Poetry Hut Blog

• — So how do funny poems actually work? Well, the same way serious poems work — there’s just, I think, less room for error —
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• — Boris Pasternak -the Man who saw the other side of the Bolshevik Revolution —
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• — Invicta: what a terrible choice of poem- The choice of Gordon Brown is also the choice of the Oklahoma bomber —
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• — Ugly Reprint of Dante’s Inferno Aims For Gamers —
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• — 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 —
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• — Machine Art lamps —
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• — Minnesota Poetry: Sun Yung Shin’s “The House” —
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• — Carol Anne Duffy’s Poetry corner – Snow Light —
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• — I love spectator shoes —
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• — Poem of the Week: “Airport Security” by Sherod Santos —
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• — … On Poetry: Poets’ homes usually eccentric and full of character. —
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• — CFS: Broadsided wants your poems. Once a month, Broadsided publishes a literary/artistic collaboration. —
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• — Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense: The Chicago poet’s overlooked adventures in linguistic anarchy. —
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• — Why do we end poems the way we do? —
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• — There’s not a thing about this process that comes easy. I sweat and suffer every syllable. —
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• — New Lit on the Block :: Southern Women’s Review —
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• — Sinclair sponsors 25th annual Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Writing Contest —
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• — A Look Back in Anger: Poet-Prophet Gil Scott-Heron —
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• — 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. —
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• — 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] —
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• — KUSP The Poetry Show with Dennis Morton James Scully, The Manhatten Review [MP3] —
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• — “Mummies To Burn” from Slate Magazine – Poems by Charles Harper Webb [mp3] —
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• — 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] —
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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—
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• — 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 —
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• — “Niedecker is less a poet than a porn-star” —
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• — Charles Olson gets a conference —
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• — Non-Contest Book Publishers – The list is growing —
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• — For this installment of Games Poets Play, we’re going to have some fun with randomness and chance. —
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• — 2000-2009: The Decade in Poetry —
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• — “The Looking House” by Fred Marchant was selected by BarnesandNobleReview.com as one of the best poetry books of 2009 —
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• — Robert Herrick’s yuletide tribute to the lush pleasures of spring. —
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• — Stanley Moss is either the most religiously profane or profanely religious poet around —
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• — poet to pen verse for ‘Carbuncle’ town sculpture —
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• — For Christmas is coming, sure as rats. The spondoolix must come down, that is all I’ve got to say. —
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• — Happy Hooverized Xmas Greetings from the Poetry & Popular Culture Office —
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• — Now On-Line Galatea Resurrects #13 – 56 new reviews —
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• — 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 —
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• — In the case of one well-known author, the cat may have helped a poet and novelist land a reprint deal —
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• — 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 —
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• — A popular saying has it in Nicaragua that everyone is a poet until proven otherwise. What about the rest of the world? —
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• — Literary Magazine Reviews Posted December 15, 2009 —
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• — In her chapbook sequence, “Lucy,” Jean Valentine has written a deeply interior meditation that revolves around our three-million-year-old hominid ancesto —
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• — Track Santa Claus With NORAD —
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• — Schools of poetry are nonacademic outfits scattered about guesswork and lucky breaks. —
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• — “Literary Math – This is just gorgeous” —
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• — The Body Electric’s $5,000 NASA grant will cover the cost of the robot kit from FIRST —
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• — A documentary on “Godmother of Punk” Patti Smith will air on PBS on December 30. —
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• — The question is often asked: What does one do with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing? —
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• — I’m glad to hear that Bray’s is still in business LOL. (video – not very Christmasy sorry) —
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• — 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. —
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• — 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. —
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• — Long Feared Extinct, Rare Bird Rediscovered —
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• — Ten Poems I Love to Teach -Surefire poetry hits for the classroom and beyond. —
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• — Composer premieres Angelou poetry piece with PSO —
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• — Cornell University Assistant Professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. —
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• — Washington University professor Carl Phillips is a poetry finalist for this year’s National Book Awards. —
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• — 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. —
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• — Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1928 poem will be celebrated at Harpers Ferry this weekend. —
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• — American poet has big Czech connections —
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• — 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 —
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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] —
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• — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show with Rachelle Cruz – join Rachelle as she talks to Jennifer K. Sweeney [mp3] —
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• — 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] —
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• — KQED: The Writers’ Block Podcast Donna de la Perriere reads poems from her new book, TRUE CRIME. [mp3] —
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• — 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] —
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• — 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] —
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• — Joe Milford Hosts Nick McRae – from Joe Milford Show [mp3] —
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• — 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] —
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• — Recordings of poet Louise Bogan, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1968. [mp3] —
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• — Nights At The Roundtable – James Brown – 1965 [mp3] —
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• — Ryan Teitman’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Puerto del Sol, Redivider, Third Coast, and other journals [mp3] —
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• — WALT WHITMAN. March 28, 1892, Wednesday (obit.) —
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• — You betcha! by William Logan —
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• — Alice Fogel joins us from her home in Acworth, New Hampshire. —
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• — Israeli scientists have modified a potent antibiotic that may allow it to treat cystic fibrosis and other genetic diseases caused by “stop mutations”. —
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• — Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll and an MP3 —
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• — Diane Lockward on Barbara Crooker’s RADIANCE —
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• — 12 or 20 questions: with John Kinsella —
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• — Thrive as a Starving Writer–Lessons from the Experts —
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• — 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. —
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• — How Dudley Randall used poetry to express the truth elegantly —
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• — Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language? —
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• — Nonprofit group rallies rural artists —
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• — 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. —
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• — The Poetry Show: Eva Salzman and Amy Wack’s anthology Women’s Work [mp3] —
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• — Joe Milford Hosts William S. Burroughs [mp3] —
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• — WHAT IS THE NEW POETRY? CALE YOUNG RICE. December 7, 1919, Sunday —
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• — Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts Gabriel Gudding —
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• — “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.’” —
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• — On Poetry: Contemporary American work has turned from beauty —
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• — Gibson Interview: Patti Smith on Rock and Roll, Poetry and Lullabies —
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• — Of Poetry, Paula, Professors and Presidents… —
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• — If you love a writer… —
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• — Spotlight Poet: Denise Duhamel —
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• — Maxine Kumin from How a Poem Happens by Brian Brodeur —
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• — This Awards program will provide grants to artists of excellence who happen to have disabilities. —
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• — Poem In Tongues Of The Ocean —
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• — 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] —
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• — 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. —
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• — J. V. Cunningham: Essential American Poets [mp3] —
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• — 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. —
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• — Slow Poetry: Recipe for a new avant-garde? —
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• — 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] —
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• — AURORA LEIGH. December 9, 1856, Wednesday —
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• — On self-confidence and suckage —
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• — Hm. —
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• — “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” —
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• — Dear Landlord, Plz Stop Trying To Kill Me —
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• — “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.” —
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• — Farts in folktales —
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• — JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis joint work discovered —
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• — The Ambassador Poetry Project aims to showcase poetic talent from and about Ontario and Michigan. —
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• — Poem of the week: Martial Diptych by Glyn Maxwell —
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• — though many of poets of the Harlem Renaissance drew their inspiration from African-American culture, Cullen often looked elsewhere —
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• — 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 —
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• — Fresh New Pages Lit Mag Reviews —
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• — Publishers Weekly: Charles Bukowski, Bin Ramke, John Koethe, Dara Wier, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Brenda Hillman, Kazim Ali, Kiki Petrosino, Novica Tadic, Charles Simic, Robert Burns —
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• — “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. —
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• — Please Help Billy Lee Riley —
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• — SOUTHERN LITERATURE.; Facts about Southern Authors. November 12, 1865, Wednesday —
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• — For the first time in its ten-year history, Drunken Boat is offering the chance to get email-delivered updates. —
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• — Like dangerous toys or perilous amusement park rides, Matthea Harvey’s poems careen into the unknown… [mp3] —
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• — Thom Gunn’s “Selected Poems” shows his development was steadier than often thought. —
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• — The handful of his poems in the anthology stuck with me over the years since, poems of gritty working-class grappling with life, an unsentimental warmth, and at times nightmare visions of the political events of the larger world. —
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• — The poetry of Fred Marchant explores literal battles as well as those of the mind and spirit. —
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• — This gives some suggestion of the scale on which Stone has been working for the past 50 years: at one end, something as tangible as a spider’s web; at the other, the entire cosmos. —
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• — Mass. lawmakers weigh creating poet laureate post —
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• — ‘Deep in my heart I see poetry as a branch of the entertainment industry. I’m trying to do a song and dance act’ —
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• — Dolly Parton poems @ Project Verse —




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• — The afternoon before Michael Jackson died, David Blair told BTL how his poetry collection would unite life in Detroit and the Jackson family. —
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• — St. Clair Shores poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler has received double literary honors for his 2008 book —
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• — Poet, 80, has first book published —
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• — Writer, Poet Jim Harrison Is a Determined ‘Outsider’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
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• — The poems of Grand Rapids poet Robert VanderMolen are sly, ingeniously crafted and indebted to film as well as to 20th century poets. —
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• — Campaign to protect Margate shelter where TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land —
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• — Daniel Radcliffe revealed as a budding poet —
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• — The Poetry of Dick Cheney —
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• — Remixed Messages —
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• — Stop for a sonnet before catching bus —
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• — Nashville poetry calendar new —
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• — Paul Hemphill, whose 1970 nonfiction work The Nashville Sound was one of the first serious popular studies of country music and stands among the most important books ever written on the subject, died Saturday in hospice care in Georgia. —
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• — Tennyson was ideally suited to radio, argues Michael Symmons Roberts, who has adapted his epic Arthurian cycle for broadcast —
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• — Hundreds memorialize James Baker Hall —
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• — Does God Hate Women? —
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• — Piercy’s latest collection, The Crooked Inheritance, features poems on the U.S. occupation of Iraq , health care, “the poet as a young nerd”, hospital hallways, and mangoes at the beginning of a new love affair. [mp3] —
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• — Carol Ann Duffy : ‘I was told to get a proper job’ —
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• — Tracing the Keats Family in America By FELIX J. KOCH July 30, 1922, Sunday —
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• — Contests and Submissions —
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• — Which words make you wince? —
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• — Dunken Boat 10 —
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• — The new dating site from Borders promises happy endings. I read it rather differently —
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• — Flarf Poetry in POETRY magazine – Wired News —
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• — It is perhaps stating the obvious to say that there is almost no money to be made in poetry. Some poets work as teachers, others in the corporate world. And even a Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. poet laureate needs a day job. —
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• — Maya Angelou Writes Michael Jackson Poem —
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• — Workshops are a delicate business, and calling them masterclasses is unlikely to improve them —
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• — The American Revolution inspired a vast body of literature, much of which attempts to allegorize the fledgling nation’s birth and cast its genesis in the language of archetypal struggles and timeless human themes. —
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• — hummingbird tongue —
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• — What goes on inside poetry editors’ heads? —
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• — He translates Rimbaud, DJs and publishes a Livonia bus driver. Sometimes he makes cars crash. —
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• — Jordanian court convicts poet over Quranic verses —
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• — As to why such ethical concerns are important, look at Linda Gray Sexton’s 1994 book “Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton,” which is nothing if not a cautionary tale —
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• — Poems play an important role here. Nothing influences Iranians like poetry. And these days, everything is about influence and fear. —
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• — Family, friends mourn Iranian woman whose death was caught on video —
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• — Poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler is teaming up with two younger poets, Cassie Poe and LaShaun (Phoenix) Moore, to write a collaborative poem about summer in the city —
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• — Here’s the last published poem by late Brooklyn poet laureate, Ken Siegelman, who died on Friday at his home in Gravesend —
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• — mistakes in Iqbal’s poem in handbook, seven suspended —
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• — A nap that includes a period of REM sleep seems to improve performance on word-association tests, a new study shows. —
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• — On the podcast with Alok Jha are Poet Laureate Ruth Padel, University College London’s Steve Jones, and Cambridge University’s Gillian Beer, to discusses Darwin’s writings and what he read. [mp3] —
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• — What is American about this poem? —
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• — Tim Burton Unveils Alice in Wonderland Stills —
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• — “Please forward me the names of poets and the title of poems which you feel have some connection to a miraculous birth” —
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• — When Einstein and Bohr clashed over quantum theory —
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• — Poem of the week: Frieze by David Constantine from Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk by Carol Rumens —
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• — Colbert Report: Paul Muldoon with Stephen Colbert —
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• — At meeting of scholarly presses, directors trade stories about layoffs, consider ways to better connect themselves to their universities and hear some dire warnings. —
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• — It’s good that painters and poets mock politicians | Germaine Greer —
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• — In Studio Performances: Neko Case 6-5-09 Recording engineer: Steven Kray —
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• — “I have always believed in Jean Cocteau’s dictum that the artist should find out what he can do and then do something else.” —
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• — Last week, after Pasha Malla delivered his acceptance speech at the Trillium Book Awards — he won for his debut collection of short stories, The Withdrawal Method — we (almost) immediately asked him if we could share it with our readers. —
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• — Translator accused of stealing poems —
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• — Ex-Tiger Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych found dead —
• — “Blondes, Box Scores, and Elizabeth Bishop” —
• — Batter up! This very special baseball program of SELECTED SHORTS includes stories, memoirs, and poems that celebrate the national game, and an interview with radio sports commentator Bill Littlefield, host of NPR’s “Only A Game.” [mp3] —
• — The neglected war poet Francis Ledwidge’s pastoral work reflects on Irish nationalism after the Easter Rising —
• — I didn’t really expect my book to be reviewed in The Times (‘The London Times’ to those of you outside the UK), but there you go. Who knows how these things happen? —
• — Slash Pine Press is pleased to announce the first annual Slash Pine Poetry Festival, to be held in five distinct locations in the greater Tuscaloosa, AL area on April 24th and 25th —
• — Arts Friday: Commemorating 50 years of The Elements of Style [mp3] —
• — Recent winner of The Fence Modern Poets Series, it is easy to understand why this one was chosen among its stealthy competition. —
• — Any poet of such longevity faces a choice between reinvention and repetition. Splitting the difference, Simpson’s work is repetitious, but in the mode of a narrowing spiral. —
• — As he did in his youthful work, the poet strictly limits the length of his poems, in this case to six lines each. Yet these 70 poems feel spacious rather than condensed. —
• — Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven —
• — Interview With Poet Denise Duhamel —
• — Poetry dies in latest U.S. culture —
• — Photo from garfield minus garfield —
• — Poetry and Subsidies: Is Materialism Ruining Creativity? —
• — How Philip Larkin rewrote the first, indiscreet article about him to appear in the British press —
• — New site captures authors’ identities and won’t let go —
• — Too close for comfort: aphasia and mediocre poetry —
• — Every Friday, bloggers in the kidlitosphere enthusiastically offer up their favorite poems for kids. Susan Thomsen takes a tour through this billowing online community. —
• — We are writing about GREGOR SAMSA’s claim for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments. Based on a review of his/her medical condition, he/she does not qualify for SSI payments on this claim. This is because he/she is not disabled or blind under our rules. and related: Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport —
• — “The Nut Lady” Reconsidered —
• — I think an eBook is a book, but in a Supreme Court case argued today (Tuesday), a brief discussion about guarantees given to books included a reference to whether or not there is a difference between a physical and digital version of a book — and what is likely the first mention of the brand name “Kindle” in the Supreme Court. —
• — Norton anthologies are among the most respected in the country, but respectability can suggest stodgy, predictable. “American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry” is neither, proving that much contemporary American verse is daring and original. —
• — Mathematics and love coupled in professor’s book of poetry —
• — A major conference on the long career of Robert Bly will include poets, translators, academics, editors and Bly himself. —
• — Forty-three years later, the International Poetry Forum is shutting its doors. —
• — The new class will also include the poets Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa, the visual artist Judy Pfaff, the architect Tod Williams and the composers … —
• — SIRIUS XM Radio Beefs Up Book Radio Programming —
• — Deborah Digges, poet and Tufts English professor, dies at 59 —
• — All good poets find strains and paradoxes within the language they learn to wield, but Thom Gunn (1929-2004) found more than most —
• — In the context of this, the contemporary poet is often left with the choice of following the example of the hard-nosed L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, or seeming like a fluffy, nostalgic Longfellow. —
• — It features centuries of creative work by mathematicians, poets, and artists, including Fibonacci, Albrecht Dürer, M. C. Escher, David Hilbert, Benoit Mandelbrot, William Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, and many contemporary experimental poets. Original illustrations include digital photographs, mathematical and poetic models, and fractal imagery. —
• — Seven steps to becoming a poet [LOL there seems to be an important step missing] —
• — Octopus Books will hold an open reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts in April of 2009. Manuscripts must be submitted between April Fools day and April 30, 2009. —
• — In addition to the “regular” Tattoosday features, every day in April will feature a different poet’s tattoo(s). —
• — Muriel Rukeyser Goes to War: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Politics of Ekphrasis —
• — Living POET LARGE: An Interview with Reb Livingston on the Future of Poetry Publishing —
• — To read this book is not to behold a completed work but to stand onstage with a writer who finds herself in the middle of a story in which she has been reluctantly cast. —
• — Frederick Seidel has been called crass, disturbing, a name-dropping, upmarket sinner. And that’s what may make him America’s greatest living poet —
• — THE BEATS A Graphic History Text by Harvey Pekar and others. —
• — Articles in the Mar/Apr 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
• — A New Chapter of Grief in Plath-Hughes Legacy —
• — Shellie Braeuner, a Nashville nanny, is the winner of the first Cheerios Spoonful of Stories New Author Contest. Her book will be put inside 1.5 million boxes of Cheerios. —
• — I, Too, Am a Vegetable: The Whitman Parodies —
• — Amazonfail & The Cost of Freedom —

data dump – cleaning out my rss feed

There’s a review of my book in the spring issue of Main Street Rag. I haven’t gotten my copy in the mail though. I don’t know if my subscription expired.