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Poetry News For August 13, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Dreams for the waking mind
  2. Movie Review — Patti Smith: Dream of Life [and a big list of movies with poetry] —
  3. How To Write Suspense Without Punching Your Reader in the Nose
  4. Are there certain things that you will never do in a poem, either intentionally or unintentionally?
  5. Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New Criticism
  6. Springsteen’s Ten Suggestions for Spiritual Living
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Poetry News For July 12, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Much ado as £15m book is recovered
  2. The Clerihew winner
  3. Although I’d like to think that “poem” is not a four-letter word, to most people it probably is an obscenely elitist pastime.
  4. Words such as “swatvac” and “ridgey didge” may not be normally associated with sonnets but they’re there, as are references to Ikea and Target.
  5. For instance, why don’t you use hair conditioner?
  6. Poet Alfred Arteaga, professor of Chicano and ethnic studies, dies at 58
  7. If Gloria’s generous 330-odd pages demonstrate how substantial Hill’s body of work is, The Hat shows this brilliant lyricist of human darkness writing more acutely than ever

The pool yesterday was wonderful.

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Poetry News For April 24, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Catherine Breese Davis wrote of loss, abandonment, destitution, despair and decrepitude—and she knew what she was talking about
  2. Between Poetry and Performance, a Film Finds a Rocker’s Heart
  3. A Voice Poetry Roundup: From half-baked utopias to diabetic bitches
  4. But if no one likes to read poetry — or so it can often seem to the discouraged poet — then putting poems in hotel nightstands or on subway cars only multiplies the public’s opportunities to ignore them
  5. Not for Li-Young Lee are the darker recesses of poetry, the bleak places where the soul loses its way and succumbs to hopelessness
  6. In his new book The Watchmaker’s Table, Nova Scotia poet Brian Bartlett proves that time is not, in fact, linear
  7. Amazon policy change threatens small publishers

It’s now time to cast your votes for the 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere

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Poetry News For April 1, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. So what did Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, do to handle all the pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, woe, bitterness, unhappiness and misery in a life that lasted over 90 years?
  2. Others believed poet Sylvia Plath was lead singer of pop group the Black Eyed Peas
  3. Do not panic…yet.
  4. Confusion in reading poetry, she says, is a “non-problem. I prefer to think of it as an alternative kind of knowing. It’s not one that gets a lot of credit in our culture.”
  5. It’s hitting hardest the writers who write books that you dip in and out of: poetry, cookbooks, travel guides, short stories
  6. Three Grand Prize winners will receive $100 each, plus their poems will be read to music, choreographed, costumed and danced by the Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company
  7. O’Hara’s personality became famous long before his poetry did
  8. From Punk Pioneer to Mother and Poet
  9. Like many of the poet’s biographers, Greenblatt is convinced that Shakespeare despised his wife

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If you've clicked on a tag, you will see posts from my blog that have featured that tag. At the bottom of the page is a list of all the tags I've ever used on this blog. -- Jilly