Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Much ado as £15m book is recovered —
2. — The Clerihew winner —
3. — Although I’d like to think that “poem” is not a four-letter word, to most people it probably is an obscenely elitist pastime. —
4. — Words such as “swatvac” and “ridgey didge” may not be normally associated with sonnets but they’re there, as are references to Ikea and Target. —
5. — For instance, why don’t you use hair conditioner? —
6. — Poet Alfred Arteaga, professor of Chicano and ethnic studies, dies at 58 —
7. — If Gloria’s generous 330-odd pages demonstrate how substantial Hill’s body of work is, The Hat shows this brilliant lyricist of human darkness writing more acutely than ever —

The pool yesterday was wonderful.

Poetry News:

1. — Baseball is all about loss and failure,” he joked. “So what better subject for poetry? —
2. — Online, Second Life avatars are prosing and poetizing —
3. — He turned ‘unschooled’ from insult into a compliment and ‘rule-bound’ from a compliment to an insult —
4. — He ruled, in effect, that only readers had the right to censor publications - by simply refusing to buy or read any that offended them —
5. — As a poet, Chase Twichell tells the plain truth and tries to surprise herself —
6. — Carl Phillips is a master of expressive syntax, athletic turns of sentence that mime feeling —

Yeah, pretty much.

Top 3 links for June, as far as Feedburner is concerned:

* The Scorn of the Literary Blog

* by the time the poetry awards were announced, three hours into the event, the theater was half empty

* Poet Accused of Harassment

Poetry News:

1. — The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance is pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 SIBA Book Award Yay! Congrats Susan! —
2. — the finest literary magazine on the continent —
3. — Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivivic / —
4. — Ex-Poet Laureate on Guantanamo Poetry —
5. — poems … were bounced off the moon as radio signals —
6. — Study Finds That 14 Year-Olds Suck at Poetry —
7. — I was sixty years old. I started writing poems without knowing it. —
8. — Seattle girls tennis coach who read ’sensual poems’ fired —
9. — “Poetry from Life’s Other Side” [results here maybe] —

“Congress asked Homeland Security’s chief information officer, Scott Charbo, who has a Masters in plant science, to account for more than 800 self-reported vulnerabilities over the last two years and for recently uncovered systemic security problems in US-VISIT, the massive computer network intended to screen and collect the fingerprints and photos of visitors to the United States.” Umm.