- — On British and American Poetry. —
- — Did Shakespeare Write This? Computer Says Yes —
- — Like Humans, Monkeys Fall Into The ‘Uncanny Valley’ —
- — Bisexual poet H.D.’s paragon lesbian relationship survived WWII —
- — Why We Need Small Presses —
- — Juliana Spahr is the recipient of the 19th annual OB Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington —
- — Erotic Poet Cavafy’s Trace Fades in Egypt’s Mythic Alexandria —
- — Where Brathwaite’s text play functions in capturing dialect and inflection, Siegell’s layouts, as he puts it, are a matter of form and function. It just makes sense. —
- — I’ve always suspected that Devin Johnston must be one of those poets whom readers either love or hate. —
- — A world disturbed … —
Poetry News For October 14, 2009
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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- — Shelley’s Unpublished After-the-War Message ASHLEY THORNDIKE July 3, 1921, Sunday —
- — Gillian Welch: Newport Folk Festival 2009 from NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast [mp3] —
- — “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] —
- — 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. —
- — Poet Nash kept it light, and I say that’s just right —
- — Then there is Cavafy’s life. He, to be both compassionate and fair, was odd. —
- — 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. —
- — This week, one of one of contemporary poetry’s most effortlessly musical writers —
- — 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 —
- — Sun Records’ ‘lost giant’ Billy Lee Riley dies at 75 —
- — Bookslut | The Kings are Boring: Some Thoughts on Women’s Poetry —
- — Two Mozart Childhood Compositions Unveiled in Salzburg [youtube]—
- — Portrait of famed lover and poet is, like its subject, flawed —
- — What we lose with no laureate —
- — The Chappell show: Master poet comes to Asheville with duet poems —
- — The Saturday poem: The Hunt in the Forest by John Burnside —
- — Neko Case: Newport Folk Festival 2009 from NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast [mp3] —
- — 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. —
- — This week’s theme: Steroids in Baseball —
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.
Jul 012009
- — A Talk with Sir Rabindranath Tagore; Bengali Poet, Nobel Prize Winner, Now in This Country, Gives His Poetic Creed and Explains Oriental Attitude Toward Literature By Joyce Kilmer. October 29, 1916, Sunday —
- — Frieda Hughes: why I love motorcycle racing —
- — The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, Mr. Carroll’s hometown, has agreed to install a marker that commemorates a moment on Nov. 27, 1925, when the poet Vachel Lindsay was timidly approached at dinner by a busboy who placed three poems he had written next to Lindsay’s plate. —
- — This month’s Across the Page features four noteworthy poetry collections, including: Mary Oliver’s new release, Evidence; Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn; Marilyn Hacker’s Desesperanto, and British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s Rapture. —
- — As you can see, at least two letters at the start of every word are the same as the ending letters of the previous word. Can you make such word-chain sentences that make sense? —
- — 5 Awe-Inspiring Poetry Reads, by Katha Pollitt —
- — Denton woman selected as 2010 Texas poet laureate —
- — D’oh! on a Grecian Urn —
- — Miss Conduct’s 2nd Annual Clerihew Contest! —
- — Like the Levi’s(R) brand, Walt Whitman stands for the democratic power of real people – the self-reliant young men and women who make this country a better place. —
- — “Over the coming weeks, we’ll also be posting a second set of poems by the contributors to the issue. These poems will be ‘made’ using the texts from other contributors’ poems.” —
- — Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2009 Results —
- — “…about the experience of putting together the Multiformalisms anthology I recently edited with Susan Schultz and how the formalism/language poetry are not at all the opposed forces people imagine they are but are practically in cahoots” —
- — Marianne Moore’s five-decade struggle with “Poetry.” —
- — An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs <-- updated link to free access to full article thank you ---
- — Santa Clara County unveiled its first-ever word collage – a collection of lines from county residents organized by county Poet Laureate Nils Peterson. —
- — Poetry presses, getting published & the delightful ampersand
— - — In her collection, “Honeybee” (Greenwillow, 2008), writer Naomi Shihab Nye finds a metaphor for our constant busy–ness in the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder — the unexplained demise of thousands of honeybees. [mp3] —
Hey, happy Canada Day!
