Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poetry Hut Blog

A bit of confession Wednesday — lately I’ve been posting here as a way to demonstrate to myself that I am doing better, healthwise, than I am — I think. Self-psyche-out. But I need to quit it until I get this cardiovascular / autonomic nervous system weirdness figured out. I am totally exhausted! From what?! All I’m doing is sleeping and eating really, and my PT routines. I’m getting fat too. I have an exam Friday. I’ll be back when I get some energy.

Poetry News For February 26, 2008

Poetry News:

— New Pages’ Lit Mag Reviews are Fresh —

— Loss of poet Salinas is loss to literature —

— Nick Drake’s From the Word Go meditates upon a single word —

— Robert Frost, Unplugged, Praised Rich Capitalist Fools, AP Says —

— The polls are open in the annual balloting for the Diagram Prize, honoring the world’s oddest book title —

— Celebrate the first national Poem In Your Pocket Day! —

— Podcast: A poem from A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti [links to HTML page with audio available] —

— Fearon fiercely succinct; Shockley’s poems sing —

— Podcast: Anna Beer on John Milton [links to HTML page with audio available] —

— A series of cultural events this year will commemorate one of Poland’s greatest poets —

— Dr. Joachim Sartorius is renowned as a poet and translator of works by the likes of Malcolm Lowry, Robert Gray and John Ashbery [links to HTML page with audio available] —

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Poetry News For January 1, 2008

Poetry News:

— Poetry Chronicle —

— Pakistani’s Poem Offers Hope in Despairing Time —

— In ‘Telephone Ringing,’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words —

— Here is Arizona poet Steve Orlen’s lovely tribute to the great opera singer, Maria Callas —

— Ferlinghetti argues that poetry can save the world —

— Creative Work Has Health Advantages, Population Research Center Study Shows —

— Dylan Thomas’s passport can now be viewed online thanks to the National Library of Wales [more] —

— An “honest guildsman” of a poet melds the political and the personal —

— Possibly the most moving use of a poet’s own name in English poetry is Ben Jonson’s “On My First Son —

Poetry News for October 23, 2007

Poetry News:

— In a sequence about T.S. Eliot in California with his love interest Emily Hale, the couple visits the In-N-Out hamburger chain —

— At the point where one stage of our lives draws to a close and we are about to enter the next stage, there is always room for the hope of great things —

— Larry Matsuda & Tess Gallagher —

— John Hartley Williams is impressed by the responses to his tricky exercise on adapted adages —

— Via extremely rare recordings, Radio Beats will also feature the voices of other seminal American poets including Anne Sexton, Beat-era godfather Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Beat icon Allen Ginsberg —

— The poems that Auden came to dislike, including “Spain,” “Sir, no man‘ enemy,” and “September 1, 1939,” are not to be found here —

— Jeffery Brown reports on how poetry publishers keep turning out new material in today’s fast-paced commercial media culture —

— Allen Ginsberg, American poet and Buddhist, was also eloquent about dictators like Than Schwe: In a work he called “Wichita Vortex Sutra”¦” —

“…it‘ more like copping-a-feel reading. There‘ something yucky about it ….” Well I guess that argument does apply to poetry, nowadays, above all, if you agree with his reasoning.

There’s more here at this article too, which says “… longer-standing online ventures include Blackbird [which is fresh btw], failbetter.com, storySouth, Drunken Boat, and The Barcelona Review. Newer online journals ““ Memorious, GutCult, Small Spiral Notebook ” pop up on the NewPages site.”

(This was the last short story collection I read — if you don’t count Sentence — and it was great.)

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