Poetry News:

1. — Much closer to home, Wingard also doesn’t know who puts the shells on H.D.’s grave; he guesses it can only be fans who know her work —
2. — ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘The Iliad’ are giving up new secrets about the ancient world —
3. — There is a long tradition of poems written in response to paintings —
4. — Manchester University’s John Rylands Library will be digitising much of its renowned collection of medieval manuscripts, including parts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales —
5. — When asked for advice on how the city can heal and progress in the wake of scandal, the city’s poet laureate Naomi Long Madgett, responded with a poem [sidebar] —
6. — Seeking the next N.H. poet laureate —

The lit mag reviews at New Pages are fresh. Isn’t it nice of them to keep publishing that? Why don’t you buy ‘em a beer?

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I used to get HD an AE mixed up haha. When I was writing that Ted Williams Frozen Head poem I kept thinking/writing Ted Hughes instead of Ted Williams too.

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My hand hurts, so I am taking a break. I have news scheduled for tomorrow, though and an appt in the pain clinic today so maybe that will help.

Poetry News:

1. — What The “Subprime Poetry Crisis” Means For The Overheated Metap[h]or Market —
2. — Poster poems: The rhythm of the falling rain —
3. — Wordplay with Pat Reviere-Seel and Jessica Newton [MP3] —
4. — A report on the new poet laureate of the U.S. A question from Yemen about Emily Dickinson. And poetry set to music, on a new album from France’s first lady, Carla Bruni. —
5. — This story of a wife’s betrayal and her husband’s fidelity unto death stings me with the awareness that small, unnoticed nobility endures in our midst —
6. — Poets, we think, can’t help but be poets and do poet-ish things. —

McCain’s Economic Plan For Nation: ‘Everyone Marry A Beer Heiress’ (ONN)

Poetry News Saturday SCIENCE! edition:

1. — Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language —
2. — “It’s probably no coincidence that many languages around the world have repetitious syllables in their ‘child words’ – baby and daddy in English, papa in Italian and tata (grandpa) in Hungarian, for example” —
3. — There are numerous examples in our daily language of metaphors which make a connection between cold temperatures and emotions such as loneliness, despair and sadness [fixed link] —
4. — Neuroaesthetics promises to reinvigorate science’s search for a theory of beauty —
5. — New Life For Middle English: Norwegian Detective Work Gives New Knowledge Of The English Language —
6. — By the end of the century, the two disciplines were officially divorced and poetry was deemed the worst way in which to express scientific knowledge —

Poetry News:

1. — So the idea that a poem can be made poetic by its structure alone is open to question, at the very least. —
2. — Joe Milford Hosts Grace Cavialeri - from The Jane Crown Show —
3. — Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour with Andrena Zawinski & Shakespeare [MP3] —
4. — Nobody reads poetry anymore —
5. — A woman who is one of the last people alive who knew writer Thomas Hardy is to perform one of his poems at the age of 102. —
6. — After two decades behind bars, Win Tin tells of life in one of the world’s toughest jails —

Adventures in reading miscomprehension

Poetry News:

1. — The Rebirth of a Suicidal Genius —
2. — Poetry, Pottery & Pies Raises Funds for Poet Laureate’s Medical Bills —
3. — Shakespeare’s Bootlegger, Dylan’s Biographer, Nabokov, and Me —
4. — Nadine Chapman: Colleague and friend —
5. — Alum’s Passion for Poetry Pays Off —
6. — There’s an inherent interest in Knight’s personal experiences within the asylum, and all of the poetry contains a deep introspection that opens a thin sliver of light into the line between sanity and insanity. —

Poetry News:

1. — Pallimed: Arts & Humanities (current posts about Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, “pain poet” Jane Cave Winscom, etc.) —
2. — poets transform the mountain lit scene & article is here —
3. — Win Tin, a poet, journalist and democracy advocate, was freed Tuesday after 19 years in prison —
4. — This month’s workshop is an exercise in self-portraiture, and it takes as its starting-point a quotation from the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda —
5. — Collins are to exuviate abstergently 2,000 rarely used words from their dictionaries to make way for new ones … but can we smell an olid rattus rattus? —
6. — “Should we have had more of a business plan?” he added. “Probably. But then the publishers that did have business plans didn’t do any better.” —

“What is it about this painting that such infamous people in history have owned it?”

Poetry News:

1. — America’s Poet Laureate –who writes about the Niagara River –is a woman who is searching for balance between her very public role and her notoriously private life —
2. — How to write poetry: Poet Wendy Cope explains what makes a really superb poem —
3. — Elizabeth Bishop’s Great Village —
4. — “Click on the link below, left, to hear an extract of Bin Laden’s poetry recital” —
5. — Those Who Write, Teach —
6. — Joe Milford Hosts Evan Willner — The Jane Crown Show [MP3] —

Poetry News:

1. — David Wagoner’s new collection of poems, “A Map of the Night,” feels like a summing-up by the author many consider the dean of Northwest poetry. —
2. — For days, I’ve trolled my poetry shelves for the right words to grieve with, the way an insomniac pharmacist — desperate for sleep — might pick through her tinctures —
3. — Film takes look at life of Emily Dickinson —
4. — But this remarkable collection by someone who perhaps invented the concept of “oversharing” long before it became fashionable, reminds us of why he mattered then, and still does now —
5. — Poets have always been fascinated with dreams. Please share yours —
6. — The poem is one of 20 that have started appearing in sidewalks since July —
7. — Burmese papers report losses due to strict policies of censor board deputy chief —

September is Pain Awareness Month. Good timing, what with the stock market & everything.

My town has been out of gasoline for a while. A lot of Nashville is out, too. A station here in town got some gasoline yesterday, Darryl said, and the Sheriff had a squad car in the parking lot & there is a huge line. Reminds me of the 1970’s lines at gasoline pumps, which I do remember. I don’t understand the CNN article that says it is panic. Kingston Springs was out of gas on the Sunday of the hurricane. I haven’t been too mobile lately so I’m not sure what the heck is going on.

Dear Onion Radio News: if you are going to make fun [MP3] of my State, at least learn how to pronounce the Governor’s name haha.

Poetry News:

1. — Kelly honored with Academy of American Poets fellowship —
2. — Lorca relatives accept mass grave probe —
3. — A Melancholy Man of Letters —
4. — Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour (Wed Sep 17, 2008) with Scott Evans and Sumita Chakraborty [MP3] —
5. — Hailing Rain Taxi for years of service —
6. — Thanks to developing economies, liberal-arts courses are blooming in the developing world. —

“Avast, there!”

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry has become an overscheduled toddler run ragged by ambitious, bickering parents, its very existence a compromised simulacrum of their disharmonious projections and expectations —
2. — There’s no denying that American poetry in the last few years (with exceptions) has been extremely, one-sidedly intellectual —
3. — Recordings of 14 major 20th-Century American poets have been added to the free online audio Poetry Archive —
4. — A 21-year-old poet whose first collection was published when she was just 15 is in the running for the £60,000 Dylan Thomas prize —
5. — The editors of The New York Times Book Review set out to list the funniest novels ever and couldn’t come up with a single title by a woman —
6. — The American John Milton —

I dreamt of 3 Caesars/Cesars: Romero (joker), Chavez, and just plain. (Rome and/or Vegas). What the hell does that mean LOL?

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry workshop: After Kubla Khan — Fred D’Aguiar looks at readers’ many different continuations of Coleridge’s masterpiece —
2. — Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age? —
3. — “Not Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan. Two poems at The New Yorker.” —
4. — In Downtown Brooklyn, a Sort of Circus in Celebration of Everything Literary —
5. — Poem of the week: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau —
6. — Poetry Roundup [link found here thank you] —

Technorati has delisted this blog (after 5 years LOL) for not being up to their standards of quality. So if you are one of the 20 or so folks who read PHB via the Technorati “favorites” interface, etc., it isn’t going to work anymore, sorry. Out of my control.

Poetry News:

1. — Anna Kamienska is one lesser-known beauty from the generation that spawned Nobel laureates Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska. —
2. — Missouri poets: Richard Newman’s ‘Dog Days’ —
3. — The deck of cards Gregg plays with in “All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems” is more Edith Hamilton than Rider-Waite —
4. — Physics [SIC?] have christened two of the particles they will study at CERN as “truth” and “beauty,” after a Keats poem —
5. — By following a series of steps, readers can discover many layers to any poem —
6. — Collins’ Ballistics’ manages to pierce the heart, if not always, then often enough —

[edit: wrong date lol]

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Poetry News:

1. — William Carlos Williams is one of the most celebrated American poets of the 20th century, yet he toiled in obscurity for much of his life. —
2. — 40 years of fostering creativity —
3. — A group of terrified children were left in tears when their teacher decided to liven up a creative writing class by telling them they might have typhoid —
4. — Poster poems: a big disappointment —
5. — National Endowment For The Arts Funds Construction Of $1.3 Billion Poem —
6. — National Endowment for the Arts chief to resign —

wow: “…it took 232 years to accumulate $9 trillion of debt and in July, we increased it by another $5 trillion by accepting responsibility for Fannie’s and Freddie’s debts“

Poetry News:

1. — Reginald Shepherd (1963-2008) —
2. — Searching for an Epic’s Origins —
3. — A pair of poems about September 11th, written before the planes were even in the air. [mp3] —
4. — Kanaka Maoli has become associated with poets who attempt to honor the use of native Hawaiian language in their work. —
5. — Thursday’s Poem: “poetry readings,” by Charles Bukowski from Bone Palace Ballet [mp3] —
6. — BBC Four is to broadcast a six-week series dedicated to poems important to British culture —

taking a break again. take care.