- — 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!” —
- — Charles Bukowski Stamp Running Out of Time —
- — Poem provides evidence that Anne Boleyn had numerous affairs —
- — Ancient Poet Joins WWE Smackdown —
- — 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. —
- — Honan channels the worst poet ever in Portland Stage’s ‘Real McGonagall’ —
- — 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. —
- — As a young child, Edward Hirsch mistook Emily Bronte’s work for his grandfather’s. —
- — 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 —
- — Rare Disease Day designed to raise public awareness of uncommon illnesses —
- — 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. —
- — Bolano’s early novella reimagines the last days of Peruvian writer Vallejo during Spanish Civil War. —
- — Poems by Olympic poet-in-residence soar with athletes —
- — Book Review | ‘Leavings’ by Wendell Berry —
- — 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 —
- — 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. —
- — Israel turns down bid to teach Palestinian poems in schools —
- — When is a consonant a vowel? —
- — Feds push for tracking cell phones —
- — In poem after marvellous poem, Robertson creates a series of elusive identities. —
- — Keep and Give Away is driven by, as one reviewer has said, the central paradox of loving and letting go. —
- — 112-year-old Mother Ruby Muhammad plans to sing, read poetry on stage —
- — 5 Questions with Gary Young, Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County —
- — Michelangelo drawings of his muse go on display —
- — Juliana Gray, assistant professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Alfred University, received the 2010 Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry —
- — Reviews of new Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, Romance, Science-Fiction, and Graphic Novels [and poetry] —
- — Nazi spoons, robots vie for oddest title —
- — In this week’s poem, a beautiful nocturne, the New York poet Samuel Menashe finds transcendence in everyday images —
- — 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. —
- — Five Questions with Collin Kelley, author of “Conquering Venus.” —
- — 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. —
- — Roger Robinson responds to your poems on fatherhood —
- — The dark horse candidate who would be Oxford’s new professor of poetry —
- — `Forty Rules of Love’ tells story of Rumi’s life —
- — A piece of history is lost as bookstore closes —
- — Poet-professor takes aim at women’s issues in ‘Hot Bullets’ —
- — Poem of the week: A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation by Aphra Behn —
- — 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. —
- — … Louisville man charged with threatening to kill president in poem. —
- — Terza Rima – a defence of rhyme —
- — free verse done right —
- — Vile Poetry Hardly Worst Unwanted Detritus Stuffed in SF Weekly Box —
- — Fairy Tale Review: Call for The Brown Issue —
- — 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. —
- — This is the first Plath audio release in more than three decades with new, previously unreleased recordings!! —
- — “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. —
- — Poetry magazine Free Lunch ends its run —
- — The Saturday poem – On Lacking the Killer Instinct by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin From The Sun-fish —
- — 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. —
- — Fringe interview: Poet Bryan Roth on the Meaning of Poetry —
- — 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. —
- — Chickens ‘one-up’ humans in ability to see color —
- — A dispute with Borges’s estate has left works he produced with the translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni in publishing limbo —
- — “Learning to Write the MFA Poem” [by Nin Andrews] —
- — Beware of Fake Awards —
- — John Ashbery Visits, Presents His Poetry —
- — 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] —
- — Margo Jefferson Reminisces about Langston Hughes [mp3] —
- — 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] —
- — 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] —
- — 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] —
- — 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] —
- — Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay personified the life of a liberated, bohemian poet in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. [mp3] —
- — PBS: Former Maryland poet laureate and National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton died Saturday at age 73 after a long battle with cancer. [mp3] —
- — 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] —
- — 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] —
- — 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] —
- — Lucille Clifton, Reading, 21 May 1996 video —
- — “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] —
- — Lucille Clifton with Quincy Troupe, Conversation, 21 May 1996 from Lannan Foundation video —
- — Willie Perdomo riffs on discovering the work of Hughes for the first time, as part of PEN’s Tribute to Langston Hughes. [mp3] —
- — The Expatriates By Anne Sexton from Poem of the Day [mp3] —
- — The Poetry Show: Friends from Cabrillo College honor the departed poet Jeff Towle [mp3] —
- — Poetry from In Celebration of the Muse, hosted by Susan Freeman [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 23, 2010
Poetry News For January 31, 2010
- — Dharma Poetry: WH Auden, a Reflection on Haiti and Human Suffering —
- — Mary Oliver rose to fame on her nature poems. Yet some of her most ardent fans are preachers who spend even the loveliest Sunday mornings inside, wearing starchy clothes. —
- — Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family’s Feuds —
- —Today the Governor’s office put out a press release announcing the appointment of Cathy Smith Bowers as North Carolina’s new Poet Laureate
and |A few links for the new laureate … | Queens professor named N.C. poet laureate |Cathy Smith Bowers named poet laureate – - — Jazz ensemble merges 18th century poetry with Brazilian rhythms —
- — Spring 2010 Hardcovers: Poetry —
- — Write for yourself first. I don’t mean write cryptically, so that no one knows what you mean; that is silly. I mean, find your own voice and use it. —
- — Self-Published Poets · Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka —
- — why poetry is bullshit —
- — An introduction to the poetry of William Wordsworth —
- — Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among other Histories —
- — Provincetown Crossing —
- — Bacteria Are More Capable of Complex Decision-Making Than Thought —
- — The company’s “Poetry in a Bottle” contest will award the winning poet with a three-night stay in a luxury suite at the Esencia Estate www.esenciaestate.com in Mexico’s Riviera Maya, one of the first spots to serve Ikal1150 wines and a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. —
- — William Major and Bryan Sinche, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, consider the vatic pronouncements of Ralph Waldo Emerson and conclude, “This is the prose of a crazy person.” —
- — Shining a Light on a Forgotten Poet —
- — An introduction to the poetry of Robert Burns —
- — The Poetry Show: Rabbie Burns and the work of other Scottish poets [mp3] —
- — New Wordplay V shows on the archive —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Ports of Sorrow’
from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. [mp3] — - — The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion hosted Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace – Carmen Giménez Smith is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University, and publisher for Noemi Press as well as editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol. Her work has most recently appeared in Ploughshares and Colorado Review and is forthcoming in A Public Space, jubilat, Denver Quarterly and New American Writing. Her collection of poetry, Odalisque in Pieces, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2009. A memoir called Bring Down the Little Birds will be published by University of Arizona Press in 2010. [mp3] —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Root’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Terrance Hayes is is the author of three books of poems: “Muscular Music” (1999) [mp3] —
Our street has the best sledding hill in the neighborhood.
Poetry News For December 16, 2009
- — Talking Generosity-Based Publishing with Gregory Maguire —
- — Formula to Detect an Author’s Literary ‘fingerprint’ —
- — According to the researchers, structures such as these were quite common in the Roman era and were intended for poetry-reading performances and musical recitals for an elect audience —
- — “Inspiration,” in my experience, is a reward for persistent work when one is not in the least inspired. The “paragraph,” despite a name that makes it sound like a prose poem, is a fairly complex form. As Hayden Carruth used and described it, it is a fifteen-line poem, which, like a sonnet, can either stand alone or work in sequence. —
- — War is declared in the world of ebooks —
- — This time, a distinctly ‘cubist’ attempt to reclaim one of Picasso’s muses as her own woman —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘From Here to There’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Brad Leithauser [mp3] —
- — Emily Dickinson Birthday Radio Show now available —
- — When you pick a fight with a poet, you expect to win. You are likely to be outmatched, however, if the poet you are up against is Alice Quinn —
- — The end of that relationship prompted her discovery of St. Vincent Millay and was the turning point in her jewelry-making —
- — A survey of 2009’s notable new nonfiction, fiction, and poetry —
- — On Poetry: Gilbran’s ‘The Prophet’ resonates with readers today —
- — Walcott finally wins his poetry professorship —
- — Christmas roundup: poetry books —
- — Women of the Avant-Garde —
- — Podcast: Charles Wright Reads Selected Sestets and Other Poems from The New York Review of Books —
- — With Rolling Stone going into the restaurant business, Slate imagines the possibilities for other magazine/restaurant hybrids. —
- — He scanned it — Staggered — —
- — This woman was one of my initial inspirations for the chapbook–originally I planned to tell the story from her perspective. [as a radio geek I've heard that story before and I am apt to believe it. and that is a good chapbook.] —
- — At the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the works of T. S. Eliot and Beethoven come together in an arresting, profound and a theatrically stunning piece titled “Four Quartets.” —
- — Poetry so bad it’s good, plus other verse tragedies. [mp3] —
- — Canadian sci-fi author beaten, imprisoned at US border crossing —
- — Sometimes, I work my poems hard, running them through several stress tests and changing lots of little things or some big things. —
- — Best American Poetry 2009: Statistical Overview —
- — Carl Sandburg from Poetry Lectures Archival recording of Carl Sandburg from 1956. [mp3] —
- — torqued enjambment —
- — Dharma Poetry: Hafiz —
- — Teri Garr: Wake Up Call from The Moth Podcast by marianne —
- — Music and the arts fight depression, promote health —
- — KUSP The Poetry Show: Dennis Morton and Leslie Anne Taylor read several holiday poems and more [mp3] —
- — Sapphire, Brian Turner, and Ai Among United States Artist Fellows —
- — Rare Tsvetayeva Production Struggles to Succeed —
- — To sum up: Sestina + apparently obscure references to Roseanne and Seinfeld = —
- — For Rumi, the reality accessible to our senses often obscures the true meaning that lies beneath —
- — Three-minute poetry? It’s all the rage —
- — What effect has being the editor of a poetry journal had on your own poetry? Is that another kind of feast? Or do you risk losing your appetite? —
- — The Bestselling Contemporary Poetry of 2009 —
- — Mad Girls’ Love Songs: Two Women Poets-a Professor and Graduate Student-Discuss Sylvia Plath, Angst, and the Poetics of Female Adolescence-College Literature, Fall 2009 by Greenberg, Arielle, Klaver, Becca —
- — Articles in Nov/Dec 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
- — Tom Waits to star in The Hobbit? —
- — Sarah Palin and William Shatner do beat poetry on “Tonight Show” —
- — Letters to a Young Poet: “The Delicacy and Strength of Lace” The collected correspondence between Leslie Marmon Silko and the poet James Wright —
- — University Teams with Kundiman, Inc., to Support Poets —
Poetry News For December 2, 2009
This blog will continue to be semi-hibernating for the next month.
Have a happy, healthy, safe, holiday and new year.
- — Legend has it that in the same room, Robert Lowell taught aspiring poets Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and George Starbuck, all of whom went on to become pivotal figures in modern American poetry. —
- — Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes prize —
- — An example of a book trailer done wrong? Nashville Post’s book writer Betsy Phillips points her finger at the trailer for Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book Eating Animals. —
- — When hallowed beat goddess Lenore Kandel died six weeks ago, the Chronicle published a nice memorial, with quotes from fellow travelers Peter Coyote, Gerard Nicosia, and others. —
- — Entertainment Weekly: Poetry You Need To Read: H.L. Hix’s ‘Incident Light’ and David Lehman’s ‘Yeshiva Boys’ —
- — The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has presented the 2009 National Translation Award to Norman Shapiro, professor of romance languages and literatures, for French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen —
- — Poem of the week: Gascoigne’s Lullaby by George Gascoigne —
- — Cause of Jane Austen’s death not universally acknowledged —
- — In “Honor Thy Sow Bug,” Walnut Creek resident Seaborg shares his opinions on what makes a good poem and the state of contemporary poetry today —
- — How to deal with poets —
- — Dylan. Polka. Christmas song. Nothing more needs to be said —
- — “I love rhyming for rhyming sake. I think that’s an incredible art form.” —
- — “I want to leave a poem thinking that I’ve contributed to the larger conversation in a meaningful way.” —
- — David Citino, Poets, and Baseball —
- — Patrick Janson-Smith introduces Luis d’Antin van Rooten’s extraordinary transformations of classic nursery rhymes into 18th-century French poetry, Mots d’Heures: Gousses, Rames —
- — The actor and polyglot Luis d’Antin van Rooten turned classic nursery rhymes into 18th-century French poetry in Mots d’Heures: Gousses, Rames (hint: try saying it out aloud). Here we publish his version of Jack and Jill, with scholarly notes, as well as a reading of the text by the publisher Patrick Janson-Smith —
- — End of a chapter for Borders —
- — The Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh is staging a celebration of sound poetry. It is part of a series of exhibitions and events that have looked at what is called concrete poetry. —
- — A Love Letter to the Letterpress —
- — Britain’s equivalent of the haiku is your challenge this time, with a number of fiendish variations available —
- — In the age of the PC, a surprising number of authors remain wedded to rather older technology —
- — After a recent call from Rose Metal Press urging more women to submit to their annual chapbook competition, I started to wonder how equal the gender line … —
- — In her presentation, she analyzed an early prose experiment by Dickinson published in Amherst College’s student-run literary journal in 1850. … —
- — Clarinda Harris – Clarinda Harriss teaches poetry, poetics, and editing at Towson University, where she chaired the English Department for a decade. Her most recently published collection is Air Travel, Half Moon Editions, 2005. Forthcoming from HME in the spring of 2007 is a new collection, Dirty Blue Voice. She is the winner of numerous awards for her poetry and short fiction. One of her primary research interests is writing by prison inmates; she has worked with incarcerated writers for many years. You may contact the author at charriss@towson.edu. —
- — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show with Rachelle Cruz – Join Rachelle as she talks to Lee Herrick Lee Herrick is the author of This Many Miles from Desire (WordTech Editions, 2007). His poems have been published in ZYZZYVA, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Many Mountains Moving, The Bloomsbury Review, MiPOesias, and others, including anthologies such as Seeds from a Silent Tree: Writings by Korean Adoptees, Hurricane Blues: Poems About Katrina and Rita, and the 2nd edition of Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine In the Grove and teaches at Fresno City College in Fresno, California. —
- — The MoE Green Poetry Dissicusion with Rafael F.J Alvarado & Chelsea Bayouth – join Rafael & Chelsea as they talk to Cecilia Woloch – Cecilia Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rural Kentucky, one of seven children of a homemaker and an airplane mechanic. She attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, earning degrees in English and Theater Arts, before moving to Los Angeles in 1979. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University L.A. in 1999. A celebrated teacher, Ms. Woloch has conducted poetry workshops for thousands of children and young people throughout the United States and around the world, as well as workshops for professional writers, educators, participants in Elderhostel programs for senior citizens, inmates at a prison, and residents at a shelter for homeless women and their children. She is the founding director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild and of The Paris Poetry Workshop, and is currently a lecturer in the creative writing program at the University of Southern California as well as a member of the core faculty of the low-residency MFA Program in Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University. Her previous books of poems are Sacrifice, a BookSense 76 selection in 2001; Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem; Late, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004; and a chapbook, Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Competition in 2006. Her poems have been anthologized in When She Named Fire: Contemporary American Women Poets; Best American Erotic Poetry: 1800 to the Present; Billy Collins’ 180 More (Extraordinary Poems for Every Day), Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times, among many others, and have been featured on Keillor’s The Writers’ Almanac as well as in Ted Kooser’s nationally syndicated column American Life in Poetry. She spends a part of each year traveling, and in recent years has divided her time between Los Angeles and Idyllwild, California; —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Anne-Marie Cusac – Anne-Marie Cusac is the author of the poetry books, Silkie (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2007), winner of the Many Mountains Moving Press poetry book prize, and the Wisconsin Library Association award; and The Mean Days (Tia Chucha, 2001), which won recognition from both the Wisconsin Library Association and the Council for Wisconsin Writers. An As- sistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Roosevelt University, where she heads the Journalism Program, Cusac is also a George Polk Award-winning journalist and worked as an editor and investigative reporter for The Progressive magazine for ten years. She is currently a member of the blog team forThe Huffington Post. Her nonfiction book, Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America, was published by Yale University Press in 2009. [mp3] —
- — Joe MIlford Hosts Clayton Eshleman – Clayton Eshleman’s most recent collection of poems, Anticline, is a manuscript to be published by Black Widow Press in April,2010. Recent book publications by Clayton Eshleman include he Grindstone of Rapport / A Clayton Eshleman Reader (Black Widow Press, 2008), his translation of The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo (University of California Press, 2007), Archaic Design (Black Widow Press, 2007) and Reciprocal Distillations (Hot Whiskey Press, 2007). From time to time, in June, Clayton and his wife Caryl lead a tour to the Upper Paleolithic painted caves in southwestern France, sponsored by the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. Next trip will be in June 2010, with the ethnographer Wade Davis coming along as guest lecturer. [mp3]—
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Storm’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Kwame Dawes is director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the University of South Carolina Arts Institute, where he also teaches as distinguished poet in residence. [mp3] —
- — Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has called for Ted Hughes to be honoured in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey. —
- — Inauguration of the Pushkin Monument in Asmara —
- — First anthology of nature poetry from black voices debuts —
- — Jack Elliot Myers worked throughout his adult life to write poems to get closer to people. —
- — The Louisville-based literary magazine The Lumberyard, the most physically beautiful new journal I’ve seen this year, is a brother-and-sister operation. —
- — December 1st Updates to the Online Best of 2009 Book Lists —
- — Tune into “The Reading Is Poetry Review” with your host Hip-Hop/Jazz Poet A. K. Toney tonight. We will have the honor and privilege of listening to and reviewing selections from percussionist, spoken word producer extraordinaire Leon Mobley. [mp3] —
- — One of our most tender poets (tough but tender), James Galvin, investigates his growing tendency toward poems that express his bitterness? toward politics, environmental despoilment, big business. Still he affirms, in poems that breathe with sweet relief, the ongoing possibility of love. [mp3] —
- — Linda Benninghoff – from Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio | The author of the new chapbook “The Spaces Between Things”from Erbacce press.She is well published in numerous magazines including Ocho,Mipoesias and Agenda.She has four other chaps and won an award for her last “Elegies for Mary” published by Kritya press.India. She possesses a BA in English w/honors from John’s Hopkins University and an MA in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing from Stony Brook. —
- — In Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau revisits a single event nearly 100 times. His noble goal was to help literature unburden itself ‘of some of its scabs’ —
- — Walt Whitman’s home earns literary honor —
- — Art in Paradise: How Not to Become Yeats —
- — I’ve seen Philip Levine’s face on the back cover of his books, and once in a while, on podiums at readings. When I saw him two feet away, in an NYU bathroom of all places, I was totally baffled. —
- — ‘I began writing in mystery’ A few words with Philip Levine —
- — Even if Jara’s murder is solved, she says Chile can’t achieve justice without addressing all 3,197 people, according to an official count, who were slain for political reasons before Pinochet finally ceded the presidency in 1990. —
- — According to the Burma Media Association and Reporters Sans Frontieres, at least 12 journalists and dozens of media workers including poets and writers are still in custody —
- — Two exhibitions now up feature works that strive to embody poems in art objects. —
- — In her first book of poetry, “Water the Moon” (Marick Press, November 2009), Sze-Lorrain presents her entire life—from first memories to seemingly recent dinner parties—with elegance, boldness, and, perhaps most importantly, complete believability. —
- — “Domestic Fugues” showcases Newman’s complete assurance as he takes his poems through a number of formal paces —
- — SOU prof publishes book of flarf —
- — Baudelaire poems fetch record price —
- — Personal letters, first edition copies and even a suicide note penned by 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire are part of an exceptional set of items that go up for auction on Tuesday in Paris. —
- — Nine days after becoming the first female professor of poetry at Oxford, Ruth Padel resigned when it was revealed she had sent emails bad-mouthing a rival. Now the poet gives her first interview since the controversy —
- — ‘Bright Wings’ elevates birdwatching through verse —
- — Anger as pub calls time on old poets —
- — “I wanted to write poems of religious devotion in a less obvious and, I hope, more humble way – one people might more easily identify with,” says poet Franz Wright —
- — Poet Marie Ponsot Celebrating Life at 88 —
- — Meet Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick, poetry’s most artful kvetches —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Al Maginnes – Al Maginnes is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently a chapbook, Dry Glass Blues (Pudding House Publications, 2007) and Ghost Alphabet which won the 2007 White Pine Poetry Prize and will be available in October of 2008. New poems appear or are forthcoming in American Literary Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Green Moutains Review, Terminus, Mid American Review and Southern Poetry Review. He lives in Raleigh, NC and teaches at Wake Technical Community College. [mp3] —
- — The Poetry Show: Host Dennis Morton read David Baker and more. [mp3] —
- — The poetic legacy of James Schuyler. [mp3] —
- — Vintage Fringed —
- — This poem began after a writers conference in Asheville, NC to which I took a small group of women students. Eudora Welty had just died, and we spent a portion of the morning session talking about her work, so her influence was much on my mind as the rest of the day unfolded. —
- — Stephen Dunn, the Poetry of the Personal —
- — Pennsylvania poet Sarah Dowling stands guard with language in her brave new collection, winner of the 2009 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. —
- — Here you can listen to Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Blok, Nikolai Gumilyov, Sergei Yesenin, Osip Mandelshtam, Maximilian Voloshin, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Arseny Tarkovsky reading their own work. —
- — Homicide Rates Linked to Trust in Government, Sense of Belonging, Study Suggests —
- — Brenda Starr makes way for Rumi, Neruda, and Merwin —
- — SPD Poetry Best-Sellers November 2009 —
Poetry News For October 12, 2009
- — As Joanna Lumley records an album of poetry, and more performance poets are taking to the stage, is verse undergoing a revival? —
- — Nikolay Valuev, the tallest and heaviest champion in boxing history, has revealed that he would rather be writing poetry for his wife —
- — At the center of this song is Cleveland poet, d.a.levy, mystic, prophet, and cosmic cowboy with Beat sensibilities, an idealist who burnt as fast, hard, and, relatively, as brilliantly as Morrison, Hendrix, James Dean and many another counterculture figures of the Era of Change —
- — Many cross the Rhine —
- — The length of the line, it’s placement in the stanza, and the stanza’s relation to the poem as a single instant, is a way of creating an alternate sense of time via rhythm and musical momentum, much in the same way that a movie or song compresses time, and no two compress time in exactly the same way. —
- — Rigoberto González reviews Paul Martínez Pompa —
- — How does this poem differ from other poems of yours? It feels very heavy. It is in bondage to narrative, familiar surfaces, and an expected outcome, a poem composed on earth. —
- — I remember trying out couplets and quatrains, but the couplets gave the poem too much air, and the quatrains were too much like bricks. —
- — The deadline for submitting an entry is Nov. 2, 2009, with the winners to be announced by the end of the year. The top prize in each age category is a $50 Kentucky State Park gift card. —
- — A Loved One’s Photo Helps Reduce Your Pain —
- — hearing a poet reading his work aloud is crucial to appreciation of the poetry —
- — Ada Byron Lovelace – ‘Byron and Babbage: A Calculating Story’ a film by Rosemarie Reed —
- — “Did you see their faces? They were captivated. It was incredible. I’ve never seen anything like that.” —
- — Next week, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is publishing what it hopes will become the definitive English-language edition of Rilke’s poetry —
- — More than half of primary teachers ‘are unable to name three poets’ —
- — there’s still something about the process of writing poems that is more satisfying than any other form of writing —
- — EMMA JONES, a Sydney-born poet, has become the first Australian to win Britain’s prestigious Forward Prize for best first poetry collection with her book The Striped World. —
- — I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was…. —
- — Articles in Sep/Oct 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
- — Poets deserve our thanks for their dedication to the craft of capturing and preserving experience —
Internet access went down Friday, but at least I didn’t see this….
The Southern Festival of Books seemed like it was more subdued/less people. Long lines for Buzz Aldrin and Kate DiCamillo signings & nobody in line for anyone else, it appeared, even non-poets. 
Poetry News For August 6, 2009
- — 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] —
Poetry News For July 2, 2009
- — 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 June 27, 2009
- — I thought I’d hop into a recent discussion begun here which proposed to consider the prose poem as a medium, a la Marshall McLuhan, rather than as a poetic form and was based on a quote to that effect made… —
- — All that remains of Denver’s once- vital Beat scene are the memories of those who took part as well as the literary and visual artworks and scattered residue from that creatively fertile, topsy-turvy time from around 1965 through 1987 —
- — “He touched my life. His influence was profound. He will always be part of me, down where the deep-feeders lie.” —
- — Dharma Poetry: Gary Synder’s “Riprap” —
- — “I’m at the point where I don’t really know what’s going on–I really haven’t been in touch for 10 years.” —
- — Cambridge University launched a campaign on Thursday to buy an important collection of personal papers belonging to Siegfried Sassoon, the British anti-war poet noted for his bravery in battle. —
- — But there is one element in the story of the fall of Palmyra and of Queen Zenobia that is not usually mentioned in the history books: namely, the fact that there was also a “poet” in this story, who played a central role in the unfolding drama by proffering “advice.” —
- — Hassett vs. Hasselbeck: What A Plagiarism Lawsuit Reveals About Writers’ Fear of Theft —
- — Women in science —
- — However, she is keeping the 600 bottles of complimentary sherry written into the ancient terms and conditions. —
- — Two words on love —
- — The Library of Congress posted a photo: —
- — The Poetry Media Service offers free content about poetry to newspapers and online publications. Its book reviews, profiles, interviews, and poetry columnists will engage a general readership in poetry. —
- — Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman enter the blogosphere, with a whole age in train. ( —
- — “I’ve gotten a healthy amount of queries asking for clarification on a couple points surrounding our first reading period, so I figured it’s better late than never to clarify” —
- — William Carlos Williams reads his poems in New York City in 1942 and at the Library of Congress in 1945. [mp3] —
- — On Poetry: Contemporary American poetry needs a literary revival —
- — A former poet laureate on haiku and the responsibilities of writers. —
- — Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing —
Poetry News For June 18, 2009
- — Book Review – American women poets in the 21st century:
Where Lyric Meets Language, Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr, Eds. — - — Hey Louis Menand, T&W Is Looking for Essays on Creative Writing Education —
- — Working with fragments of conversations, poems, sayings and slogans, he isolates sentences from their original context and paints them on walls —
- — Pulitzer nominee promises 3-D verse —
- — It contains works by the artist from 1960 to 1976 that show how Miró, the friend of poets, imbued his work with poetry —
- — Myna bird sings and recites poems in public —
- — how poets respond to Emily Dickinson —
- — David Bromige, a mentor to hundreds of young poets and known for his generous spirit and impeccable syntax, died June 3 at his home in Sebastopol. —
- — Rhythm & Booze —
- — Oxford American launches OA Pulse, a new aggregator devoted to Southern literature, food, music, and more. —
- — Honor Thy Father’s Day: Robert Hayden and Terrance Hayes take the Hallmark out of the holiday. [mp3] —
- — A song from Let’s Doghouse: A Tribute to Liam Rector [mp3] —
- — “Most writers face a deadline at some point. Here are 10 songs to help you procrastinate.” —
- — Are you interested in learning how to use creative writing therapeutically with incarcerated, homeless, and other distressed youth? {Washington State} —
- — Oklahoma City book fair puts focus on indies —
- — Rubbish, absurd, neurotic — even famous writers know dismissal —
- — Should Australia have a poet laureate? Is it good for poetry, for the poet chosen, for the public? —
Poetry News For May 15, 2009
- — Poetry Spoken Out Loud Gaining Popularity in US —
- — I am appalled and saddened by the anonymous smear campaign against my former mentor Derek Walcott. Everyone has a right to face his or her accusers. That’s why I sued Boston University. I wanted to discover if Professor Walcott was actually harassing me. —
- — In the second episode of the podcast, Justin Harvey and Joe Pagetta discuss Harvey’s expertise with firearms, all the while highlighting encore broadcasts of the NPT original documentary The Fugitives and …. [mp3] —
- — A recording of the Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing event last month at the Whitney Museum of American Art (with introductory comments by Kenny Goldsmith and brief interviews at the end by Pejk Malinovski) on WNYC’s Talk to Me lecture series. —
- — Forest fire set by Henry David Thoreau sparks illuminating novel —
- — Broadway producer Rocco Landesman has been nominated to head the National Endowment for the Arts. —
- — Michael Murphy, poet and critic, born 14 December 1965; died 8 May 2009 —
- — I’m delighted to announce the recipients of the Second Galatea Resurrects Poetry Publisher Prize —
- — Blog-terview —
- — Join Rachelle as she talks to Barbara Jane Reyes [mp3] —
- — Listen to the April 30 Edition of Wordsalad —
- — Tenn. Unknowingly Marries Transgender Couple —
- — That Too from Poem of the Day By Lawrence Joseph [mp3] —
- — Poetry and sex smears —
- — A statuette of Robert Burns’ muse created by the Queen’s sculptor is to be used to raise funds for the new museum in honour of the Bard —
- — How do you feel about the poem Neil Gaiman wrote for Natashya, “Blueberry Girl,” becoming a book? And more important, how does she feel about it? —
- — Kentucky’s new poet laureate is devoted to nurturing Appalachian literature —
- — But experts on literary magazines are nonetheless surprised — and worried — by the announcement this week out of Middlebury College that it will cease sponsorship of The New England Review by 2011 if the publication doesn’t become self-supporting —
- — Short Interview with Rod McKuen —
- — Dancing Emily Dickinson —
Poetry News For May 7, 2009
- — 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.
