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Poetry News For August 4, 2009

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Aug 042009

— Shelley’s Unpublished After-the-War Message ASHLEY THORNDIKE July 3, 1921, Sunday —

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— Gillian Welch: Newport Folk Festival 2009 from NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast [mp3] —

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— “Q” from The New Yorker by Sharon Olds —

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— On this edition of The Poets Weave, Heather Derr-Smith reads from her new book The Bride Minaret the poems “One Season from Another,” “Evening, Mount Vernon, Iowa” and “Ash-Sham.” [mp3] —

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— Hilbert writes with spare language, in colloquial prose rhythms with irregular stress patterns, yet he is able to maintain deft control through the use of mostly decasyllabic lines and off-rhymes. Perhaps Hilbert’s lines reflect our own precarious hold on the world, where we are always close to losing control. —

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— Poet Nash kept it light, and I say that’s just right —

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— Then there is Cavafy’s life. He, to be both compassionate and fair, was odd. —

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— Beats | McClure [Gray] GROUPS: New Formal Mens Shoe – Whether you are reading poetry to caged lions at the zoo, or writing songs for Janis Joplin to sing, this slip-on loafer is all about you. —

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— This week, one of one of contemporary poetry’s most effortlessly musical writers —

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— At their most successful, these poems make a virtue of understatement, employing simple formal structures (typically unrhymed, three-to-five beat lines arranged in regular stanzas) and straightforward statement that acts as a foil for moments of quiet boldness —

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— Sun Records’ ‘lost giant’ Billy Lee Riley dies at 75 —

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— Bookslut | The Kings are Boring: Some Thoughts on Women’s Poetry —

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— Two Mozart Childhood Compositions Unveiled in Salzburg [youtube]—

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— Portrait of famed lover and poet is, like its subject, flawed —

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— What we lose with no laureate —

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— The Chappell show: Master poet comes to Asheville with duet poems —

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— The Saturday poem: The Hunt in the Forest by John Burnside —

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— Neko Case: Newport Folk Festival 2009 from NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast [mp3] —

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— Kentucky’s 2007/08 poet laureate talks about the state’s rich literary heritage and the duties of the position and reads some of her own poetry. —

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— This week’s theme: Steroids in Baseball —

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Reb Livingston twitterededed about this, which gave me a sour stomach and made me think of horse races and jockeying for position so I started humming this song.

ps Doo dah. Doo dah.

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Poetry News For May 25, 2009

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May 252009

— Poet cornered: Ruth Padel fights to keep Oxford post over tip-offs about her rival and A male poet wouldn’t have been blamed for rough tactics: Ruthless power plays in academia are as common as good wine and Oxford’s top poet urged to quit for sex slurs against literary rival —

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— It measures, perhaps, the success of New Formalism’s self-serving argument that writing in meter is difficult that Joel Brouwer (“Poetry Chronicle,” April 26) should be astonished to the point of italics at the news that J. D. McClatchy spoke an iambic pentameter line in his sleep. —

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— Why do women defend Walcott? —

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— BBC plans to send poet to Afghanistan battlefields —

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— Litterbug released after 4 years in jail —

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— The lousy economy might be bad for artists when it comes to paying rent, but after a decade of record prices — and what some might call wretched excess — it might actually be good for art. —

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— Film Made About Rebellious Chilean Poetess and —

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— Wee row erupts over old Robbie: Town resists call to remove statue —

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— Sunday Poetry for the New Moon Jupiter/Chiron/Neptune conjunction —

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— Poet’s Choice by Paul Otremba: ‘In an Adirondack With You’ by Paul Otremba —

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— Frederick Seidel has spent the last half-century being the darkest and strangest sort of poet. —

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— People By Nature Are Universally Optimistic, Study Shows —

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— A few years ago I used baseball as a metaphor to lament the lack of an amateur/professional split within the poetry world: no one thinks they have to be a major leaguer to have fun taking hacks at the batting cage, but for some reason the idea of being an amateur poet and having fun in the same way with words strikes us as embarrassing. —

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— French artist Bernard Pras (scroll for biography) arranges everyday objects, then photographs them at such an angle as to recreate iconic portraits and artworks. —

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— APSU literature professor to read his work in Nashville —

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— So, just to be clear, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as we have come to call it, is an untitled poem written by an unknown author in about 1400. It is 2,530 lines long and written in Middle English. —

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— Two engaging books in distinct styles and voices — clearly from male and female perspectives — experience our shared world, but translate it through individual visions worthy of a wide readership. —

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— Ros, who died in 1939, abused (some would say, tortured) the English language in three novels and dozens of poems. you can read some poems here —

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— Campbell McGrath’s anti-Tweet —

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— Doomed to neglect were any films the jury doubtless deemed too conventional and/or too warm. These included “Bright Star,” Jane Campion’s exceptionally intimate and restrained examination of the tragic romance of poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, and “Looking for Eric,” a genial change-of-pace for British director Ken Loach. —

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— The National Library of New Zealand is seeking nominations for the 2009-2011 New Zealand Poet Laureate Award. —

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— Poets of the Central Committee of the Writers Union of Korea produced more than 100 poems and words of songs encouraging the army and people by conducting dynamic creative activities in the seething reality. —

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— Computer scientist to ‘unroll’ papyrus scrolls buried by Vesuvius —

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— Rafael Escalona, 81, Folk Musician and Balladeer of Colombia, Is Dead —

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— The Futurists: masters of outrage who embraced the new —

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— Peter Sacks finds common themes between the paintings of Edward Hopper and the works of poets such as Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and TS Eliot. [mp3] —

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— Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques —

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— Joe Milford Show: John Poch is poetry editor of the journal 32 Poems. His first book, Poems (Orchises Press), appeared in 2004. His work has appeared in many journals, and in 2004, he was a Howard Nemerov Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches at Texas Tech University. —

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— Conferences, Festivals Taking a Hit —

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— The Jane Crown Show: Lyn Lifshin —

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— “If the occupation is afraid of a literature festival,” he said, addressing the elephant in the room of literature buffs and the culturally inclined, “than they are very fragile indeed.” —

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— In this essay Gary muses on how a poem or in
this case how a poem fragment works, complete with excellent illustrations. —

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— How did you and your publishers decide that now was the time for your “Collected Poems”? —

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— The end of an era in American letters —

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— Recently, I’ve been reading through Jim Elledge’s Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock & Roll in American Poetry.” —

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— Anna Journey’s first book of poems, “If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting” (University of Georgia Press: 104 pp., $16.95 paper), is a deeply American debut —

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Have you noticed lately that people are acting ugly all of a sudden out of the blue? I’m not sure what to make of it. Maybe I’m just being in the wrong time at the wrong place.

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Poetry News For April 15, 2009

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Apr 152009

— Allison Joseph to be featured at Austin Peay State U Visiting Writers series 4 p.m., April 15 in the Morgan University Center, room 303. —

— Tearing Apart Iamb for Iamb —

— Overrated: Gertrude Stein. She played an important role in the development of modernism, but she played it for men. [link from Mike thank you] —

— For this five-part series, Rob Gifford retraced Chaucer’s steps, walking the 60 miles from London to Canterbury, to give a snapshot of Britain in the early 21st century —

— A poet’s considerations of the longing at the core of all human experience. —

— Brain’s Cognitive System Processes Vowels And Consonants At Different Speeds —

— Ciaran Carson —

— Poems of the week – spring songs —

— www.poetry.com was the name
Of a company no more – Lulu simply bought the domain —

— Published in the TLS in 1976, “Architects” by the Australian poet Judith Wright (1915–2000) – perhaps better known for writing poems about flora and fauna – is a Möbius strip of a poem. —

— Neko Case (Middle Cyclone Tour) from NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast [mp3] —

Bye for now and thanks xoxox.

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