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I’m going to Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness in March. I bought a plane ticket but I don’t know where I’m staying yet. I’ve only been to D.C. once, for some computer security training. But I took a train to the Mall area and wandered around for half a day. Saw about an hour’s worth of the Smithsonian. I wish I had more time to see stuff but I won’t. I’d like to meet with my members of Congress, too, but I won’t be there on those specified constituent days. After all the letters I’ve written them I’m not sure their staff would schedule me anyway hahaha.

Poetry News For December 2, 2007

Poetry News:

— 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] —

— The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —

— “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —

— West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a ‘Soldier’s Heart’ [links to MP3] and more here at Ron Slate’s blog —

— Poet Confidential: I WAS A GREETING CARD WRITER —

— A new collection from America’s most playful poet —

— 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 —

— Interview with wordsmith Gary Snyder —

— 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 —

— A.Van Jordan writes books of poetry that approach a subject the way a filmmaker or nonfiction writer might —

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Poetry News For November 30, 2007

Poetry News:

— Shackled Magazine Editors Harm Literature; Says Tom Masson, Who Deplores the Ownership of Magazines by Brokers and Soap-Makers Who Make “Hired Men” Editors - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— Nazi Claim May Thwart Bukowski Landmark —

— Argentine poet Juan Gelman wins Spain’s prestigious Cervantes Prize —

— Visual artist Ann Hamilton and poet Henri Cole, both from Columbus, Ohio, received the USA Fellowships —

— Poem Headstone Uncovered at Courthouse —

— Everson came of age as a poet with his friends Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan, the core members of the Berkeley Renaissance poets —

Poetry News For November 22, 2007

Poetry News:

— American Literature Is Going to the Dogs; It Is the Fault of Magazines, Says Henry Holt, Who Laments Their Exploitation of Names and Accuses Government of Unduly Favoring Them - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, Fun… What’s a Fib? Math plus poetry. —

— Women dominate the contenders, and immigration is the prevailing theme in this year’s shortlists for the erstwhile Whitbread awards —

— Artists pay tribute to Lorca at poet’s home —

— The gulagtestimonial —

— 7 things you should know about: being a poet —

— An eminent intellectual historian leads the reader on a pleasant ramble through Modernist art and literature —

— Clashes in Kolkata over Taslima Nasreen & Unprecedented vandalism in Kolkata, army called in —

— Absolutely Alexie —

mmmmm pumpkin pie

Poetry News for November 19, 2007

Poetry News:

— A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —

— What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —

— Four of the most prestigious poetry prizes went to African-American women this year —

— Movies based on poems —

— Self-confidence is a definite advantage in most areas, but wingless flight is not one of them —

— Penguin should be ashamed of itself —

— If a more cringe-making book exists than Boris Johnson’s debut volume of poetry, Stuart Jeffries has yet to read it —

— Mark Strand’s New Selected Poems includes an evocation of food’s deep meanings, appropriate to the holiday, though the dish is not turkey: —

— Reed Whittemore: Telling it slant —

— Website of the Week — Poetry Foundation —

— One manuscript that escaped the blaze — just barely — contained an untitled poem of more than 3,000 lines —

Rare Spanish Coin Found in Nashville Cemetery. I once found an Imperial German Army uniform button. It was on top of a mole hill in our yard in Nashville on the Cheatham County line. Weird.

Collin kindly nominated Poetry Hut Blog for The Shameless Lions Writing Circle Award. Thanks, that is kind.

These are 5 blogs, poetry and not, that I also nominate:

WhimsyLand: Jeffrey Bahr deserves some kind of award for The Futility Review.

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: just because it always cracks me up & I like Chaucer.

rotten peaches: makes me want to do memoir-comics. But mine would look a lot more like a John Callahan cartoon.

pitcherlady: for pretty pictures and not-so-pretty pictures that aren’t afraid to shine a light on community problems. If I ever publish a book I’ll ask Susan for a pic. (Yes I realize this award is for writing but…)