- — A-OOOOOO! —
- — A Film About Anna Akhmatova —
- — “I still think Pepsi should start a Ted Berrigan Fund for American Poets and I think that Levi’s owes every American Poet $100 for using that Walt Whitman poem in those commercials.” —
- — Poet and publisher George Hitchcock lived a long life of committed artistic independence —
- — Fighting public sector cuts with poetry —
- — Punctuation Haiku Contest Highlights 7th Annual National Punctuation Day, Sept. 24 —
- — Finding the poetry in gobstoppers, football and facial hair —
- — Edward Gorey Museum in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts —
- — SPD Poetry Best-sellers August 2010 —
- — Living Writers: T Hetzel interviews Ken Mikolowski [mp3 - show starts about 18:00 in] —
- — Do you remember who you were reading when you wrote this poem? Any influences you’d care to disclose? —
- — The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine’s Poet in Residence and Electors have chosen Sylvia Plath as the 2010 inductee to their Poets’ Corner. —
- — Every Reader a Reviewer: The Online Book Conversation —
- — New Literary Magazine Reviews @ NewPages —
- — University of Idaho Student’s Poem to Run in the New Yorker —
- — Evan Peterson reads a “Pie-ku.” —
- — Brazil honors ‘Girl from Ipanema’ writer —
- — The publishing house that Herb built: New Issues Press continues to thrive in world of poetry —
- — Poem of the week: From Longfellow’s translation of the Divine Comedy —
- — It’s Shakespeare — in Klingon —
- — This perfect little poem comes from ‘The Losing Game’, RV Bailey’s new pamphlet in memory of her partner of 44 years, the poet UA Fanthorpe —
- — John Keats, Blogger? —
- — Joe Milford Show – David Wolach is professor of writing, poetics, & philosophy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and visiting poet in Bard College’s Workshop in Language & Thinking. Prior to coming to Evergreen, Wolach did his graduate work in philosophy at Columbia University. After receiving his degrees he served as a union organizer in New York City for six years. Much of his work is multi-media and performative, and has been featured at venues such as Buffalo Poetics Series 2009, The American Cybernetics Conference 2009, the Belladona New Books/New Releases Series 2010 and Bard’s Visiting Poets Series. David is the editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press and curator of PRESS: A Cross-Cultural Literary Conference. [mp3] —
- — Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format —
- — It came about as a result of a suggestion by the modernist composer FG Scott, who (according to the writer Maurice Lindsay) sat MacDiarmid down one whisky-sodden evening and brutally edited the 2,684-line poem —
- — Shapcott’s poetry has always unsteadied the reader, and here it deals with the insidiousness of illness and looming mortality, without the loss of a characteristic playfulness. —
- — Online Journals: What I Want Redux —
- — The Mark McGwire Limericks of Shame —
- — After more than 18,000 votes were cast on the Poetry Season site, we can reveal TS Eliot is your favourite poet. —
- — Dylan Thomas’s last unfinished poem has been given a permanent home at the National Library of Wales after being bought from a collector. —
- — A Poet Exploring Good and Evil: PW Talks with Ron Padgett —
- — To better understand the ancient Roman world, one archaeologist looks at the graffiti, love notes and poetry alike, left behind by Pompeians —
- — Rae Armantrout: 2010 National Book Festival [mp3] —
- — After suicide, UVa launches probe of VQR —
- — The creative tug-of-war in British poetry between experimental freedom and the ancient delights of ballad and song, where lyrics cohere with end-rhyme, is very old. —
- — 20th century poet’s boyhood Cleveland home condemned: City officials want to help keep Langston Hughes home standing —
- — His Poetry Was Odd, but His Letters to the Police Were Odder —
- — Dead Media Beat: Bards of Somalia —
- — 2010 CLMP Keynote Address: Anne Waldman “Small Press Heaven: Poetics of the Floating World” [MP3] —
- — Two acclaimed poets to read at APSU Sept. 23 —
- — After a long journey, Max Ehrmann and ‘Desiderata’ have come home to Terre Haute —
- — “The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” with Rachelle Cruz: Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton. The prize is for the best second collection of poems by an American woman poet. Her debut book, Theories of Falling, was selected by Marie Howe as the winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2008). [mp3] —
- — Feel free to enjoy last Sunday’s excellent show*, one of our new Laureate’s Radio Hours, with Cathy Smith Bowers and Sebastian Matthews (and featuring some work by Sebastian’s father, the poet William Matthews), with musical breaks by Charlie Mingus, Bill Evans, and McCoy Tyner. —
- — Here’s a catalog of the Laureat’s Radio Hour Archive, Wordplay shows featuring N.C. Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers and her special guests —
- — The Joe Milford Poetry Show Archives —
- — She is the brightest new voice on Chicago’s poetry scene because of her keen sense of economy. —
- — What do we really mean when we tell ourselves that we suck? —
- — The Midwest Booksellers Association has announced the winners of its Midwest Booksellers’ Choice awards. —
- — Facebook warn people not to use ‘book’ in their name or else they will sue —
- — The opening track “Space Odyssey” starts out with some great atmospherics from Daryl [sic] Dybka (moog) before diving into the slow funk groove of Harlod [sic] McKinney (electric piano) and lead by Belgrave and the rest of the horn section.
— - — There’s been an editorial change at The Paris Review — and a good deal of controversy attending the new editors’ decision to reject previously accepted poems that had not yet appeared in print. —
- — Reading other peoples’ work aloud is the most tender and respectful, and also the most careful, way to engage with it, I find. —
- — Down the centuries, English poetry has been infused with fresh vigour by elements from different languages. Now it’s your turn to join the import business —
- — Boston-born Fanny Howe is read as an experimental poet; she is located on the far side of the tracks in English language poetry’s continuing divide between the establishment and progressive poetry worlds. —
- — A poem against the apocalypse —
- — John Cusack has announced via his Twitter feed that he will play Edgar Allan Poe in the upcoming film The Raven —
- — Review: Human Chain by Seamus Heaney —
- — Woman who makes the alphabets speak —
- — Scotland mourning national poet Morgan —
- — Poet memorialized by the college that expelled him —
- — ‘The Oxford Book of Parodies’ —
- — Poet W.S. Merwin takes nature seriously —
- — He was one of the last exemplars of an ideal that dates back at least to Matthew Arnold: the ideal of the literary critic as the humanist par excellence. —
- — Beck: “Only Bat Boy Can Save Us” —
- — Neurological Process for the Recognition of Letters and Numbers Explained —
- — Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. —
- — Gay artist turns bandit signs into Roadside Haiku —
- — Any poetesses out there? —
- — English department remembers the lives of two profs —
- — For Prospective Students — AWP’s 2011 Ranking of MFA Programs —
Hope you found something you liked.
For old time’s sake.
- — Uncover the gems in new poetry —
- — Historians locate King Arthur’s Round Table —
- — Gordon believes that Dickinson stayed home because she had epilepsy. —
- — Jen Hadfield’s poem, set in Shetland, will leave you feeling drenched, windswept and thoroughly invigorated —
- — Is there something about you that people would find surprising? —
- — Kentucky’s abundance of poetry: Collection shows richness, diversity —
- — The Spanish poet José Hierro, when presenting his book Cuaderno de Nueva York (“New York Notebook”), said that any major poet has to write about both New York and spring, at least once in a lifetime. The same could be said about M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, in th —
- — Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Evie Shockley —
- — “Bloom was one of those interviewed in a documentary I watched last night about Wallace Stevens. It seemed to me he must in fact be a very good teacher.” —
- — whitman’s blog —
- — Articles in May/Jun 2010 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
- — The Joy of Revision —
- — “I’ve sometimes wondered whether this statement was the main reason my review was turned down by Poetry Magazine.” —
- — Wimbledon is over and England aren’t in the World Cup final tomorrow, but there’s still much to cheer. Taking the baton from poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, leading poets celebrate sport from school playing fields to international stadiums —
- — Connor Stratman is a writer currently living in Chicago. His work has appeared in journals such as ditch, Moria, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Oarystis, and Outsider Writers. He also edits the online poetry blog The Balloon. He is currently looking for a publisher for his first chapbook, “invisible entrances.” —
- — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour With Guest Diane Wakowski Jul 09, 2010 [mp3] —
- — “Wissahickon Schist” By Karl Kirchwey —
- — “There is a new review of my book of poems Better With Friends in today’s Winston-Salem Journal.” —
- — peek at the editorial layers and process behind a literary journal cover —
- — Santa Cruz writer publishes literary journal on matchbooks —
I updated my poets laureate google map:
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This is the last post for a while. Good luck with your poetry. See you in the funny papers lit mags.
- — British publishing house Faber & Faber said it’s setting up its first creative writing school in Canada. —
- — Lately, poems happen because I work for them. —
- — Hulu – The Nobel Prize: Exiled Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz Wins 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature —
- — More poetesses close to Million’s Poet title —
- — Are your poems flat as a family snapshot? Learning to release the energy in your images can open up your poetry’s hidden depths. —
- — workshop redux: give me a (line) break —
- — Inauguration poet praises virtue of work —
- — Hearing people talk at cocktail parties may be easier if you’ve been musically trained, according to new research that shows music fine-tunes certain language abilities in the brain. —
- — Insect Museum’s annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge returns —
- — An analysis of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing and song writing is presented in light of the effects of his mixed-right-handedness on motoric and conceptual processing. It is argued that (i) his mixed-handedness allowed him greater integration of the roles of his left and right hands in guitar playing and (ii) his right-handedness conferred specific benefits in playing a left-handed guitar. In terms of his song writing, the greater interhemispheric interaction (and consequent greater access to right hemisphere processing) associated with mixed-handedness is argued to characterise aspects of his lyrics and vocal delivery —
- — Asahi Haikuist Network —
- — A turn from recent trends in literature, this book trusts language to reveal the world. —
- — Your rules for writing-Saturday’s selection of expert advice on how to write fiction has generated a lot of interest. But we’d like to know your maxims, too —
- — NewPages February Lit Mag Reviews —
- — Literary legacy: In 1899, Paul Laurence Dunbar visited Denver to ease his TB and write. Today, a British scholar is intrigued by three of the pivotal figure’s works that saw print only in this paper —
Poetry News For February 9, 2010
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- — Understanding Haiti’s Catastrophe through a Poet’s Eyes —
- — An octogenarian lensman yesterday unveiled never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe lounging around a New York apartment with poet Carl Sandburg nine months before her death. —
- — Like Larkin, Tony Hoagland seems to draw inspiration and fluency as a poet from his disappointment and frustration as a human being. —
- — There are 15 or 20 better poets in America than Tony Hoagland, but few deliver more pure pleasure. —
- — For the second year running, a poet published by Twin Cities publisher Graywolf Press has won the prestigious (and lucrative) Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. —
- — Cathy Smith Bowers joins Wordplay! —
- — The 5,000 students graduating each year from creative writing programs (not to mention the thousands more who attend literary festivals and conferences) do not include insecurity, rejection and disappointment in their plans. —
- — Butter leads to lower blood fats than olive oil —
- — Fence Seeks Poetry Editor to Fill Open Spot —
- — poetry advice column: what should you learn from rejection letters? —
- — Colum McCann reads “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats at the 2008 Tribute to Chinua Achebe. [mp3] —
- — Language and Listening —
- — Sun Microsystems CEO’s 17-syllable resignation announcement is a useful innovation that could be more widely applied —
- — I wrote this poem at the end of the Fall semester of 2008, so it’s about a year old. I usually begin a poem with one line that I mutter under my breath for days, until I can’t hold it in any longer. —
- — Historically Speaking: Colonial-era female poet born in Lebanon, Conn. —
- — Gil Scott-Heron, survivor —
- — Is it vanity to self-publish? —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
- — It’s a profound statement, which is why in the 500+ pages of The Pleasure of the Damned you’ll find no sonnets, no sestinas, no haiku. —
- — The Winter of Our Self-Doubt: Writing, Solitude, and Companionship —
- — Minister to order poetry reading sessions in all radio stations —
- — Aberystwyth University in poetry ‘fevered brow’ test —
- — Ignorance as an asset —
- — Selected as the first place winner of qarrtsiluni’s 2009 poetry chapbook contest, Pamela Johnson Parker’s A Walk Through the Memory Palace is a gorgeous little treasure–a glossy chapbook with ten poems that sing as if they are 100. —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
- — Jack Kerouac’s Literary Estate in Limbo —
- — Defacing books: effluence of engagement —
- — Joe Milford Hosts WF Roby – Feb 07,2010 from Joe Milford Show | Great language poet and bad-ass. [mp3] —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — Poet Langston Hughes was born on 1 February 1902 in Joplin, Missouri.Personal planets in a combination of Aquarius, Pisces and Capricorn can be translated to humanitarian (Aquarius) dreams (Pisces) relating to (what ought to be) reality (Capricorn). —
- — SPD’s Poetry Bestsellers Jan 2010 —
- — “Dizzy in Your Eyes:” El Paso poet and author Pat Mora’s poetry gives voice to teen angst —
- — Joanna Rawson’s collection of poems unrest is one of four books of poetry nominated for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards. —
- — Ex-Iowa Poet Laureate Robert Dana dies —
- — When do you think a writer crosses the line between helping a publisher sell their book and entering into a cycle destructive to their creativity? —
- — … Fifteen Poems from Europe. —
- — This time, a simultaneously hardbitten and tender example of ‘cowboy poetry’ —
- — American Poetry Review, The, Jan/Feb 2010 —
- — With its daintily drawn cover artwork on a purple ground, this selection from the Poet Laureate’s work comes all tricked out like some Valentine’s Day gift. Beware. —
- — Steve Castro’s “Un monstruo oscuro encima de una gente clara” —
- — This program was inspired by an exhibition of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans.” Frank’s book first appeared in 1959, and presented an unvarnished view of American life in all its hope, despair, and diversity. Our program includes two stories inspired by pictures in the exhibition; a rollicking poem by Frank’s friend Allen Ginsberg; and stories by two contemporary ?migr?s: Alexsandar Hemon (“Good Living,” read by Boyd Gaines) and Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie (“The Thing Around Your Neck,” read by Condola Rashad.) [mp3] —
Poetry News For February 4, 2010
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One of my guinea fowl laid an egg. One. Egg. Right on the snow. First one.
- — Kearney’s The Black Automaton proves cryptic — it speaks a trickster’s hex, pushing us towards a sentiment that the tragedies of today might soon bleed into the mythologies of the past, if we’re not careful. —
- — Each poem in this sequence is packed to the brim with almost illicit words and inscapes — a mixture of the fantastical and the quasi-theoretical. —
- — It’s funny, I’ve never thought of food as a source of inspiration for my poems, but lately everyone has been pointing this out to me, as if I were obsessed with eating. —
- — They discuss, among other things, his insane use of exclamation points, how he wants you (befuddled & awestruck) while holding his hand, that flimsy curtain between Memory & Imagination, and his upcoming aesthetic compound. Look out New World! —
- — These three poems are some of the latest from Linh Dinh’s newest book, Some Kind of Cheese Orgy. —
- — Today we’ve released the newest episode of “PoemTalk”–number 28 in our series. This one is about Jack Spicer’s early poem, “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy. [mp3] —
- — Scott of the Antarctic’s final diary published online —
- — why poetry is awesome —
- — KQED: The Writers’ Block Podcast Patti Smith reads from JUST KIDS, her memoir about life with Robert Mapplethorpe. [mp3]—
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — Etta James, We’re Pulling For You —
- — Archival recordings of poet Weldon Kees, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in Berkeley, California in 1952. [mp3] —
- — The delightful folks at the Poetry Society of America have invited me to review chapbooks in this space, and I jumped at the chance. —
- — Pay It Forward: Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior —
- — Tigers GM fulfills an injured police officer’s dream —
- — Sheepfarmer’s Daughter download free —
- — Lee Mallory continues to wow crowds at Newport Beach coffeehouse with his words and antics. —
- — Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally. —
- — Living Writers WCBN – T Hetzel with Thomas Lynch [mp3] —
- — Beth Bachmann of Vanderbilt University is the 2010 winner of The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, given to honor a poet’s first book. —
- — Professor Laura Lomas Is Winner of 2009 Modern Language Association Prize, in United States Latina/O Literary and Cultural Studies —
- — Passion Maps explores the disorientation of a shift between cultures. —
- — Gherasim Luca, surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, has finally been translated into English, with two volumes this year: The Passive Vampire and Inventor of Love & Other Writings. —
- — The Art Of Poetry: A Conversation With W.S. Merwin —
That’s it for the week; I feel like crap. Have a good weekend.
LOL that last part wasn’t sarcastic.
