Poetry News:

1. — Well, William Logan is back —
2. — Amazon seems each year to go from one publisher to another, making increasing demands in order to achieve richer terms at our expense and sometimes at yours [link found here thank you] also see Borders Urged to Consider Sale to Amazon. I didn’t know Borders went up for sale in March. —
3. — Meet Raymond McDaniel, poet and University of Michigan instructor. —
4. — But there have lately been a number of feminist readings of Milton, and though they can’t explain away that primal inequality, certainly they have a lot to point to, such as Eve’s argument for independence in Eden —
5. — So where do poems come from? —
6. — Poet’s first collection a remarkable beginning —
7. — ‘Papers’ doesn’t quite capture new U.Va. collection —
8. — Bob Dylan is a real genius – just not when he has a paint brush in his hand —
9. — The poems in The Mechanical Bird explore the natural and man-made worlds with an imaginative mix of fact and invention —

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Poetry News:

1. — When Hank Williams died on New Year’s day in 1953, he left behind a legacy of honky tonk hits as well as an extended family that would grow to include a son, daughters and grandchildren. Milo Miles reviews an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame called, “Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy.” —
2. — alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast, Linh Dinh catalogues the myriad grades of Vietnamese chuckles. [MP3] —
3. — John Ingram, Chairman of the Ingram Content Companies, announced last Thursday that the company would fold the leading print-on-demand publisher, Lightning Source, Inc. into its main book business to create Ingram Lightning Group. —
4. — One of the failings of our education system is that we are educating people out of creativity. —
5. — That era of the poetry readings was also the folk era. So our intermission would be a folk singer, usually playing the auto harp. —
6. — Author of new book discusses his work linking corporate values with the decline of the tenure-track position, especially in the humanities. —
7. — His latest collection, The Late Show, includes “Gloss of the Past,” composed entirely of the names of lip glosses —
8. — ‘Paradise Lost’ poet turns 400 —
9. — Poetry, our national art, has never been so neglected or unloved. —

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Poetry News:

1. — Mail sorter’s poems win $65,000 prize —
2. — Hopkins’s syntax is so mangled, the lines so packed with heavy plodding accents and stilted comma stops, that he speaks as if through a chokehold —
3. — A pair of fine collections from Philadelphia poets who fervently put their wanderings to words —
4. — after the last customer has left, the bank employees rearrange the tables and chairs for a poetry reading session —
5. — English poetry masters: Christina Rossetti —
6. — Dan Chiasson on ‘The Best American Erotic Poems’ —
7. — A Giant’s Roaring, Faintly Echoed —

Would you pay $2 for the privilege of submitting poetry to a lit mag electronically? Why or why not? Disclosure: I am a former subscriber of 32 Poems. (I rotate lit mag subscriptions to help support a variety of lit mags, with a dozen or so subscriptions per year. I’m explaining so that it doesn’t seem like I quit subscribing because I thought it was a bad lit mag.)

Poetry News:

1. — Why this bevy of bards, this plethora of poetry, this Vesuvian eruption of verse? —
2. — MLB Poetry Preview: Chicago Cubs —
3. — My first reaction was, “What are you smoking?” —
4. — This week, the Academy of American Poets announced the launch of … a mobile poetry archive providing free access to a collection of more than 2,500 poems —
5. — Today, Sam Leith profiles the highly-influential poet of the English revolution, John Milton —
6. — With 16 books between them, four authors will take part in the first “Gathering of Tennessee Writers” at MTSU, on Thursday, March 20, 4:30 p.m. —
7. — All contemporary poetry when it is contemporary is initially baffling to its readers —
8. — Introducing seven of the greatest poets of the 20th century —

Poetry News:

1. — What is the state of poetry in our culture today? —
2. — Her literary journey has taken her through books and journals across the country —
3. — Poetry soothes a vulnerable soul —
4. — Dr Johnson found him too lofty, TS Eliot said he wasn’t serious enough —
5. — From the author of “The Savage Detectives,” a satire of fascist writers —
6. — Ezra Pound’s birthplace draws poetry pilgrims —
7. — Poetry to make you slap your knee, the host —
8. — Langston Hughes’ grandfather was also part of the group that left Fayetteville on the wagon train —

Poetry News:

1. — New Pages’ Lit Mag Reviews are Fresh —
2. — Loss of poet Salinas is loss to literature —
3. — Nick Drake’s From the Word Go meditates upon a single word —
4. — Robert Frost, Unplugged, Praised Rich Capitalist Fools, AP Says —
5. — The polls are open in the annual balloting for the Diagram Prize, honoring the world’s oddest book title —
6. — Celebrate the first national Poem In Your Pocket Day! —
7. — Podcast: A poem from A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti [links to HTML page with audio available] —
8. — Fearon fiercely succinct; Shockley’s poems sing —
9. — Podcast: Anna Beer on John Milton [links to HTML page with audio available] —
10. — A series of cultural events this year will commemorate one of Poland’s greatest poets —
11. — Dr. Joachim Sartorius is renowned as a poet and translator of works by the likes of Malcolm Lowry, Robert Gray and John Ashbery [links to HTML page with audio available] —

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Poetry News:

1. — “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —
2. — Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —
3. — City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across racial and socioeconomic lines to promote literacy through poetry —
4. — Poet Li-Young Lee achieves transcendence in works such as ‘To Hold’ —
5. — Maya Angelou’s poem in praise of Hillary —
6. — Lilya would become the muse for Mayakovsky’s poetry for the next 20 years, and the couple a key presence in the Soviet Union’s new literary and artistic movements —
7. — Brian Turner had a master’s in fine arts degree tucked in his ruck sack when he enlisted at the age of 30 —
8. — Poetry turns out to be a better survival tool than you might think —
9. — Gloomy poets are rarely very good, and good poets rarely very gloomy —

So what’s the deal? Why do the mainstream media hardly ever do articles or reviews about women poets? It is often hard to find ANY article to link to.

Are there more men poets than women poets? (When I got my MFA, the poetry students were mostly women.) Are men poets simply better poets than women poets? More interesting? Better at self-promotion maybe? Do articles in which the subject has a penis make for increased sales or something? Are men poets more likely to get published by a large press? What? Is? The? Deal? Here?

Poetry News:

1. — Why John Milton sides with the angels —
2. — Sometimes the prose is pure poetry —
3. — Poetry workshop: Peter Bennet admires the responses to his exercise on the moonlit world of Walter de la Mare —
4. — David Trinidad talks with Richard Siken about his fascination with the world of Barbie and the process of creating a collection of his very own —
5. — Not only is finding the right market vital to being successful in your writing but keeping up to date on new markets is also important —
6. — She made me feel as if my poems were fine wine to be decanted and savored —
7. — Fierce, funny poems take prize double —
8. — I decided to try deliberate inattentiveness as a way of starting poems —
9. — Philip Whalen’s word bombs —

Poetry News:

1. — In ‘‘Elegy,’’ poet Mary Jo Bang has taken on one of the largest and most difficult subjects in all of literature —
2. — National Book Critics Circle finalists —
3. — John Milton: the poet who gave us ‘Star Trek’ and ‘The Matrix’ —
4. — Former poet laureate opening another chapter in his life —
5. — How lovely it is that there are words and sounds —
6. — John Ashbery, Octavio Paz, Stanley Kunitz and Robert Pinsky all wrote poems for him —
7. — he calls for the impeachment of George W. Bush, whom he calls “a booted, sombrero’d/cowboy Caligula/who couldn’t manage a straw/horse on a parade float…” —
8. — Ex-carpenter warms up tp poet laureate honor —
9. — Editorial: Frost home vandalism is deeply disturbing —
10. — Poets and jazz artists find rhythm and rhyme —
11. — Taslima Nasreen has been chosen for the prestigious Simon de Beauvoir feminist award in recognition of her writing on rights for women —
12. — Vendetta fear after poet murdered —
13. — Denise Clarke is entertaining as poet Anne Sexton in Sylvia Plath Must Not Die —
14. — If Fence magazine were an actual fence, it would be a portable one —
15. — A different kind of poetry concentrates more strikingly on expressiveness —

I’m going to Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness in March. I bought a plane ticket but I don’t know where I’m staying yet. I’ve only been to D.C. once, for some computer security training. But I took a train to the Mall area and wandered around for half a day. Saw about an hour’s worth of the Smithsonian. I wish I had more time to see stuff but I won’t. I’d like to meet with my members of Congress, too, but I won’t be there on those specified constituent days. After all the letters I’ve written them I’m not sure their staff would schedule me anyway hahaha.

Poetry News:

1. It‘ God vs. Satan. But What About the Nudity? —
2. Blake once wrote that “I labour upward towards futurity” —
3. Mastering complexity is beautiful, a great human pleasure —
4. Poets’ daughter faces midlife with art —
5. The 3,000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, its unlikely rediscovery, and its echoes in literature and politics —
6. If you were to approach 10 people on the street and ask each one to recite from any narrative poem … —

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Poetry News:

1. Listen to an exerpt of Helen Vendler’s lecture on the poetry of William Butler Yeats —
2. For the 58th straight year, a mysterious visitor left birthday cognac and roses at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave —
3. Literary prize bows to pressure over racial discrimination —
4. Walker, of Grand Rapids, was the only Michigan resident awarded one of the prestigious NEA grants —
5. A sad ending for a 371-year-old tree steeped in British history —
6. The next installment in Dickon’s series of attention-grabbing titled poems is called … —

Well this is a classic.

No news for a few days. Have a good weekend.