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Poetry News For November 14, 2008

Glasses won’t really “fix” the problems I am having with the epiretinal membrane. Eye patch, it is, then. I’m getting new glasses anyway, because my prescription got better in one sense, LOL. David Bowie says to wear the eye patch.

Poetry News:

  1. will art survive the economy?
  2. USC English professor named Calif. poet laureate
  3. Dorothy Parker: Short stories Here We Are and You Were Perfectly Fine, and Alexander Woolcott’s elegy Our Mrs. Parker. [MP3] —
  4. How does one manage to have a book of poetry reviewed in The New York Times Book Review? Well, let’s see, perhaps we can glean a hint.
  5. Why poetry is the soldier’s art
  6. Write or Die: Do you dare?
  7. Greensboro Baker Finds Lost Obama Poems
  8. Filipina Poets in an exhibit at the Library of Congress
  9. When a Real-Life Killing Sent Two Future Beats in Search of Their Voices
  10. Douglas Kearney says winning a Whiting Writers’ Award is a fresh start
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Poetry News for September 20, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. I think that is a hilarious ad campaign
  2. Saving Bukowski’s Bungalow
  3. Local artist’s Jarrell portrait finds famed venue
  4. Books on tools, trains and ranching are among the most sought after titles in the US, a new report reveals
  5. Tess Gallagher: living proof of the power of poetry
  6. For me, what started as an over-earnest graduate thesis (”Transparent Spring: Problems Translating Osip Mandelshtam‘ Tristia into English”) quickly graduated from a pet project to an obsession
  7. Poetcast: September 18th, 2007 A poem by James McMichael, winner of the 2007 Academy Fellowship [links to MP3] —
  8. All about the latest Best American Poetry Wow —
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Poetry News for September 14, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. The [Washington] state Arts Commission is taking applications for the job of poet laureate
  2. An ex-soldier’s take on recent war poetry
  3. in giving MacNolia a voice, the poet, A. Van Jordan, deals with the subject of balancing our love
  4. The poems aren’t irreverent ““ they don’t mock the grave or its tenant ““ but some of them do seem, well, a touch indiscreet
  5. we are less willing to be repulsive and repugnant in our poems, so caught up in our quest for linguistic and emotional beauty and earnestness
  6. Student safety, creative rights clash [and Bob Hicok's poem about VA Tech] —
  7. Wilkes receives approval for MFA in creative writing
  8. Almost single-handedly, as poet, editor and propagandist, he had engineered a “Scots Renaissance” in literature

hahahahahahahaha — this is great. (and WTF?)

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Poetry News for August 6, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —
  2. Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —
  3. Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan to attend and are not an axe-murderer] —
  4. Emotional poem fills screen
  5. The Gotham Book Mart (it was originally Gotham Book and Art) became known for embracing avant-garde and, occasionally, controversial writers and challenging censorship
  6. Is Southern literature exhausted?
  7. SUNY Brockport seeks to restore paintings of E.E. Cummings
  8. Simic Interview at NPR
  9. X-Ray of a Van Gogh Reveals 2nd Painting
  10. To make the top reaches of this list, I was told by Brent Cunningham, S.P.D.‘ operations director, you need to sell roughly 100 copies a month

I enjoyed “Masters of Science Fiction” & am looking forward to the next episodes. Stephen Hawking narrates it. Speaking of alternate universes: China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate

Awww. More niece. She kinda looks like she got all of our modicum of Native American genes.

And some deep-linking to the NY Times:

:)

  1. Featured Author: Ishmael Reed With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  2. Featured Author: Allen Ginsberg With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  3. Featured Author: Jack Kerouac With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  4. Featured Author: Langston Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  5. Featured Author: Randall Jarrell With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  6. Featured Author: Seamus Heaney With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  7. Featured Author: James Merrill With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  8. Featured Author: Joseph Brodsky With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  9. Featured Author: Robert Frost With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  10. Featured Author: James Dickey With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  11. Featured Author: James Joyce With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  12. Featured Author: Margaret Atwood With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  13. Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  14. [More] Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  15. Featured Author: Ted Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  16. More on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath From the Archives of The NYT
  17. Featured Author: Hart Crane With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  18. Featured Author: Maxine Kumin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  19. Featured Author: Federico García Lorca With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  20. Featured Author: William S. Burroughs With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  21. Featured Subject: Cole Porter With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
  22. Featured Author: Charles Bukowski With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  23. Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  24. [More] Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
  25. Featured Author: Kenneth Koch With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT
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Poetry News for July 16, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. Poetic Theaters, Romantic Fevers [one can always check NYT for poetry-related articles here] —
  2. Sonnets served with a slice of pi
  3. Revisiting North Carolina’s finest poet
  4. “This is a clip from the new Bob Dylan movie. It stars Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan and David Cross as Allen Ginsberg.”
  5. Palestinian Poet Blasts Infighting
  6. He felt that doing the work was a rehearsal for the work itself, and each rehearsal then became its own work [Thanks to Helen Frost for the link] —
  7. Poetry of the beach

This is from Crossing the Water. (I disagree & like it better than Ariel and I like how the metaphors act like small bombs of surprise as you read the poems.) And I wish she’d've written more poems like this because whoo:

Maudlin

Mud-mattressed under the sign of the hag
In a clench of blood, the sleep-talking virgin
Gibbets with her curse the moon’s man
Faggot-bearing Jack in his crackless egg:

Hatched with a claret hogshead to swig
He kings it, navel-knit to no groan,
But at the price of a pin-stitched skin
Fish-tailed girls purchase each white leg.

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