- — So how do funny poems actually work? Well, the same way serious poems work — there’s just, I think, less room for error —
- — Boris Pasternak -the Man who saw the other side of the Bolshevik Revolution —
- — Invicta: what a terrible choice of poem- The choice of Gordon Brown is also the choice of the Oklahoma bomber —
- — Ugly Reprint of Dante’s Inferno Aims For Gamers —
- — Once we understand Essbaum’s thrust, we can pierce her previous volumes, Necropolis (2008, neoNuma Arts) and Harlot (2007, No Tell Books). These books are best understood as two halves of the same quest: the reconciliation of spirit and flesh —
- — Machine Art lamps —
- — Minnesota Poetry: Sun Yung Shin’s “The House” —
- — Carol Anne Duffy’s Poetry corner – Snow Light —
- — I love spectator shoes —
- — Poem of the Week: “Airport Security” by Sherod Santos —
- — … On Poetry: Poets’ homes usually eccentric and full of character. —
- — CFS: Broadsided wants your poems. Once a month, Broadsided publishes a literary/artistic collaboration. —
- — Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense: The Chicago poet’s overlooked adventures in linguistic anarchy. —
- — Why do we end poems the way we do? —
- — There’s not a thing about this process that comes easy. I sweat and suffer every syllable. —
- — New Lit on the Block :: Southern Women’s Review —
- — Sinclair sponsors 25th annual Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Writing Contest —
- — A Look Back in Anger: Poet-Prophet Gil Scott-Heron —
- — The Nation profiles Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, author of the (creepy, wonderful) short story collection There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby. —
- — Poet Philip Levine Recalls Life at the Factory
from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Jeffrey Brown profiles Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. [mp3] — - — KUSP The Poetry Show with Dennis Morton James Scully, The Manhatten Review [MP3] —
- — “Mummies To Burn” from Slate Magazine – Poems by Charles Harper Webb [mp3] —
- — Puma Perl’s poetry and fiction have been published in over 100 print and online journals and anthologies.Her first chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends, published in 2008, was awarded the Erbacce Press 2009 Poetry Award; a full length collection, knuckle tattoos, will be published early in 2010. She performs her work in many venues, in and out of New York City, and was recently included in the Bowery Poetry Club’s yearly New Year’s Day Alternate Poetry Marathon. Upcoming features include Otto’s Shrunken Head Shout-Out, Cornelia Street Café’s Hydrogen Jukebox, as well as a book launch party at the Bowery Poetry Club, March 7,2010.She lives and writes on the Lower East Side and has facilitated writing workshops in community based agencies and at Riker’s Island, a NYC prison. She is a member of Harmattan Theater, a performance group dedicated to environmental and socially engaging theater. [mp3] —
My mom’s birthday was the day after Christmas so I’m hitting the fast forward button.
Happy new year! Hope you had a great holiday & that 2010 is a good one for you. It’s going to be intense, that’s for sure.
- — Does my poetry have any social value? Absolutely not. It’s not even socially relevant. Can you imagine Garrison Keillor reading it on The Writer’s Almanac with his sad Eeyore voice? & thanks for the link—
- — Candace Sams’s decision to report bad Amazon reviewers to the FBI is further proof why it’s best not to respond publicly to your critics —
- — “Niedecker is less a poet than a porn-star” —
- — Charles Olson gets a conference —
- — Non-Contest Book Publishers – The list is growing —
- — For this installment of Games Poets Play, we’re going to have some fun with randomness and chance. —
- — 2000-2009: The Decade in Poetry —
- — “The Looking House” by Fred Marchant was selected by BarnesandNobleReview.com as one of the best poetry books of 2009 —
- — Robert Herrick’s yuletide tribute to the lush pleasures of spring. —
- — Stanley Moss is either the most religiously profane or profanely religious poet around —
- — poet to pen verse for ‘Carbuncle’ town sculpture —
- — For Christmas is coming, sure as rats. The spondoolix must come down, that is all I’ve got to say. —
- — Happy Hooverized Xmas Greetings from the Poetry & Popular Culture Office —
- — Now On-Line Galatea Resurrects #13 – 56 new reviews —
- — Figaro’s favorite language sage, Brooks Clark, writes that the sweet little Christmas carol resulted from a bet made by a well-known preacher, Phillips Brooks —
- — In the case of one well-known author, the cat may have helped a poet and novelist land a reprint deal —
- — You hate it, they live it – The announcement of Sacramento’s new poetry czar inspires a waxing of the city’s poetic innards and impulse —
- — A popular saying has it in Nicaragua that everyone is a poet until proven otherwise. What about the rest of the world? —
- — Literary Magazine Reviews Posted December 15, 2009 —
- — In her chapbook sequence, “Lucy,” Jean Valentine has written a deeply interior meditation that revolves around our three-million-year-old hominid ancesto —
- — Track Santa Claus With NORAD —
- — Schools of poetry are nonacademic outfits scattered about guesswork and lucky breaks. —
- — “Literary Math – This is just gorgeous” —
- — The Body Electric’s $5,000 NASA grant will cover the cost of the robot kit from FIRST —
- — A documentary on “Godmother of Punk” Patti Smith will air on PBS on December 30. —
- — The question is often asked: What does one do with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing? —
- — I’m glad to hear that Bray’s is still in business LOL. (video – not very Christmasy sorry) —
- — This week, Poets & Writers issued online rankings of all the MFA programs in creative writing across the country for the upcoming academic year of 2010. —
- — For instance, here is Natalie Latta, a reader who hung out beneath a bridge like a troll for 2 hours, and wait for each group to arrive and be startled shitless when she began reading a section of a writer’s work. —
- — Long Feared Extinct, Rare Bird Rediscovered —
- — Ten Poems I Love to Teach -Surefire poetry hits for the classroom and beyond. —
- — Composer premieres Angelou poetry piece with PSO —
- — Cornell University Assistant Professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. —
- — Washington University professor Carl Phillips is a poetry finalist for this year’s National Book Awards. —
- — Chapter 16 is, in part, a response to our sense that local culture and local community have been diminished by the disappearance of locally generated reviews and coverage of books in Tennessee newspapers and other media. —
- — Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1928 poem will be celebrated at Harpers Ferry this weekend. —
- — American poet has big Czech connections —
- — Poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler, a prominent figure on the Detroit literary scene, has won a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award for 2010 —
Poetry News For October 11, 2009
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MP3 Day
- — Living Writers WCBN Ann Arbor – T Hetzel speaks with Crystal Williams a native of Detroit, Michigan, and winner of the 2009 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award [mp3] —
- — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show with Rachelle Cruz – join Rachelle as she talks to Jennifer K. Sweeney [mp3] —
- — Living with Terror: A Discussion of Cid Corman’s “enuresis” from PoemTalk Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Tom Devaney, Fran Ryan, and Frank Sherlock. [mp3] —
- — KQED: The Writers’ Block Podcast Donna de la Perriere reads poems from her new book, TRUE CRIME. [mp3] —
- — Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio – Laurie Wagner Buyer writes,speaks and teaches about women in the American West.She is the author of 3 collections of poetry [mp3] —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS – Jean Valentine [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Nick McRae – from Joe Milford Show [mp3] —
- — Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio | George Wallace (AB, MPH, MFA) is an award winning poet and journalist from New York who has performed his work across America and in Europe. [mp3] —
- — Recordings of poet Louise Bogan, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1968. [mp3] —
- — Nights At The Roundtable – James Brown – 1965 [mp3] —
- — Ryan Teitman’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Puerto del Sol, Redivider, Third Coast, and other journals [mp3] —
Poetry News For August 27, 2009
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- — WALT WHITMAN. March 28, 1892, Wednesday (obit.) —
- — You betcha! by William Logan —
- — Alice Fogel joins us from her home in Acworth, New Hampshire. —
- — Israeli scientists have modified a potent antibiotic that may allow it to treat cystic fibrosis and other genetic diseases caused by “stop mutations”. —
- — Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll and an MP3 —
- — Diane Lockward on Barbara Crooker’s RADIANCE —
- — 12 or 20 questions: with John Kinsella —
- — Thrive as a Starving Writer–Lessons from the Experts —
- — So goes the legend of Tsangyang Gyamtso, one of the most popular historical figures among Tibetans and the most colorful of the long line of Dalai Lamas. His poetry is among the most iconic in Tibetan literature. —
- — How Dudley Randall used poetry to express the truth elegantly —
- — Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language? —
- — Nonprofit group rallies rural artists —
- — It was Millay and her Dutch husband, Eugen Jan Boissevain, who had the home renovated from the Italiante to the Dutch Colonial style in the 1920s. During their short stint in the home, they added the casement windows, skylight and Dutch stepped gable that passersby see today. —
- — The Poetry Show: Eva Salzman and Amy Wack’s anthology Women’s Work [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts William S. Burroughs [mp3] —
Jul 272009
- — WHAT IS THE NEW POETRY? CALE YOUNG RICE. December 7, 1919, Sunday —
- — Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts Gabriel Gudding —
- — “David Orr, in his review of Thom Gunn’s new Selected Poems (July 12), makes an interesting, good observation by calling Gunn ‘a poet of friction.’” —
- — On Poetry: Contemporary American work has turned from beauty —
- — Gibson Interview: Patti Smith on Rock and Roll, Poetry and Lullabies —
- — Of Poetry, Paula, Professors and Presidents… —
- — If you love a writer… —
- — Spotlight Poet: Denise Duhamel —
- — Maxine Kumin from How a Poem Happens by Brian Brodeur —
- — This Awards program will provide grants to artists of excellence who happen to have disabilities. —
- — Poem In Tongues Of The Ocean —
- — Writer and teacher Mike Hickey is Seattle’s “poet populist” for 2009. He talks with KUOW’s literary producer Elizabeth Austen about how writing saved his life — and why he thinks it can save your life, too. [mp3] —
- — In the halcyon days of the punk movement, artists knew no bounds. Musicians like Richard Hell, above, of the band Television wrote poetry; poets like Eileen Myles read at CBGB; and they and other future punk legends left enough videos, album covers and other art in their wake to form several retrospectives of the era. —
- — J. V. Cunningham: Essential American Poets [mp3] —
- — A history of Henry Ford’s disastrous attempt to build an ideal American society on an Amazonian rubber plantation. wow I never heard of that. —
- — Slow Poetry: Recipe for a new avant-garde? —
- — Today, librarian Nancy Pearl shares her latest book picks with two ways of sharing a window on experience: The graphic novel and the poetic form. [mp3] —
Poetry News For July 21, 2009
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- — AURORA LEIGH. December 9, 1856, Wednesday —
- — On self-confidence and suckage —
- — Hm. —
- — “I find it clairvoyant, by the way, that he refers to Munch in relation to “Brainpan”. This very image flashed in my mind as I wrote that poem” —
- — Dear Landlord, Plz Stop Trying To Kill Me —
- — “I keep a list of Jew haters from history. T.S. Eliot, for one. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a letter to his wife describing how he had to sit next to a Jew on a coach, how this disgusted him.” —
- — Farts in folktales —
- — JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis joint work discovered —
- — The Ambassador Poetry Project aims to showcase poetic talent from and about Ontario and Michigan. —
- — Poem of the week: Martial Diptych by Glyn Maxwell —
- — though many of poets of the Harlem Renaissance drew their inspiration from African-American culture, Cullen often looked elsewhere —
- — In “Monologue for Some Prince of Denmark,” the poem that opens the volume, Gustafsson begins with a highly impersonal and un-lyrical kind of language —
- — Fresh New Pages Lit Mag Reviews —
- — Publishers Weekly: Charles Bukowski, Bin Ramke, John Koethe, Dara Wier, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Brenda Hillman, Kazim Ali, Kiki Petrosino, Novica Tadic, Charles Simic, Robert Burns —
- — “Young Charlotte” began life as a poem. It’s a cautionary tale that eventually was set to music and has traveled widely around the country. —
- — Please Help Billy Lee Riley —
