Poetry News:
- — Why is America ambivalent about Whitman? —
- — Eliot the poet has to be rescued from thesis mongers and academic apologists, and liberated from the ballast of both an outsize critical reputation and his own Olympian criticism —
- — The controversy threatens to forge a permanent divide in the city’s small press community, where two degrees of separation might be one too many. —
- — “Interpretive Work” is the first book in a new imprint established by Red Hen Press in Southern California to publish literary works of high quality by lesbian writers —
- — Bookstores here are so scarce that many readers have trouble naming one —
- — His work also reached a wider audience thanks to the 2003 film ”21 Grams” by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu —
- — Poetry Roundup —
Tags: Elizabeth Bradfield, Eugenio Montejo, frank bidart, Gabriela Jauregui, June Jordan, Nguyen Do, Paul Hoover, TS Eliot, Walt Whitman