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. — Poets’ Opportunities Greater than Ever Before; Arthur Guiterman Tells How to Make a Living Out of Verse and Gives a List of Don’ts for Aspiring Poets ;- Advises Writing on Topical Themes By Joyce Kilmer. —
2. — Defending the M.F.A. [link good for a few days] —
3. — Mr. Wilson’s work was less effective in two vocal pieces, “Four Short Poems of Louis Zukofsky” and “Lotus Dam,” based on a poem by Les Murray —
4. — Just in time for Thanksgiving, hear delectable poems from Stanley Kunitz, W.S. Merwin, Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, and Philip Levine —
5. — He won the 2005 Lannan Literary Poetry Fellowship and has made presentations at more than 300 national conferences, universities and prisons —
6. — NEA May Funnel Addtional Funding to Artist Colonies —

I hope these weren’t some of the toys I sent. But a high probability that, yeah. My condolences. How can somebody suicide-vest-bomb a bunch of little kids? I won’t be sending any more stuff to hand out to the kids over in Iraq (after these school supplies are sent) I don’t think. (My family member is OK.)

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I have some poetry up at the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. These poems are formal poems, including a dactylic poem that made electricity come out of my forehead when I was trying to write it, haha. I don’t think I’ll be writing any more dactylic poems anytime soon. So go read my poems and the other poet’s poems & be sure to not miss Dale Wisely’s poems because his poems just kill me.

Thank you for the invitation.