Poetry News:
- — New site: Postal poetry —
- — City Lights: 50 years on the cutting edge of publishing —
- — Half of his sonnets and songs were written during his travels which he regarded as a form of exile, an alternative to prison in Lisbon, imposed on him by cruel fate —
- — Revisiting Coney Island of the Mind —
- — How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland’s 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub [mp3] —
- — faculty readings from the last two West Chester conferences are online: 2007 and 2008 —
- — Joe Milford’s internet radio show feat. Ron Silliman [mp3] —
- — Seeking poems that explore the twisted world of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet for The Private Press’s next chapbook anthology. Deadline 31 December 2008 —
- — Is music just “auditory cheesecake” or can it provide deep insights into the workings of the brain and the evolution of language —
- — Trying to explain this to younger/newer poets and those outside of the poetry community is frustrating [True -- 7.03% of regular readers of this blog bought my book, using my feed subscriber stats & # of Lulu orders to calculate... it's probably even less than 7%, because the calculation assumes that all the orders came from RSS feed subscribers, which is probably doubtful.] —
- — Eileen Tabios & the Poetry Economics: A Moronic Oxymoron —
A bit of confession Wednesday — lately I’ve been posting here as a way to demonstrate to myself that I am doing better, healthwise, than I am — I think. Self-psyche-out. But I need to quit it until I get this cardiovascular / autonomic nervous system weirdness figured out. I am totally exhausted! From what?! All I’m doing is sleeping and eating really, and my PT routines. I’m getting fat too. I have an exam Friday. I’ll be back when I get some energy.
Tags: City Lights, david lynch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Luis de Camoes, Postal poetry, Ron Silliman, Seamus Heaney