- — When Whitman Was Editor; When Whitman Was Editor A Review by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN January 2, 1921, Sunday —
- — Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF —
- — Don’t Hate the Poet, Hate the Po-Biz —
- — Draw this Turtle, Go to Art School —
- — Host Hip-Hop/Jazz Poet A. K. Toney reviews the Anthology “From Totems to Hip-Hop” A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 edited by Ishmael Reed from Da Capo Press (2003) [mp3] —
- — Patti Smith just reread ‘Pinocchio’ —
- — New York U. Computers Learn Creative Writing —
- — “Instead of publishing my first full-length poetry book in the traditional way, I decided I would go all-digital, no paper unless a reader decides to print a hard copy” —
- — Wall Street Bank For Poets Proposed. Never Too Big To Fail? —
- — Bidders sought for Bard’s Bible —
- — Blogging for Hughes —
- — Media Personality Named National Spokesperson —
- — 498. The Grass so little has to do by Emily Dickinson from Classic Poetry Aloud by Classic Poetry Aloud [mp3] —
- — Philip Levine: Essential American Poets: Recordings of Philip Levine, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded September 13, 2007, New York, NY. [mp3] —
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Poetry News For July 2, 2009
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- — POETS WHO MUST OR WHO MAY WRITE; Three Writers of Verse Whose Work Illustrates Afresh the Wisdom of Horace E. Scudder’s Two Questions THE SINGLE HOUND. By Emily Dickinson. With an Introduction by Martha Dickinson Blanchi. Little, Brown & Co. ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER AND OTHER POEMS. By Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1.25. IN DEEP PLACES. By Amelia Josephine Burr. George H. Doran Company. $1. September 19, 1915, Sunday, Section: Review of Books, Page BR333, 2021 words —
- — Another Author Lets Loose Over Bad Review Via the Internet —
- — An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs <-- they updated link for free access to full article thank you ---
- — Summer Poetry Sale! —
- — bad, bad, bad… —
- — Rhyme, Meter, and Poetry for Children —
- — On McSweeney’s: “Comments written by actual students extracted from workshopped manuscripts at a major university.” —
- — In May, we marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s sonnets by asking NPR listeners and readers to write in with modern love poems or songs that they think will be remembered 400 years from now. Here are a few of those suggestions. —
- — Wislawa Szymborska: “One hole in the net” —
- — CUE …is fresh. —
- — Gunn’s ‘Movement’ —
- — Each of these collections poses elusive questions whose answers, embedded in the asking, form the basis of eloquent poems. —
- — Bangladesh have reportedly picked up Indian national Jibon Singh, the main suspect of the theft case of Nobel Prize Medal of Poet Rabindranath Tagore —
- — Sarabande Books will accept submissions during the month of July for The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. —
- — in the poem, Revere arrives in Concord at 2 a.m., but in reality, he was detained by the British at a roadblock in Lincoln on the way to nearby Concord. —
- — Cornelius Eady and Sarah Micklem Do the Write Thing —
- — “The purpose of this showcase event is to celebrate the literary journals that give us poets a place for our work.” —
- — The collection as a whole hangs together with the shape and atmosphere of René Magritte’s surreal painting —
- — The first step to getting published —
- — The Waterboys will perform a series of five concerts at the national theatre around St Patrick’s Day, with frontman Mike Scott, Irish fiddler Steve Wickham and guest musicians performing An Appointment with Mr Yeats, combining the poetry of Yeats with the passion of the Waterboys’ music. —
- — They might be the zit-ridden little brothers of science fiction geeks, but fantasy readers still deserve our respect —
- — It seems my recent Billy Collins post has garnered much interest and discussion, so thank you all for your comments. I am always glad to have these conversations, though I am interested in folks’ responses to my Kay Ryan post. —
- — new cat alert —
- — Karen is also part of the Fourth Plinth project, meaning she’ll be standing on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square for an hour July 31 reading poetry and tweeting about it. —
- — Even from the bleak perspective of the arts and humanities as a whole, the outlook for literary study per se is especially grim. and part two—
No visit from the birds today, so no new pics.
Here’s an article on Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that was in a newspaper.
Poetry News For May 27, 2009
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May 272009
- — Poe’s bookcase stands in North Raleigh —
- — Pandas and poetry: Salt Publishing spoofs WWF video to save itself —
- — Having claimed the scalps of two distinguished poets in less than a fortnight, the job of professor of poetry at Oxford University is once again vacant. But what does the job involve and why is it so sought after? and also Revealed: The email sent by Oxford poetry professor Ruth Padel to smear rival —
- — $2 Million Donation Supports Creative Writing Program —
- — Poetry alone won’t keep the wolf from the door but prizes might —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘White Song’
from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS
J. Michael Martinez’s collection “Heredities” was selected for the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award and will be published by Louisiana State University Press [mp3] — - — “Still, it’s searingly extreme, a triumph by a hair, that one almost wishes had never come about.” —
- — Literary journals: The writers’ sandbox —
- — Thank goodness no backbiting like this takes place Stateside! —
- — The ‘previously unpublished’ versus the ‘piece that is becoming popular’ question is a big issue for me. —
- — Bookslut is in need of an intern —
- — One of the last surviving members of the Beat generation, Jack Gilbert still writes with a freshness that astonishes. —
- — Cub Haikus —
- — Gaylord Brewer: “Apologia to Mars and Moon” —
- — As Lewis Carroll used to say —
- — Scientists Reaching Consensus On How Brain Processes Speech —
- — Siren is jam-packed with springtime goodness —
- — The Poetry Show: Theodore Roethke [mp3] —
- — Rapper Roland Pemberton, otherwise known as Cadence Weapon, has been selected to be the new poet laureate for the city of Edmonton —
- — These poems have right answers. Does that diminish them? —
- — Updates: Lit Mag Reviews —
- — The recent election of the Oxford professor of poetry is the stuff of poetic satire, if only it weren’t so sad and pathetic. —
- — To elucidate the neurobiological basis of music in human evolution and communication the researchers demonstrated an association of arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (AVPR1A) gene variants with musical aptitude. —
May is Ehlers Danlos Awareness Month: Cape grad wants to educate public on painful condition
May 222009
- — Galatea Resurrects, thank the gods 80+ poetry reviews —
- — As John Ashbery remembers his early years in Paris, he reflects on French poetry and about the very special case of his long-time friend, Pierre Martory. [mp3] —
- — Poet masks Israeli ID to win Arab prize —
- — Ten Questions for Poetry Editors —
- — Two poems from Mortal appear in the latest issue of Cha. Yay! —
- — Man of words—Ladner’s Brad Cran is Vancouver’s second poet laureate.
— - — Poll reveals poetic dread —
- — May 22, 1859: It’s Elementary, My Dear Reader —
- — The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes —
- — Genes behind “Bearded Lady” Syndrome discovered —
- — Two Seattle-area poets — Timothy Kelly and Peter Pereira — draw on their medical careers to see the body in a new light. —
- — Morrissey’s lyrics are up there with Wilde and Larkin, claims academic —
- — Poet Robert Frost’s family farm in Illinois for sale —
- — No Ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen —
- — David Lynch on mystery —
- — Governor Bobby Jindal announced the reappointment of Darrell Bourque as Louisiana’s poet laureate yesterday. —
There is another week of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month, so here’s another link: Questions and Answers about Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue. From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
I blog about EDS at badglue occasionally.
May 092009
- — Robin Blaser: Sic transit gloria mundi —
- — The family of missing University of Wyoming professor and poet Craig Arnold has learned from the private search group it hired that Arnold likely fell from a high and dangerous cliff, and there is virtually no possibility he could have survived the fall. and Craig Arnold presumed dead on Kuchino-erabu —
- — David Wojahn on Younger Poets —
- — Professor Bob Wrigley describes his occupation succinctly. “I’m a poet,” he said. “Deal with it.” —
- — By Hand: Lines for Mother’s Day —
- — In Jack Spicer’s arid arias, metaphor and system set up magnetic fields of echoing isolation. —
- — This is just to point you to some great William Carlos Williams audio —
- — It’s queer how much gay poetry news there is lately! —
- — Christopher James is mightily impressed by the readers’ incorporation of wildly incompatible components for this month’s exercise —
- — I Am Looking for Anapests, Please —
- — Has everyone else seen this and I just missed it? —
- — Dharma Poetry: Philip Appleman’s O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie —
- — Writers at risk talk about their lives —
- — A New Day Dawns For Walt Whitman Park —
May is Ehlers Danlos syndrome awareness month. Here’s a link Ways and Means of coping with daily activities
haha they have listed:
General Tips
Be flexible.
I think that deserves a visit to the automatic rimshot webpage.
May 072009
- — reviews of books by BH Fairchild, Frieda Hughes, Michael Blumenthal, Farrah Field, Robert Polito, Ron Slate, Ann Lauterbach, Chelsey Minnis, Lucia Perillo, Joshua Beckman, Russell Edson, & Gregory Orr —
- — From the fuss that some are making – well, the BBC is making anyway – you would think [Bono's poem] was a long-lost sonnet of Shakespeare or at the very least a newly discovered poem by Philip Larkin. —
- — Is he messing with us?: Ethan Coen’s poetry —
- — Poetry Readings and Music by Poet Weldon Kees [mp3] —
- — This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like: what branch of feminism, model of feminist poetics, feminist icon, or etc. informs your poetry? Or, from which of these does your poetry diverge? —
- — Poetry from Duluth’s Holy Cow Press provides comfort for grief [you have to login now durrr] —
- — Police: Mom was writing poem when baby drowned —
- — State’s first poet laureate takes his job seriously —
- — Because most audiences may not know much about Dali, Garcia Lorca and Bunuel, it depends for its box-office appeal on the starring role of Robert Pattinson, the 23-year-old British star of “Twilight” (which was shot after this film). —
- — on Intruder, poems by Jill Bialosky (Knopf) – and an interview with the poet —
- — The decline and fall of books —
- — How Technology Is Changing What We Read —
- — That sensibility caught the eye of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of Saint Thomas, in St. Paul. They’ve awarded her the 13th annual Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. —
- — The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference, being held July 22-25, 2009, on the campus of Austin Peay State University. —
- — 150-year anniversary of translation of Khayyam’s Rubaiyat by Fitz Gerald —
- — The reclusive Christopher Tolkien has broken his silence to respond via fax to a series of questions about his father’s latest posthumous publication —
- — Welcome to Poetry – the Olympic games of creative writing. —
- — Each of the 29 poems in this collection is an example of a different form, from the familiar couplet, sonnet and haiku to the more exotic aubade (a poem lamenting or celebrating the coming of the dawn) and clerihew (two rhyming couplets that gently poke fun at a celebrity, where the first line is always the subject’s name). —
- — Thousands apply for ‘Prince of Poets’ contest held in Abu Dhabi —
- — Throughout her career as a poet, essayist, and activist, Adrienne Rich has been known for her progressive politics and sharp social critiques. —
- — While the book’s subjects — chiefly the writers Emily Dickinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, prominent clergyman Henry Ward Beecher (Stowe’s brother), and the painter Martin Johnson Heade — often share social and familial bonds, Benfey never makes much effort to present them as a unified intellectual movement. —
May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month so I thought I’d mention that here. Link: May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month. EDS is a debilitating, and potentially fatal connective tissue disorder.
- — The Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens caused a furor in the world of Shakespeare scholarship over the weekend —
- — Frederick Seidel reads poems from his collected works. [audio] —
- — Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror. —
- — How a local poet publishes, from zines to the Internet —
- — Power Of Imagination Is More Than Just A Metaphor —
- — Judith Krug, Who Fought Ban on Books, Dies at 69 —
- — PEN condemns publication of Karadzic poems —
- — Effortless Clotted Cream —
- — Slash Pine Press is pleased to announce our first call for chapbook-length manuscripts of poetry or mixed-genre. —
- — Photo from garfield minus garfield —
- — And the Winner Is… Anonymous —
- — Poetry slam is Friday at Tennessee State University —
- — Finishing Line Press is going to publish my chapbook, Love and Other Four-Letter Words —
- — Good Poems for Hard Times is a top seller nationally, and with good reason —
- — NPR: 04-21-2009 Fresh Air: 1) W. S. Merwin: The ‘Sirius’ Side Of Poetry 2) Neil Young Faces A ‘Fork In The Road’ 3) J.G. Ballard And ‘The Psychology Of The Future’ 4) Gordon Ramsay: Television’s Gourmet Guru [mp3] —
- — Poet Linda Gregg wins $50,000 prize —
- — Ballard proves you should live a bit before writing —
- — Arielle Greenberg —
- — Review: Trouble And Honey by Jilly Dybka [pdf] thanks Main Street Rag and Heather Collings.
— - — and Collin Kelley had a review in that issue as well —
- — So you think you might have Ehlers-Danlos synrome? [PDF] —
- — A new look at Thoreau: from nature preacher to wisecracking, entrepreneurial party boy. —
- — For poet Brenda Hillman, it’s all about the mystery —
- — Murfreesboro residents who might have lost valuable items in the recent tornadoes can go to the local library to see if they have been recovered. and also Over the past decade, Tennessee ranks 1st in the U.S. in tornado fatalities. —
- — On Language: Baseball Lingo —
- — Troubled R ‘n’ B star Amy Winehouse is writing a book of poems. —
- — Viking Legacy On English: What Language Tells Us About Immigration And Integration —
- — The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday. Author Annette Gordon-Reed won the history prize for “The Hemingses of Monticello” and poet W.S. Merwin was honored for “The Shadow of Sirius.” Watch NewsHour conversations with Gordon-Reed and Merwin here. —
- — print vs online —
- — Laughter Remains Good Medicine —
- — Book Returned to Washington and Lee Library Only 52,858 Days Late —
- — Bloodaxe Editor Neil Astley advises what to do once you’ve finished your poem(s) —
- — Here are the 10 most common titles of submissions they’ve received in the past two years —
- — Why do some poems play it cool and simple while others are all timpany and cacaphony? —
- — Don’t Like Poetry? Too Bad. You’re Reading It Anyway. —
- — Project Censored Top 25 Censored Stories For 2009 —
- — Futurist covers: full audio from Charles Bernstein Web Log with Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joshua Mehigan, Alicia Stallings, & Charles Bernstein —
- — Female Birds ‘Jam’ Their Mates’ Flirtatious Songs —
- — Tate recreates Blake’s ‘wretched’ solo show —
- — why couldn’t u just have kids? —
- — speaking of the above, my friend Jessica’s essay in Newsweek —
- — and review of her book —
- — Poets.org has partnered with TextTelevision to offer TextFlows, an alternative approach to reading and experiencing poetry. —
- — Get well wishes to Brent Goodman —
- — Plath as a Major Poet by Annie Finch —
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