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Poetry News:

1. — Today’s poem is “An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities” by Rebecca Loudon —
2. — U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician —
3. — New Buk on DVD —
4. — Online conversation with Stryker brigade poet Brian Turner —
5. — Al Young took to writing poetry, as he describes it in one poem, “to make out the sound of my own background music.” —
6. — An opportunity to do something good —
7. — What’s The Best Writing Tip of All Time? —
8. — Argentine poet wins Spain’s highest literary honour —
9. — Lifetime achievement ‘double’ for Cynthia Ozick —
10. — Bullies, Addicts and Losers: A Poet Loves Them All —
11. — A newly discovered cache of poetry video shorts —

See you Monday.

ps. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that evidence seized during arrests that are illegal under state law can still be used at trial.

Poetry News:

1. — I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —
2. — Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —
3. — Definition of poetry splits the literati —
4. — The Victorian poet William Barnes proposed wheelsaddle as an alternative to bicycle, and in the same vein suggested painlore, folkwain and nipperlings in lieu of pathology, omnibus and forceps —
5. — Collected here are poems from 59 countries and territories spanning Asia and the widest definition of the Asian diaspora —
6. — Blake Morrison celebrates livres d’artistes, texts have been cut open, painted over, burnt and locked up by the likes of Matisse and Hirst —
7. — Q&A with California Poet Laureate Al Young —
8. — WILD NIGHTS! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway —

Important net neutrality developments.

My 6 word story - thanks Thierry Brunet.

…catching up.

Poetry News:

1. — How to trivialise women’s poetry —
2. — elitism is a laughable charge to levy against an art that doesn’t require tickets or a premium cable subscription —
3. — The antipoem’s burlesque charm hits like a nightstick —
4. — An interview with poet Mary Jo Salter —
5. — And I may say, perhaps, I’m happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one —
6. — If we could just do one or the other, we wouldn’t suffer such inner twists as bitter poems require, and there might not be so many nasty songs and poems —

Some favorite searches that lead people to this blog recently:
“I can’t stand Maya Angelou’s poetry”
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I find this rhetoric blog very entertaining.

Poetry News:

1. — It may be argued, then, that Plath’s “lasting achievement” was her ability to combine the personal and the mythical in her poetry, thereby endowing this with a timeless and “relevant” literary effect —
2. — A Russian Poet Unpeels Her Many Lives —
3. — Rare Emily Dickinson photo(?) purchased on Ebay —
4. — Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy Go Hand In Hand —
5. — Poetry workshop: Forward prize winner Matthew Francis invites readers to conjure sense impressions with metaphor and simile —
6. — In Paris in the 1930s he helped found the journal Black Student, which gave birth to the idea of “negritude,” a call to blacks to cultivate pride in their heritage —
7. — World-famous filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami is convinced that one of the problems Iranians encounter in understanding poetry is that they pay too much attention to rhythm —
8. — The Pulitzer jurists for this year’s poetry prize evidently felt the pain of Philip Schultz —
9. — Frequently asked questions about the business of verse By Robert Pinsky —

I have torn labrum in my hip & a cane now. I can do this. I just had to be freaked out for a while. I finally got an appt to the pain clinic & that is making me feel better — OK there are some tools and stuff out there.

I feel full of gristle.

edit: p.s. laughing is good.

Poetry News:

1. — Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation —
2. — new lit mag alert —
3. — The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist —
4. — She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles —
5. — Never has so much genius,” he wrote, “been combined with so little talent.” I never heard that one before, hahaha.—
6. — Taking the Pain Out of Poetry —
7. — Tracking Olympic Torch Relay, PEN Poem Relay lands in North America —
8. — Next on American Experience - Walt Whitman, Airing April 14, 2008 —

If you are doing NaPoWriMo, there are some writing prompts here

Geez you guys are stingy with the ad clicks, LOL:

I’ve tried to promote poetry as best I know how, but I need to close for a while. (It hasn’t anything to do with adverti$ing pittances.) Have a good remainder of the National Poetry Month. I love you, poets!

Poetry News:

1. — A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —
2. — Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —
3. — What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —
4. — Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —
5. — Houston poet wins $50,000 award —
6. — Reed Whittemore, Handyman to the Muse: Influential Poet Writes the Work of His Life —

Poetry News:

1. — We cannot be caged by the moment of dying; in dying we are, in effect, set free, even if oblivious —
2. — Clarke named Wales national poet —
3. — Amazon Does Damage Control On Its Print-On-Demand Demands
4. — Elementary students mix poetry, basketball —
5. — UGA’s Judith Ortiz-Cofer: A Poet Of Many Places —
6. — The Boston-born poet and one-time protegé of Andy Warhol, Rene Ricard, 65, has released four volumes of poetry and held numerous exhibitions —

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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 —

If you have any particular National Poetry Month resource you would like to share, email me or leave a blog comment and I will post it/them tomorrow.

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Poetry News:

1. — Scantily Clad e-chaps —
2. — When James Woolley, Smith Professor of English, discovered a lost manuscript of the 18th century Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, he was met with a jaw-dropping surprise: the poet’s first unpublished poem in centuries —
3. — “I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion. . . .” —
4. — The Boston Public Library is seeking to fill the Curator of Manuscripts position in its Rare Books and Manuscripts Department —
5. — Job: Curator of Poetry in the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room Harvard —
6. — Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74 —
7. — It’s time her genius was more widely recognised —
8. — The poet doubts the redemptive power of her own gift while simultaneously using it to find a tone that — in the final line — wavers perfectly between her contempt for consolation and her desire for it —

Poetry News:

1. — This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was “a wild little creature” —
2. — new small press alert —
3. — Byron, Shelley and Miss Havisham —
4. — MLB Poetry Previews: Boston Red Sox —
5. — Romantic, Surrealist, clear-as-glass, impenetrable charlatan: Ashbery has been called all of these —
6. — new lit mag alert —
7. — Markov chains appear in everything from mathematics to music to gambling to Google searches, but Allmann decided to put a different spin on the algorithm by feeding it poetry —
8. — Beth Ann Fennelly’s best poems are as noisy as a rat in a coffee can —

Could be worse.

Poetry News:

1. — The Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives is one of the most extensive literary collections in the U.S., home to approximately 3,000 original recordings captured at the Poetry Center’s live poetry reading series —
2. — Man gets suspended term, Frost homework in vandalism case —
3. — He and his wife, Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser, have been under house arrest in Beijing since the protests began —
4. — Ó Searcaigh in ‘an abyss’ after documentary —
5. — As for the first example, yes, a poem is marketing material to drive awareness of a poet —
6. — Backwards City Review is going out of business & Poetry magazine is now accepting electronic subs. —
7. — Nominations To Begin For 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere cast your vote —

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Poetry News:

1. — April approacheth, and stalking in its shadow is NAPOWRIMO —
2. — “It’s always important to have poems that will offend people,” she joked. —
3. — Exhibition in Petersburg Marks 70th Anniversary since Death of Poet Osip Mandelstam —
4. — This Saturday she returns to Boston’s Opera House to perform Homeland, an epic poem wrapped in a rock concert —
5. — Appeal launched for ladies’ tomb —
6. — She is considered one of the most widely read of American experimental poets —
7. — On Small Press Poetry Publishing —
8. — The sun shines on Detroit ad exec’s free verse novel —

Poetry News:

1. — A Poem for the NCAA Basketball Tournament —
2. — Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers —
3. — What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world’s melody, “the music of what happens” —
4. — It seems that the challenges of living elicit the most eloquent and powerful verse, and sometimes that power is delivered in a quiet voice —
5. — Wordclay Recognized as Site of the Week by PC Magazine —
6. — He told his readers difficult truths about their lives … but he did so in a way which was oddly consoling in its honesty —
7. — Hughes is a vigorous poet and the muscle of his language lifts the ordinary or overlooked experience, turns it about, holds it up to the light —
8. — Jean Valentine, Poetry Faculty Member Since 1974, Named New York State Poet for 2008-2010 —

Poetry News:

1. — A parting of the ways in poetry —
2. — On March 2, 1952, Guest was named Michigan’s first poet laureate —
3. — Waldman is pleased that Walter Salles will direct the movie version —
4. — Millay was a national celebrity, and her readings would outdraw Robert Frost‘ —
5. — The Wounded Angel, 1903, by Amanda Auchter (congrats Amanda) —
6. — Poem of the Week: A Pact with Sudden Death, by John Ashbery —
7. — He told us that good poetry was “stored magic” —
8. — The reactions of contemporary poets to Russia’s new railroad were uniformly ecstatic —
9. — A proposed tourism trail that would guide tourists to homes of [Southern] writers across three states —
10. — “I feel like a cat in a rat storm” —
11. — New Poet Laureate Faces Plagiarism Charges [satire] —

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