Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Nancy Galbraith; Led Center For Poetry —
2. — Reversing the Tide: Professor Gives Due
 to Self-Taught Poets —
3. — Journals that take summer submissions (3 recent blog posts) —
4. — Reb Livingston is guest blogging at The Best American Poetry (where I found the link below) —
5. — 68 new reviews of poetry books. Edited by Eileen Tabios —
6. — Bosnia’s butcher poet —
7. — poetry & rss I know that dead mule has an rss feed —
8. — Soldier-Poet Brian Turner, Framing War In Verse —
9. — WordPlay 7/20 Jeffrey Beam on Jonathan Williams [mp3] —

Poetry News:

1. — Thank you very much for inviting me to speak about Poetry and Power —
2. — the latest wrangle in the US reflects a wider problem in deciding what’s good poetry and what’s not —
3. — VA Tech professor writes poems about shooting —
4. — Poets are good at discerning life within what otherwise might seem lifeless [congrats]—
5. — Business of Words with Collin Kelley, Month of October, Guest: Reb Livingston —
6. — Sean O’Brien has become the first person to win the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry three times. —
7. — For years, Baltimore has laid claim to one of our greatest writers. Nevermore! —
8. — Old and, though no-one knew it then, close to death, Auden’s behaviour in Ilkley can best be described as eccentric —
9. — The court cited the lower court‘ findings of fact questioning the validity of the certificate‘ facts, such as … the publication of the poems without a copyright notice —
10. — ACLU “˜Howls”™ Against FCC Destroying the Best Poems of a Generation —
11. — Burma: Act Now! —

Congrats to Eclectica on its 54th issue. That’s quite an achievement, as online lit mags seem to come and go. In the latest issue, Scott Malby did a review of this site. Thanks, that is kind.

3 most popular links for last month (as far as Feedburner is concerned):

“This country’‘ best-selling contemporary poetry book, according to the most recent list on poetryfoundation.com”

All about the latest Best American Poetry

The announcement that Paul Muldoon will be the next poetry editor of The New Yorker provoked Ted Genoways, editor of VQR, to to call out American poets

Attn Nashville word nerds: this program (New PBS Series Probes the Origin, Technology and Art of Writing) begins tonight at 7pm on Nashville Public TV.

Poetry News:

1. — Blogs versus Print: is there a prejudice? [and more, kinda, about the legitimacy of blogging.] —
2. — Elizabeth Bishop, in her early 20s, doing cart-wheels across the field at the farm —
3. — English Professor Sets Poetry Wheels in Motion for Luzerne County Residents —
4. — Poet Cathal O’Searcaigh wins €20,000 literary prize —
5. — Anna Akhmatova’s Portrait by Modigliani Presented to Russia —
6. — Fascinating —
7. — Len Sousa’s Poetry/Music Mashup [wandered there via a link here thank you] —
8. — These words gave me hope for humanity —

So why haven’t you read this book yet? Mmm.