Poetry News:

1. — These are poems of stark strength and startling honesty, constantly revealing the shock of the reality of everyday existence, touched often by a quiet dry humor —
2. — With invention, irony, and uncanny instinct, three poets show off their mastery of the surreal —
3. — T.S. ELIOT v. PORTISHEAD —
4. — Stray Questions for: Mary Jo Salter —
5. — Sounds of final partings fill Schultz’s verse —
6. — Ernest Cipolone, 87, of Brooklawn, who has been writing poetry for 60 years, read his verses before an audience for the first time —
7. — If anyone these days is hanging onto a notion of consistent stylistic evolution as aesthetic merit, this volume will do its best to disorient them —
8. — Sylvia Plath Trivia - Answers! —
9. — Poetry roundup —

“Third Genders” in Societies with Rigid Gender Roles

The Guardian recently asked its arts critics to cover sports for a day — and vice versa. The results are quite winning!

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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. — If you didn’t browse the comments when I posted about M.F.A. programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them —
2. — Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’ —
3. — Strip —
4. — A sheaf of post-April poetry and poets —
5. — If poets were cowboys, James Tate would be The Man with No Name. It would be the spaghettiest western ever; his shadow would fall across the saloon door and everything inside would go quiet. —
6. — The future of poetry magazines —

Poetry News:

1. — With her new novel, Lavinia, fantasy and science fiction virtuoso Ursula K. Le Guin vividly fills some of the blanks in Vergil’s Aeneid —
2. — “I’m trying to get people to see a book as an aesthetic artifact, not as a generic container,” says Dave Wofford, who operates the one-man letterpress Horse and Buggy Press. —
3. — But what if the plagiarists are children who won the KidsPost poetry contest, children who said the work was their own? —
4. — In Heather McHugh’s Broken English, I found Ulli Beier’s translations of these ancient songs succinctly moving —
5. — At 99, New Hampshire man becomes a first-time author —
6. — Jorie Graham’s poetry is all about the vertiginous (and sometimes heady) experience of falling through the cracks —
7. — In his day, Jeffers was a star: he appeared on the cover of Time, read his poems in the US Congress and was respected for the alternative he provided to the Modernist juggernaut —

Poetry News:

1. — With this collection, Grace Paley ends as she began, as a poet. —
2. — Lynn Neary speaks with Nigel McLoughlin about his poetry and the Northern Ireland peace process —
3. — English-language poets are increasingly fascinated with the syllabic forms of Latin, Romance languages and Japanese. Can you write a good syllabic poem? —
4. — A poem written by an imprisoned Chinese journalist is following the Olympic torch around the globe. —
5. — For the past three years, a half-dozen handsome new books of poetry have been sent into the world annually by a new Seattle publisher —
6. — The banana of God —
7. — Take my book. It’s free. —
8. — Prince of nerves and manners, precise poet of desolations and furies —
9. — Jorie Graham’s latest poems focus on the possibility of ecological disaster. —

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry workshop: Try Sean O’Brien’s exercise on poetic dramatisation —
2. — Brian Turner and Bruce Weigl from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [links to MP3] —
3. — The revival of Cid Corman’s journal Origin reminds me of when international discussion of poetry took place at a slower, more intense, pace —
4. — One includes “text, pictures, sound, video, liberation”; the other “development, marketing, immersion, adaptation, obsolescence, art.” —
5. — The hunt was on last night for an anonymous Cabinet minister said to have composed a deeply unflattering poem about Gordon Brown —
6. — Poet is a centerfold —
7. — Poet encourages masses to find their inner verse —

Poetry News:

1. — The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by César Vallejo —
2. — Jane M. Cooper, Faculty Emerita, Helped Create SLC’s Writing Program —
3. — MFA alumni program at Queens —
4. — Culture Project Asks ‘Question of Impeachment’ Nov-Dec —
5. — Rafael Campo rescues language and meaning from politics —
6. — New lit mag alert —
7. — In Praise of Online Journals —
8. — The late poet, playwright, novelist, and longtime Columbia University professor Kenneth Koch (1925–2002) may have been the great exception —
9. — Press starts up at APSU and more at Making Sure Poetry Still Matters —
10. — UNMARRIED LITERARY WOMEN —

That anthology mentioned in the NYT article from yesterday is digitized at Google books.