Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Tomorrow (Thursday October 23rd), enthusiasts will be able to pay tribute to John Milton for a full 12 hours by tuning into the first live internet broadcast of his marathon masterpiece, ‘Paradise Lost’. —
2. — Laundromat writer takes his poetry to the cleaners —
3. — Yeats poem sold at auction —
4. — A look at how an iconoclastic young writer revolutionized the poetic form. —
5. — Grove Press will soon release a previously-unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac —
6. — Lines for Hard Times from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast [MP3] —
7. — Call for Submissions–2010 Poet’s Market! —
8. — Interviewed by Cortney Davis, physician and poet Rafael Campo discusses the shared attributes of caregiving and writing. —
9. — Bard is given Beatles treatment —

Poetry News:

1. — Memorial for Idaho poet, kayaker Studebaker to be Saturday in Twin Falls —
2. — Poets, Fiddlers and Leaving Seattle —
3. — Exene Cervenka: Fom X To Missouri —
4. — Tuesday’s Poem: “Old Timers’ Day” by Donald Hall from White Apples and the Taste of Stone [mp3] —
5. — What Am I Doing Wrong With This Poem? —
6. — Milarepa picked for 22nd Napa Sonoma Film Festival 2008 —
7. — August Kleinzahler’s ugly gifts —
8. — What makes Shapiro so important to American poetry right now is the success with which he’s taken over the territory of fiction writers —

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Barack Obama was among the 69 senators voting to broaden government spy powers and give immunity to phone companies that aided in secret wiretapping. way to go.

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I must have been living in an alternate reality or am utterly clueless or oblivious because this confused the heck out of me:

“If born female into the majority of US American households, one will live 20, perhaps 30 years under the moniker ‘girl.’” [comments]

20 or 30 years?? What??

Has that really been your experience? Daaang! Personally, the only time I ever have had the adult moniker “girl” is with some of my mostly-African-American-coworkers at the HCBU I work at — and I have the feeling that the Gurlesque “girl” and the HCBU “girl” are not equivalent.

What do you think?

Why do most American women have the moniker “girl” ’til maybe age 30 nowadays? (?) Is that something they are self-identifying with? Or is it a generational thing that I am oblivious to? The comment that I linked to says that society is doing it to women. Powerfully.

Do you think you are a “girl?” Do others call you “girl”? How old are you? Where do you live? Help I’m confused.

– signed, 40-year-old woman

Poetry News:

1. — Memoirist, poet and Book World contributor Mary Karr will be online Tuesday, June 17 at 3 p.m. ET to discuss her Poet’s Choice column, her best-selling 1995 memoir The Liars’ Club, and the joys, seductions and struggles of the writing life —
2. — On the Self Publishing Argument —
3. — where human thoughts seem to emanate from organic forms, and all is rendered in a poetry of jungle-like density where the chief pleasure is the texture of the language itself —
4. — He believed he had an excellent voice and would sing his own poems to helpless audiences who clapped in terror —
5. — ‘I embraced surrealism … and psychoanalysis, which closely abutted surrealism. Together, they represented what I wanted to do’. —
6. — Peter O’Leary digs deep into the Poetry magazine archive to uncover the origins of the Objectivist movement —
7. — Maybe vets of that great generation created a distance inside them that distanced their kids, a sadness that’s made for some great poems —
8. — A row has broken out in Portugal’s literary world over plans by heirs of the nation’s most famous modern poet —
9. — Call for donations —

Happy Father’s Day.

PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Rare Sea Dragon Father “Pregnant”. He looks Seussian.

Poetry News:

1. — Thanks to poetry, X=imagine the possibilities —
2. — Salt To Expand Its Stable Of Free Online Literary Magazines —
3. — His meteoric poetic output began with his first professionally published poem at 16, but by 20 he stopped writing poetry and would later declare of his work: “All of that was just pig swill.” —
4. — Bookstore and poet in war of words over reading —
5. — The work of American poet George Oppen is not widely known to a general audience, but some scholars at the University at Buffalo think it should be —
6. — Reading can generate as much of a hit as writing, says poet and author Edward Hirsch on today’s episode of Titlepage.tv —

Poetry News:

1. — Trying to organize poets is “kind of like trying to organize minnows or something” [there are MP3s linked in the sidebar on the left] —
2. — A collection of poems by Dan Albergotti, an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, has been published, a result of his work being selected for the 2007 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize —
3. — This is a poem in the form of a novel, an elegant echo chamber for a canonical work, a reading of an epic poem, and a rewriting of that poem —
4. — Her debut poetry collection, “Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone,” has won several awards, the most recent being the 2008 Kate Tufts Discovery Award —
5. — E. Ethelbert Miller reads and discusses several of his poems with Liane Hansen —
6. — Emory University Unleashes The Danowski Poetry Collection —
7. — Taliban: Calling All Playwrights, Singers, Poets —
8. — Walking With His Muse, a Poet Becomes His Own Destination —
9. — What are we to make of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera? —

‘Secret room’ proves to be Jim Crow relic

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