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Poetry News For October 6, 2008

Poetry News:

So while I’ve been out Hayden Carruth died, :( the fake anthology was published (which I think is funny - the Rod McKuen is a nice touch) and the Nobel Committee said American writers are unworthy ….

  1. Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan’s ‘Tell Tale Signs’
  2. Picasso’s interest in poetry comes as no surprise to those familiar with his life.
  3. The Jane Crown Show: Joe Milford Hosts Jill Alexander Essbaum
  4. Why do you write? Why did you start?
  5. Linking Physics and Language Art through Tetractys Poetry
  6. During the war, my own father was a sailor on the New York docks; had Crane survived and picked him up for some rough trade, I’d have been flattered.
  7. “There’s Something Haunting and Nihilistic About Your Hairdresser”

I’ve lost almost 10 pounds on my “OMG I feel like I’m going to throw up” diet LOL. I think I’m going into the hospital for 3 days for a bunch of tests (related to the dysautonomia; gravity I hate you.) I’ll find out in the morning. I’ll be back next week I reckon. xxxooo

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Poetry News For July 21, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Why do his poems so often feature husbands who kill or resent their wives?
  2. On The Gurlesque Part 3
  3. Poet keeps win close to chest
  4. USC Pigskin Poets Get Kids Reading
  5. Time, reconfigured by poetry, allows connection
  6. Library of Congress Organizes Eighth Annual National Book Festival Hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush on the National Mall; Famed Authors To Participate
  7. Southeast publishes 1921 poem by William Carlos Williams
  8. Poet Hart Crane was born on this day in 1899
  9. Exactly why we take personal poems so, well, personally remains a mystery and a muddle.
  10. Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity
  11. a poem whose logic is a mockery of logic
  12. Quantum poetics

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So do you think this poem is racist, as has been interpreted here? I can think of a few poems with the P word — Plath, Bukowski … Macbeth. Philip Levine I bet.

I am sooo getting sick of political-correctness groupthink. Die Gedanken sind frei.

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Poetry News For March 29, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. It’s also an opportunity to have the kind of immediate relationship with an audience that is all too often unavailable to poets, no matter how well-known they are
  2. Book Review The Ghost Soldiers (2008) James Tate
  3. Jonathan Williams: 1929-2008 By Jeffery Beam • Special to The Smoky Mountain News
  4. you can post information about the work of female poets you enjoy
  5. This is a profession that is losing its will to live
  6. Random House has linked up with an online initiative to allow reader reviewing of rejected manuscripts - but is it as worthwhile as it sounds?
  7. There are certain single volumes of American poetry, some of them first books or early books, which carry with them a special and spiritual power; they seem to arise from a mysterious impulse and to have been written from an enormous private or artistic need
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Poetry News For December 9, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Which, if any, will still be remembered by the 21st Century?
  2. You like my poems? So pay for them
  3. ‘Twas a Christmas Poem Whodunit
  4. Salute to John Lennon
  5. Eminent poets sometimes write poems to please children. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) succeeded, with poems that are short, funny, well-rhymed and respectful of the reader’s intelligence
  6. Webster U. to launch publishing unit

I wasn’t aware that the US is having a “Toy Transformer Robots” crisis.

Well the President has officially established a dictatorship. Good one. At least someone in Congress is speaking out. The speech is about the Protect America Act but also shows how Bush has further consolidated his Executive powers. You can watch the videos part 1 and part 2 on youtube. Here is the ACLU on the Protect America Act and a WSJ article about Senator Whitehouse’s speech.

My Senator, Bob Corker, voted yes on the Protect America Act and my other Senator Lamar Alexander, did not vote at all.

My Representative, Marsha Blackburn, also voted yes on the Protect America Act.

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Poetry News for September 28, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Charles Simic Takes Your Questions on Poetry [link found here thank you] —
  2. In 1923, after falling in love with a blond, blue eyed sailor, Hart Crane wrote his most ambitious poem to date
  3. Kay Ryan rises to the top despite her refusal to compromise
  4. I sure do love poems by kids
  5. Charles Simic: From Belgrade to Poet Laureate
  6. Elevating baseball to a fine art

Me, listening to song: Honey is that you playing on this?
Darryl, listening to song: I don’t remember recording that.
Me: Well it says you did.
Darryl: Well I guess I did, then.

LOL. Get it while it is hot, and thank you person who posted it.

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Poetry News for August 6, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —
  2. Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —
  3. Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan to attend and are not an axe-murderer] —
  4. Emotional poem fills screen
  5. The Gotham Book Mart (it was originally Gotham Book and Art) became known for embracing avant-garde and, occasionally, controversial writers and challenging censorship
  6. Is Southern literature exhausted?
  7. SUNY Brockport seeks to restore paintings of E.E. Cummings
  8. Simic Interview at NPR
  9. X-Ray of a Van Gogh Reveals 2nd Painting
  10. To make the top reaches of this list, I was told by Brent Cunningham, S.P.D.‘ operations director, you need to sell roughly 100 copies a month

I enjoyed “Masters of Science Fiction” & am looking forward to the next episodes. Stephen Hawking narrates it. Speaking of alternate universes: China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate

Awww. More niece. She kinda looks like she got all of our modicum of Native American genes.

And some deep-linking to the NY Times:

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  1. Featured Author: Ishmael Reed With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  2. Featured Author: Allen Ginsberg With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  3. Featured Author: Jack Kerouac With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  4. Featured Author: Langston Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  5. Featured Author: Randall Jarrell With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  6. Featured Author: Seamus Heaney With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  7. Featured Author: James Merrill With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  8. Featured Author: Joseph Brodsky With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  9. Featured Author: Robert Frost With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  10. Featured Author: James Dickey With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  11. Featured Author: James Joyce With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  12. Featured Author: Margaret Atwood With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  13. Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  14. [More] Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  15. Featured Author: Ted Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  16. More on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath From the Archives of The NYT
  17. Featured Author: Hart Crane With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  18. Featured Author: Maxine Kumin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  19. Featured Author: Federico García Lorca With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  20. Featured Author: William S. Burroughs With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  21. Featured Subject: Cole Porter With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
  22. Featured Author: Charles Bukowski With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  23. Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  24. [More] Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  25. Featured Author: Kenneth Koch With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
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Poetry News for June 15, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Didi Menendez is reviewing online lit mags
  2. Poets Walk Across Bridge; Read Whitman, Hart Crane
  3. Biggest literary prize goes to little-known Norwegian
  4. Poet William Meredith will be announced as a finalist for the National Book Awards
  5. Court says Strauss heirs must pay “Rosenkavalier” royalties to heirs of librettist
  6. Nidhi Shukla the sister of slain poetess Madhumita Shukla today expressed her apprehension that she might be attacked or even murdered
  7. Acclaimed Nashville performance poet Minton Sparks’ first book is not quite what it seems
  8. Stars pay homage to Yeats

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The Creation Museum looks like another wonderful roadside attraction. Yay weirdo America! [and they have a blog]
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“In a survey of 1,700 women with ovarian cancer, Dr. Goff and other researchers found that 36 percent had initially been given a wrong diagnosis, with conditions like depression or irritable bowel syndrome.”

“‘Twelve percent were told there was nothing wrong with them, and it was all in their heads,’” Dr. Goff said.”

Gawd.

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