Poetry News:

1. — Amy Newman uses short, verses to show the theorist of evolution struggling to absorb its implications for his private life —
2. — We love independent filmmakers and musicians, and celebrate their maverick spirit, so why don’t we want independent writers? —
3. — Margaret Atwood wins Spain’s top literature prize —
4. — G. E. Murray 1945~2008 —
5. — Power of poem immortalizes Cubs trio —
6. — Taking another look at Idaho’s most famous poet/conspiracy theorist —
7. — The lit mag reviews at NewPages are fresh —
8. — Amazon’s Vanishing Buy-Now Buttons, Revealed —

Can you think of any poems that, when you take away the title, completely fall apart? For example, this poem by Dan Pagis (translated by Stephen Mitchell):

Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car

here in this carload
i am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of adam

tell him that i

Poetry News:

1. — Local writer hopes to make a difference —
2. — That frozen timepiece is an appropriate image for a poet whose best work seems to still time, to suspend a moment of clear-sighted observation —
3. — Are Those Shakespeare’s “Balls”? —
4. — Director Nick Loven said the film will be the perfect way to mark Tennyson’s 200th anniversary next year —
5. — Canadian lesbian poet wins prestigious book prize —
6. — Pound foolish —
7. — The Fate of The Sentence: Is the Writing On the Wall? —
8. — Within the bright forgetfulness of our modern blindness, acts of creativity cast their redemptive light —

Poetry News:

1. — Vandals Forced to Study Poetry of Frost & CNN, WSJ —
2. — Jason’s poem “One Day I Will Die” enjoins us to hug each instant hard enough to forge a diamond from the coal —
3. — So why does poetry matter? —
4. — Remembering Joseph Brodsky —
5. — Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumble —
6. — He believed that bad writing destroyed civilizations and that good writing could save them, and although he was an élitist about what counted as art and who mattered as an artist, he thought that literature could enhance the appreciation of life for everyone —
7. — Czechoslovakia is the setting for Poem of the End, which re-lives the last phases of Marina Tsvetaeva’s most intense love affair —
8. — What happens to creativity and imagination as we get older? —
9. — Dearborn Suite by Philip Levine Another Michigan poem —
10. — Detroit, 1972, by Jim Daniels And another Michigan poem —
11. — Making a Lyrical Return to the Sunken Garden —

Poetry News:

1. — What is the state of poetry in our culture today? —
2. — Her literary journey has taken her through books and journals across the country —
3. — Poetry soothes a vulnerable soul —
4. — Dr Johnson found him too lofty, TS Eliot said he wasn’t serious enough —
5. — From the author of “The Savage Detectives,” a satire of fascist writers —
6. — Ezra Pound’s birthplace draws poetry pilgrims —
7. — Poetry to make you slap your knee, the host —
8. — Langston Hughes’ grandfather was also part of the group that left Fayetteville on the wagon train —

Poetry News:

1. — Online Bronx magazine taking shape —
2. — A 17-year-old boy who had once worked as a kitchen aide at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus recognized the remote farmhouse’s potential for parties —
3. — T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were the “Odd Couple” of 20th-century poetry —
4. — Tuesday marks the 163rd anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous poems in American literature —
5. — Poems of vitality and mortality —
6. — … “unusual and unwanted items,” including a petrified alligator’s foot, dead beetles and poems —
7. — La Petite Zine is fresh —
8. — Experts Stunned By Discoveries In Home Of Late 77-Year-Old Frugal Librarian —
9. — Latino poets will have their own Super Bowl this Friday as nearly 30 established and upcoming poets will come together for a reading —

Safe travels to AWP.

Poetry News:

1. — Though still a student at Lincoln University, he has already published two books of poems, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew —
2. — Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass On American Poetry, Bob Dylan, Impact of ‘The Big Lebowski’ —
3. — Singing the songs of love —
4. — Anne Stevenson: the secret life of a poet —
5. — Sometimes, as in Jill Rosser’s new collection of poetry, it’s a comic, irritable gesture that recalls the abyss a footstep away —
6. — While many young people countrywide are venturing into the music industry to earn a living, Mochedisi in Kasane is curving a niche for himself as a praise poet. [more about praise poetry in southern Africa here and over here and some here. —
7. — For the second year in a row, an Indianapolis writer will have had a work selected for the annual Best American Poetry series —
8. — From hospital room, Diane Middlebrook recalls meeting Ted Hughes —
9. — Poet, biographer, feminist Diane Middlebrook dies of cancer at 68 —
10. — Poetry lovers, put this on your list —
11. — What a lineup of gallery artists: five Nobel laureates, five poet laureates, and more Pulitzer Prize-winning and National Book Award-winning writers than a curator can count —
12. — Writer discovers poem on A Prairie Home Companion —
13. — It is one of the weirder ironies of literary history that the experiment of modernist poetry in English was launched by a pair of Americans living in London who had little but contempt for the complacent, hide-bound literary scene in which they moved —
14. — I had stumbled upon the underground alliterative tradition of English poetry —

Poetry News:

1. — THE inevitable paradox has occurred. Futurism is a thing of the past. Vorticism has come —
2. — Old Possum’s Book of Practical Lolcats —
3. — Remembering fallen poet John Partida —
4. — The Liberty Loan pawnshop in Chelsea was the subject of Martin Espada’s poem ‘Latin Night at the Pawnshop’ —
5. — He has booked Moscow’s Olimpiisky Stadium — with a capacity of 17000 for a single date in December, when he will read his work and take part in a staging of a rock opera based on his poems —
6. — photo of caroline bagenal’s sculptural pathway to the e.e. cummings gravesite —
7. — …Ezra Pound in a letter to his father, urging the old man to help promote his first published collection —
8. — In any case, a reading of Picabia’s remarkable poetry suggests that using Dada as a key to unlock it would be misleading at best —

The wind is actually howling. Eek.

Poetry News:

1. Professor Inducted as Kentucky Poet Laureate —
2. English journalist James Fenton gets the gold —
3. Ezra Pound Poetry Recordings on PennSound: Digital Archive —
4. English professor wins poetry contest —
5. University Creates New Poetics Chair —
6. UCSC literature professor Nathaniel Mackey has been named a winner in the 26th Annual Northern California Book Awards —

David Halberstam on Poetry, Bush, and Baseball

Poetry News:

1. Defection probe over poet Auden —
2. UNM English Emeritus Professor Frumkin Dies —
3. Uncovering Ezra Pound’s roots —
4. The Cat’s 50! —
5. Shuson a poet married to his muse —
6. Jagged rhythms —

March 3, 2007 total lunar eclipse & Viewer’s Guide: Total Lunar Eclipse Saturday Evening

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