Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry workshop: Try Sean O’Brien’s exercise on poetic dramatisation —
2. — Brian Turner and Bruce Weigl from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [links to MP3] —
3. — The revival of Cid Corman’s journal Origin reminds me of when international discussion of poetry took place at a slower, more intense, pace —
4. — One includes “text, pictures, sound, video, liberation”; the other “development, marketing, immersion, adaptation, obsolescence, art.” —
5. — The hunt was on last night for an anonymous Cabinet minister said to have composed a deeply unflattering poem about Gordon Brown —
6. — Poet is a centerfold —
7. — Poet encourages masses to find their inner verse —

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. — How much should a poet be paid per line? —
2. — Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg … —
3. — Rutgers-Newark Offers New MFA Program In Creative Writing —
4. — “Physicists talk in metaphor all the time,” says Mr. Jordan, 41, who weaves theories and theorems into his latest poetic examinations [link good for a few days] —
5. — Naomi Shihab Nye: Streets (from Poets.org) —
6. — My sex in the convent - by Nobel poet —
7. — Renaissance for Harlem literary giant’s home —

More here about the commencement speech: NEA chairman blasts American culture in commencement talk Speaker tells grads to reject passive consumerism … wasn’t Dana Gioia the Vice President for MARKETING at General Foods Corporation????

I think I may have to modify my “if you don’t vote you can’t b*tch” rule to “if you don’t vote, then you can’t b+tch AND ALSO if you have an MBA, you were the Vice President of Marketing for General Foods Corporation for 15 years, where you helped create Jell-O Jigglers,^™ then you may not make any pronouncements about how consumerism is pooping with confidence onto US culture.”