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Poetry News:

1. — New pop-culture haiku says a lot with few words. thanks for letting me know —
2. — Favorite signatures: from Ginsberg to Sedaris —
3. — Poetry embraces Vancouver hotel tower —
4. — The Common Law Illusion: Literary Justice in Coleridge’s On the Constitution of the Church and State —
5. — Test your knowledge of literary trivia found in “Who the Hell is Pansy O’Hara” —
6. Poet Collin Kelly, author of the new chapbook “After the Poison,” will also be featured. —
7. — Half-rejected —

Wish me luck at my Dr appt today I’m hoping it will lead to some answers.

Poetry News:

1. — Is it harder to write a great sonnet than a great hip-hop verse? —
2. — The reclusive Dickinson had a worldly mentor and friend —
3. — Dylan’s Poetic Pause in Hollywood on the Way to Folk Music Fame —
4. — The 2008 recipients of the Iowa Poetry Prize —
5. — Philip Larkin almost tried to sound unattractive and misanthropic —
6. — LOL —

hahaha

link (I can’t do that btw, my skin involvement is mild.)

I guess when that program aired, people were p.o.’d at it, so ABC put a transcript of the interview with like one of the only scientists who is studying EDS. I am taking part in the NIH study mentioned - I had blood drawn for it this week. Those interviews are kind of grim. I am doing well in the pool with PT though and am not unoptimistic.

Interview With Dr. Nazli McDonnell, Part 1

Interview With Dr. Nazli McDonnell, Part 2

Anyway, STEP RIGHT UP here is a free chapbook pdf of my sideshow poems. It is for sale for $5.55 for a regular copy.

Poetry News:

1. — When Hank Williams died on New Year’s day in 1953, he left behind a legacy of honky tonk hits as well as an extended family that would grow to include a son, daughters and grandchildren. Milo Miles reviews an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame called, “Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy.” —
2. — alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast, Linh Dinh catalogues the myriad grades of Vietnamese chuckles. [MP3] —
3. — John Ingram, Chairman of the Ingram Content Companies, announced last Thursday that the company would fold the leading print-on-demand publisher, Lightning Source, Inc. into its main book business to create Ingram Lightning Group. —
4. — One of the failings of our education system is that we are educating people out of creativity. —
5. — That era of the poetry readings was also the folk era. So our intermission would be a folk singer, usually playing the auto harp. —
6. — Author of new book discusses his work linking corporate values with the decline of the tenure-track position, especially in the humanities. —
7. — His latest collection, The Late Show, includes “Gloss of the Past,” composed entirely of the names of lip glosses —
8. — ‘Paradise Lost’ poet turns 400 —
9. — Poetry, our national art, has never been so neglected or unloved. —

The magnitude of circadian advantage influences the outcome of Major League Baseball games in that teams with greater circadian advantage are more likely to win. Crossing multiple time zones further reduces the probability of success for traveling teams.

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.

Poetry News:

1. — In general, US poetry presents a disturbingly white face for a lot of nefarious reasons, but it strikes me that there may be an intriguing explanation for why so many white women writers take up the Gurlesque in particular —
2. — A Few Ways to Read a Book of Poems —
3. — scientists have taken an important step toward understanding how the human brain codes the meanings of words —
4. — Was William Shakespeare a Jewish woman in disguise? —
5. — Listen. There are poets, and then there are poets. —
6. — Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poems —
7. — NH’s Frost Farm getting federal grant —
8. — Sonics’ lawyers don’t want author Sherman Alexie testifying —

I enjoyed this poem about Michigan. (Link found here thank you.)

posting here is going to be intermittent

Poetry News:

1. — Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is so moved by a shipwreck that he starts writing again —
2. — Quiet, dear, Mummy’s writing —
3. — Pulp Fiction was a seminal film. Will Shakespeare was a seminal poet. Obviously it follows that the two should be mixed together, which is exactly what has been done at Pulp Bard. LOL —
4. — But Pritikin is taking nothing for granted, and continues to promote Wrigley’s salvation. Here is his poem to rally the troops —
5. — Pupils were asked to imagine how it feels to be imprisoned without access to a fair trial and then express their feelings in the form of a poem —
6. — Alexander Pope’s longest and most elaborate poem, The Dunciad, has a good claim to be the greatest unread poem in the language. —
7. — place the pauses in his lines in different places and you get different poems, like removing the dashes from Emily Dickinson’s poems —

“Guns buried in flowers” is how Schumann described them.

ha.

ps. I hope you moms have a nice Mother’s Day today.