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Poetry News:

1. — SERIAL SYSTEM HURTS OUR NOVELS; And Too Many American Writers Want to Own Automobiles, Says George Barr McCutcheon By Joyce Kilmer —
2. — Song of Herself —
3. — Robert Hass — Winner 2007 National Book Awards — Poetry —
4. — How to Win a National Book Award in Five Easy Steps —
5. — Leading Neuroscientist Seeks Neural And Biological Basis For Creativity, Beauty And Love —
6. — creativity has become a feelgood term intended to make us all feel a bit better about what we do —
7. — Kate Light gave a reading on Nov. 13, 2007, in Buttrick Hall as part of the Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program. This podcast includes selections from her three books - Gravity’s Dream, Open Slowly and Falling Bodies. [links to MP3] —
8. — when the sisters were 17 and 20 years old, they were sent to Nazi forced labor camps … where they wrote these poems —
9. — since somebody published a poem I wrote when I was 19, which has been mocked, thoroughly, I don’t think those are going to be appearing anytime soon —
10. — Scoop: Viggo Mortensen Is Edgar Allan Poe —
11. — Lee Ranaldo Pens Poetry Book Based on E-mail Spam —
12. — Mark Jarman’s newest collection continues to confound a secular critical world —

Have a good weekend — see you next week.

Poetry News:

1. — More than 60 years after it was written, George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” remains the classic essay on the relationship between words, truth, propaganda and politics —
2. — ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ found guilty in British court and ‘Lyrical Terrorist led double life’ and ‘Lyrical terrorist’ convicted for jihad poems —
3. — Here is another photo from St. Petersburg: taken from the bench where KGB agents would sit everyday in the 40’s and 50’s to watch one the land’s great poets, Anna Akhmatova —
4. — Penguin Wins U.S. Decision in Dorothy Parker Copyright Trial —
5. — Creativity, innovation and ‘coolness’ often emerge from the grungier areas of a city —
6. — “poets cannot be coddled and nurtured in universities - that depletes their minds from having relationships with poetry” —
7. — The artwork of two local artists, sculptor Lisa Scheer and poet E. Ethelbert Miller, was recently installed at the east entrance —
8. — Nobel laureate to explain connection between arts, sciences —
9. — The rhythm of the poem is the rhythm of the train; it scans beautifully and is irresistible as a result —
10. — Gertrude Stein, fearless and flushed —
11. — Hardy’s poem was printed in the TLS of September 10, 1914 —
12. — WHY NOT ABOLISH POETS? ANYBODY WRITES POETRY NOW; Bards Are No Longer Picturesque But Look Prosaic and Wear Everyday Clothes and Cut Their Hair and Drink Milk Shakes and ;- Oh, It’s Simply Awful! —

Have you heard of The Soulforce Institute for Nonviolent Change? I haven’t and I’m right here in the city with the Southern Baptist HQ.

Poetry News:

1. — Scratching poems on cell floors, or making ink from the brick powder of the walls, Burmese writers have managed to continue writing despite imprisonment and censorship —
2. — Haiku Poet Documented Life in Japanese Camps —
3. — To write vital poems, Notley has said, “it’s necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against … everything.” —
4. — The End of America: Naomi Wolf’s Call to Action —
5. — poetry written by English colonists before there was a United States, and by citizens of the new republic shortly after its founding —
6. — Poetry can’t topple dictatorships or stop fascist terror, but… —
7. — As human beings we should be judged by our minds, by our creativity, not by our biology —
8. — Terrible. (That looks like a good documentary.) —
9. — Questions You Should Never Ask a Writer —
10. — When You Have Ideas You Cannot Yet Execute —
11. — Walnut Hill School in Natick will name its new residence hall in honor of poet Elizabeth Bishop —
12. — He wakes from dreams and walks into the woods, sometimes for hours, reciting and memorizing the poems that come to him in his sleep —
13. — Poetry Center design an exacting, contradictory task for architects —
14. — it displays a line from one of Shelton’s poems that appears in computer punch-card code similar to that of the 1970s —
15. — You”™re a Good Prop, Cruel Muse —

Today is the Feast Day of St. Teresa of Avila, who wrote “I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself” and “”May God protect me from gloomy saints.” My Grandma, Theresa (Korte) Zimba, was named after her. And I was named after my Grandma Zimba (one of my middle names is Theresa). There is a famous statue of her.

St. Teresa of Avila was a mystic and the first female Doctor of the Catholic Church & is the Patron Saint of:

headache sufferers
(protection from?) heart attacks
sick people
Spain
Pozega, Croatia
laceworkers
loss of parents
people in need of grace
people in religious orders
people ridiculed for their piety
and she could levitate

So the word of the day is transverberation

Rosmarie Waldrop — Our Moments
Thomas Sayers Ellis — Mr. Drum
Jonathan Weinert — Solving for y
Jilly Dybka — Obstacles I Have Faced in Life and How I Have Overcome Them
Mary Tautin Moloney — Damage Reflected
Nubar Alexanian — Fisheye
Greg Delanty — Prayer in Summer
Frannie Lindsay — After a Sermon on Giving Up Everything
Jeffrey McDaniel — Confessions of a Flawed Diety
Jeffrey Perkins — Squirrel
Ravi Shankar — Rodeo Cowboy No. 1, Oil on Canvas, 1978
John Caserta — Keys
Joan Houlihan — The New Cruel
Mike Perrow — In a Time of the Tendered Ocean
Don Share — Symbiosis
Bill Gallery — Chair & Palm Trees, California, 1997
Steven Cramer — Rereading Stevens in Mid-February
John Hodgen — For Mr. Grimes Who Tried to Teach Me Physics After My Father Died
Noelle Kocot — The Peace That So Lovingly Descends

hahaha I am in a funny mood. I think they’re going to take my webmaster license away for using that <blink> tag. I’m cracking myself up. That really is a beautiful journal though so go buy one.