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Poetry News:

1. — Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon —
2. — U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician —
3. — New Buk on DVD —
4. — Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner —
5. — Al Young took to writing poetry, as he describes it in one poem, “to make out the sound of my own background music.” —
6. — An opportunity to do something good —
7. — What’s The Best Writing Tip of All Time? —
8. — Argentine poet wins Spain’s highest literary honour —
9. — Lifetime achievement ‘double’ for Cynthia Ozick —
10. — Bullies, Addicts and Losers: A Poet Loves Them All —
11. — A newly discovered cache of poetry video shorts —

See you Monday.

ps. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that evidence seized during arrests that are illegal under state law can still be used at trial.

Poetry News:

1. — I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —
2. — Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —
3. — Definition of poetry splits the literati —
4. — The Victorian poet William Barnes proposed wheelsaddle as an alternative to bicycle, and in the same vein suggested painlore, folkwain and nipperlings in lieu of pathology, omnibus and forceps —
5. — Collected here are poems from 59 countries and territories spanning Asia and the widest definition of the Asian diaspora —
6. — Blake Morrison celebrates livres d’artistes, texts have been cut open, painted over, burnt and locked up by the likes of Matisse and Hirst —
7. — Q&A with California Poet Laureate Al Young —
8. — WILD NIGHTS! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway —

Important net neutrality developments.

My 6 word story - thanks Thierry Brunet.

…catching up.

Poetry News:

1. — How to trivialise women’s poetry —
2. — elitism is a laughable charge to levy against an art that doesn’t require tickets or a premium cable subscription —
3. — The antipoem’s burlesque charm hits like a nightstick —
4. — An interview with poet Mary Jo Salter —
5. — And I may say, perhaps, I’m happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one —
6. — If we could just do one or the other, we wouldn’t suffer such inner twists as bitter poems require, and there might not be so many nasty songs and poems —

Some favorite searches that lead people to this blog recently:
“I can’t stand Maya Angelou’s poetry”
“Sex Sex Sexton”

I find this rhetoric blog very entertaining.

Poetry News:

1. — The sonnet is a frequently misunderstood form with an enduring appeal. Fancy having a crack at your own ‘little song’? —
2. — it also cements her reputation as the greatest poet of her generation —
3. — This sense of freedom is produced by Ashbery’s diction (no American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound) as well as his formal choices. —
4. — Sometimes the hothouse of a partnership fosters frustration and magnifies our tiniest faults —
5. — Dylan Thomas revival proves death has no dominion —
6. — Crozier realised that with a sensibility as English as his own, he couldn’t create a postscript to Black Mountain, so he left America and came home —
7. — Wash. adviser fired for helping underground paper regains job —

Poetry News:

1. — Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation —
2. — new lit mag alert —
3. — The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist —
4. — She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles —
5. — Never has so much genius,” he wrote, “been combined with so little talent.” I never heard that one before, hahaha.—
6. — Taking the Pain Out of Poetry —
7. — Tracking Olympic Torch Relay, PEN Poem Relay lands in North America —
8. — Next on American Experience - Walt Whitman, Airing April 14, 2008 —

If you are doing NaPoWriMo, there are some writing prompts here

Geez you guys are stingy with the ad clicks, LOL:

I’ve tried to promote poetry as best I know how, but I need to close for a while. (It hasn’t anything to do with adverti$ing pittances.) Have a good remainder of the National Poetry Month. I love you, poets!

Poetry News:

1. — Poet d.a. levy memorialized in new book —
2. — Write, stop, pivot, punch —
3. — But tomorrow is another day that he can enjoy twice, full of bees, birds, and breezes in a beet field —
4. — Road Scholar Copy Edits America —
5. — Sinéad Morrissey’s Through the Square Window won the 2007 National Poetry Competition. What do you think of it? —
6. — In a 1946 article in the Atlantic Monthly magazine, Mr. Hall described himself as “shame-faced and apologetic,” but claimed that Fern had come to him in a dream and dictated her poems to him —
7. — Flarf Poets Still Not Dead Yet, I See —

Amazon has threatened publishers who sell direct at discount on their own websites with punitive action LOL. Just LOL.

Poetry News:

1. — A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —
2. — Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —
3. — What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —
4. — Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —
5. — Houston poet wins $50,000 award —
6. — Reed Whittemore, Handyman to the Muse: Influential Poet Writes the Work of His Life —

Poetry News:

1. — Scantily Clad e-chaps —
2. — When James Woolley, Smith Professor of English, discovered a lost manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —
3. — “I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion. . . .” —
4. — The Boston Public Library is seeking to fill the Curator of Manuscripts position in its Rare Books and Manuscripts Department —
5. — Job: Curator of Poetry in the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room Harvard —
6. — Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74 —
7. — It’s time her genius was more widely recognised —
8. — The poet doubts the redemptive power of her own gift while simultaneously using it to find a tone that — in the final line — wavers perfectly between her contempt for consolation and her desire for it —

Poetry News:

1. — This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was “a wild little creature” —
2. — new small press alert —
3. — Byron, Shelley and Miss Havisham —
4. — MLB Poetry Previews: Boston Red Sox —
5. — Romantic, Surrealist, clear-as-glass, impenetrable charlatan: Ashbery has been called all of these —
6. — new lit mag alert —
7. — Markov chains appear in everything from mathematics to music to gambling to Google searches, but Allmann decided to put a different spin on the algorithm by feeding it poetry —
8. — Beth Ann Fennelly’s best poems are as noisy as a rat in a coffee can —

Could be worse.

Poetry News:

1. — The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —
2. — Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —
3. — He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, have been under house arrest in Beijing since the protests began —
4. — Ó Searcaigh in ‘an abyss’ after documentary —
5. — As for the first example, yes, a poem is marketing material to drive awareness of a poet —
6. — Backwards City Review is going out of business & Poetry magazine is now accepting electronic subs. —
7. — Nominations To Begin For 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere cast your vote —

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To whomever arrived here by searching “Did Anne Bradstreet win any awards?” … Thank you for asking! Yes! She did:

Vaſſar Miller Prize

Good luck on your homework!

Poetry News:

1. — April approacheth, and stalking in its shadow is NAPOWRIMO —
2. — “It’s always important to have poems that will offend people,” she joked. —
3. — Exhibition in Petersburg Marks 70th Anniversary since Death of Poet Osip Mandelstam —
4. — This Saturday she returns to Boston’s Opera House to perform Homeland, an epic poem wrapped in a rock concert —
5. — Appeal launched for ladies’ tomb —
6. — She is considered one of the most widely read of American experimental poets —
7. — On Small Press Poetry Publishing —
8. — The sun shines on Detroit ad exec’s free verse novel —

Poetry News:

1. — Post-apocalypse, Poetry, and Robots —
2. — Changing Hands Bookstore hosts a handful of acclaimed poets (all female) who contributed to Letters to the World: The Wom-Po Anthology —
3. — People find what they lack in themselves in this object of adoration —
4. — Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford’s Bita Prize for Literature and Freedom —
5. — 2 editors’ online journal gives new life to literature —
6. — Auden was roundly criticized for leaving England when he did; after all, the1930s had been dubbed “The Age of Auden,” and even admirers of his poetry saw his departure as an unpardonable —

Go With Your Gut — Intuition Is More Than Just A Hunch, Says New Research —

Poetry News:

1. — Does poetry have any real agency in the world? It might not seem so, but poets have made some stirring arguments that it does, —
2. — Canadians are playing key role in `Books 2.0′ —
3. — Saying he has a mandate to make poetry more accessible, P.E.I.’s poet laureate has launched a website —
4. — the plowboy interview: Wendell Berry —
5. — A suspicious degeneration —
6. — Ida Fink, Tuvya Ruebner and Nili Mirsky are the winners of the 2008 Israel Prize for Literature, Poetry and Translation —
7. — One thing that unites the fast-growing small presses on this year’s list is their willingness to experiment —

Poetry News:

1. — New Pages’ Lit Mag Reviews are Fresh —
2. — Loss of poet Salinas is loss to literature —
3. — Nick Drake’s From the Word Go meditates upon a single word —
4. — Robert Frost, Unplugged, Praised Rich Capitalist Fools, AP Says —
5. — The polls are open in the annual balloting for the Diagram Prize, honoring the world’s oddest book title —
6. — Celebrate the first national Poem In Your Pocket Day! —
7. — Podcast: A poem from A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti [links to HTML page with audio available] —
8. — Fearon fiercely succinct; Shockley’s poems sing —
9. — Podcast: Anna Beer on John Milton [links to HTML page with audio available] —
10. — A series of cultural events this year will commemorate one of Poland’s greatest poets —
11. — 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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