- — To better understand the ancient Roman world, one archaeologist looks at the graffiti, love notes and poetry alike, left behind by Pompeians —
- — Rae Armantrout: 2010 National Book Festival [mp3] —
- — After suicide, UVa launches probe of VQR —
- — The creative tug-of-war in British poetry between experimental freedom and the ancient delights of ballad and song, where lyrics cohere with end-rhyme, is very old. —
- — 20th century poet’s boyhood Cleveland home condemned: City officials want to help keep Langston Hughes home standing —
- — His Poetry Was Odd, but His Letters to the Police Were Odder —
- — Dead Media Beat: Bards of Somalia —
- — 2010 CLMP Keynote Address: Anne Waldman “Small Press Heaven: Poetics of the Floating World” [MP3] —
- — Two acclaimed poets to read at APSU Sept. 23 —
- — After a long journey, Max Ehrmann and ‘Desiderata’ have come home to Terre Haute —
- — “The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” with Rachelle Cruz: Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton. The prize is for the best second collection of poems by an American woman poet. Her debut book, Theories of Falling, was selected by Marie Howe as the winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2008). [mp3] —
- — Feel free to enjoy last Sunday’s excellent show*, one of our new Laureate’s Radio Hours, with Cathy Smith Bowers and Sebastian Matthews (and featuring some work by Sebastian’s father, the poet William Matthews), with musical breaks by Charlie Mingus, Bill Evans, and McCoy Tyner. —
- — Here’s a catalog of the Laureat’s Radio Hour Archive, Wordplay shows featuring N.C. Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers and her special guests —
- — The Joe Milford Poetry Show Archives —
- — She is the brightest new voice on Chicago’s poetry scene because of her keen sense of economy. —
- — What do we really mean when we tell ourselves that we suck? —
- — The Midwest Booksellers Association has announced the winners of its Midwest Booksellers’ Choice awards. —
- — Facebook warn people not to use ‘book’ in their name or else they will sue —
- — The opening track “Space Odyssey” starts out with some great atmospherics from Daryl [sic] Dybka (moog) before diving into the slow funk groove of Harlod [sic] McKinney (electric piano) and lead by Belgrave and the rest of the horn section.
— - — There’s been an editorial change at The Paris Review — and a good deal of controversy attending the new editors’ decision to reject previously accepted poems that had not yet appeared in print. —
- — Reading other peoples’ work aloud is the most tender and respectful, and also the most careful, way to engage with it, I find. —
- — Down the centuries, English poetry has been infused with fresh vigour by elements from different languages. Now it’s your turn to join the import business —
- — Boston-born Fanny Howe is read as an experimental poet; she is located on the far side of the tracks in English language poetry’s continuing divide between the establishment and progressive poetry worlds. —
- — A poem against the apocalypse —
- — John Cusack has announced via his Twitter feed that he will play Edgar Allan Poe in the upcoming film The Raven —
- — Review: Human Chain by Seamus Heaney —
- — Woman who makes the alphabets speak —
- — Scotland mourning national poet Morgan —
- — Poet memorialized by the college that expelled him —
- — ‘The Oxford Book of Parodies’ —
- — Poet W.S. Merwin takes nature seriously —
- — He was one of the last exemplars of an ideal that dates back at least to Matthew Arnold: the ideal of the literary critic as the humanist par excellence. —
- — Beck: “Only Bat Boy Can Save Us” —
- — Neurological Process for the Recognition of Letters and Numbers Explained —
- — Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. —
- — Gay artist turns bandit signs into Roadside Haiku —
- — Any poetesses out there? —
- — English department remembers the lives of two profs —
- — For Prospective Students — AWP’s 2011 Ranking of MFA Programs —
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