Poetry Hut Blog

• — Why danger can be good for children guess it is time to bring back these toys [youtube] —
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• — Jeff Bezos in Disagreement With A Major Publisher, Pulls All Their Works’ “Buy Buttons” Off Amazon —
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• — After years of mimicking her betters at poetry, she found her calling —
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• — Zora Neale Hurston remembered on 50th anniversary of her death —
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• — Fine writers, lousy spouses —
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• — Accompanying the photos is a sestina by Mr. Trinidad called “Playing With Dolls,” in which his mother defends his doll habit —
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• — A Reading List for the Grieving —
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• — A Kittery Point poet and teacher, Green spent four weeks at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., working on a manuscript of 100 poems that she wanted to revise. —
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• — Ruth Padel on Derek Walcott, ‘dirty tricks’, and the worst mistake of her life —
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• — A love poem is principally a way of wooing, a strategy for seduction – and the Poetry Archive has compiled a collection you can send to your beloved on their mobile phone —
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• — New Lit Mag Alert —
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• — Unusual Calls for Submissions —
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• — Pros and Cons of Interning at a Lit Mag —
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• — Homeless young adults express themselves through poetry, build community, better lives —
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• — 3 questions with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky —
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• — Rarely do I come across a book of poems that reads as though it had to be written. When I do, I’m reminded why I read poems in the first place —
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• — For starters Bukowski’s assertion that he was born a bastard is inaccurate: he was born on August 16th, 1920; his parent had married, albeit only a month before, on July 15th. —
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• — Yet without medical classification, but real in its effects, let us call this pandemic by the name poet-oxemia. —
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• — Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur Product Reviews —
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• — “What is a cat but a reduced lion?” So muses the fictionalized Joseph Brodsky character in Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s whimsical and inventive film, A Room and a Half. —
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• — There are a few things that make Wendy Barker, poet-in-residence and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, angry. One of them is how intimidated people can be of poetry. —
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• — Reviews of New Fiction, Poetry, Mystery, Science Fiction and Comics — Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2010 —
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• — Can creative writing ever be taught? —
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• — Spitball The Literary Baseball Magazine has moved —
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• — Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter: the case for a new Formalism —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — Poetry roundup | Book review —
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• — Uncovered: Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner —
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• — How does an outfielder know where to run for a fly ball? —
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• — Alan Lightman—scientist, essayist, novelist, and poet—takes on the big questions —
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• — Patricia and Edward Submitted by Ryan from My Parents Were Awesome —
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• — Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude —
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• — The Romantic poets: The Human Image and The Divine Image by William Blake —
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• — Invictus aside, poetry in cinema is embarrassing —
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• — Poetry, in its power to burn experience into the soul in a concentrated perfection of language often becomes an unlikely balm. —
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• — NaPoWriMo 2010 is coming! [from No Tell Motel thank you]—
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• — A few years after the dedication, he decided to revisit “his” high school. By then a different principal was in charge. The new man thought Sandburg was a panhandler and threw him out. —
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• — George Tsongas dies: poet, North Beach fixture —
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• — Women and Disability and Poetry (Not Necessarily in That Order) —
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• — More drawings from my notebook that is so small, I can only fit the faces of people I draw. Not to be confused with the online social network Facebook. —
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• — Cerebral Meditation Hosted Roy Johnston – Join Roy as he talks to Stanley Plumly about his Keats Bio Poets who die young often have surprisingly lively posthumous careers. John Keats (1795-1821) provides the most celebrated example: Almost immediately after his death in Rome, at the age of 25, he entered the realm of legend. Though his poetry wasn’t much read at the time, he himself was quickly transformed into a figure of myth. For Shelley — who drowned with a copy of Keats’s last book in his pocket — he was “like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherished,” as he put it in “Adonais,” his elegy for the poet. At the opposite extreme, Shelley’s good friend Lord Byron detested Keats and snubbed him, referring to him in one letter as “a dirty little blackguard.” For the aristocratic Byron, Keats was a “Cockney” upstart — more a rank weed than a pale lily. But for Keats’s admirers, his humble origins only enhanced the pathos of his fate. For William Butler Yeats, Keats was both the “coarse-bred son of a livery-stable keeper” and a woebegone schoolboy “with face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window,” the very epitome of sensuousness unsatisfied. [mp3] —
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• — The Reading Is Poetry Review – “Where Verse Becomes A Learning Lesson” Join Hip Hop Jazz Poet A K Toney as he reads and reviews selections from “Skovbo” by Viggo Mortenson. (Perceval Press 2009) A Collection of photographs, poems, and quotes. (in English, Spanish, and Danish [mp3] —
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• — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – Join Rachelle as she Talks to Alicia Ostriker – Alicia Ostriker, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven. Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. Ostriker lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of New England College. ***** Rachelle Cruz, Poet and Host of “The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com www.rachellecruz.com [mp3] —
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• — Jo Mcdougall – from Joe Milford Show | Jo McDougall is the author of five books of poetry: The Woman in the Next Booth, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City; Towns Facing Railroads and From Darkening Porches, University of Arkansas Press; and, most recently, Dirt and Satisfied with Havoc, Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh. Her memoir in progress, Daddy’s Money, focuses on growing up on a rice farm in the Arkansas delta. [mp3] —
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• — Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter. [mp3] —
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For those of you celebrating Thanksgiving this week, have a happy Thanksgiving.

• — scorching criticism —
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• — Psychological therapy 32 times more cost effective at increasing happiness than money —
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• — Can Nick Cave rival Bad Sex Award favorite Philip Roth? —
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• — A list of Thanksgiving poems for family and friends. —
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• — Just in time for Thanksgiving – a PennSound podcast excerpting poems of giving thanks from the PennSound archive [mp3] —
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• — Comestibles that are too tempting to terrorists include: gravy…. —
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• — A Dinner to Make Even Futurists Happy —
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• — Providence Poet Wins National Book Award —
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• — Framing W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten at the National Theatre —
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• — Urgent: Check Your Withholdings (Americans) —
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• — In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O’Connor collection “The Complete Stories” was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest’s 60-year history & the Flannery O’Connor episode of Religion and Ethics Newsweekly —
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• — Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Asshole, and the Haiku of Fight Club —
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• — Poetry reading honors late haiku professor —
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• — Co-vocabularists may be interested to know that the promised broadcast on Oulipo is now available online here —
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• — Serious plagiarists have been at it forever; it’s a way of life —
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• — Writing poems doesn’t mean he’s gay —
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• — Chapbooks Make Great Stocking Stuffers —
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• — Director Andy Goldberg links speech with movement in his Bard boot camp. —
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• — A lot of archived audio and video files from the Poem Present Reading and Lecture series at U of Chicago —
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• — Poetry Series Spurs Debate on the Use of an Old Slur Against Latinos —
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• — Fathers and fatherhood have spawned much great poetry, and this month poet and creative writing teacher Roger Robinson wants to read your take on this most intimate of subjects —
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• — PEN American Center is accepting submissions and nominations for the 2010 Literary Awards. —
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• — Weekly Poems: Keith Waldrop, 2009 National Book Award Winner from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
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• — A “boxer” recites as her opponent looks on at the 7th annual national poetry boxing competition in 2007. (Photo courtesy of the Japan Reading Boxing Association) —
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• — True poetry fans ‘love’ Dante’s Inferno game —
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• — When is a Poetry Workshop not Really a Poetry Workshop? —
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• — The 11 Most Fashionable Pulitzer Prize Winners —
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• — Miserablist Larkin loved his mum and dad after all —
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• — Robo-Rocky vs. Edgar Allen Poe vs. JCVD. Fight! Fight! Fight! —
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• — City boss ’shocked woman with vile email’ quoting Latin poet —
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• — Books on Basho and his haiku at the library —
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• — Portland’s Gertrude Press and The Little Journal That Could —
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• — Reading John Ashbery’s Poetry —
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• — Little Richard is asking fans to pray for his speedy recovery after undergoing hip surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville —
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• — it seems to combine elements both from that safe-as-houses mediaeval form, the sestina, and from the intricate pantoum: its accumulative structure also suggests folk-tales such as The House That Jack Built. —
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• — New collection of T.S. Eliot’s letters sheds light on the poet’s day job and troubled home life —
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• — Galatea Resurrects, thank the gods 80+ poetry reviews —
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• — As John Ashbery remembers his early years in Paris, he reflects on French poetry and about the very special case of his long-time friend, Pierre Martory. [mp3] —
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• — Poet masks Israeli ID to win Arab prize —
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• — Ten Questions for Poetry Editors —
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• — Two poems from Mortal appear in the latest issue of Cha. Yay! —
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• — Man of words—Ladner’s Brad Cran is Vancouver’s second poet laureate.
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• — Poll reveals poetic dread —
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• — May 22, 1859: It’s Elementary, My Dear Reader —
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• — The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes —
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• — Genes behind “Bearded Lady” Syndrome discovered —
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• — Two Seattle-area poets — Timothy Kelly and Peter Pereira — draw on their medical careers to see the body in a new light. —
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• — Morrissey’s lyrics are up there with Wilde and Larkin, claims academic —
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• — Poet Robert Frost’s family farm in Illinois for sale —
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• — No Ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen —
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• — David Lynch on mystery —
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• — Governor Bobby Jindal announced the reappointment of Darrell Bourque as Louisiana’s poet laureate yesterday. —
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There is another week of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month, so here’s another link: Questions and Answers about Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue. From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

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• — Chris Arnold is embarking on the journey of a lifetime to help save his brother — prize-winning poet Craig Arnold, who disappeared on a remote volcano in Japan five days ago. —
• — too bad they’ll not be around to see it —
• — The ABA has announced its “2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten” based on “the enthusiastic nominations of independent booksellers nationwide.” —
• — BBC falls for Bono’s ‘poetry’ —
• — Carol Anne Duffy ticks many boxes for being unique in a chain of laureates that goes back further than Chaucer /// After 341 Years, a Woman Is British Poet Laureate /// Poet Laureate says she ‘never liked’ her banned poem /// ‘It was my daughter who made me accept Poet’s job’ /// —
• — U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, has died at age —
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• — Answers About Poetry in Brooklyn, Part 3 —
• — He has recently completed the Proteus Cycle, a trilogy of texts-in-collaboration with numerous authors, dead and alive, which exerts a rigorous effort to play out a musics, a poetics and a shift of authoratative duties to the reader. It includes The Proteus (Moria Books, 2008), Joys: A Catalogue of Disappointments (BlazeVOX, 2008), and Ore (twentythreebooks, 2009). —
• — The editors of the magazine discuss Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic”, Inger Christensen’s musical poetry, and Hanoch Levin’s “Lives of the Dead.” [mp3] —
• — Why are poets so fascinated with birds? —
• — New: Poetics Forums at Delirious Hem —
• — The joy of exclamation marks! —
• — Online literary magazine Oeuvre debuts —
• — Tiananmen Anniversary: Memory of executed poet resonates —
• — Dismissed editor of Monthly stays silent —
• — Anne Waldman Saves the Chapbook —
• — A professor from Austin Peay State University, Blas Falconer, has been named a recipient of the Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award —
• — William Wordsworth’s letter to fellow poet sells for £8,825 —
• — Dharma Poetry: Allen Ginsberg’s Wichita Vortex Sutra —
• — Reading a poem by John Ashbery ’49 for the first time feels like walking into the room of a stranger. —
• — Indeed, the easiest explanation for the striking numbers the Harriet blogger decries has nothing to do with how many people read, or don’t read, contemporary poems: it has instead to do with the passing away, due to simple old age, of the last cohort in America to … [link from here thanks] —
• — An Irish singer is teaming up with Michael Madsen, the American actor, to make a spoken-word album of poetry —
• — Brain Processes Written Words As Unique ‘Objects,’ Neuroscientists Say —
• — “Kathryn Stripling Byer, NC Poet Laureate, has posted her reaction to and six poems from my new book of poems, Better With Friends, on her Laureate Blog.” —
• — Wordplay celebrates Wordfest with Patricia Smith [mp3] —
• — The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hear Komunyakaa’s voice as he reads his poetry. These poems are about love and war simultaneously, traumatic upheavals that may often be conjoined in this poet’s vision of life. [ mp3] —
• — Bob Hicok was born and raised in Michigan, worked in factories and once owned an automotive die design business there before becoming a professor at Virginia Tech. His poetry reflects on the economic hardships suffered in his home state. [MP3] —

• — The poems in Catherine Bowman’s new poetry collection The Plath Cabinet (Four Way Books, 2009) are inspired by Sylvia Plath. —
• — The word most frequently used to describe Frank Bidart’s poetry is “intense.” [mp3 part 1] —
• — For Frank Bidart, the act of reading poetry aloud involves the entire body… [mp3 part 2] —
• — How restorers ruined the last portrait of Shakespeare —
• — The tangibility of this work, versus the prospect of “cuddling with your computer,” and the relative permanence of print versus online work is the intimacy and immediacy that Subraman valued in her return to chapbooks. —
• — The cool wit of Elinor Morton Wylie’s work has been unfairly eclipsed —
• — John Ashbery: ‘Look, Gesture, Hearsay’ from The New York Review of Books —
• — Authors fight free books site Scribd for ‘pirating’ their work —
• — Reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds, according to new research. —