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Poetry News For September 23, 2008

Poetry News:

  1. Where poems come from
  2. In a poem addressed to the frowning “critic”, Scorn Not the Sonnet, we learn some of Wordsworth’s own opinions about the form and its practitioners
  3. at the hands of Vancouver poets Jen Currin and Meredith Quartermain, the world as we know it is transformed into something strange
  4. Becoming the Villainess, Book Picks and the Meaning of ‘Drash’
  5. I don’t think poetry has a monopoly on all this, and I know that not all poets would agree with this, but for me it is one place we can go for perspective
  6. Jane hosts Frank Andrick - from The Jane Crown Show
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Poetry News For 08-08-08

Poetry News:

  1. When Lit-Crit Mattered
  2. Marilyn Hacker, whose volume Presentation Piece won the National Book Award in 1975, is another of Joudah’s champions
  3. “I think the blossoming time is still to come,” she says. “I’m just beginning and still need to develop as a writer. But there is something very real happening here.”
  4. Robert Bly: The best poetry is always religious
  5. “I was just thrilled for about a week straight,” he said. “I went into the conference room and I did a little silent dance.”
  6. Penniless author sells shares in next novel
  7. A poet asks: How do you love without losing yourself?
  8. Spotlight Audio: Ron Silliman reads from “What”
  9. Some poets write with an urgency to show us a moment from ordinary life that would otherwise disappear
  10. To keep his brain sharp, Augie is trying to memorize 10000 lines of Minnesotan Tom McGrath’s long poem “Letter to an Imaginary Friend”
  11. Recorded at Atlanta’s historic Fox Theater on July 5, Waits delivers a stunning and epic two-and-a-half hour performance, including songs he says he’s never attempted outside of the studio before. [mp3] —

Just popping my head up here for a bit. Hope you’re having a good summer. Found out today why I have been feeling so poorly. I’ll know more after an appt later this month. Then I’ll be back here once it is straightened out.

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