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Poetry News For June 13, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — When Hank Williams died on New Year’s day in 1953, he left behind a legacy of honky tonk hits as well as an extended family that would grow to include a son, daughters and grandchildren. Milo Miles reviews an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame called, “Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy.” —

  2. — alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast, Linh Dinh catalogues the myriad grades of Vietnamese chuckles. [MP3] —

  3. — John Ingram, Chairman of the Ingram Content Companies, announced last Thursday that the company would fold the leading print-on-demand publisher, Lightning Source, Inc. into its main book business to create Ingram Lightning Group. —

  4. — One of the failings of our education system is that we are educating people out of creativity. —

  5. — That era of the poetry readings was also the folk era. So our intermission would be a folk singer, usually playing the auto harp. —

  6. — Author of new book discusses his work linking corporate values with the decline of the tenure-track position, especially in the humanities. —

  7. — His latest collection, The Late Show, includes “Gloss of the Past,” composed entirely of the names of lip glosses —

  8. — ‘Paradise Lost’ poet turns 400 —

  9. — Poetry, our national art, has never been so neglected or unloved. —

The magnitude of circadian advantage influences the outcome of Major League Baseball games in that teams with greater circadian advantage are more likely to win. Crossing multiple time zones further reduces the probability of success for traveling teams.

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Poetry News For January 15, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. — Why John Milton sides with the angels —

  2. — Sometimes the prose is pure poetry —

  3. — Poetry workshop: Peter Bennet admires the responses to his exercise on the moonlit world of Walter de la Mare —

  4. — David Trinidad talks with Richard Siken about his fascination with the world of Barbie and the process of creating a collection of his very own —

  5. — Not only is finding the right market vital to being successful in your writing but keeping up to date on new markets is also important —

  6. — She made me feel as if my poems were fine wine to be decanted and savored —

  7. — Fierce, funny poems take prize double —

  8. — I decided to try deliberate inattentiveness as a way of starting poems —

  9. — Philip Whalen’s word bombs —

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Poetry News for September 27, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — Autobiography of the Cab Driver Who Picked Me Up At a Phoenix Hotel to Catch a Four A.M. Flight and Began to Speak in (Almost) Rhyming Couplets by Rebecca McClanahan –

  2. — Seven Ingenious Rules —

  3. — Poetry Prize Sets Off Resignations at Society —

  4. — How often has some wonderful piece of verse, some rousing sonnet or impassioned soliloquy been reduced to the verbal equivalent of dried biscuit crumbs by overanalysis? —

  5. — Job: Associate or Advanced Assistant Professor of English (Poetry) —

  6. — In Columbia College prof Trinidad‘ pop culture”“saturated poetry, the languid Technicolor of mid-20th-century Hollywood appears again and again —

I had a dream — it was one of those omnipotent dreams where you see/experience everything at once — that Death sent me $780 via PayPal. So there was Seventh-Seal-looking-Death sitting at the computer, clicking the PayPal button. And there I was, sitting at the computer, pleased that Death PayPal’d me $780.

Death uses Internet Explorer. And doesn’t have a flat screen monitor yet.

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