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Poetry News For May 6, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. The lit mags that could
  2. GK intros Maxine Kumin, she and GK read her poetry [real audio] —
  3. There are stereotypes about Sylvia Plath fangirls — that we’re mired in middle-class existential woe
  4. In his new collection, Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems, poet Cornelius Eady writes of his transition from urban renter to rural homeowner and the encroachment of middle age
  5. Blues And Haikus: Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims
  6. Melissa Denes talks to Aeronwy Thomas about her father Dylan Thomas
  7. Pulitzer Prize Winner Hass Answered Your Questions on Modern Poetry

Meet my neighbors. I heard about that on XM Radio during the top of the hour news blurb & the news announcer just said it was in Tennessee. So I was thinking it was some crazy East Tennessee person (disclaimer: mom & them are from E TN LOL). Sadly, no.

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Poetry News for August 6, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —
  2. Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —
  3. Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan to attend and are not an axe-murderer] —
  4. Emotional poem fills screen
  5. The Gotham Book Mart (it was originally Gotham Book and Art) became known for embracing avant-garde and, occasionally, controversial writers and challenging censorship
  6. Is Southern literature exhausted?
  7. SUNY Brockport seeks to restore paintings of E.E. Cummings
  8. Simic Interview at NPR
  9. X-Ray of a Van Gogh Reveals 2nd Painting
  10. To make the top reaches of this list, I was told by Brent Cunningham, S.P.D.‘ operations director, you need to sell roughly 100 copies a month

I enjoyed “Masters of Science Fiction” & am looking forward to the next episodes. Stephen Hawking narrates it. Speaking of alternate universes: China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate

Awww. More niece. She kinda looks like she got all of our modicum of Native American genes.

And some deep-linking to the NY Times:

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  1. Featured Author: Ishmael Reed With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  2. Featured Author: Allen Ginsberg With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  3. Featured Author: Jack Kerouac With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  4. Featured Author: Langston Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  5. Featured Author: Randall Jarrell With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  6. Featured Author: Seamus Heaney With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  7. Featured Author: James Merrill With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  8. Featured Author: Joseph Brodsky With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  9. Featured Author: Robert Frost With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  10. Featured Author: James Dickey With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  11. Featured Author: James Joyce With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  12. Featured Author: Margaret Atwood With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  13. Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  14. [More] Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  15. Featured Author: Ted Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  16. More on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath From the Archives of The NYT
  17. Featured Author: Hart Crane With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  18. Featured Author: Maxine Kumin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  19. Featured Author: Federico García Lorca With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  20. Featured Author: William S. Burroughs With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  21. Featured Subject: Cole Porter With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
  22. Featured Author: Charles Bukowski With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  23. Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  24. [More] Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  25. Featured Author: Kenneth Koch With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
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Poetry News For April 21, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Students critique Pulitzer Prize winner
  2. Tulare County poet laureate kept writing until the end
  3. When words take wing
  4. That’s the trouble with now. Now we’ve got a horrible culture, horrible times and horrible music.
  5. From Haiku to the Blues
  6. Nelson Mandela read an extract from one of her poems, The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga, when he opened South Africa’s first democratic parliament in 1994
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