Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Interview: Poet Major Jackson —
2. — Just when you think that nothing is sacred in a Koch poem … —
3. — Small press has big dreams for writers in N.C. —
4. — Need a new password? Here’s literary help. —
5. — VJTI lecturer beaten over Shivaji poem —
6. — Beating the odds, Alaska Quarterly Review reaches 25th year —
7. — For him, it’s a given that any poet carries around a near encyclopaedia of every line or poem that’s ever affected them —
8. — Security forces have arrested a man suspected to be an aide of the prime suspect in the theft in India of the Nobel Prize medallion of poet Rabindranath Tagore —
9. — Poet-mania: Mary Oliver’s sold-out appearance sparks a ticket frenzy on Craigslist —

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.

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:

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 —

Poetry News:

1. — The great poet William Carlos Williams called [her] “one of the major phenomena of history” —
2. — Copper Canyon is the leading U.S. independent publisher of poetry —
3. — As these four collections show, the field’s “outsider” status lets poets pursue art for its own sake —
4. — Too many movies, poems, songs, TV shows deal in the familiar, offering the comfort of the predictable —
5. — Rowling has already expressed an interest in covering the classics after her studies in Greek and Roman mythology at Exeter University in the 1980s —
6. — Bold words: A poet pushes forward —
7. — Home of poet Langston Hughes experiences its own Harlem renaissance —
8. — Printers Ball shut down by police [wow, weird. link found here thanks] —
9. — when she evokes an environment, she does not efface herself from it, nor (despite the clarity of her eye) stand apart from it —
10. — Poet finds an unsentimental harbor for her love of life —

I picked up the new Harry Potter book when it went on sale at midnight and I have to say that was one of the strangest scenes I’ve encountered. 100s and 100s and 100s of kids going berserk over a BOOK going on sale.