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Poetry News for July 24, 2007

Poetry News:

— I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers —

— Fiona Sampson admires the responses to her exercise on listening poems —

— Fitzpatrick painstakingly filled the three-car driveway with T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” —

— Two skulls, one poet —

— Penguin in battle over Parker poems —

— Massachusetts is even more spectacular with offbeat author Henry Thoreau as a guide —

— 100 unpublished poems along with photographs and other belongings of Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral have been found —

— William Carlos Williams wrote to Mary Ellen Solt on April 25, 1960, concerning her poem “With Child” —

— The Speed of Dark —

Today is the Feast Day for St. Christina the Astonishing (of Brustheim). And Amelia Earhart’s birthday.

Tags: Fiona Sampson, Friedrich Schiller, Gabriela Mistral, Gervaise de Bus, Ian Duhig, Mary Ellen Solt, Poetry, Poetry News, poets, Thoreau

Poetry News for June 30, 2007

Poetry News:

— Shoot the Messenger: Dana Goodyear, David Orr, and the Stewards of Poetry —

— Mercer Simpson felt a close affinity with Wales and the literary affairs of the country where he lived for more than 50 years —

— Poet, o poet, who art thou? —

— She was a leader in the concrete poetry movement that emerged in the 1960s —

— Sports poetry has always been its own distinct genre within the art form —

— UT faculty poet expresses virtues of creative writing —

Well we all know how this will all end, don’t we?

(hee that’s a good haiku)

Tags: Dana Goodyear, David Orr, Marilyn Kallet, Mary Ellen Solt, Mercer Simpson, Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Virginia Quarterly Review

Poetry News for June 28, 2007

Poetry News:

— Ms. Malaika was one of a small group of Iraqi poets who broke away from classical Arab poetry, with its rigid metric and rhyme schemes —

— …the other is a rare first-edition copy of Phillis Wheatley’s “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” that dates to 1773 —

— Poet Mary Ellen Solt, a founder of the concrete poetry movement, dies at 86 [you have to be a subscriber] —

— The Cabernet of Rent Checks —

— Poet’s work earns him nomination, vacation —

— Borges finds his Boswell —

— I need a PHP coder / developer —

— Out of a Nigerian Slum, a Poet Is Born —

World-wide reading against the regime of Robert Mugabe

well here’s something you don’t read everyday

Tags: Aj Dagga Tolar, Borges, Mary Ellen Solt, Nazik al Malaika, Tom Satterlee, Tony Hoagland

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