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Emily Dickinson

Poetry News:

1. — Brigit Pegeen Kelly was named recipient of the Academy Fellowship, which provides a $25,000 stipend —
2. — The grassroots movement to preserve the Ameliasburgh, Ontario, home of poet Al Purdy is gaining momentum —
3. — The Poet Who Invented Himself —
4. — First published in the L.A. Free Press on May 19, 1972, this piece is excerpted from Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 by Charles Bukowski and edited by David Calonne —
5. — Prizes awarded for 6 emerging female writers —
6. — Within these limits, though, he has written an excellent book — in essence, a series of case histories of anonymous or pseudonymous publication —
7. — The Woman in White from The New York Review of Books by Joyce Carol Oates —

Poetry News:

1. — Emily Dickinson’s ‘White Heat’ from NPR Programs: Fresh Air from WHYY —
2. — How Keats’s most popular rival rescued him from the critics —
3. — Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky wins the 11th Triennial Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize —
4. — Williams turns 125 years old —
5. — Lucille Clifton’s poem “brothers” shines a bright new light on Lucifer, who answers God in a whirlwind of verse. —
6. — “This is a broad request. I’m compiling a list of contemporary poets from the South or poets that have moved to the South and adopted it as a home.” —

Poetry News:

1. — Is it harder to write a great sonnet than a great hip-hop verse? —
2. — The reclusive Dickinson had a worldly mentor and friend —
3. — Dylan’s Poetic Pause in Hollywood on the Way to Folk Music Fame —
4. — The 2008 recipients of the Iowa Poetry Prize —
5. — Philip Larkin almost tried to sound unattractive and misanthropic —
6. — LOL —

Poetry News:

1. — Higginson has been ridiculed as a second-rater who allowed too much editorial tampering when he first published Dickinson’s poems, —
2. — Sylvia Plath—original hip-hop poet —
3. — This stunning Northern Irish poet is easily on a par with famous Seamus —
4. — Sex and the semicolon —
5. — A book of poems featured prominently in AMC’s widely lauded “Mad Men” sent viewers scrambling to find copies —
6. — I have a plea for any internet animation specialists out there: more poetry, please —
7. — UGA grad Trethewey named Georgia Woman of the Year —
8. — The verse novel (like the rock opera or the sound sculpture) is the awkward child of successful parents, destined to disappoint both of them —
9. — LOL —

Poetry News:

1. — Written on the body: literary tattoos —
2. — Guy Maddin is planning on writing an upcoming feature with a longtime friend. “It’s called Keyhole,” Maddin tells Paste. “Which I’m co-developing with the poet John Ashbery.” —
3. — Literary magazines: grotesque and Gaitskill —
4. — Opposing Ezra Pound’s dictum to “Make It New,” conceptual poetry responds with “Why Make It New If You Can Reframe the Old?” —
5. — I’ve never found anything cool in used books —
6. — Darkness surrounds the wit, lightning flashes of sheer intelligence transform the darkness, and, it must be said, great windy stretches of self-indulging discourse blow throughout —
7. — On this episode of “Studio 360,” radio personality and poet Sean Cole takes a closer look at Emily Dickinson’s legendary poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” —
8. — This is my goodbye and thank you after almost two years of writing my Times poetry column. —

Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure. — Hans Scholl

Poetry News:

1. — This Ecstatic Nation: Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11 —
2. — Q&A: Rebecca Wolff’s Fence Turns Ten —
3. — Holy Road: Paula Gunn Allen (1939 - 2008) —
4. — He wanted to create, as he put it, “echoes realer / than originals.” Unfortunately, echoes have a nasty way of fading. —
5. — Elizabeth Kirschner’s book of poems, ‘My Life as a Doll,’ chronicles her memories of child abuse —
6. — Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago —
7. — It’s easy to forget that American poetry was not always as friendly to the middle class as it is today —

The book reviews at New Pages are fresh and so are the lit mag reviews

dancing girl press has opened the chapbook manuscript reading period — they make good chapbooks.

I like persona poems - a whole online lit mag issue of them

Poetry Midwest has an e-chapbook available as a downloadable PDF file.

My family member is back from Iraq - thank you for your prayers.

Poetry News:

1. — Blas Falconer’s collection of poems, A Question of Gravity and Light, is about nameless people, perennial outsiders who find themselves in situations they hadn’t planned upon —
2. — Professor denied tenure. Reason? Flarf. —
3. — Bangor publisher suing Amazon in anti-trust case —
4. — For the first time, anyone with access to the Internet can hear tapes of Robert Penn Warren’s 1964 interviews with prominent Civil Rights activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and the Rev. James Lawson —
5. — Surrealism’s founding texts sold —
6. — A collection of 35 of William McGonagall’s poems fetched more than $13,000 at auction. —
7. — Isn’t it a little bit late to be claiming you wrote “Footprints in the Sand” —
8. — Queen is asked to appoint first female Poet Laureate after 22 men in 340 years —
9. — It pains me to say it, but I used to hate Emily Dickinson —
10. — Frieda Hughes reflects on the aviary she built in her garden —

I had a nice visit with my sister. It was weird to visit Knoxville again after almost (exactly!) a decade. (My M.S. degree is from UT.) Some things looked different, some things looked the same. Looks like they fixed up World’s Fair Park and that area by the Tennessee Theater downtown. I’m really looking forward to having my sister only a few hours away, though I know she’ll be busy with grad school. We had a lot of fun together — always do — and she cut my bangs for me, whoo! I cried when I dropped her off at the airport yesterday, though I’ll see her again in July LOL.

Thanks for your support of my book. I haven’t got any complaints but I guess the people who think that I’m a blowhard or that I’m talentless aren’t apt to email me about it. I am also behind on my email right now — I’m not ignoring anybody.