- — Brazil honors ‘Girl from Ipanema’ writer —
- — The publishing house that Herb built: New Issues Press continues to thrive in world of poetry —
- — Poem of the week: From Longfellow’s translation of the Divine Comedy —
- — It’s Shakespeare — in Klingon —
- — This perfect little poem comes from ‘The Losing Game’, RV Bailey’s new pamphlet in memory of her partner of 44 years, the poet UA Fanthorpe —
- — John Keats, Blogger? —
- — Joe Milford Show – David Wolach is professor of writing, poetics, & philosophy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and visiting poet in Bard College’s Workshop in Language & Thinking. Prior to coming to Evergreen, Wolach did his graduate work in philosophy at Columbia University. After receiving his degrees he served as a union organizer in New York City for six years. Much of his work is multi-media and performative, and has been featured at venues such as Buffalo Poetics Series 2009, The American Cybernetics Conference 2009, the Belladona New Books/New Releases Series 2010 and Bard’s Visiting Poets Series. David is the editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press and curator of PRESS: A Cross-Cultural Literary Conference. [mp3] —
- — Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format —
- — It came about as a result of a suggestion by the modernist composer FG Scott, who (according to the writer Maurice Lindsay) sat MacDiarmid down one whisky-sodden evening and brutally edited the 2,684-line poem —
- — Shapcott’s poetry has always unsteadied the reader, and here it deals with the insidiousness of illness and looming mortality, without the loss of a characteristic playfulness. —
- — Online Journals: What I Want Redux —
- — The Mark McGwire Limericks of Shame —
- — After more than 18,000 votes were cast on the Poetry Season site, we can reveal TS Eliot is your favourite poet. —
- — Dylan Thomas’s last unfinished poem has been given a permanent home at the National Library of Wales after being bought from a collector. —
- — A Poet Exploring Good and Evil: PW Talks with Ron Padgett —
Posts will be long and frabjous until I get caught up. — Jilly
- — Poetry Noir – Robert Polito on the intersection of Hollywood and God. [mp3] —
- — Lord Byron’s dig at William ‘Turdsworth’ —
- — Poetry: ‘Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious: A Book Report’ —
- — Round Two Runner-Up: Poetry At Six —
- — The most difficult poetry assignment I ever envisioned is to write a 10-line poem about neutrinos with alternating lines containing a metaphor and a gerund. Here are Jennifer Karmin’s & my, Bernadette Mayer’s groundbreaking neutrino poems —
- — Best American Poetry 2009 —
- — Northwestern Backs Its Press, Plans to Move Journal Online —
- — The Little Poet of Laugh-In Has Died: Henry Gibson, Age 72 —
- — Jean Valentine and Harryette Mullen Receive Major Poetry Awards —
- — Scary Music Is Scarier With Your Eyes Shut —
- — Celebrating Nash’s Legacy in North Hampton —
- — In honour of the Notting Hill carnival, let’s take a look at the sounds and shapes of a Dada poem —
- — How to Read Poetry and Why People Don’t —
- — Writing how-to poems is, actually, a useful exercize in quite deliberately beckoning the imagination. —
- — Seven Kitchens Press reprints Christina Pacosz’s Notes from the Red Zone —
- — Bookslut – Jean Valentine Interviewing Kate Greenstreet —
- — Robert Frank’s Elevator Girl Sees Herself Years Later —
- — Mezzo Cammin —
- — Poetry corner – The Bathers of the Ladies’ Pond
from mirror.co.uk – Life & Style – Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry Corner — - — The Blood-Jet Writing hour With Rachel Cruz – Join Rachelle as she talks to Dorianne Laux —
- — Dionne Brand, a Governor General’s Award-winning writer, has been named Toronto’s poet laureate. —
- — Ruth knocked out —
- — Carl Sandburg Writing Residency —
- — Steve Fellner on Accessibility in Poetry —
- — MR. LONGFELLOW DEAD.; ILL FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND SINKING FAST SINCE THURSDAY. THE POET’S LIFE AND WORK. FLAGS AT HALF-MAST. March 25, 1882, Wednesday —
- — Reviewing the review revue —
- — Carol Novack – from Joe Milford Show [mp3] —
- — Obituary | Poet | Alistair Te Ariki Campbell —
- — Missouri Poets: Susan Swartwout —
- — Annual Clarksville Writers Conference opened with new feature —
- — Greaseball: 1943 —
- — “How God Ends Us” is the fourth winner of the SC Poetry Initiative’s annual South Carolina Poetry Book Prize —
- — I believe in a version of literary karma where the good you do for others somehow comes back to help you. —
- — Kin to exhume poet’s remains —
- — No Tell Motel is fresh, weekly. —
Today is this blog’s 6th year anniversary. I should’ve picked a different day haha.
I think I’ve posted at least 9K poetry news links. I’ve wiped out the db, changed hosts twice, etc so I don’t know the exact number.
