- — The Genius of Thom Gunn —
- — This week’s poem is an extract from “Medea in Athens”, one of a number of psychologically complex dramatic monologues by the remarkable Victorian poet, Augusta Webster. —
- — One day later, early college and randomly, I acquired a Black Sparrow collection of Gertrude Stein’s interviews, poems, and portraits. They were too bizarre for words, pun intended, so I started to read them aloud to college friends on the phone to annoy them. I did this for awhile for I was a jokester and wanna-be comedian. Eventually, the joke became tired, and I finally had to admit that the phone was an excuse that permitted me to say the weird words aloud and revel in them. —
- — These days, if I read a poem now of a certain kind — one that avoids feeling, a speaker, or making any connection with the reader, of which there are many — I feel sick. —
- — Gather Ye Rosebuds, Etc: Things Which Have Already Been Said Many Times and the Pickup Artist Poem —
- — The book is absolute pleasure, though it is sometimes a pleasure of the sort you might reserve for peeing in a shower, eating liverwurst, fiddling with a hangnail… —
- — newspaper blackout poems also see the Wave Books erasures application —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘New Year’s’ from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Robert Creeley (1926-2005) was one of the most important and influential American poets of the twentieth century. —
- — 2010 is the year in which Drunken Boat becomes a semi-annual publication. We will be launching our 11th issue on January 30th, featuring an interview with United States Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, a themed nonfiction folio looking at Life in a Time of Contraction around the world, as well as some of the best poetry, fiction, photography, sound and web art we’ve ever come across —
- — The project (to give credit where credit is due) is inspired by PBS’ blog “Artbeat” which also posts a weekly poem. However Arbeat draws from the entire nation’s poetry archive; I find Minnesota has more than enough on offer to satisfy my needs. —
- — Costa Award shortlist announced —
- — Wherever you begin in a poem both a beginning and potential for infinite flows and “reflows” can be assured. —
- — Anna Akhmatova – My Winter Poet —
- — Kanye West vows to be more like Maya Angelou —
- — Ladies & Gentlemen, Your 2010 Slash Pine Poetry Festival —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Mark Bibbins – from Joe Milford Show | “Bibbins . . . has the courage to stop, to pin down the always irrational present moment, and the reader is eager to follow, to inhale its scathing or enticing perfume. . . . A brilliant young poet.”–John Ashbery In his second collection, The Dance of No Hard Feelings, Lambda Award winner Mark Bibbins pressures language into a performance of surprising, invigorating movements across syntax and line. Vulnerable, yet suspicious and sharp-witted, he responds to a nation responsible for and besieged by a bankrupted presidency, employing concise lyrics and longer sequences while in the process inventing a new form, the exploded double haiku. Incited by progressive blogs, ad campaigns, elegy, and Eros, Bibbins addresses environmental catastrophe and grotesque political posturing in our nascent millennium, as well as the corporate media’s willingness to front for the worst offenders as it both panders and condescends to audiences drunk on doublespeak. These are songs of passionate and ambivalence sung in a dark time. [mp3] —
- — Ross Gay reads from his new manuscript Bringing the Shovel Down – from WFIU: The Poets Weave Podcast Ross Gay holds a Ph.D in American Literature from Temple University. He is a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man, a painter, and a faculty member at Indiana University and in the low-residency program at New England College. [mp3] —
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Oct 052009
- — Lewis Turco: Odd and Invented Forms —
- — Fifteen-minute poetry theater: Wallace Stevens seduced by conflict —
- — Bei Dao’s interaction with Clayton Eshleman and his wife Caryl begins in 1992, when Eliot Weinberger wrote to ask if he would nominate Bei Dao for the semester-long MacAndless Chair in the Humanities at Eastern Michigan University —
- — Whether the MFA is useful or not continues to be an ongoing debate. But graduate school was important for you — do you think it’s a good path for aspiring writers to take? —
- — On Poetry: Poet’s personal life has no bearing on his or her work —
- — This is the America Whitman and Warhol never got to, and Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, and Charles Simic run away from —
- — Empathic people remember your smell —
- — Keats and His Beloved in an Ode to Hot English Chastity —
- — The uses of erotic poetry —
- — Book clubs don’t read poetry —
- — Massachusetts Poetry Festival —
- — Rattle e.7 – release [pdf] —
- — University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Assistant Professor Kerry Madden, MFA, of Homewood has been named the new editor of the UAB women’s literary magazine, Poemmemoirstory (PMS). —
- — First book advice #2: no apologies, please —
- — Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer. Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. —
- — Rain Taxi’s one-day book fest is a feast —
- — The Poetical Power of Limits —
- — Authors pour worst scorn on each other —
- — World Books Review: A Crown of Thorns for Mandelstam —
- — The Young Poets Society: Meet Britain’s rising stars of verse —
- — Poetry collection ‘is more jig, swing, stomp, and swivel than intimate waltz’ —
- — Southern Festival of Books has something for everyone —
- — In another interview you talk of how “power hides reality, but poets bring it to light”. Can you extrapolate on the relationship between the poet and power, and also the poet’s role in the relationship between ordinary citizens and power? —
- — ‘Verse’ comes from Latin versus a furrow, and vertere to turn: a digging in, and preparing for new growth —
- — Poems discuss topics as diverse as saliva, dry skin, her childhood food preferences — stale Peeps made the list — and hitchhiking are discussed with wit, irony and mystique. —
- — Maya Angelou hospitalized? Not so fast, TMZ —
- — Terre Haute to honor poet Ehrmann with sculpture —
- — From left, front row, the 2009 award winners are Krista Bremer (nonfiction), Heidy Steidlmayer (poetry), and in the back row, Janice N. Harrington (poetry), Helen Phillips (fiction), Vievee Francis (poetry) and Lori Ostlund (fiction). Each will receive $25,000. —
- — Writer helped craft inscription on lunar plaque —
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Jul 082009
- — Tracing the Keats Family in America By FELIX J. KOCH July 30, 1922, Sunday —
- — Contests and Submissions —
- — Which words make you wince? —
- — Dunken Boat 10 —
- — The new dating site from Borders promises happy endings. I read it rather differently —
- — Flarf Poetry in POETRY magazine – Wired News —
- — It is perhaps stating the obvious to say that there is almost no money to be made in poetry. Some poets work as teachers, others in the corporate world. And even a Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. poet laureate needs a day job. —
- — Maya Angelou Writes Michael Jackson Poem —
- — Workshops are a delicate business, and calling them masterclasses is unlikely to improve them —
- — The American Revolution inspired a vast body of literature, much of which attempts to allegorize the fledgling nation’s birth and cast its genesis in the language of archetypal struggles and timeless human themes. —
- — hummingbird tongue —
- — What goes on inside poetry editors’ heads? —
- — He translates Rimbaud, DJs and publishes a Livonia bus driver. Sometimes he makes cars crash. —
