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Nashville Poetry Alert – Edward Hirsch Poetry Reading

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Title: Edward Hirsch Poetry Reading
Location: Vanderbilt University, Buttrick 102
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Description: Gertrude & Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program

Edward Hirsch Poetry Reading
Start Time: 7pm
Date: Sept 16, 2010

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Poetry News For February 23, 2010

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— It’s the birthday of the woman who wrote “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — / It gives a lovely light!” —

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— Charles Bukowski Stamp Running Out of Time —

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— Poem provides evidence that Anne Boleyn had numerous affairs —

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— Ancient Poet Joins WWE Smackdown —

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— Köhler painted the American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski— uninhibited, antisocial spokesman for drinking, fighting, and fucking; defender of the inescapable squalor, oppressiveness, and futility of life—in an earthy, visceral red. —

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— Honan channels the worst poet ever in Portland Stage’s ‘Real McGonagall’ —

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— The last time an opponent of the communist government died in Cuba during a hunger strike was 1972 with poet and activist Pedro Luis Boitel. —

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— As a young child, Edward Hirsch mistook Emily Bronte’s work for his grandfather’s. —

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— It’s not possible to bring back the dead, but yesterday the final work of Australian poet Dorothy Porter was bought vividly to life by actress Cate Blanchett in a sold-out Things On Sunday event at the Malthouse Theatre —

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— Rare Disease Day designed to raise public awareness of uncommon illnesses —

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— At the age of 17 Sylvia Plath referred to herself in her diary as ‘the girl who wanted to be god’, this use of the past tense perhaps foreshadowing her early demise. —

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— Bolano’s early novella reimagines the last days of Peruvian writer Vallejo during Spanish Civil War. —

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— Poems by Olympic poet-in-residence soar with athletes —

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— Book Review | ‘Leavings’ by Wendell Berry —

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— If Emily Dickinson had wanted to make a spectacle of herself, she could have wandered solo into a disreputable “rum resort” to sit on the lap of a not-so-gentlemanly scholar, as Jerome Charyn has her do in his daring novel about the Emily who might have been —

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— The Millay Society plans to open Steepletop, the home of the late poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, to the public for tours starting May 28. —

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— Israel turns down bid to teach Palestinian poems in schools —

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— When is a consonant a vowel? —

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— Feds push for tracking cell phones —

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— In poem after marvellous poem, Robertson creates a series of elusive identities. —

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— Keep and Give Away is driven by, as one reviewer has said, the central paradox of loving and letting go. —

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— 112-year-old Mother Ruby Muhammad plans to sing, read poetry on stage —

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— 5 Questions with Gary Young, Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County —

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— Michelangelo drawings of his muse go on display —

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— Juliana Gray, assistant professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Alfred University, received the 2010 Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry —

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— Reviews of new Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, Romance, Science-Fiction, and Graphic Novels [and poetry] —

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— Nazi spoons, robots vie for oddest title —

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— In this week’s poem, a beautiful nocturne, the New York poet Samuel Menashe finds transcendence in everyday images —

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— To recognize and help celebrate the start of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, P&PC goes into its archive to reprint this posting on Olympians and Olympic poetry. —

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— Five Questions with Collin Kelley, author of “Conquering Venus.” —

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— Ask a Poet: Why do women seem so normal at the workplace or in a board meeting or in evening classes, but then when you get to know them, you find out that they’re just so damn unreasonable and complicated? I like your column, but I bet you’re obnoxious, too. Just like the rest of them. —

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— Roger Robinson responds to your poems on fatherhood —

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— The dark horse candidate who would be Oxford’s new professor of poetry —

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— `Forty Rules of Love’ tells story of Rumi’s life —

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— A piece of history is lost as bookstore closes —

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— Poet-professor takes aim at women’s issues in ‘Hot Bullets’ —

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— Poem of the week: A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation by Aphra Behn —

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— In my memory it goes like this: I wrote the poem in one sitting after watching a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in January or February. The poem just sprang out of me, needing no revision. Everything in the poem happened just as I describe it. But here’s the truth: I keep a little “events” journal, and I still have the drafts of the poem, so I decided to check. —

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— … Louisville man charged with threatening to kill president in poem. —

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— Terza Rima – a defence of rhyme —

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— free verse done right —

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— Vile Poetry Hardly Worst Unwanted Detritus Stuffed in SF Weekly Box —

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— Fairy Tale Review: Call for The Brown Issue —

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— A short story collection by a Vanderbilt University professor described as “an amazingly original Flannery O’Connor/Loretta Lynn collision” is one of five nominees for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. —

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— This is the first Plath audio release in more than three decades with new, previously unreleased recordings!! —

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— “Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present,” the first serious anthology of law-related poetry ever published in the United States, will become available March 1 from the University of Iowa Press. —

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— Poetry magazine Free Lunch ends its run —

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— The Saturday poem – On Lacking the Killer Instinct by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin From The Sun-fish —

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— Tuesday and Wednesday this week I had the great fortune to interact with Kay Ryan, our current U.S. Poet Laureate. She came to the University of Tennessee to give a poetry reading and interact with students and various campus groups. —

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— Fringe interview: Poet Bryan Roth on the Meaning of Poetry —

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— Covers and texts from underground poetry journals in “Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Issue #10” at White Columns, a show organized by Thurston Moore, Byron Coley and Eva Prinz. —

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— Chickens ‘one-up’ humans in ability to see color —

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— A dispute with Borges’s estate has left works he produced with the translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni in publishing limbo —

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— “Learning to Write the MFA Poem” [by Nin Andrews] —

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— Beware of Fake Awards —

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— John Ashbery Visits, Presents His Poetry —

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— Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Intricacies of Black Lives, Dies at 73 New York Times —

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— The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – join Rachelle as she talks to Ruth Forman A Poetry for the People alum, Ruth Forman is an award-winning young writer and filmmaker. Her first book of poetry, We Are The Young Magicians, won the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. In its starred and boxed review, Booklist said, “Ruth Forman[’s]… poems are alive and kicking; they pound and pulse with a hard-won sense of self, beauty, femininity, strength and righteous indignation.” Renaissance, Ruth Forman’s second book, is written with the same irrepressible voice. A graduate of UC Berkeley and the famed USC film school, Ms Forman works to inspire others with the power and magic of language, frequently collaborating on music and film projects, and providing readings and workshops to a wide variety of audiences. She most recently received the 2001 Durfee Artist Fellowship to continue work on Mama John, her first novel, as well as a third volume of poetry. [mp3] —

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— Margo Jefferson Reminisces about Langston Hughes [mp3] —

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— This program is devoted to two classic tales of terror. We begin with Bram Stoker’s “Dracula’s Guest,” which almost makes you hear the sound of the wolves on the windswept moor, as delivered by the regular performer on television’s “Daily Show,” Aasif Mandvi. Second, a privileged aristocracy can’t cheat death in this chiller by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death.” The reader is Fionnula Flanagan. [mp3] —

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— Joe Milford Hosts Patrick Lawler: Feeding the Fear of the Earth is out on Many Mountains Moving Press. Patrick Lawler’s two earlier collections of poetry are: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (U of Georgia Press) and reading a burning book (Basfal Books). He has been awarded fellowships by the NY State Foundation for the Arts, the NEA, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. In addition to being an Associate Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where he teaches Environmental Writing and Nature Literature, he teaches creative writing at Onondoga Community College. He is also part of the Creative Writing Program at LeMoyne College, where he teaches creative writing, playwriting, and writing for performance. [mp3] —

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— Joe Milford Hosts Ted Mathys: Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils, forthcoming from Coffee House Press, and Forge, from the same publisher. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in such venues as American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and Jubilat. His work has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, and Verse, 1994 – 2004: The Second Decade, as well as translated into Italian for La nuova poesia Americana: New York. Originally from Ohio, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Berlin, and New York and currently studies international affairs at Tufts University in Boston. [mp3] —

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— Joe Milford Hosts Jerry Williams: With breakup and divorce rates so high in the United States, who wouldn’t want to read an eclectic volume of poems on the subject? Therapeutic and transformative, edgy yet sincere, enlightening, wideranging, female and male, gay and straight, innocent and guilty, It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Breakup incorporates work from as many different perspectives as possible in order to explore the exquisite pain of heartbreak. Such top-shelf contributors as National Book Award finalist Kim Addonizio, bestselling author Denis Johnson, former poet laureate Mark Strand, Edward Hirsch, Maxine Kumin, David Lehman, and many others proudly offer up their wisdom on the various pains (and humors) of heartbreak. In this stunning collection, readers will not find false hope, but the real hope of genuine sympathy in love, hate, fury, and recuperation. [mp3] —

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— Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay personified the life of a liberated, bohemian poet in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. [mp3] —

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— PBS: Former Maryland poet laureate and National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton died Saturday at age 73 after a long battle with cancer. [mp3] —

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— Join Beth Chang As She reviews E.E. Cummings Erotic Poems & Honor Comes Hard Wrintings from The California Prison System Honor Yard Edited by Luis J Rodriguez & Lucinda Thomas Prison writing has a long and illustrious history in the United States – home of the modern correctional system. In the first decade of the 21st century, this country also garnered the distinction of having more prisoners per capita than any other nation in the world. We need to hear from the incarcerated writings of incarcerated men and women. The largest state prison system is in California with some 175,000 people behind bars in close to 35 facilities. Yet the only approved Honor Yard in the Department of Corrections is at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster, California. These are the men that despite often-horrendous crimes – many are lifers, with a few going on three decades – have proven their capacity to dream, to create, to write, to change. From poems, to stories, to novel excerpts, to reportage, to personal essays – and a few drawings – “Honor Comes Hard” depicts what can happen to people who are given, as Clarence Darrow expressed many years ago, ‘a chance to live’. The work is drawn from writing classes that Lucinda Thomas helped organize in the Honor Yard over several years, and from workshops conducted by Luis J. Rodriguez on most Sundays, for eight hours a day, through eight months in 2007-2008. [mp3] —

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— Join Rafael and Brett-Candace as she talks Erica Miriam Fabri – Erica Miriam Fabri is the author of “Dialect of a Skirt,” a collection of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press (November 2009). She is a writer and performer and a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and received her MFA in Poetry from The New School. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including: New York Quarterly, Texas Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Hanging Loose Magazine, Good Foot Magazine, Paper Street and more. She has performed and facilitated workshops and seminars at: Cooper Union School of the Arts, New York University, Columbia University, Penn State University, The Brooklyn Public Library, Poet’s House, The Fortune Society, The Robin Hood Foundation, and the PEN Prison Writing Program. She has worked on projects as a writer, editor and performance director for The New York Knicks, HBO and Nickelodeon Television. [mp3] —

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— Joe Milford Show | Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils, forthcoming from Coffee House Press, and Forge, from the same publisher. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in such venues as American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and Jubilat. His work has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, and Verse, 1994 – 2004: The Second Decade, as well as translated into Italian for La nuova poesia Americana: New York. Originally from Ohio, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Berlin, and New York and currently studies international affairs at Tufts University in Boston. [mp3] —

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— Lucille Clifton, Reading, 21 May 1996 video —

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— “Hole” is from Naomi Ayala’s “This Side of Early” (Curbstone Press, 2008). Her first collection, “Wild Animals on the Moon,” was published in 1997, and a third is forthcoming. She lives in Washington, D.C., and works as an education consultant, translator and teacher. [mp3] —

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— Lucille Clifton with Quincy Troupe, Conversation, 21 May 1996 from Lannan Foundation video —

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— Willie Perdomo riffs on discovering the work of Hughes for the first time, as part of PEN’s Tribute to Langston Hughes. [mp3] —

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— The Expatriates By Anne Sexton from Poem of the Day [mp3] —

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— The Poetry Show: Friends from Cabrillo College honor the departed poet Jeff Towle [mp3] —

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— Poetry from In Celebration of the Muse, hosted by Susan Freeman [mp3] —

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— rules grammar change onion radio news [mp3] —

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— Archival recordings of poet Anne Sexton, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1960. [mp3] —

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Poetry News For February 1, 2010

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— Why danger can be good for children guess it is time to bring back these toys [youtube] —

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— Jeff Bezos in Disagreement With A Major Publisher, Pulls All Their Works’ “Buy Buttons” Off Amazon —

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— After years of mimicking her betters at poetry, she found her calling —

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— Zora Neale Hurston remembered on 50th anniversary of her death —

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— Fine writers, lousy spouses —

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— Accompanying the photos is a sestina by Mr. Trinidad called “Playing With Dolls,” in which his mother defends his doll habit —

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— A Reading List for the Grieving —

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— A Kittery Point poet and teacher, Green spent four weeks at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., working on a manuscript of 100 poems that she wanted to revise. —

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— Ruth Padel on Derek Walcott, ‘dirty tricks’, and the worst mistake of her life —

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— A love poem is principally a way of wooing, a strategy for seduction – and the Poetry Archive has compiled a collection you can send to your beloved on their mobile phone —

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— New Lit Mag Alert —

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— Unusual Calls for Submissions —

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— Pros and Cons of Interning at a Lit Mag —

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— Homeless young adults express themselves through poetry, build community, better lives —

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— 3 questions with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky —

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— Rarely do I come across a book of poems that reads as though it had to be written. When I do, I’m reminded why I read poems in the first place —

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— For starters Bukowski’s assertion that he was born a bastard is inaccurate: he was born on August 16th, 1920; his parent had married, albeit only a month before, on July 15th. —

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— Yet without medical classification, but real in its effects, let us call this pandemic by the name poet-oxemia. —

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— Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur Product Reviews —

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— “What is a cat but a reduced lion?” So muses the fictionalized Joseph Brodsky character in Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s whimsical and inventive film, A Room and a Half. —

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— There are a few things that make Wendy Barker, poet-in-residence and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, angry. One of them is how intimidated people can be of poetry. —

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— Reviews of New Fiction, Poetry, Mystery, Science Fiction and Comics — Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2010 —

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— Can creative writing ever be taught? —

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— Spitball The Literary Baseball Magazine has moved —

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— Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter: the case for a new Formalism —

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— Poetry roundup | Book review —

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— Uncovered: Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner —

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— How does an outfielder know where to run for a fly ball? —

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— Alan Lightman—scientist, essayist, novelist, and poet—takes on the big questions —

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— Patricia and Edward Submitted by Ryan from My Parents Were Awesome —

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— Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude —

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— The Romantic poets: The Human Image and The Divine Image by William Blake —

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— Invictus aside, poetry in cinema is embarrassing —

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— Poetry, in its power to burn experience into the soul in a concentrated perfection of language often becomes an unlikely balm. —

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— NaPoWriMo 2010 is coming! [from No Tell Motel thank you]—

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— A few years after the dedication, he decided to revisit “his” high school. By then a different principal was in charge. The new man thought Sandburg was a panhandler and threw him out. —

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— George Tsongas dies: poet, North Beach fixture —

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— Women and Disability and Poetry (Not Necessarily in That Order) —

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— More drawings from my notebook that is so small, I can only fit the faces of people I draw. Not to be confused with the online social network Facebook. —

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— Cerebral Meditation Hosted Roy Johnston – Join Roy as he talks to Stanley Plumly about his Keats Bio Poets who die young often have surprisingly lively posthumous careers. John Keats (1795-1821) provides the most celebrated example: Almost immediately after his death in Rome, at the age of 25, he entered the realm of legend. Though his poetry wasn’t much read at the time, he himself was quickly transformed into a figure of myth. For Shelley — who drowned with a copy of Keats’s last book in his pocket — he was “like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherished,” as he put it in “Adonais,” his elegy for the poet. At the opposite extreme, Shelley’s good friend Lord Byron detested Keats and snubbed him, referring to him in one letter as “a dirty little blackguard.” For the aristocratic Byron, Keats was a “Cockney” upstart — more a rank weed than a pale lily. But for Keats’s admirers, his humble origins only enhanced the pathos of his fate. For William Butler Yeats, Keats was both the “coarse-bred son of a livery-stable keeper” and a woebegone schoolboy “with face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window,” the very epitome of sensuousness unsatisfied. [mp3] —

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— The Reading Is Poetry Review – “Where Verse Becomes A Learning Lesson” Join Hip Hop Jazz Poet A K Toney as he reads and reviews selections from “Skovbo” by Viggo Mortenson. (Perceval Press 2009) A Collection of photographs, poems, and quotes. (in English, Spanish, and Danish [mp3] —

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— The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – Join Rachelle as she Talks to Alicia Ostriker – Alicia Ostriker, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven. Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. Ostriker lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of New England College. ***** Rachelle Cruz, Poet and Host of “The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com www.rachellecruz.com [mp3] —

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— Jo Mcdougall – from Joe Milford Show | Jo McDougall is the author of five books of poetry: The Woman in the Next Booth, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City; Towns Facing Railroads and From Darkening Porches, University of Arkansas Press; and, most recently, Dirt and Satisfied with Havoc, Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh. Her memoir in progress, Daddy’s Money, focuses on growing up on a rice farm in the Arkansas delta. [mp3] —

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— Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter. [mp3] —

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Poetry News For July 17, 2009

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Jul 172009

— DEATH OF OSCAR WILDE; He Expires at an Obscure Hotel in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Is Said to Have Died from Meningitis, but There Is a Rumor that He Committed Suicide. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. December 1, 1900, Wednesday —

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— As for the last line that “Man has created death”, it’s often quoted out of context from the poem. There are two thoughts I have for this. —

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— Mill Valley couple embraces literary vanguard with experimental poetry —

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— And so, this month’s challenge is to write a poem on the theme of history. —

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— Adam Zagajewski with Edward Hirsch from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [mp3]—

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— Canadian sci-fi pioneer Phyllis Gotlieb passes away —

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— Poetry Tips: Title Up At The Used Book Store —

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— Brooks, H. D., and Rukeyser: Three Women Poets in the First Century of World Wars —

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— “The cover image was created by Zach Kleyn (that is Earhart’s Electra, and my hand)” —

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— Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) is scrubbing its name from a Seattle location in favor of the store’s street address in a test that could sprout more stores that seem more like the corner coffee shop rather than the global coffee giant. —

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— “I am fascinated by these photos from State Fairs.” —

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— It’s not uncommon to come across a feverish poetry enthusiasts who will turn a blacker tone of rage when they discover that a poet they’ve taken a liking to turns out not base everything that comes from their typing fingers on real experience. —

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Poetry News For July 15, 2009

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Jul 152009

— English Criticism Now Done by Maiden Aunts; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson Says That the Young Men Who Try to Free Art from the Tyranny of Convention Are at the Front. January 14, 1917, Sunday —

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— “Learn the Language”: A Discussion of Bob Perelman’s “The Unruly Child” Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Tom Mandel, Rodrigo Toscano, and Sarah Dowling. [mp3] —

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— Marie Ponsot once told me years ago “Erin, you really need to lower your expectations” but I still struggle a lot with this self-sense of nothing ever being good enough. And pretending to be exacting is also a handy way of masking my inherent slothfulness. —

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— Poem of the week: The Cliffside Path by Algernon Charles Swinburne —

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— Meatloaf by Donald Hall —

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— This hour, On Point: the making of the sonnet. —

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— SPD Poetry Bestsellers May/June 2009 —

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— Weekly Poem: ‘Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don’t Understand’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —

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— An Interview With Gary Snyder: Walking Mount Tam —

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— Ode to Egyptian president lands clerk 3 years jail —

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— That dark, strange side informs much of Ms. Hahn’s work. “My husband would call it the shadow side of the self,” she told me. “I’m very interested in monsters. I grew up listening to Grimm’s Fairy Tales, to fairy tales from Japan and China that have to do with ghosts and demons. I love that stuff. Some of the material I find in Science Times — the way insects act and so forth — they are like little monstrous beings.” —

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Poetry News For June 16, 2009

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Jun 162009

— Dharma Poetry: Stephen Dunn —

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— Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing’s media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage [mp3] —

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— The Annual Return of Sunny the Turtle —

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— Barn Owl Review 3 Call for Submissions —

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— Artists Find Inspiration In Genetic Research —

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— People with a family history of genetic disease are often discriminated against by insurance companies and their relatives and friends, according to new research. —

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— Who Buys Poetry Books? —

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— playlist 11 june from Wordsalad by paul —

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— R.I.P. Shaman Drum —

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— What Really Prompts The Dog’s ‘Guilty Look’
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— “A lot of people have already pointed out Louis Menand’s (that’s him at right) article on MFA programs in The New Yorker, but I just finally read it, so I’m joing in with a passage I liked” —

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— Poetry of Rumi Spans Across Centuries, Cultures from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —

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— “Tim Green has some interesting thoughts on print vs online publication and on poetry publishing in general.” —

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— Hucksters, mavericks and visionaries: Ian Sansom savours the detail in a mammoth celebration of early 20th century avant-garde poets —

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— NP Books Podcast: Summer Books preview, The Griffin Prize and introducing The Gentlemen’s Reading Society [mp3] —

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— An Invitation into the Wilderness with Kim Stafford [mp3] —

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— ‘Frog And Toad’ Leap Off The Page Again —

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— Ten Questions for Poetry Editors – Justin Evans —

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— The Poetry Show: Michael and Mathew Dickman [mp3] —

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— Werd is a book review show this Week Veronica reviews King By Rebecca Wolff , B.H. Fairchilds, Usher, & Brendan Constantine’s Letters to guns [mp3] —

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— Poet’s Choice by Carl Phillips: ‘Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices’ by Carl Phillips —

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— The general assumption seems to be that poetry is a good thing and we should all have more of it in our lives. But what if poetry is not a thing at all? —

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— Maxine Kumin: “Seven Caveats in May” —

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— “Hat tip to Max Boot. Here’s Harlan Ellison in a very memorable rant about why you should pay writers if you want them to write something for you.” —

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— WS Merwin’s “The Shadow of Sirius” deserved to win the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and not just because the book is one of his strongest in years. —

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— An Oulipo Mini-Anthology: When members of the Oulipo convened in New York, Bookworm was there to record this mini-anthology of the transcendentally witty, sometimes hilarious goings-on. [mp3] —

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— “But a new release would reconcile the division “between the experimental and the conventional,” we were promised, and this year Norton released its hybrid (as if all serious poems didn’t arise from a mixture of styles and influences) anthology.” —

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— Behind the recent scandal at Oxford lies a more intractable conflict between the myths of poetry and the realities of the modern university. —

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— George Oppen: New Poems, Audio, and Biography —

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— “I’m wondering why we hate poetry. I don’t mean people who don’t write it. I mean people who do.” —

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— Poet’s Choice by Jeanne Larsen: ‘Wrong All These Years — It Isn’t’ by Jeanne Larsen —

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— Canadian university welcomes Derek Walcott to teaching post —

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— Possible sound recording of Walt Whitman reading from “America” —

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— Dan Albergotti from Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio [mp3] —

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— “We are all delighted to announce the release of the 12th issue of Galatea Resurrects, with a record number of 87 new reviews! “ —

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— Modernist minotaurs —

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— A.F. Moritz and C.D. Wright are the winners of the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize —

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— The Surprising Advantages of Being a Poet —

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— Elvis inhabits the psyche of poet CaConrad, author of Advanced Elvis Course, an odd compendium of poems, dialogues, quotations, dreams and anecdotes. The first half describes the poet’s pilgrimage to Graceland, Mecca for Elvis fans, consisting of a gauche plantation-style mansion and museum complex. —

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— Lost Ted Hughes children’s poem discovered —

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— “10 or 15 years ago a large state press like Shanghai Literature Press would not have gone near these poets. Things are opening up. But…the in-house censor chopped out a few of my favorites.” —

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— Weekly Poem: ‘Luminous Great Mass’
from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS —

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— Judge Orders Former Bristol-Myers Executive to Write Book —

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— Poster poems: Fame —

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— Linklog: How the web changes readers, lit-Twitters and more —

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— How to Sleep, by Dorianne Laux from Poetry Daily —

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— Israel’s oldest newspaper surprised 50,000 readers this week, giving the paper’s journalists a vacation–turning over the newspaper to writers and poets. —

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— Tim Martin explores the mad humour of nursery rhymes in foreign tongues —

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— Beat poet Harold Norse dies at 92 —

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— Articles in May/Jun 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —

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— Locating Narrative In Medicine’s Moral Domain: Notes (Musical And Otherwise) From A Recent Presentation —

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— Bloomsday around the world —

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— Poet’s Choice By Edward Hirsch: Claribel Alegría trans. by Carolyn Forché —

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— Poetic Form: Found Poem —

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I’m just posting poetry news every Bloomsday from now on.

Since I last posted I lost my job (I need ADA Accommodations), I had to have Betty “put to sleep” (our 18-year old cat who slept on my feet each night), I’m dealing with being broke (being sick and out of work for months will do that), I’m dealing with my husband being on the road all year (I don’t mind saying that online because I believe in all the Amendments of the Constitution and I can still lift things haha) and I got my job back (I think).

More tomorrow.

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