I get a lot of unsolicited email from poetry publishers, lit mags, etc and I don’t have a problem with that but I am seeing a trend that is starting to bug me – there is no way to unsubscribe, or to know who the email is coming from, exactly, and so on.
Do you use email in your business? The CAN-SPAM Act
- — Worley Edits Book of Contemporary KY Poets —
- — A poem begins for me with a feeling of being let close to the edge of something —
- — An excellent diatribe —
- — During my happy days working in the arts department of the Village Voice, I discovered this previously unknown letter by Marianne Moore in one of the paper’s earliest issues —
- — Wondering what to buy for the bookworm who’s read everything? How about poetry? Santa Barbara poet laureate David Starkey shares his top 10 picks of recently released poetry collections —
- — Marilyn Monroe film ’shows actress smoking marijuana’ —
- — Literary Baseball T-Shirts “Selling Very Well” —
- — Michael Boughn is seeking articles on poet-scholar John Clarke. —
- — The Delirious Hem Advent Calendar is back, this year featuring audio! —
- — A letter by Keats’s old friend makes clear how much “sensative-bitterness” the poet felt after attacks on him by critics —
- — Invisible Sisters: A Memoir is a “Best of Atlanta 2009 Must Read!” —
- — More companies, including McDonald’s, are being moved to verse to advertise their products. Is this a welcome development? —
- — Podcast: Andrew O’Hagan on Samuel Johnson [mp3] —
- — I can’t believe Sonny Eliot is still doing the weather in Detroit yay [mp3] —
- — His literary influences include such American modernists as Wallace Stevens, John Ashberry, Charles Bernstein, and poets of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry school. Words (P=A=L=A=B=R=A=S?) come first in his writing; he is always looking to break through the sound barriers of convention. —
- — Annie Finch traces the evolution of the sonnet —
- — Trivia Question of the Day : Category-Literature —
- — Although he has had five books published–two novels, a book of stories and two books of poems, Tao Lin is not yet thirty. Yet, for all his industriousness, his work expresses the apathy and emptiness felt by many members of his generation… [mp3] —
- — An 1827 first edition copy of poems by Edgar Allan Poe sold for $662,500 on Friday setting a record for a 19th century book of poetry, said a spokeswoman for Christie’s auction house. —
- — In 1947, a gal named Barbara Ehrhart chose to create her wedding dress out of turkey feathers —
- — Terese Svoboda Interviews Heartsrevolution —
- — One could cite other essays that make Stevens’s case for poetry, but the real question is: How well does his own poetry measure up to his ideal? After all, the telling phrase in the opening line of the invocation to “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” is “except for you.” Since the “you” refers to the creative faculty of the mind, it excludes everything else, including, of course, people. —
- — Volume 3 number 3 HOW2 —
- — Cate Marvin, the current writer-in-residence at the Stonington apartment of the late poet James Merrill, feeds her 10-month-old daughter Lucia, in the Eastern-domed dining room at the table where Merrill and his lover did their Ouija board experiments. —
- — Hugh MacDonald, a poet, editor and novelist from Brudenell, P.E.I., was announced as the new poet laureate for the province on Friday. —
- — Neither the arrest of his parents, nor his difficult childhood and adolescence, nor the equally difficult years he spent in exile abroad could destroy that passion for freedom and joie de vivre. To quote his friend and contemporary, the poetess Bella Akhmadulina, those emotions permeated every breath Aksyonov took. —
- — album of ambient/poetry reading with some Tsvetaeva —
- — A T.O. poet-essayist ponders Old and New World literature on a century of slaughter —
- — Professors of creative writing Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover won the prestigious 2009 PEN USA translation award for “Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin.” —
- — I think of him as an Irish aboriginal, the mind diamond sharp and of the now, in the flickering dreamlight of a forest clearing —
- — The statement said that the museum “deeply regretted” that some of the poets who participated in the last reading, on Nov. 21, had received “hate mail.” —
- — Are there nonfiction authors—or any type of author—who are so great to read, you would read anything they wrote? —
- — ejunto is a 501(c)(3) Not-For-Profit Corporation dedicated to bringing quality audiobooks to the public domain. —
- — Wordsworth’s Minster mystery —
- — Two Minnesota-produced films — on Allen Ginsberg and the Runaways — will get prestigious Sundance Festival premieres. —
- — What is the future of Lit Journals? —
- — The aging master, all too aware of the shadow obscuring our sight of things and aware of the encroaching darkness as well, can still ponder what is on the other side of night and still be lucent, thank goodness, about the great benefit of living —
