Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — on the dearth of great films about great writers —
2. — British Poets Launched Lyrical Revolution —
3. — A Welsh Government minister has apologised after announcing the wrong winner of the Wales Book of Year at an awards ceremony in an embarrassing gaffe —
4. — Kate Clanchy’s workshop: She would like you to write a letter-poem to someone you’ve lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen —
5. — The effects of poetry often depend on the tension between shared and unique memories to set up patterns of expectation in the mind of the reader —
6. — http://www.newsweek.com/id/59182 —
7. — Articles in May/Jun 2008 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
8. — UB Poetry Collection hits the road —
9. — Although speakers of different languages describe events using the word orders prescribed by their language, when the same speakers are asked to “speak” with their hands and not their mouths, they ignore these orders — they all use exactly the same order when they gesture —
10. — In two of her recent Poet’s Choice columns, Mary Karr makes assertions that cannot go unchallenged. —
11. — Stone Circle draws poets, storytellers and singers to spin tales from the heart [Ernie Harwell - yay!] —
12. — Hayes’s poems enact the new race struggle, more up-to-date than the pre-civil rights poems of his lit’rary ancestors (Langston Hughes, say), but equally instructive to this white reader. —
13. — A clear-eyed look at Whitman’s ‘prophets’ —
14. — One of Idaho’s foremost poets and kayakers is missing and was presumed drowned —
15. — Poetry: A ‘Ferocious Contrast to the Clamor’ —
16. — Rupert Graves accused of stealing lover’s work [and a bunch of Laura Riding Jackson MP3s here] —

It’s not me. Google Reader isn’t following my rss feed’s 302 redirects to Feedburner. Sorry. I guess I have to wait for Google to respond to my issue. hahahahaha right. I’ll wait a week and then ditch feedburner. I don’t think that will entirely solve the problem though, because Google reader has some weird caching issues as well. Meh.

Poetry News:

1. — their estimates of one or two poets, notably John Gould Fletcher, are horrifyingly kind, and of one or two others, notably Laura Riding, apparently insensible —
2. — Members of the public will choose the verses from a list before picking up the cab at an agreed location and time —
3. — Queens faculty readings in January —
4. — Main Street Rag Publishing Company will publish the second collection of poetry by Hickory poet, Scott Owens —
5. — The Library of Michigan has chosen its 2008 Michigan Notable Books —
6. — Spotlight Audio: Langston Hughes reads “A Negro Speaks of Rivers” —
7. — What We Owe the New Critics [link good for a few days] —

I’ll be back after the new (and hopefully, improved) year. The blog is on autopilot with some non-poetry stuff until then.

I’m leaving tonight to see my folks and my new niece and my sister and brothers. Not looking forward to the flights — I’m on the TSA automatic “selectee” list, so I’m in for a groping and my suitcase will be pawed through & I’ll find a brochure in there. I put my copy of “the rights of man” on top of everything in my suitcase this time haha. [I don't get all the British humor in that video link haha but it was interesting.]

I have to go through the anti-explosives puffer machine if the airport has one, too. WTF? Yeah I’m such a big fat threat. Dumbasses. With a name like “Jill T. Dybka” I doubt they are mistaking me for another “Jill T. Dybka.” Harry  Tuttle  Buttle. hahaha. It is so idiotic. And totally unconstitutional because there is no due process. Maybe I’ll be surprised and I won’t have S or SS or SSSS on my boarding pass anymore.

Anyway, sorry for the semi-rant. I sincerely do hope you have a Happy Solstice tomorrow and happy holidays. Be careful on New Year’s Eve with all the Craze-Os on the roads. & thanks for reading my blog.

p.s. I almost didn’t schedule auto-posts, which are scheduled from this point until New Year’s. What if my plane crashes and I die and yet my blog keeps posting for a while? That would just be really, really, creepy haha. I’ll take my chances.

p.p.s. What if I schedule auto-posts, then in the last post before I depart, I make a joke about my plane crashing/my blog continuing to post after I’m dead and then my plane REALLY DOES CRASH? That would just be really, really, REALLY creepy haha. I’ll take my chances.

Poetry News:

1. — JOYCE KILMER SLAIN ON THE WEST FRONT; Former Member of Times Staff Had Won Sergeantcy in the 165th of Infantry. HIS WRITINGS WELL KNOWN —
2. — Sometimes I’ve felt as if I’ve spent my whole life trying to make a poem shimmer, just shimmer just above the page, to make it just lift a little off the page. —
3. — We reflect on the music that’s been inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, with her daughter Linda Gray Sexton and Robert Clawson who managed the Sexton’s experimental band “Anne Sexton and Her Kind.” —
4. — He’s a major force, not just in Long Beach poetry, but he’s been a major force in Southern California poetry —
5. — Neruda Songs, a cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Peter Lieberson, has won the 2008 Grawemeyer Award —
6. — In the late 1970s, John Phillip Santos, a young, award-winning poet, wrote a letter to Laura Riding Jackson, whose poetry he admired —