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Poetry News For June 4, 2008 — 2/2

Poetry News:

  1. Vandals Forced to Study Poetry of Frost & CNN, WSJ
  2. Jason’s poem “One Day I Will Die” enjoins us to hug each instant hard enough to forge a diamond from the coal
  3. So why does poetry matter?
  4. Remembering Joseph Brodsky
  5. Poetry boxing helps Japanese get ready to grumble
  6. He believed that bad writing destroyed civilizations and that good writing could save them, and although he was an élitist about what counted as art and who mattered as an artist, he thought that literature could enhance the appreciation of life for everyone
  7. Czechoslovakia is the setting for Poem of the End, which re-lives the last phases of Marina Tsvetaeva’s most intense love affair
  8. What happens to creativity and imagination as we get older?
  9. Dearborn Suite by Philip Levine Another Michigan poem —
  10. Detroit, 1972, by Jim Daniels And another Michigan poem —
  11. Making a Lyrical Return to the Sunken Garden
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Poetry News for October 12, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Statue Brings Exiled Russian Writer Home
  2. Beat poet Ferlinghetti’s art gets yanked from S.F. building lobby
  3. Squandermania is ambitious, referential, musically brooding in lofty vocabulary, ironic regret and lament without sentimentality
  4. A second NPT documentary, funded in part by the Metro Arts Commission, will explore the contributions of the legendary Vanderbilt poets and critics ““ among them America‘ first Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren ““ known as The Fugitives
  5. Poets and flamenco ring in the new Poetry Center
  6. It’s easier than ever to make and buy culture. No wonder some people are so upset.

This should be interesting

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Poetry News for October 9, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. The Happy Endings Foundation hoax
  2. Vendor of verse: It’s personal at NYC street ‘poem shop’
  3. “Poetry arises out of a mind that feels itself in some way to be cracked”
  4. Editorial: A Muse Unplugged
  5. In three books, over eight years, Matthea Harvey has moved to the front of the pack of interesting poets writing in English
  6. New Tay disaster: William McGonagall faces challenge to title of world’s worst poet
  7. Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts
  8. A monument to the outstanding poet Joseph Brodsky will be set up nearby the American Embassy
  9. Former state poet laureate Grace Paley was remembered in a memorial service

– Physics Nobel winner(s) will be announced today. This link’ll probably tell you the winners.

– Your cabbage: now with 100% more anti-depressants and oral contraceptives.

– Ron Paul was in Nashville this weekend & I attended. He seems like the only antidote to this, to me. I think our Constitutional Republic has been replaced by a corporate-controlled oligarchy. There are a bunch of videos of the rally at You Tube.

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Poetry News for August 6, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —
  2. Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —
  3. Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan to attend and are not an axe-murderer] —
  4. Emotional poem fills screen
  5. The Gotham Book Mart (it was originally Gotham Book and Art) became known for embracing avant-garde and, occasionally, controversial writers and challenging censorship
  6. Is Southern literature exhausted?
  7. SUNY Brockport seeks to restore paintings of E.E. Cummings
  8. Simic Interview at NPR
  9. X-Ray of a Van Gogh Reveals 2nd Painting
  10. To make the top reaches of this list, I was told by Brent Cunningham, S.P.D.‘ operations director, you need to sell roughly 100 copies a month

I enjoyed “Masters of Science Fiction” & am looking forward to the next episodes. Stephen Hawking narrates it. Speaking of alternate universes: China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate

Awww. More niece. She kinda looks like she got all of our modicum of Native American genes.

And some deep-linking to the NY Times:

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  1. Featured Author: Ishmael Reed With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  2. Featured Author: Allen Ginsberg With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  3. Featured Author: Jack Kerouac With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  4. Featured Author: Langston Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  5. Featured Author: Randall Jarrell With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  6. Featured Author: Seamus Heaney With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  7. Featured Author: James Merrill With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  8. Featured Author: Joseph Brodsky With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  9. Featured Author: Robert Frost With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  10. Featured Author: James Dickey With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  11. Featured Author: James Joyce With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  12. Featured Author: Margaret Atwood With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  13. Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  14. [More] Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  15. Featured Author: Ted Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  16. More on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath From the Archives of The NYT
  17. Featured Author: Hart Crane With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  18. Featured Author: Maxine Kumin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  19. Featured Author: Federico García Lorca With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  20. Featured Author: William S. Burroughs With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  21. Featured Subject: Cole Porter With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
  22. Featured Author: Charles Bukowski With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  23. Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  24. [More] Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  25. Featured Author: Kenneth Koch With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
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