- — Metrophobia: Are We Afraid Of Poetry? —
- — Nurse-Poet-Writer Cortney Davis Responds To Thomas Long’s Blog On Nurse Writers —
- — Professor’s essay on John Keats recognized as one of the best of 2009 —
- — Biographers have a vested interest in hyping their subjects, but when Paul Celan’s biographer, John Felstiner, calls the latter “Europe’s most compelling postwar poet,” surely few can argue. —
- — Madeleine Albright’s penchant for pins became newsworthy in the 1990s after the Iraqi press published a poem calling her an “unparalleled serpent” for daring to criticize Saddam Hussein. —
- — I read sometimes when I get stuck. I read other people to relax, and to get a perspective — in lieu of being able to ring up a poet on the phone and ask, how would you do this, it’s nice to see how they would do it, reinterpret it. —
- — Baseball Hall of Fame: Andre Dawson (and his .323 OBP) inducted. Trammell, Morris get the shaft —
- — Robert Peake will answer one poetry-related question from a Read Write Poem member each month here at Read Write Poem —
- — Patricia Smith Motown Crown —
- — Which Minnesota poet ran for president five times and once said, “If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency?” —
- — Funeral for poet Margaret Rabb will be held Friday —
- — I’ve come to accept the frustrating fact that poems have minds of their own, and that they have a tendency to override, or even contradict, whatever sights I’ve set for them.
— - — Yemen poet has a line on the region —
- — Archival recordings of poet William Stafford, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1970 and 1978, Library of Congress. —
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Poetry News For January 7, 2010
Poetry News For May 10, 2009
- — Ultimately, like Edna St. Vincent Millay, Epstein attempts to connect with those he has loved and lost. More often than not, he succeeds. —
- — William Logan, whose book “Our Savage Art” was reviewed by Mark Ford (April 26), is on to something in his criticisms; so much of contemporary poetry seems very little different from prose — it’s just prose broken into poetic-looking lines —
- — “The persona gets the poet out of the way. It takes courage in one way, but if the audience doesn’t like it, you can comfort yourself that it’s the persona they don’t like, not the poem. The greater challenge is writing through your own life and being completely honest.” —
- — PBS ‘Legends and Lyrics’ focuses on Nashville ’song-poets’ —
- — The women who originally celebrated Mother’s Day conceived of it as an occasion to use their status as mothers to protest injustice and war. —
- — in his most memorable line of poetry, he voiced an adamantine self-belief: “Do what thy manhood bids thee do / From none but self expect applause; … —
- — The May 2009 issue of Kritya is online and features for the second month poetry by poets of Polish descent. —
- — Internet Archive Seeks Orphan Works Protection in Google Book Search Settlement —
- — A pocket-sized collection of poems about the power of music. —
- — Love poetry as the antidote to the craziness of the world. —
- — Poet’s Choice: ‘Cocoanut Grove’ by Ron Slate —
- — Why poetry will never leave us —
- — Scientists and poets find common ground in the wonders of space —
- — The Smithsonian Photography Initiative (SPI) invites you to contribute to click! photography changes everything, a collection of commentaries by invited contributors and visitors like you, exploring how photography shapes the way we understand the world —
If folks genuinely admire the Gift economy why isn’t there more free poetry? {If you like the Gift here are some suggested links to check out Murray Rothbard & Ron Paul LOL though fans of Lewis Hyde probably think they are kooks, ironically.} You can download a free PDF of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift if you give Canongate Books your data. Register, log in, and click on the “Your Account” link on the left menu. You’ll be taken to your profile page where the PDF link is listed under “Member goodies.”
Poetry News For May 6, 2009
- — With the assistance of the University of Wyoming, a fund has been established to support the search efforts to find Craig. —
- — As search ends, missing hiker’s family won’t give up —
- — How to find the inspiration to write —
- — Russell Goings studied writing at Fairfield University and the 92nd Street Y. Before he took up writing 15 years ago, he was a professional football player, the first African-American brokerage manager for a New York Stock Exchange Member firm and founder and chairman for Essence magazine. [mp3] —
- — Digestive CARE(TM), a medical group of 46 gastroenterologists in Broward and Palm Beach County, today announced the 16 finalists for the Bottom Line Poetry Contest offering a $500 cash prize (or the option of a free colonoscopy) to the poet who submits the best new original poem about colonoscopies. —
- — Poem of the week: Ibant Obscuri by Robert Bridges
— - — Is form the art for Stallings? Or does form impair the art? —
- — London’s Newest Lit Mag —
- — Theodore Roethke: Neither Fish nor Fowl —
- — The life and times of Taha Muhammad Ali, a gruff, working-class Palestinian poet whose work is less overtly political than that of some of his better-known peers. —
- — Vanity is the New Indie —
- — Galveston, 1961. by Richard Wilbur —
- — The Right to Write About It: Hurricane Katrina in Poetry —
- — The Book of Frank by CA Conrad: Reading The Book of Frank is like that first time when you realize the brutality and intimacy of childhood…. —
- — As Edwin Muir noted, Gunn was “endowed with and plagued by an unusual honesty; his poems are a desperate inquiry, how to live and act in a world perpetually moving.” —
- — Rachel Pollack’s new (and charmingly pocket-sized) book, Fortune’s Lover, is “a book of tarot poems” that toys and probes. —
- — Who Needs Poets? A brief essay by Borges —
- — Catch Felix Dennis’s swine flu poem here —
- — Poetess Afrin Siddique of Gulbarga has set a record by penning a longest poem in English —
- — The music of Irish writers —
- — The great poet James Wright was visiting poet for a semester at the University of Delaware when I was on the faculty there. —
- — A reminder: you can download my poetry books for free or buy if you liked it. —
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Buddhist “wrathful deities” lately.
Probably because I feel like the embodiment of destruction right now haha. That picture is of Lhamo riding her mule on a sea of blood. If you are an enemy of the Dharma she has a bag of diseases for you. Among other things.
Poetry News For May 3, 2009
- — Chris Arnold is embarking on the journey of a lifetime to help save his brother — prize-winning poet Craig Arnold, who disappeared on a remote volcano in Japan five days ago. —
- — too bad they’ll not be around to see it —
- — The ABA has announced its “2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten” based on “the enthusiastic nominations of independent booksellers nationwide.” —
- — BBC falls for Bono’s ‘poetry’ —
- — Carol Anne Duffy ticks many boxes for being unique in a chain of laureates that goes back further than Chaucer /// After 341 Years, a Woman Is British Poet Laureate /// Poet Laureate says she ‘never liked’ her banned poem /// ‘It was my daughter who made me accept Poet’s job’ /// —
- — U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, has died at age —
- — mind fcuk —
- — Answers About Poetry in Brooklyn, Part 3 —
- — He has recently completed the Proteus Cycle, a trilogy of texts-in-collaboration with numerous authors, dead and alive, which exerts a rigorous effort to play out a musics, a poetics and a shift of authoratative duties to the reader. It includes The Proteus (Moria Books, 2008), Joys: A Catalogue of Disappointments (BlazeVOX, 2008), and Ore (twentythreebooks, 2009). —
- — The editors of the magazine discuss Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic”, Inger Christensen’s musical poetry, and Hanoch Levin’s “Lives of the Dead.” [mp3] —
- — Why are poets so fascinated with birds? —
- — New: Poetics Forums at Delirious Hem —
- — The joy of exclamation marks! —
- — Online literary magazine Oeuvre debuts —
- — Tiananmen Anniversary: Memory of executed poet resonates —
- — Dismissed editor of Monthly stays silent —
- — Anne Waldman Saves the Chapbook —
- — A professor from Austin Peay State University, Blas Falconer, has been named a recipient of the Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award —
- — William Wordsworth’s letter to fellow poet sells for £8,825 —
- — Dharma Poetry: Allen Ginsberg’s Wichita Vortex Sutra —
- — Reading a poem by John Ashbery ’49 for the first time feels like walking into the room of a stranger. —
- — Indeed, the easiest explanation for the striking numbers the Harriet blogger decries has nothing to do with how many people read, or don’t read, contemporary poems: it has instead to do with the passing away, due to simple old age, of the last cohort in America to … [link from here thanks] —
- — An Irish singer is teaming up with Michael Madsen, the American actor, to make a spoken-word album of poetry —
- — Brain Processes Written Words As Unique ‘Objects,’ Neuroscientists Say —
- — “Kathryn Stripling Byer, NC Poet Laureate, has posted her reaction to and six poems from my new book of poems, Better With Friends, on her Laureate Blog.” —
- — Wordplay celebrates Wordfest with Patricia Smith [mp3] —
- — The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hear Komunyakaa’s voice as he reads his poetry. These poems are about love and war simultaneously, traumatic upheavals that may often be conjoined in this poet’s vision of life. [ mp3] —
- — Bob Hicok was born and raised in Michigan, worked in factories and once owned an automotive die design business there before becoming a professor at Virginia Tech. His poetry reflects on the economic hardships suffered in his home state. [MP3] —
