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Poetry News For June 6, 2008

Poetry News:

— This Ecstatic Nation: Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11 —

— Q&A: Rebecca Wolff’s Fence Turns Ten —

— Holy Road: Paula Gunn Allen (1939 - 2008) —

— He wanted to create, as he put it, “echoes realer / than originals.” Unfortunately, echoes have a nasty way of fading. —

— Elizabeth Kirschner’s book of poems, ‘My Life as a Doll,’ chronicles her memories of child abuse —

— Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago —

— 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.

Tags: Campbell McGrath, Elizabeth Kirschner, Emily Dickinson, Fence Magazine, paula gunn allen, Poems, poet, poetry magazine, Poetry News, poets, Rebecca Wolff, Susan Howe, William Stafford

Poetry News For December 5, 2007

Poetry News:

— In the summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans —

— An Interview with Cathy Smith Bowers —

— “Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry — transcript —

— From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts? —

— Basho’s Irish echoes —

— Why devote seven years to proving an esoteric theory — in four volumes amounting to more than 2,000 pages — about which many academics remain skeptical and most people are unaware? —

I’ve been meme tagged — so here are 7 things and you consider yourself tagged, you hear?

I grew up in Michigan but have never been on a boat. (I’m not counting rowboat or canoe.)

My favorite Christmas Carols are O Holy Night and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen but I couldn’t tell you many of the words.

As part of my spiritual practice I try to keep an open heart but I’m naturally kind of melancholy and leery.

I think I am going to adopt this slogan for the near future hahaha. (Link found here)

More of a cat person but I like dogs too.

Men from both sides of my dad’s family first came to America to avoid serving in the military.

I like vanilla.

check out the skeletons

Tags: books, Cathy Smith Bowers, Harriet Monroe, Poetry, poetry magazine, Poetry News, poets, Robert Pinsky, shakespeare, william blake

Poetry News for July 27, 2007

Poetry News:

— A report card is a report card ” unless it belongs to Robert Penn Warren —

— Literary magazines come and go; none lasts forever —

— The ad also has a popular poem, when the initial letters are added up … [and more here] —

— The Psychology of Rejection —

— Poet Fleur Adcock is to receive an honorary doctorate of literature from Victoria University —

— Versatile Frame wins award for collection of verse —

The Poetry Foundation has 2 job openings right now. Both jobs are full-time and both require relocation to Chicago if you don’t live there already:

1. An Archive Editor. This person, ideally, would be “a serious poet who can also write and edit prose.”

2. An Associate Editor. This person, ideally, would have more of a journalism background.

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Weekly World News, the newspaper of record for the deranged, announced this week that it was folding on Aug. 3. Well that saddens me. My sister and I both subscribed for a very long time and we had a lot of fun discussing the articles. But for the past year it has been not so good. We’ve been wondering about that. Oh well, I guess we can still go to their website.