Poetry News:

1. — Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation —
2. — new lit mag alert —
3. — The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist —
4. — She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles —
5. — Never has so much genius,” he wrote, “been combined with so little talent.” I never heard that one before, hahaha.—
6. — Taking the Pain Out of Poetry —
7. — Tracking Olympic Torch Relay, PEN Poem Relay lands in North America —
8. — Next on American Experience - Walt Whitman, Airing April 14, 2008 —

If you are doing NaPoWriMo, there are some writing prompts here

Geez you guys are stingy with the ad clicks, LOL:

I’ve tried to promote poetry as best I know how, but I need to close for a while. (It hasn’t anything to do with adverti$ing pittances.) Have a good remainder of the National Poetry Month. I love you, poets!

Poetry News:

1. — Official State Author and Poet Are Named —
2. — Owners To Open ‘Mystery Room’ Sealed For 50 Years —
3. — What are your feelings on MFA programs in regard to authors publishing in today’s market? —
4. — The rubric “poet among painters” does not adequately explain the radical shifts between formal and personal values in O’Hara’s poetry —
5. — What does zazen do for the poetry? Do you feel that there is a relation there that helps somehow in the writing? —
6. — Even though running a press is costly, it’s still important for folks to have the opportunity, even though it’s infrequent, to be published —
7. — Two books published by St. Paul-based Graywolf Press and one from Minneapolis-based Coffee House Press have been nominated for the 28th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes —

Anna Akhmatova died March 5, 1966.

Most popular outgoing links for February 2008 (as far as Feedburner is concerned):

• “One of Ireland’s best-known poets today denied he sexually exploited young men as police investigated allegations against him”
• “Barack Obama’s creditable poems are in an erratic tradition of political versifying” (tie)
• “Interview: Major Jackson” (tie)
• “The second part of this post is about my impression of the role that some phantasmatic nightmare image of AWP plays in the imaginations of many participants in the various online poetry worlds”

Poetry News:

1. Emory Prof Wins Poetry Pulitzer —
2. Selections from readings hosted for National Poetry Month 2007, including new poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Elaine Equi [links to MP3] —
3. Do you walk around with a rainforest in your head? —
4. Here are the five bestselling poetry books in the US for the week of March 18, 2007 —
5. As my screen counts down to zero, I rush to match one last poem —
6. writers reveal what gets their creative juices flowing —

Job opening: Audio Archive Assistant Academy of American Poets, New York, New York

Free New York Times TimesSelect for students and faculty with an edu email address.

“… but you must do it cautiously, so that you might not be embarrassed, since the more secret things are, the more beautiful they are“

Poetry News:

1. Elaine Equi’s newest collection, Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems, includes this new work, “Bent Orbit.” —
2. As will be obvious by now, one of the rules of the triolet is that its first two lines return as the last two —
3. Poets behave like conquistadors wherever they roam, picking up a new verse form, a lover, some inventive cursing, a disease —
4. State to hire poet laureate, but won’t pay for wine —
5. 10 famous literary bars —
6. A lesser known form of poetry —

Everyone receives abuse online but the sheer hatred thrown at women bloggers has left some in fear for their lives

I’m going to be on Radio Free Nashville (Easter) Sunday morning at 11am CST — on the Difficult Listening program with David Harris. Baseball/poetry will be served.

Taking a break for a while - going to Detroit to see my mom.

Poetry News:

1. Poetic attention gives the circumstances of a moment in one life some of the enduring qualities of myth —
2. Equi is a poet of transformations, exploring the pathway linking inner and outer worlds, dream life and lived life, heart and mind —
3. “Dazzled” by both men‘ achievements (and even though Eliot mocked her in his verse: “But women intellectual grow dull”), she wrote three books of poetry in the 1920s. —
4. Cor Van den Heuvel has edited a new anthology of baseball haiku, including a poem by Jack Kerouac —
5. Little is known about her life. But her poetry remains popular today. —
6. Taken as a whole, contemporary Eastern European poetry provides just the right models of poetry turning into an antithesis of power and authoritarianism —