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Lucille Clifton

Poetry News:

1. — Emily Dickinson’s ‘White Heat’ from NPR Programs: Fresh Air from WHYY —
2. — How Keats’s most popular rival rescued him from the critics —
3. — Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky wins the 11th Triennial Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize —
4. — Williams turns 125 years old —
5. — Lucille Clifton’s poem “brothers” shines a bright new light on Lucifer, who answers God in a whirlwind of verse. —
6. — “This is a broad request. I’m compiling a list of contemporary poets from the South or poets that have moved to the South and adopted it as a home.” —

Poetry News:

1. — 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. —
2. — What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —
3. — Four of the most prestigious poetry prizes went to African-American women this year —
4. — Movies based on poems —
5. — Self-confidence is a definite advantage in most areas, but wingless flight is not one of them —
6. — Penguin should be ashamed of itself —
7. — If a more cringe-making book exists than Boris Johnson’s debut volume of poetry, Stuart Jeffries has yet to read it —
8. — Mark Strand’s New Selected Poems includes an evocation of food’s deep meanings, appropriate to the holiday, though the dish is not turkey: —
9. — Reed Whittemore: Telling it slant —
10. — Website of the Week — Poetry Foundation —
11. — 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:

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


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


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


4. 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…)


5. The Moderate Voice: for its news and political discussion made possible in the blog comments — without a bunch of crappy, angry, name-calling.

Poetry News:

1. — Berkeley Profs Wrote Some Good Books —
2. — Lucille Clifton’s truth in poetry has made her the first African-American woman awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize —
3. — Foldable Book of Poems —
4. — Literary magazine loses its funding —
5. — Besty Wergin, R-Princeton, criticized the state government finance bill in a poem Friday —
6. — May 5, 2007 This week on A Prairie Home Companion ” a special springtime poetry show [you can listen online -- Bob Dorough is on it but no Blossom Dearie though] —

“When I saw this argument, my first reaction was embar(r)assment that the absurdity of vampire population dynamics has always been right in front of my face without my ever having noticed it.”

Poetry News:

1. The trial begins at 6:30 p.m. —
2. National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Lucille Clifton recited 16 of her poems to a packed audience Tuesday —
3. Maureen Cannon, 84, a Poet of the Everyday, in Light Verse, Dies —
4. Dante used drugs? Depends on who’s talking —
5. Rep. Kessler says there’s a rhyme and a reason for her poetry bill —
6. Adopt a gargoyle to save Shakespeare’s historic church —

Found, Won or Earned, Money Changes Everything

Poetry News:

1. If you’re going to be a surgeon, and you have poetry in your heart, you’ll be a better surgeon —
2. Chancellor’s Lecture Series presents Jane Smiley on reading, writing and creativity [has video] —
3. I initially believed Okashita-san was a woman, because his tanka are very gentle —
4. Google plots e-books coup —
5. Europop goes from bad to verse —
6. Why did you ask writers to focus on “responding to women writers”? —

We put 250 napkins in the mail to writers from all over the country

(Napkin in the American sense of the word haha. Thanks to Sandra Novack for the link.)