- — Why danger can be good for children guess it is time to bring back these toys [youtube] —
- — Jeff Bezos in Disagreement With A Major Publisher, Pulls All Their Works’ “Buy Buttons” Off Amazon —
- — After years of mimicking her betters at poetry, she found her calling —
- — Zora Neale Hurston remembered on 50th anniversary of her death —
- — Fine writers, lousy spouses —
- — Accompanying the photos is a sestina by Mr. Trinidad called “Playing With Dolls,” in which his mother defends his doll habit —
- — A Reading List for the Grieving —
- — 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. —
- — Ruth Padel on Derek Walcott, ‘dirty tricks’, and the worst mistake of her life —
- — 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 —
- — New Lit Mag Alert —
- — Unusual Calls for Submissions —
- — Pros and Cons of Interning at a Lit Mag —
- — Homeless young adults express themselves through poetry, build community, better lives —
- — 3 questions with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky —
- — 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 —
- — 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. —
- — Yet without medical classification, but real in its effects, let us call this pandemic by the name poet-oxemia. —
- — Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur Product Reviews —
- — “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. —
- — 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. —
- — Reviews of New Fiction, Poetry, Mystery, Science Fiction and Comics — Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2010 —
- — Can creative writing ever be taught? —
- — Spitball The Literary Baseball Magazine has moved —
- — Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter: the case for a new Formalism —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — Poetry roundup | Book review —
- — Uncovered: Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner —
- — How does an outfielder know where to run for a fly ball? —
- — Alan Lightman—scientist, essayist, novelist, and poet—takes on the big questions —
- — Patricia and Edward Submitted by Ryan from My Parents Were Awesome —
- — Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude —
- — The Romantic poets: The Human Image and The Divine Image by William Blake —
- — Invictus aside, poetry in cinema is embarrassing —
- — Poetry, in its power to burn experience into the soul in a concentrated perfection of language often becomes an unlikely balm. —
- — NaPoWriMo 2010 is coming! [from No Tell Motel thank you]—
- — 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. —
- — George Tsongas dies: poet, North Beach fixture —
- — Women and Disability and Poetry (Not Necessarily in That Order) —
- — 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. —
- — 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] —
- — 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] —
- — 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] —
- — 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] —
- — Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter. [mp3] —
Poetry News For January 7, 2010
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- — Metrophobia: Are We Afraid Of Poetry? —
- — Nurse-Poet-Writer Cortney Davis Responds To Thomas Long’s Blog On Nurse Writers —
- — Professor’s essay on John Keats recognized as one of the best of 2009 —
- — Biographers have a vested interest in hyping their subjects, but when Paul Celan’s biographer, John Felstiner, calls the latter “Europe’s most compelling postwar poet,” surely few can argue. —
- — Madeleine Albright’s penchant for pins became newsworthy in the 1990s after the Iraqi press published a poem calling her an “unparalleled serpent” for daring to criticize Saddam Hussein. —
- — I read sometimes when I get stuck. I read other people to relax, and to get a perspective — in lieu of being able to ring up a poet on the phone and ask, how would you do this, it’s nice to see how they would do it, reinterpret it. —
- — Baseball Hall of Fame: Andre Dawson (and his .323 OBP) inducted. Trammell, Morris get the shaft —
- — Robert Peake will answer one poetry-related question from a Read Write Poem member each month here at Read Write Poem —
- — Patricia Smith Motown Crown —
- — Which Minnesota poet ran for president five times and once said, “If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency?” —
- — Funeral for poet Margaret Rabb will be held Friday —
- — I’ve come to accept the frustrating fact that poems have minds of their own, and that they have a tendency to override, or even contradict, whatever sights I’ve set for them.
— - — Yemen poet has a line on the region —
- — Archival recordings of poet William Stafford, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1970 and 1978, Library of Congress. —
Thank God 2009 is over! I think it even surpassed 1983 as the worst year ever, for me. So it is 2010 & 7th year of poetry news here on the blog. A couple questions:
1. At year’s end, again, my question: Where’s my flying car?
2. Have you downloaded my poetry book? It’s free to download, which over 800 folks have done, thus far. (Little sales and never did make it to any year end lists.) But I still like it and am proud of it and if you like it, too, you can buy it.
I hope you all have a good 2010 & have a solid foundation. xoxo
- — Rifts have surfaced at Chicago’s Poetry magazine since… —
- — A poetic clash over millions in cash —
- — 2010: Poetry Collections to Come… —
- — poet Annie Finch’s blog link from here, thanks
- — Methuen preserving Frost artifact —
- — Indianapolis philantropist Ruth Lilly dies at age 94 and In 1939, The New York Times published four poems by “R. Lyly.” Ruth Lilly’s lawyer, Thomas Ewbank, is “95 percent sure” the name was a pseudonym for Ruth Lilly. and Ruth Lilly, RIP Willy Lilly Nilly—venture capital for poets. —
- — AbeBooks’ Most Expensive Sales of 2009 —
- — Right-handers sit to the right of the movie screen to optimise neural processing of the film —
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- — Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo’s 11-year prison sentence —
- — SPD Poetry Bestsellers 2000-2009 (The ‘OO’s!) —
- — Where Are the Nurse Writers? —
- — A poet considers the lasting influence of Eleanor Ross Taylor —
- — When a young writer from Massachusetts named Eileen Myles, above, was still new to the East Village, she went St. Mark’s Church for what would become her New Year’s Day ritual: a poetry marathon. —
- — In Memoriam: Activist Poet Dennis Brutus —
- — Learning Lab: Anne Bradstreet: “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Emily Warn —
- — Learning Lab: Philip Larkin: “An Arundel Tomb” by Jeremy Axelrod —
- — Orwell’s birthplace to be saved from decay —
- — From the UNDERLIFE book launch party on December 16, 2009. congrats —
- — Don Paterson awarded Queen’s Medal for Poetry —
- — Reginald Gibbons finds poetry in Chicago —
- — Missouri’s first poet laureate found the job engaging, consuming —
- — The best medal a poet could wish for is a wider readership —
- — Whoopee! Author Daniel Nester is most inappropriate —
- — The Dream Poet Anthology 2009 The only poets I can remember dreaming about are Akhmatova and Tsvetsaeva. I have Sadge in the 12th house so yeah it’s be foreigners haha. —
- — But apparently, since she wrote about housewives and domestic issues, there’s nothing to admire about what she did. And if you want to mock a woman writer these days, why, you just link her to Erma Bombeck and call it at day. —
- — So, for the i-ROBOT adaptation (the play based on Jason Christie’s I-ROBOT) when I started to think about how to write dialogue for robots I looked up some chatbots on the Internet and had conversations with them about poetry. —
- — Ten Ways to Send Your Work Into the World —
- — Collections by Katha Pollitt, Philip Levine, Mary Jo Bang and Patty Seyburn. —
I get a lot of unsolicited email from poetry publishers, lit mags, etc and I don’t have a problem with that but I am seeing a trend that is starting to bug me – there is no way to unsubscribe, or to know who the email is coming from, exactly, and so on.
Do you use email in your business? The CAN-SPAM Act
- — Worley Edits Book of Contemporary KY Poets —
- — A poem begins for me with a feeling of being let close to the edge of something —
- — An excellent diatribe —
- — During my happy days working in the arts department of the Village Voice, I discovered this previously unknown letter by Marianne Moore in one of the paper’s earliest issues —
- — Wondering what to buy for the bookworm who’s read everything? How about poetry? Santa Barbara poet laureate David Starkey shares his top 10 picks of recently released poetry collections —
- — Marilyn Monroe film ‘shows actress smoking marijuana’ —
- — Literary Baseball T-Shirts “Selling Very Well” —
- — Michael Boughn is seeking articles on poet-scholar John Clarke. —
- — The Delirious Hem Advent Calendar is back, this year featuring audio! —
- — A letter by Keats’s old friend makes clear how much “sensative-bitterness” the poet felt after attacks on him by critics —
- — Invisible Sisters: A Memoir is a “Best of Atlanta 2009 Must Read!” —
- — More companies, including McDonald’s, are being moved to verse to advertise their products. Is this a welcome development? —
- — Podcast: Andrew O’Hagan on Samuel Johnson [mp3] —
- — I can’t believe Sonny Eliot is still doing the weather in Detroit yay [mp3] —
- — His literary influences include such American modernists as Wallace Stevens, John Ashberry, Charles Bernstein, and poets of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry school. Words (P=A=L=A=B=R=A=S?) come first in his writing; he is always looking to break through the sound barriers of convention. —
- — Annie Finch traces the evolution of the sonnet —
- — Trivia Question of the Day : Category-Literature —
- — Although he has had five books published–two novels, a book of stories and two books of poems, Tao Lin is not yet thirty. Yet, for all his industriousness, his work expresses the apathy and emptiness felt by many members of his generation… [mp3] —
- — An 1827 first edition copy of poems by Edgar Allan Poe sold for $662,500 on Friday setting a record for a 19th century book of poetry, said a spokeswoman for Christie’s auction house. —
- — In 1947, a gal named Barbara Ehrhart chose to create her wedding dress out of turkey feathers —
- — Terese Svoboda Interviews Heartsrevolution —
- — One could cite other essays that make Stevens’s case for poetry, but the real question is: How well does his own poetry measure up to his ideal? After all, the telling phrase in the opening line of the invocation to “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” is “except for you.” Since the “you” refers to the creative faculty of the mind, it excludes everything else, including, of course, people. —
- — Volume 3 number 3 HOW2 —
- — Cate Marvin, the current writer-in-residence at the Stonington apartment of the late poet James Merrill, feeds her 10-month-old daughter Lucia, in the Eastern-domed dining room at the table where Merrill and his lover did their Ouija board experiments. —
- — Hugh MacDonald, a poet, editor and novelist from Brudenell, P.E.I., was announced as the new poet laureate for the province on Friday. —
- — Neither the arrest of his parents, nor his difficult childhood and adolescence, nor the equally difficult years he spent in exile abroad could destroy that passion for freedom and joie de vivre. To quote his friend and contemporary, the poetess Bella Akhmadulina, those emotions permeated every breath Aksyonov took. —
- — album of ambient/poetry reading with some Tsvetaeva —
- — A T.O. poet-essayist ponders Old and New World literature on a century of slaughter —
- — Professors of creative writing Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover won the prestigious 2009 PEN USA translation award for “Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin.” —
- — I think of him as an Irish aboriginal, the mind diamond sharp and of the now, in the flickering dreamlight of a forest clearing —
- — The statement said that the museum “deeply regretted” that some of the poets who participated in the last reading, on Nov. 21, had received “hate mail.” —
- — Are there nonfiction authors—or any type of author—who are so great to read, you would read anything they wrote? —
- — ejunto is a 501(c)(3) Not-For-Profit Corporation dedicated to bringing quality audiobooks to the public domain. —
- — Wordsworth’s Minster mystery —
- — Two Minnesota-produced films — on Allen Ginsberg and the Runaways — will get prestigious Sundance Festival premieres. —
- — What is the future of Lit Journals? —
- — The aging master, all too aware of the shadow obscuring our sight of things and aware of the encroaching darkness as well, can still ponder what is on the other side of night and still be lucent, thank goodness, about the great benefit of living —
Poetry News For October 7, 2009
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Oct 072009
- — Poet reflects on 30 years of publishing poetry —
- — Nobel Literature Prize could go to a poet this year —
- — Baseball team, Eymard Seminary, Suffern, N.Y. (LOC) —
- — At first glance it seems the relationship is largely one way – that modern cinema is less enamoured with poetry than with poets’ life stories. —
- — Astrology of Edgar Allan Poe’s life and death Oct 7, 1849 —
- — A list of small presses that publish poetry books outside of contests-
Please support these presses by buying their poetry books [US] — - — Poet and Zen Practitioner Jane Hirshfield at the Tricycle Community —
- — Not for Donne a sad parting at dawn: here he places himself and his lover at the centre of the universe, with the sun as their servant. It’s one of the most joyous love poems ever written —
- — Author Tess Gallagher: Cancer gave me courage —
- — On a late Saturday afternoon in August, Publisher Phong Bui and Art Editor John Yau drove up to High Falls, New York, to visit the poet and writer Robert Kelly at Consulting Editor David Levi Strauss’s library to discuss Kelly’s life and work —
- — The new album features romance with lyrics from Marina Tsvetaeva’s I Like The Fact That You’re Not Mad About Me, performed in both Russian and French —
- — Spain: Garcia Lorca grave to be opened in weeks —
- — Poets and artists join forces for Crow and Raven: Baskin, Hughes, Manet, Poe on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. This focused exhibition explores the nature of artistic collaboration as seen in two landmark publications that bring text and image together in celebration of a common subject: crows and ravens —
Poetry News For October 5, 2009
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Oct 052009
- — Lewis Turco: Odd and Invented Forms —
- — Fifteen-minute poetry theater: Wallace Stevens seduced by conflict —
- — Bei Dao’s interaction with Clayton Eshleman and his wife Caryl begins in 1992, when Eliot Weinberger wrote to ask if he would nominate Bei Dao for the semester-long MacAndless Chair in the Humanities at Eastern Michigan University —
- — Whether the MFA is useful or not continues to be an ongoing debate. But graduate school was important for you — do you think it’s a good path for aspiring writers to take? —
- — On Poetry: Poet’s personal life has no bearing on his or her work —
- — This is the America Whitman and Warhol never got to, and Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, and Charles Simic run away from —
- — Empathic people remember your smell —
- — Keats and His Beloved in an Ode to Hot English Chastity —
- — The uses of erotic poetry —
- — Book clubs don’t read poetry —
- — Massachusetts Poetry Festival —
- — Rattle e.7 – release [pdf] —
- — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Assistant Professor Kerry Madden, MFA, of Homewood has been named the new editor of the UAB women’s literary magazine, Poemmemoirstory (PMS). —
- — First book advice #2: no apologies, please —
- — Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer. Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. —
- — Rain Taxi’s one-day book fest is a feast —
- — The Poetical Power of Limits —
- — Authors pour worst scorn on each other —
- — World Books Review: A Crown of Thorns for Mandelstam —
- — The Young Poets Society: Meet Britain’s rising stars of verse —
- — Poetry collection ‘is more jig, swing, stomp, and swivel than intimate waltz’ —
- — Southern Festival of Books has something for everyone —
- — In another interview you talk of how “power hides reality, but poets bring it to light”. Can you extrapolate on the relationship between the poet and power, and also the poet’s role in the relationship between ordinary citizens and power? —
- — ‘Verse’ comes from Latin versus a furrow, and vertere to turn: a digging in, and preparing for new growth —
- — Poems discuss topics as diverse as saliva, dry skin, her childhood food preferences — stale Peeps made the list — and hitchhiking are discussed with wit, irony and mystique. —
- — Maya Angelou hospitalized? Not so fast, TMZ —
- — Terre Haute to honor poet Ehrmann with sculpture —
- — From left, front row, the 2009 award winners are Krista Bremer (nonfiction), Heidy Steidlmayer (poetry), and in the back row, Janice N. Harrington (poetry), Helen Phillips (fiction), Vievee Francis (poetry) and Lori Ostlund (fiction). Each will receive $25,000. —
- — Writer helped craft inscription on lunar plaque —
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Poetry News For July 23, 2009
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- — EDGAR A. POE.; A SAN FRANCISCAN ADDS ONE MORE QUEER STORY TO THE INNUMERABLE NUMBER ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF “THE RAVEN.” September 10, 1878, —
- — Five Arab Poets Online —
- — Only at the Beat Museum will you find an emergency exit warning you that an alarm “will HOWL” if the door is opened —
- — Strong shortlist hailed for Forward poetry prize —
- — Boyhood Home Of Langston Hughes Sold In Foreclosure —
- — For the second year in a row, Nashville’s Tomato Art Fest plays host to the hottest, rowdiest haiku contest in the South. —
- — Hendrix murder theory ‘plausible’ —
- — Longtime Louisianian Julie Kane, formerly of New Orleans, now of Natchitoches, has explored her home state in such volumes as “Rhythm and Booze,” “Body and Soul” and now, “Jazz Funeral,” winner of the Donald Justice Prize sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards —
- — NPR On Point Wednesday, July 22, 2009 ‘Mad, Bad’ Byron —
- — Chicago Cubs Haiku —
- — Monasterevin gears up for 22nd Gerard Manley Hopkins festival —
- — A study highlights the need for a new approach to the teaching of English pronunciation given that English is now a lingua franca, with more non-native speakers in the world than native speakers. —
- — Keats’s London home reopens after major refurbishment —
- — Each week Carol Ann selects a verse for women and discusses its meaning: ‘Mrs’ By Gail Ashton —
- — The fourth issue of this online journal of Fibonacci poetry is now up and available —
- — ploughshares edited by jean valentine —
