- — The Hundred Best Books of the Year; The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year The Hundred Best Books of the Year November 30, 1913, Sunday —
- — Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts John Dorsey —
- — Like rutted footpaths, the poems coiling through Bernadette Mayer’s newest collection, Poetry State Forest, steers readers into the scrubby undergrowth. —
- — The “Ugly Laws” declared that “No person who is diseased, maimed, or deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object shall expose himself to public view.” —
- — The 2008 issue of Prescott College’s literary magazine “Alligator Juniper” received the AWP Director’s Prize for Undergraduate Literary Magazines for the third time in the magazine’s 13-year history. —
- — “Today is the day I’ve waited for all my life.” —
- — Joe Milford Hosts John Dorsey – Jul 26,2009
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- — The University of Delaware Library has acquired the papers of poet, memoirist, novelist, and painter Alan Kaufman, who is associated with the Spoken Word movement and the exploration of Jewish identity through contemporary alternative culture —
- — As the death of Harry Patch brings an era to a close, Andrew Motion talks about being a war poet without a war, measuring himself up against his father’s bravery and the poetry in the end of a line —
- — Poem of the week: Some Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly by Edward Lear —
Poetry News For July 28, 2009
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Poetry News For May 15, 2009
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May 152009
- — 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 —
