorating 50 years of The Elements of Style [mp3] —
• — Recent winner of The Fence Modern Poets Series, it is easy to understand why this one was chosen among its stealthy competition. —
• — Any poet of such longevity faces a choice between reinvention and repetition. Splitting the difference, Simpson’s work is repetitious, but in the mode of a narrowing spiral. —
• — As he did in his youthful work, the poet strictly limits the length of his poems, in this case to six lines each. Yet these 70 poems feel spacious rather than condensed. —
• — Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven —
• — Interview With Poet Denise Duhamel —
• — Poetry dies in latest U.S. culture —
• — Photo from garfield minus garfield —
• — Poetry and Subsidies: Is Materialism Ruining Creativity? —
• — How Philip Larkin rewrote the first, indiscreet article about him to appear in the British press —
• — New site captures authors’ identities and won’t let go —
• — Too close for comfort: aphasia and mediocre poetry —
• — Every Friday, bloggers in the kidlitosphere enthusiastically offer up their favorite poems for kids. Susan Thomsen takes a tour through this billowing online community. —
• — We are writing about GREGOR SAMSA’s claim for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments. Based on a review of his/her medical condition, he/she does not qualify for SSI payments on this claim. This is because he/she is not disabled or blind under our rules. and related: Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport —
• — “The Nut Lady” Reconsidered —
• — I think an eBook is a book, but in a Supreme Court case argued today (Tuesday), a brief discussion about guarantees given to books included a reference to whether or not there is a difference between a physical and digital version of a book — and what is likely the first mention of the brand name “Kindle” in the Supreme Court. —
• — Norton anthologies are among the most respected in the country, but respectability can suggest stodgy, predictable. “American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry” is neither, proving that much contemporary American verse is daring and original. —
• — Mathematics and love coupled in professor’s book of poetry —
• — A major conference on the long career of Robert Bly will include poets, translators, academics, editors and Bly himself. —
• — Forty-three years later, the International Poetry Forum is shutting its doors. —
• — The new class will also include the poets Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa, the visual artist Judy Pfaff, the architect Tod Williams and the composers … —
• — SIRIUS XM Radio Beefs Up Book Radio Programming —
• — Deborah Digges, poet and Tufts English professor, dies at 59 —
• — All good poets find strains and paradoxes within the language they learn to wield, but Thom Gunn (1929-2004) found more than most —
• — In the context of this, the contemporary poet is often left with the choice of following the example of the hard-nosed L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, or seeming like a fluffy, nostalgic Longfellow. —
• — It features centuries of creative work by mathematicians, poets, and artists, including Fibonacci, Albrecht Dürer, M. C. Escher, David Hilbert, Benoit Mandelbrot, William Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, and many contemporary experimental poets. Original illustrations include digital photographs, mathematical and poetic models, and fractal imagery. —
• — Seven steps to becoming a poet [LOL there seems to be an important step missing] —
• — Octopus Books will hold an open reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts in April of 2009. Manuscripts must be submitted between April Fools day and April 30, 2009. —
• — In addition to the “regular” Tattoosday features, every day in April will feature a different poet’s tattoo(s). —
• — Muriel Rukeyser Goes to War: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Politics of Ekphrasis —
• — Living POET LARGE: An Interview with Reb Livingston on the Future of Poetry Publishing —
• — To read this book is not to behold a completed work but to stand onstage with a writer who finds herself in the middle of a story in which she has been reluctantly cast. —
• — Frederick Seidel has been called crass, disturbing, a name-dropping, upmarket sinner. And that’s what may make him America’s greatest living poet —
• — THE BEATS A Graphic History Text by Harvey Pekar and others. —
• — Articles in the Mar/Apr 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
• — A New Chapter of Grief in Plath-Hughes Legacy —
• — Shellie Braeuner, a Nashville nanny, is the winner of the first Cheerios Spoonful of Stories New Author Contest. Her book will be put inside 1.5 million boxes of Cheerios. —
• — I, Too, Am a Vegetable: The Whitman Parodies —
• — Amazonfail & The Cost of Freedom —

data dump – cleaning out my rss feed

There’s a review of my book in the spring issue of Main Street Rag. I haven’t gotten my copy in the mail though. I don’t know if my subscription expired.