Poetry News:

1. — Catherine Breese Davis wrote of loss, abandonment, destitution, despair and decrepitude—and she knew what she was talking about —
2. — Between Poetry and Performance, a Film Finds a Rocker’s Heart —
3. — A Voice Poetry Roundup: From half-baked utopias to diabetic bitches —
4. — But if no one likes to read poetry — or so it can often seem to the discouraged poet — then putting poems in hotel nightstands or on subway cars only multiplies the public’s opportunities to ignore them —
5. — Not for Li-Young Lee are the darker recesses of poetry, the bleak places where the soul loses its way and succumbs to hopelessness —
6. — In his new book The Watchmaker’s Table, Nova Scotia poet Brian Bartlett proves that time is not, in fact, linear —
7. — Amazon policy change threatens small publishers —

It’s now time to cast your votes for the 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere

Poetry News:

1. — If you like your poets tortured and doomed, then Alun Lewis (1915-44) is your man —
2. — A ‘mystical’ experience with two poets —
3. — The drunken fall of the house of Poe —
4. — Li-Young Lee has ushered us into 2008 with “Behind My Eyes,” his first collection of poems in seven years [may require bug me not]—
5. — DIY Poetry Publishing Cooperative Update —

Poetry News:

1. — “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —
2. — Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —
3. — City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across racial and socioeconomic lines to promote literacy through poetry —
4. — Poet Li-Young Lee achieves transcendence in works such as ‘To Hold’ —
5. — Maya Angelou’s poem in praise of Hillary —
6. — Lilya would become the muse for Mayakovsky’s poetry for the next 20 years, and the couple a key presence in the Soviet Union’s new literary and artistic movements —
7. — Brian Turner had a master’s in fine arts degree tucked in his ruck sack when he enlisted at the age of 30 —
8. — Poetry turns out to be a better survival tool than you might think —
9. — Gloomy poets are rarely very good, and good poets rarely very gloomy —

So what’s the deal? Why do the mainstream media hardly ever do articles or reviews about women poets? It is often hard to find ANY article to link to.

Are there more men poets than women poets? (When I got my MFA, the poetry students were mostly women.) Are men poets simply better poets than women poets? More interesting? Better at self-promotion maybe? Do articles in which the subject has a penis make for increased sales or something? Are men poets more likely to get published by a large press? What? Is? The? Deal? Here?

Poetry News:

1. — Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —
2. — The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —
3. — “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —
4. — West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a ‘Soldier’s Heart’ [links to MP3] and more here at Ron Slate’s blog —
5. — Poet Confidential: I WAS A GREETING CARD WRITER —
6. — A new collection from America’s most playful poet —
7. — It is one of the more delicious workings of karma that Singapore, which criminalizes homosexuality, should have as its leading young poet an openly gay man —
8. — Interview with wordsmith Gary Snyder —
9. — But The Stray Dog Cabaret is as compelling for the poems included as for its back story, which tells us a great deal about Russian society and literature in the period preceding the revolution —
10. — A.Van Jordan writes books of poetry that approach a subject the way a filmmaker or nonfiction writer might —

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