Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — David Wagoner’s new collection of poems, “A Map of the Night,” feels like a summing-up by the author many consider the dean of Northwest poetry. —
2. — For days, I’ve trolled my poetry shelves for the right words to grieve with, the way an insomniac pharmacist — desperate for sleep — might pick through her tinctures —
3. — Film takes look at life of Emily Dickinson —
4. — But this remarkable collection by someone who perhaps invented the concept of “oversharing” long before it became fashionable, reminds us of why he mattered then, and still does now —
5. — Poets have always been fascinated with dreams. Please share yours —
6. — The poem is one of 20 that have started appearing in sidewalks since July —
7. — Burmese papers report losses due to strict policies of censor board deputy chief —

September is Pain Awareness Month. Good timing, what with the stock market & everything.

My town has been out of gasoline for a while. A lot of Nashville is out, too. A station here in town got some gasoline yesterday, Darryl said, and the Sheriff had a squad car in the parking lot & there is a huge line. Reminds me of the 1970’s lines at gasoline pumps, which I do remember. I don’t understand the CNN article that says it is panic. Kingston Springs was out of gas on the Sunday of the hurricane. I haven’t been too mobile lately so I’m not sure what the heck is going on.

Dear Onion Radio News: if you are going to make fun [MP3] of my State, at least learn how to pronounce the Governor’s name haha.

Poetry News:

1. — With her new novel, Lavinia, fantasy and science fiction virtuoso Ursula K. Le Guin vividly fills some of the blanks in Vergil’s Aeneid —
2. — “I’m trying to get people to see a book as an aesthetic artifact, not as a generic container,” says Dave Wofford, who operates the one-man letterpress Horse and Buggy Press. —
3. — But what if the plagiarists are children who won the KidsPost poetry contest, children who said the work was their own? —
4. — In Heather McHugh’s Broken English, I found Ulli Beier’s translations of these ancient songs succinctly moving —
5. — At 99, New Hampshire man becomes a first-time author —
6. — Jorie Graham’s poetry is all about the vertiginous (and sometimes heady) experience of falling through the cracks —
7. — In his day, Jeffers was a star: he appeared on the cover of Time, read his poems in the US Congress and was respected for the alternative he provided to the Modernist juggernaut —

Poetry News:

1. — A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —
2. — Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —
3. — What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —
4. — Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —
5. — Houston poet wins $50,000 award —
6. — Reed Whittemore, Handyman to the Muse: Influential Poet Writes the Work of His Life —