Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry Buying Survey (3 questions) —
2. — Fitting farewell to Palestinian poet —
3. — Counter-Revolution of the Word:The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960 —
4. — San Francisco looking for next poet laureate —
5. — Library of Congress Adds New Authors to Eighth Annual National Book Festival; Free Podcasts Invite Nationwide Participation in Celebration of Reading —
6. — Poet Ricardo Pau-Llosa Reflects on Influences, Art [MP3 @ PBS] —
7. — A question about scansion in a country music song —

If anyone would like a review copy of my book or chapbook, email me. I have a few that I bought to send out (other than the ones I have already sent as a thank-you to folks who have published my poems before). Lotsa publications won’t accept a review a self-published/DIY-published book, however, so be aware of that before you email me. If you want to review it on your blog that’s fine.

Poetry News:

1. — Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 —
2. — Assessing Kay Ryan, our new poet laureate —
3. — McSweeney’s Rejects Mike Mussina’s Seventh Consecutive Submission —
4. — Like Ginsberg - like Pablo Neruda, like Walt Whitman - Herrera found such forms in long lists, long lines, long poems made out of short parts —
5. — The Voices and Visions videos are available online via learner.org! Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Wallace Stevens, etc —
6. — It’s that same sense of dignity that Hayden brought to this next poem, which praises a different kind of sacrifice for another ancestor of his: the freed slave Frederick Douglass —
7. — Portrait of Calliope (detail), muse of poetry, found at Pompeii guest house —

Poetry News:

1. — How Jim Morrison Died —
2. — The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few” —
3. — We’re poets, so this was an amazingly stressful situation for us —
4. — Actress Katrice Monee Headd has more than the usual nervousness about her upcoming portrayal of poet Nikki Giovanni. —
5. — At 26, the youngest poet to be shortlisted for Forward Prize —
6. — The 3rd Annual Printers’ Ball is scheduled for Friday, July 20, at the Zhou B. Art Center in the heart of Chicago‘ Bridgeport neighborhood —
7. — Should peotry [sic] be outlawed? —
8. — Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish returned to Haifa Sunday night and read his poems in front of hundreds of cheering fans —
9. — Shapiro’s poems are levitations, magical and incantatory, or they are physics experiments that are also dreams —
10. — Linda Fiorentino Will Produce, May Star in Russian Poet Biopic —

“I’ve seen the miracles of God with my own eyes,” Yang said. “I did a lot of bluffing, also.”

In just a generation or so it has spread throughout much of the English-speaking world [link found here thank you]

What’s the difference between a blues musician and a jazz musician?

A blues musician knows 3 chords and plays in front of a thousand people and a jazz musician knows a thousand chords and plays in front of 3 people.

[Rimshot.]

Poetry News:

1. — Poetic Theaters, Romantic Fevers [one can always check NYT for poetry-related articles here] —
2. — Sonnets served with a slice of pi —
3. — Revisiting North Carolina’s finest poet —
4. — “This is a clip from the new Bob Dylan movie. It stars Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan and David Cross as Allen Ginsberg.” —
5. — Palestinian Poet Blasts Infighting —
6. — He felt that doing the work was a rehearsal for the work itself, and each rehearsal then became its own work [Thanks to Helen Frost for the link] —
7. — Poetry of the beach —

This is from Crossing the Water. (I disagree & like it better than Ariel and I like how the metaphors act like small bombs of surprise as you read the poems.) And I wish she’d've written more poems like this because whoo:

Maudlin

Mud-mattressed under the sign of the hag
In a clench of blood, the sleep-talking virgin
Gibbets with her curse the moon’s man
Faggot-bearing Jack in his crackless egg:

Hatched with a claret hogshead to swig
He kings it, navel-knit to no groan,
But at the price of a pin-stitched skin
Fish-tailed girls purchase each white leg.