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Poetry News For November 8, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — Articles in Sep/Oct 2008 issue of American Poetry Review, The —

  2. — Eminem reveals life behind the fame in ‘The Way I Am’ —

  3. — A newly discovered and previously unknown piece of wartime propaganda by Dylan Thomas is to premier at an annual festival to the poet. —

  4. — A judge was wrong to reject expert literary analysis of the poem “Parked Cars and Potholes in the City of Mississauga,” an appeal court heard yesterday —

  5. — Making poetry a vital part of life —

  6. — Having worked in numerous positions in the small press world, I continue to be annoyed by the oddly prevalent idea that putting out more books — including those of low quality which you think will sell — somehow guarantees success —

  7. — Barack Obama carries the book of poems in his right arm as he and his wife Michelle leave their daughters’ school —

  8. — The Beat Generation, Before It Was Cool —

  9. — On the one hand, there are those poets who excel in revealing everything, yawping and ranting their way to rhapsody…. —

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Poetry News For August 20, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — New site: Postal poetry —

  2. — City Lights: 50 years on the cutting edge of publishing —

  3. — Half of his sonnets and songs were written during his travels which he regarded as a form of exile, an alternative to prison in Lisbon, imposed on him by cruel fate —

  4. — Revisiting Coney Island of the Mind —

  5. — How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland’s 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub [mp3] —

  6. — faculty readings from the last two West Chester conferences are online: 2007 and 2008 —

  7. — Joe Milford’s internet radio show feat. Ron Silliman [mp3] —

  8. — Seeking poems that explore the twisted world of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet for The Private Press’s next chapbook anthology. Deadline 31 December 2008 —

  9. — Is music just “auditory cheesecake” or can it provide deep insights into the workings of the brain and the evolution of language —

  10. — Trying to explain this to younger/newer poets and those outside of the poetry community is frustrating [True -- 7.03% of regular readers of this blog bought my book, using my feed subscriber stats & # of Lulu orders to calculate... it's probably even less than 7%, because the calculation assumes that all the orders came from RSS feed subscribers, which is probably doubtful.] —

  11. — Eileen Tabios & the Poetry Economics: A Moronic Oxymoron —

A bit of confession Wednesday — lately I’ve been posting here as a way to demonstrate to myself that I am doing better, healthwise, than I am — I think. Self-psyche-out. But I need to quit it until I get this cardiovascular / autonomic nervous system weirdness figured out. I am totally exhausted! From what?! All I’m doing is sleeping and eating really, and my PT routines. I’m getting fat too. I have an exam Friday. I’ll be back when I get some energy.

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