Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Versed in the Blood —
2. — Liquor laureate whose poetry is the toast of the town —
3. — Yeah like there’s a lot of money in jazz —
4. — Marie Ponsot with Sally Dawidoff and Jean Gallagher —
5. — Which poems best sum up teaching and academia? —
6. — Polish poet’s pet immortalised —

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Poetry News:

1. — “The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn’t prevent us from having a vermouth together” —
2. — No contemporary poet is famous, but some are less unfamous than others —
3. — US poet and novelist Bukowski’s poems to be translated in Iran —
4. — Bigger Cars, Flip-Up Seats, Poetry: How Riders Would Run a Subway —
5. — Delta State to give honorary doctorate to poet Trethewey —
6. — Poetry’s PR chick —
7. — Last night Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa and laments that children in Zimbabwe are starving for knowledge, while those in more privileged countries shun reading for the ‘inanities’ of the internet —
8. — Poet David Poston will receive the 2007 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition Award —
9. — Inspired by a TV documentary on mining perils, Philip Larkin wrote a great poem only 25 lines long —

Poetry News:

1. — A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —
2. — What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —
3. — Four of the most prestigious poetry prizes went to African-American women this year —
4. — Movies based on poems —
5. — Self-confidence is a definite advantage in most areas, but wingless flight is not one of them —
6. — Penguin should be ashamed of itself —
7. — If a more cringe-making book exists than Boris Johnson’s debut volume of poetry, Stuart Jeffries has yet to read it —
8. — Mark Strand’s New Selected Poems includes an evocation of food’s deep meanings, appropriate to the holiday, though the dish is not turkey: —
9. — Reed Whittemore: Telling it slant —
10. — Website of the Week — Poetry Foundation —
11. — One manuscript that escaped the blaze — just barely — contained an untitled poem of more than 3,000 lines —

Rare Spanish Coin Found in Nashville Cemetery. I once found an Imperial German Army uniform button. It was on top of a mole hill in our yard in Nashville on the Cheatham County line. Weird.

Collin kindly nominated Poetry Hut Blog for The Shameless Lions Writing Circle Award. Thanks, that is kind.

These are 5 blogs, poetry and not, that I also nominate:

1. WhimsyLand: Jeffrey Bahr deserves some kind of award for The Futility Review.


2. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: just because it always cracks me up & I like Chaucer.


3. rotten peaches: makes me want to do memoir-comics. But mine would look a lot more like a John Callahan cartoon.


4. pitcherlady: for pretty pictures and not-so-pretty pictures that aren’t afraid to shine a light on community problems. If I ever publish a book I’ll ask Susan for a pic. (Yes I realize this award is for writing but…)


5. The Moderate Voice: for its news and political discussion made possible in the blog comments — without a bunch of crappy, angry, name-calling.