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Poetry News:

1. — Do Women Lack Cultivated Literary Taste?; Harry Leon Wilson Thinks They Do and Deplores the Condition of Modern Fiction ;- Criticises Scathingly the Trade Novels Written to Order By Joyce Kilmer —
2. — Rusty Barnes talk about life on the ‘Night Train’ —
3. — “A magazine living to 50?” Le Guin questioned, speaking to the publication’s unusually long run. “It’s like a dog living to 50.” —
4. — “This is not a study about literary reading,” Gioia said. It’s a study about reading of any sort … —
5. — The basic “deck” for uta karuta is the Hyakunin Isshu, a compilation of one hundred poems by one hundred poets originally assembled by the thirteenth-century imperial poet Fujiwara Teika —
6. — Although it’s a difficult business with high turnover, small presses can be successful if run in a businesslike fashion [requires bug me not I think] —

♫ ♫ la la la la la … wow that is stupefyingly ugly. You’d think that Amazon could afford a good industrial designer. Plus it could use a few more buttons.

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Poetry News:

1. — Economy in writing can put garrulous narration or evasive speechifying to shame (congrats c. dale)—
2. — The American College of Physicians, the nation’s largest medical specialty organization, has published a compilation of stories, essays, and poems by doctors and their patients —
3. — America’s newest, and foreign-born, poet laureate has traveled a long way —
4. — Married M’s: The Metropolitan Market’s Logo Questioned —
5. — Where Sheep Once Grazed, Now Poems Take Root —
6. — Taslima wants adequate security after death threat —
7. — Each week, Ed Shakespeare, the bard of Brooklyn baseball, will take a page from his ancient ancestor and add a bit of iambic pentameter to all our lives —

So for the last 11 days here in Nashville, it has been over 100 degrees F for 10 of them — including one day when it reached 106 degrees F. The hottest it has been here EVER (since they have been keeping records) is 107 degrees F. We are also in an “extreme drought.” I feel really bad for the farmers. We had a really hard freeze in April (?) and that messed things up and now this.

In more positive news, I got a new adult literacy student. That should help shake me out of my funk. My previous student graduated out of the program & got his CDL. Then I took a break because of the surgery. But I’m back & ready to share the wonderment of wordage. If you are in Nashville, the Nashville Adult Literacy Council needs YOU! They have a waiting list of folks who WANT to LEARN!!! It just takes a couple of hours every week and is fun! If you don’t live in Nashville, I’m sure your town has a similar organization with a long waiting list.

Poetry News:

1. Subverting violent computer games with religious poetry —
2. the relationship between coffee, literature and commerce —
3. Report after report testifies to declining literacy in America [link good for 5 days] —
4. The Major Poet is a continuation of all the other Major Poets who have read here —
5. Reading Akhmatova’s essays, one is soon convinced that she would have been an excellent ­full-­time critic of literature if she had been given permission —
6. A Book of Russian Poems —