- — This week, Poets & Writers issued online rankings of all the MFA programs in creative writing across the country for the upcoming academic year of 2010. —
- — For instance, here is Natalie Latta, a reader who hung out beneath a bridge like a troll for 2 hours, and wait for each group to arrive and be startled shitless when she began reading a section of a writer’s work. —
- — Long Feared Extinct, Rare Bird Rediscovered —
- — Ten Poems I Love to Teach -Surefire poetry hits for the classroom and beyond. —
- — Composer premieres Angelou poetry piece with PSO —
- — Cornell University Assistant Professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. —
- — Washington University professor Carl Phillips is a poetry finalist for this year’s National Book Awards. —
- — Chapter 16 is, in part, a response to our sense that local culture and local community have been diminished by the disappearance of locally generated reviews and coverage of books in Tennessee newspapers and other media. —
- — Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1928 poem will be celebrated at Harpers Ferry this weekend. —
- — American poet has big Czech connections —
- — Poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler, a prominent figure on the Detroit literary scene, has won a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award for 2010 —
Poetry News For October 15, 2009
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Oct 152009
- — “Now everything comes from China,” said Brian Campbell, whose book of prose poems, Passenger Flight, invokes global warming, globalization, 9/11 and state-sanctioned torture. —
- — “Ninety-eight percent of the time I agree with them,” said Graham, referring to the current processes that her book is undergoing. “It really shows how important revision is.” —
- — McSweeney’s Next Incarnation: An Old-Fashioned Broadsheet —
- — Transcript: James Wright on the Poetic Prose of H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, E. M. Forster, and Leo Tolstoy —
- — Astrology chart Walt Whitman —
- — Rosmarie Waldrop on Metaphor & Metonymy —
- — Bonnie Jo Campbell Rocks the Twittersphere —
- — Lunch Poems: Tracy K. Smith – UCTV – University of California Television —
- — St. Teresa of Avila (October 15, 2009) from Saint of the Day —
- — Monitor reviews of National Book Award nominees -The 2009 National Book Award nominees are out. You can see the full list below, but for now I’m simply going to quote blogger Laura Nathan who notes, “I recognize the names of far more National Book Award judges than I do book titles and authors.” —
