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Poetry News For January 4, 2010

— WB Yeats and Sigmund Freud works posted on Wikipedia as copyright expires —

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— A celebration of the great writers who died in the past decade —

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— Rachel Wetzsteon, Poet of Keen Insights and Wit, Dies at 42 —

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— PBS NewsHour : A profile of Russian poet Vera Pavlova, who will release her first collection of poems in English, “If There is Something to Desire,” next month. —

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— Though the strategies of women writing in Ireland today are various, most avoid the lure of idyll. Campbell’s own cunning sideways take on the masculine pastoral has Mother Ireland as a furious farmer’s wife, while These Women is her tribute to the work-hardened women who “make happen the full wake, /the kettle hopping, the oven warm”. —

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— W.H. Auden turns out to have been a huge fan of Lord of the Rings —

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— A Scottish poet who killed himself after being rejected by a publisher is to be remembered on the 200th anniversary of his death. —

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— The results of the 13th annual Mainichi Haiku Contest are in! —

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— Co-created by Mike Hazard and Deb Wallwork, the half-hour film is a look at the mysterious Chinese poet Han Shan, or “Cold Mountain” (no one knows his birth name – he took the name of the place where he lived). —

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— tag cloud for this blog sorry it disappeared when I changed servers/hosts and reinstalled this blog. I have a new post on my “affliction blog” too. —

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— Poet James M. Nack was born 4 January 1809, and wrote a poem for New Year’s Day for his daughter Eveline —

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— Connecticut Puts Out Call For New Poet Laureate —

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— Lake Superior State University 2010 List of Banished Words —

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— Amy Goodman: The poetic justice of poet Dennis Brutus —

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— Author creates home for misfit words —

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— “It’s fair to say that piracy of e-books is exploding,” said Albert Greco, an industry expert and professor of marketing at Fordham University. —

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— There is no better way to get words on paper than letterpress,” Mr. Torosian said. “The beauty, the letter forms are so architectural and sculptural, they are so tangible,” —

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— Running the small press section at Powell’s in Portland and running my own little press has put me in a position to see a lot of cool stuff from authors before anyone else has even heard of them. 2009 was no exception. Here are the highlights from my own personal reading list… —

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— Is it time to revive the Christmas tradition of the chapbook? —

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— To MFA or Not to MFA? —

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— Obsessive Freak Abner Doubleday Forces Locals To Play Nonsensical Game —

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— “….essays on Sylvia Plath and Material Culture. We’re still accepting submissions…” —

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— The hymn-like metre combines with the Romantic, Keatsian image of the thrush to produce one of Hardy’s most lyrical poems —

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— For Rumi, love is the astrolabe of God’s mysteries and the animating force of creation —

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— the next review submission deadline for Galatea Resurrects has been set at April 15, 2010. —

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— kelsey letterpress (chattanooga) $450 —

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— In her final installment of “In the Pursuit of Happiness,” Maira Kalman considers George Washington’s extraordinary life. —

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— Tom Waits reads Charles Bukowski —

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— For all those poets who died young of tuberculosis, alcoholism, drug abuse or suicide, there are many who aged gracefully and expired of old age. —

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— the southern review seeks submissions from women poets —

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— Small Publisher Finds Its Mission in Translation —

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— On Reviewing: Ron Silliman [and a blogfull of other interviews about reviewing] —

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— ypolita press is back! —

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— DIAGRAM is fresh & congrats on turning 10. —

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— Wallace Berman created a Beat poet’s version of Pop Art. —

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— A Centennial Salute To Johnny Mercer —

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— Although he felt his position as Poet Laureate cramped his creative style, Sir Andrew Motion, pictured, is now considering throwing his hat into the ring for the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. —

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— There are different kinds of sweat and tears—the hours spent on the particular poem and the hours spent in the reading and writing and thinking involved in learning the craft. Often long hours and days and weeks of work on a poem that never works out or comes to life precedes a poem that seems to come almost fully formed. —

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— Saturday poem: Andrew Motion’s elegy for WG Sebald —

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— A poet translates the Hebrew Bible in a contemporary idiom. —

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— The idea is basically to publish a bi-monthly poetry newsletter highlighting new and recently published work by Michigan writers (or writers with connections to Michigan). —

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— Angelique Irvin isn’t your typical defense contractor: she’s a suburban mom who swears by organic products, and the daughter of the founder of the literary journal Calyx (which was started in her childhood bedroom). —

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— Recently he watched all 80 of the Chaplin movies and wrote a series of 106 haiku about them; this chapbook is a selection of 52 of these —

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— haha —

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— Poetry You Need To Read: Nin Andrews’ ‘Southern Comfort’ — Entertainment Weekly —

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— Forgotten Authors No.45: Winifred Watso —

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— Poetry: “Boys Born Zombie” —

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— A grant will take poetry off the pages and put it in the paths of city residents and visitors. —

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— MilSpeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience New coupon code for the anthology eBook – NC64F. This code is good until Jan 31, 2011! Download a FREE copy of the anthology and help raise awareness about creative works by military people. Your action will also help to keep Milspeak Foundation programs free. You can also choose to pay for the book – the entire purchase price, less distributor cost, goes directly to Milspeak Foundation, a charitable organization that exists to serve those who serve.—

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— The group’s third album, “London Calling,” which was released in the US on Jan. 5, 1980 — 30 years ago Tuesday — expanded the definition of punk rock, and brought music in general to new heights —

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— Digital distractions hinder productivity, creativity, UW media expert says —

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— Consider this Part II of Poetry Collections to come in 2010 —

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— Weekly Poem: ‘Longing’ from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS – Dennis Brutus was a South African poet and activist up until his death on Saturday at the age of 85 at his home in Cape Town. —

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— Vic Chesnutt On Mountain Stage —

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— Join Rafael & Brett-Candace as they talk to Afaa Michael Weaver http://www.afaamweaver.com/ In 1951, Afaa Michael Weaver (Michael S. Weaver) was born in Baltimore. He attended the Baltimore Public Schools, and at sixteen began studying at the University of Maryland in College Park as an engineering student. He left the university to begin his fifteen year career as a blue collar worker, which was his literary apprenticeship. During this time he wrote and published poetry, short fiction, and journalism. In addition, he founded 7th Son Press and the literary magazine Blind Alleys. From 1970-73, He served in the armed forces in the 342nd Army Security Agency as a reservist and received an honorable discharge. [mp3] —

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— Living Writers – WCBN Ann Arbor: T Hetzel interviews Matthew Dickman [mp3] —

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— Helen Losse is the author of Better With Friends, published by Rank Stranger Press in 2009 and the Poetry Editor of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She has two chapbooks, Gathering the Broken Pieces and Paper Snowflakes. Her recent poetry publications and acceptances include The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Review, Blue Fifth Review, Heavy Bear, and Hobble Creek Review. She has poems in two anthologies: In the Arms of Words: Poems For Disaster Relief and Washing the Color of Water Golden: A Hurricane Katrina Anthology. Four of Losse’s poems were selected by NC Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer to be included with the works of two other poets in “August 21-27, 2006: A Bouquet of Poems by Winston-Salem Poets” on the website of the North Carolina Arts Council. Losse’s poem, “Four Snapshots of the Sea-Going Boats” won first place for poetry, 2009 Adult Writing Contest of the Davidson County (NC) Writer’s Guild. Educated at Missouri Southern State and Wake Forest Universities, Helen Losse lives in Winston-Salem, NC. She occasionally writes book reviews for various venues. [mp3] —

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— Heather Derr-Smith was born in Dallas, Texas in 1971. She spent most of her childhood in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She received her undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of Virginia, where she also took poetry workshops with Charles Wright, Rita Dove, and Greg Orr. She went on to earn her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book, entitled “Each End of the World”, was a collection of poetry about the war in Bosnia in the 1990’s and was published my Main Street Rag Press in 2005. Her second collection, entitled “The Bride Minaret” was published at University of Akron Press. [mp3] —

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Poetry News For July 21, 2009

— AURORA LEIGH. December 9, 1856, Wednesday —

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— On self-confidence and suckage —

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— Hm. —

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— “I find it clairvoyant, by the way, that he refers to Munch in relation to “Brainpan”. This very image flashed in my mind as I wrote that poem” —

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— Dear Landlord, Plz Stop Trying To Kill Me —

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— “I keep a list of Jew haters from history. T.S. Eliot, for one. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a letter to his wife describing how he had to sit next to a Jew on a coach, how this disgusted him.” —

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— Farts in folktales —

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— JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis joint work discovered —

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— The Ambassador Poetry Project aims to showcase poetic talent from and about Ontario and Michigan. —

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— Poem of the week: Martial Diptych by Glyn Maxwell —

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— though many of poets of the Harlem Renaissance drew their inspiration from African-American culture, Cullen often looked elsewhere —

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— In “Monologue for Some Prince of Denmark,” the poem that opens the volume, Gustafsson begins with a highly impersonal and un-lyrical kind of language —

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— Fresh New Pages Lit Mag Reviews —

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— Publishers Weekly: Charles Bukowski, Bin Ramke, John Koethe, Dara Wier, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Brenda Hillman, Kazim Ali, Kiki Petrosino, Novica Tadic, Charles Simic, Robert Burns —

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— “Young Charlotte” began life as a poem. It’s a cautionary tale that eventually was set to music and has traveled widely around the country. —

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— Please Help Billy Lee Riley —

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Poetry News For May 7, 2009

— reviews of books by BH Fairchild, Frieda Hughes, Michael Blumenthal, Farrah Field, Robert Polito, Ron Slate, Ann Lauterbach, Chelsey Minnis, Lucia Perillo, Joshua Beckman, Russell Edson, & Gregory Orr —

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— From the fuss that some are making – well, the BBC is making anyway – you would think [Bono's poem] was a long-lost sonnet of Shakespeare or at the very least a newly discovered poem by Philip Larkin. —

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— Is he messing with us?: Ethan Coen’s poetry —

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— Poetry Readings and Music by Poet Weldon Kees [mp3] —

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— This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like: what branch of feminism, model of feminist poetics, feminist icon, or etc. informs your poetry? Or, from which of these does your poetry diverge? —

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— Poetry from Duluth’s Holy Cow Press provides comfort for grief [you have to login now durrr] —

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— Police: Mom was writing poem when baby drowned —

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— State’s first poet laureate takes his job seriously —

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— Because most audiences may not know much about Dali, Garcia Lorca and Bunuel, it depends for its box-office appeal on the starring role of Robert Pattinson, the 23-year-old British star of “Twilight” (which was shot after this film). —

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— on Intruder, poems by Jill Bialosky (Knopf) – and an interview with the poet —

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— The decline and fall of books —

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— How Technology Is Changing What We Read —

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— That sensibility caught the eye of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of Saint Thomas, in St. Paul. They’ve awarded her the 13th annual Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. —

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— The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference, being held July 22-25, 2009, on the campus of Austin Peay State University. —

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— 150-year anniversary of translation of Khayyam’s Rubaiyat by Fitz Gerald —

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— The reclusive Christopher Tolkien has broken his silence to respond via fax to a series of questions about his father’s latest posthumous publication —

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— Welcome to Poetry – the Olympic games of creative writing. —

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— Each of the 29 poems in this collection is an example of a different form, from the familiar couplet, sonnet and haiku to the more exotic aubade (a poem lamenting or celebrating the coming of the dawn) and clerihew (two rhyming couplets that gently poke fun at a celebrity, where the first line is always the subject’s name). —

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— Thousands apply for ‘Prince of Poets’ contest held in Abu Dhabi —

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— Throughout her career as a poet, essayist, and activist, Adrienne Rich has been known for her progressive politics and sharp social critiques. —

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— While the book’s subjects — chiefly the writers Emily Dickinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, prominent clergyman Henry Ward Beecher (Stowe’s brother), and the painter Martin Johnson Heade — often share social and familial bonds, Benfey never makes much effort to present them as a unified intellectual movement. —

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May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month so I thought I’d mention that here. Link: May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month. EDS is a debilitating, and potentially fatal connective tissue disorder.

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Poetry News For May 4, 2009

— Pre-Rings’ poems by J.R.R. Tolkien published for the first time —

— Poet’s Choice: ‘Early April’ by Devin Johnston —

— …I’ve written 3 endings, and I can’t choose between them. Below I’ve typed it out with my current favorite final quatrain (candidate number 1 in the poll to which I hope you will respond), followed by the other three endings… —

— Elvis: American David. A poem by Bono —

— Sonoma County Vintner Looking For Writer To Blog, Use Social Media To Share Experiences Drinking Wine —

— On Poetry: Managing free verse can be difficult without control —

— Rita Dove unveils new symphony —

— Poetry, life and barf — the poetics of Eileen Myles —

— Kevin Young’s sixth collection showcases what has become his signature style: bluesy, short–lined couplets riddled with rhyme —

— Zombie? Let Austen Flesh It Out —

— Gerald Locklin – May 09,2009
from Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio: Gerald Locklin has taught English since 1965 at California State University, Long Beach and is the author of over 125 books and chapbooks or poetry, fiction, and criticism, with over 3000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews published in periodicals. —

— Call for Work: “speechless” dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of concrete / visual poetry —

— Appreciation: UA Fanthorpe —

— WB Yeats reflects on his life in ‘Among School Children’ —

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