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Poetry News For June 10, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Most Recent Articles from American Poetry Review, The
  2. Female contenders rule out ‘archaic’ post of Poet Laureate
  3. In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of Native American literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong — and altered the required reading lists of literature classes on U.S. college campuses
  4. Asahi Haikuist Network
  5. When Barbara Guest passed away in the winter of 2006, America lost one of its most fiercely independent and original artists.
  6. The Art of the Blurb: Results of the Poll
  7. In 1611, at age 42, Lanyer became the first woman to publish a book of poetry in English, Salue Deus Rex Judaeorum, or “Hail, God, King of the Jews.”
  8. Surrealism, Rebellion and the 1960s
  9. “My problem is that I am the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, but I wanted to be an individual. But we are, of course, a product of our parents. In denying them, you deny part of who you are. It’s taken me years to be ­comfortable with that”

This isn’t Miguel Batista’s blog haha. I’m getting erroneous web traffic.

Kucinich introduces Bush impeachment resolution. I’m watching him on C-SPAN right now. Thank you Rep. Kucinich.

Please please please please call your Representative. (202) 224-3121. If you don’t know who that is, you can put your zip code in here and it will tell you.

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Poetry News For June 6, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. This Ecstatic Nation: Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11
  2. Q&A: Rebecca Wolff’s Fence Turns Ten
  3. Holy Road: Paula Gunn Allen (1939 - 2008)
  4. He wanted to create, as he put it, “echoes realer / than originals.” Unfortunately, echoes have a nasty way of fading.
  5. Elizabeth Kirschner’s book of poems, ‘My Life as a Doll,’ chronicles her memories of child abuse
  6. Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago
  7. It’s easy to forget that American poetry was not always as friendly to the middle class as it is today

The book reviews at New Pages are fresh and so are the lit mag reviews

dancing girl press has opened the chapbook manuscript reading period — they make good chapbooks.

I like persona poems - a whole online lit mag issue of them

Poetry Midwest has an e-chapbook available as a downloadable PDF file.

My family member is back from Iraq - thank you for your prayers.

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Poetry News for November 10, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Poet to be retried for illegal publishing
  2. The gendered reader
  3. It’s easy to find books on race and gender in academic life, but only a handful focus on social class [link good for a few days] —
  4. With humor, wisdom and bite, these new collections by Minnesota poets speak to illness, aging, desire and missing loved one
  5. We shouldn’t be surprised; the M.F.A. has been under attack for some time now [link good for a few days] —
  6. Judge Rules on What Makes a Poem
  7. Lannan Announces 2007 Literary Awards & Fellowships and Poet Wins $200,000
  8. Hospital remembers traumatised WWI poets [has video] —
  9. Poets’ legacy will live on at their old home

Coin Meter Unlocks Typewriter

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Poetry News For February 20, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Poets gather to help a colleague in need
  2. Jeffrey Levine’s Dorset Prize Dustup
  3. W. H. Auden‘ poem about casino gamblers is as relevant now as the day he wrote it
  4. Gov. Jim Douglas and the Vermont Arts Council invite the public to submit nominations for the appointment of a new Vermont State Poet
  5. Asahi Haikuist Network
  6. As a poet, Finch believes Longfellow resonates today because of his adventuresome attitude toward meter

Paris court upholds conviction for man who attacked Duchamp urinal

So do you think American poet-bloggers have more solidarity/linkage than poet-bloggers who live elsewhere? I was recently interviewed for the next edition of Poet’s Market (about blogging) … not sure if they’ll use it or not.

I was tagged. So I tag you. In no order:

Metropolis
The Princess Bride
Dead Man
Auntie Mame (the Rosalind Russell one)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Carnival of Souls
The Three Lives of Thomasina
High Noon
A Face in The Crowd
Blue Velvet

I have a cold or something so I might take a break.

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