Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — “David Alpaugh, who has both run and won a poetry book contest himself, offers his astute analysis of the business of selecting poetry books for publication by holding a competition…” —
2. — Colossus of Rhodes to be rebuilt as giant light sculpture —
3. — Trinity Rep Radio Theater: This program will feature stories and poems that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters. [MP3] —
4. — In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours —
5. — Not the original? A new translation by Burton Raffel offers a modern version of Chaucer’s medieval masterpiece. —
6. — The National Book Awards winners —
7. — The Review Review reviews lit mags (just print ones?) —
8. — DIY Poetry Movements from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast: How Zukofsky and the Language Poets got started, and the rules for starting a movement of your own. [MP3] —
9. — What is the social role of a micro-press in today’s literary marketplace, environment, and economy? —

Google has Life Magazine photo archives online. Not too many poets & no women. Some Millay, etc if you search “poetess” though. (And you better behave or Bette Davis is going to get you. I have to say, that is a very weird combo of reader/poet.)

Is there anyone out there who has cable TV / Discovery Health & can tape a show for me?

Dec 08, 10:00 pm
(60 minutes)

repeat:
Dec 09, 2:00 am
(60 minutes)

Mystery Diagnosis
The Baby Who Wouldn’t Stop Crying

Baby Averi Williams develops a bluish tint to the whites of her eyes and a bulging forehead; 15 year-old, Lynn Sanders is leading a normal life when she begins to experience a deep nagging pain in her hands during swim practice.

Poetry News:

1. — A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —
2. — What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —
3. — Four of the most prestigious poetry prizes went to African-American women this year —
4. — Movies based on poems —
5. — Self-confidence is a definite advantage in most areas, but wingless flight is not one of them —
6. — Penguin should be ashamed of itself —
7. — If a more cringe-making book exists than Boris Johnson’s debut volume of poetry, Stuart Jeffries has yet to read it —
8. — Mark Strand’s New Selected Poems includes an evocation of food’s deep meanings, appropriate to the holiday, though the dish is not turkey: —
9. — Reed Whittemore: Telling it slant —
10. — Website of the Week — Poetry Foundation —
11. — One manuscript that escaped the blaze — just barely — contained an untitled poem of more than 3,000 lines —

Rare Spanish Coin Found in Nashville Cemetery. I once found an Imperial German Army uniform button. It was on top of a mole hill in our yard in Nashville on the Cheatham County line. Weird.

Collin kindly nominated Poetry Hut Blog for The Shameless Lions Writing Circle Award. Thanks, that is kind.

These are 5 blogs, poetry and not, that I also nominate:

1. WhimsyLand: Jeffrey Bahr deserves some kind of award for The Futility Review.


2. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: just because it always cracks me up & I like Chaucer.


3. rotten peaches: makes me want to do memoir-comics. But mine would look a lot more like a John Callahan cartoon.


4. pitcherlady: for pretty pictures and not-so-pretty pictures that aren’t afraid to shine a light on community problems. If I ever publish a book I’ll ask Susan for a pic. (Yes I realize this award is for writing but…)


5. The Moderate Voice: for its news and political discussion made possible in the blog comments — without a bunch of crappy, angry, name-calling.