Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Post-apocalypse, Poetry, and Robots —
2. — Changing Hands Bookstore hosts a handful of acclaimed poets (all female) who contributed to Letters to the World: The Wom-Po Anthology —
3. — People find what they lack in themselves in this object of adoration —
4. — Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford’s Bita Prize for Literature and Freedom —
5. — 2 editors’ online journal gives new life to literature —
6. — Auden was roundly criticized for leaving England when he did; after all, the1930s had been dubbed “The Age of Auden,” and even admirers of his poetry saw his departure as an unpardonable —

Go With Your Gut — Intuition Is More Than Just A Hunch, Says New Research —

Poetry News:

1. — writers in their early careers today face a peculiar and sometimes unenviable set of circumstances —
2. — poems take on lives - people shouldn’t hold on to them, they should send them out so it has a chance to get a life —
3. — Each poem presents the dying thoughts of a different character —
4. — Call Me a Snob, but Really, We’re a Nation of Dunces —
5. — The surefooted mystery of this opens up possibilities beyond its recognisable elements —
6. — A couple of weeks ago, in a roundup of AWP blogging, we flagged a post by Reginald Shepherd over at Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog, in which he used the term “post-avant.” —

Poetry News:

1. — In ‘‘Elegy,’’ poet Mary Jo Bang has taken on one of the largest and most difficult subjects in all of literature —
2. — National Book Critics Circle finalists —
3. — John Milton: the poet who gave us ‘Star Trek’ and ‘The Matrix’ —
4. — Former poet laureate opening another chapter in his life —
5. — How lovely it is that there are words and sounds —
6. — John Ashbery, Octavio Paz, Stanley Kunitz and Robert Pinsky all wrote poems for him —
7. — he calls for the impeachment of George W. Bush, whom he calls “a booted, sombrero’d/cowboy Caligula/who couldn’t manage a straw/horse on a parade float…” —
8. — Ex-carpenter warms up tp poet laureate honor —
9. — Editorial: Frost home vandalism is deeply disturbing —
10. — Poets and jazz artists find rhythm and rhyme —
11. — Taslima Nasreen has been chosen for the prestigious Simon de Beauvoir feminist award in recognition of her writing on rights for women —
12. — Vendetta fear after poet murdered —
13. — Denise Clarke is entertaining as poet Anne Sexton in Sylvia Plath Must Not Die —
14. — If Fence magazine were an actual fence, it would be a portable one —
15. — A different kind of poetry concentrates more strikingly on expressiveness —

I’m going to Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness in March. I bought a plane ticket but I don’t know where I’m staying yet. I’ve only been to D.C. once, for some computer security training. But I took a train to the Mall area and wandered around for half a day. Saw about an hour’s worth of the Smithsonian. I wish I had more time to see stuff but I won’t. I’d like to meet with my members of Congress, too, but I won’t be there on those specified constituent days. After all the letters I’ve written them I’m not sure their staff would schedule me anyway hahaha.

Poetry News:

1. — Two hundred and fifty favored subscribers received a bewildering book last week —
2. — The Library is on Fire —
3. — Joel Lipman confirmed as Lucas County poet laureate —
4. — Poetry Roundup —
5. — Spam, spam, spam, spam, and poetry —
6. — Amazon.com Buys J.K. Rowling Fairy Tale for 1.95 Million Pounds —

On Tuesday, The Plain English Campaign awarded its annual Golden Bull Awards

Poetry News:

1. — The Happy Endings Foundation hoax —
2. — Vendor of verse: It’s personal at NYC street ‘poem shop’ —
3. — “Poetry arises out of a mind that feels itself in some way to be cracked” —
4. — Editorial: A Muse Unplugged —
5. — In three books, over eight years, Matthea Harvey has moved to the front of the pack of interesting poets writing in English —
6. — New Tay disaster: William McGonagall faces challenge to title of world’s worst poet —
7. — Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts —
8. — A monument to the outstanding poet Joseph Brodsky will be set up nearby the American Embassy —
9. — Former state poet laureate Grace Paley was remembered in a memorial service —

– Physics Nobel winner(s) will be announced today. This link’ll probably tell you the winners.

– Your cabbage: now with 100% more anti-depressants and oral contraceptives.

– Ron Paul was in Nashville this weekend & I attended. He seems like the only antidote to this, to me. I think our Constitutional Republic has been replaced by a corporate-controlled oligarchy. There are a bunch of videos of the rally at You Tube.