Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Piper Center’s Jensen finds poetry success [congrats] —
2. — Poet, novelist Judson Mitcham to read from work at Vanderbilt; Author of A Little Salvation and Sabbath Creek —
3. — Accessibility cuts two ways in poetry —
4. — Maker of occasions and fashioner of thin books that Bishop was, I wonder how she would greet the publication now of the thick Library of America compendium —
5. — Revered poet shows her witty side —
6. — Fordham’s Poet in Residence Awarded Sandeen Prize —

Dear 2008 - when I told you to “bring it on” I was half-way kidding. But if you want to be that way, fine, hahahaha.

Poetry News:

1. — Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet —
2. — Hilly Kristal, a Rock Midwife, Is Dead at 75 —
3. — Southeast Missouri State University’s manuscript by prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams is no longer unpublished —
4. — Why can”™t more writers be smart enough to be beautiful, handsome, or at least cute —
5. — he did it for poetry, and that’s a great thing —

I really like it when poetry disturbs me. (Said the Mercury/Neptune-conjunction-in-Scorpio woman.) Mr. Dybka was up in Michigan playing some gigs on Mackinac Island so I was home alone for a majority of the past week. One of the books I read while he was gone was Arielle Greenberg’s odd chapbook, Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials. Especially delicious on a full moon night when you are all alone in a house in the woods. Tree limb shadows and the dogs barking at deer. Mostly it is a verse play but it is a mix of poems, too. About a murder trial. And influenced by folk ballads/murder ballads.

Somehow I’ve fallen deeply in love with chapbooks. (Maybe it is my newly-acquired deficiency in concentration haha.) Every chapbook I’ve bought from New Michigan Press has been wonderful. Not a dud so far.