Poetry News:

1. — A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch —
2. — Atlanta Sings of Poems Electric, Past and Present —
3. — What We Miss if We Pass on Poetry (Hint: Not Poems) —
4. — Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: The Poet Voice of African-Americans —
5. — Houston poet wins $50,000 award —
6. — Reed Whittemore, Handyman to the Muse: Influential Poet Writes the Work of His Life —

Poetry News:

1. — A Genius Whom the War Made and Killed; Rupert Brooke’s Death at the Front Illustrates the Paradox of the Effect on Literature of War, Which Ended His Career and Made Him Immortal By Joyce Kilmer. —
2. — What do you think are the most important elements of writing poetry? —
3. — Four of the most prestigious poetry prizes went to African-American women this year —
4. — Movies based on poems —
5. — Self-confidence is a definite advantage in most areas, but wingless flight is not one of them —
6. — Penguin should be ashamed of itself —
7. — If a more cringe-making book exists than Boris Johnson’s debut volume of poetry, Stuart Jeffries has yet to read it —
8. — Mark Strand’s New Selected Poems includes an evocation of food’s deep meanings, appropriate to the holiday, though the dish is not turkey: —
9. — Reed Whittemore: Telling it slant —
10. — Website of the Week — Poetry Foundation —
11. — One manuscript that escaped the blaze — just barely — contained an untitled poem of more than 3,000 lines —

Rare Spanish Coin Found in Nashville Cemetery. I once found an Imperial German Army uniform button. It was on top of a mole hill in our yard in Nashville on the Cheatham County line. Weird.

Collin kindly nominated Poetry Hut Blog for The Shameless Lions Writing Circle Award. Thanks, that is kind.

These are 5 blogs, poetry and not, that I also nominate:

1. WhimsyLand: Jeffrey Bahr deserves some kind of award for The Futility Review.


2. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: just because it always cracks me up & I like Chaucer.


3. rotten peaches: makes me want to do memoir-comics. But mine would look a lot more like a John Callahan cartoon.


4. pitcherlady: for pretty pictures and not-so-pretty pictures that aren’t afraid to shine a light on community problems. If I ever publish a book I’ll ask Susan for a pic. (Yes I realize this award is for writing but…)


5. The Moderate Voice: for its news and political discussion made possible in the blog comments — without a bunch of crappy, angry, name-calling.

Poetry News:

1. — Posts will be sporadic —
2. — the percentage of women vs. men being published in literary journals discussions at the Poetry Foundation’s blog —
3. — As we expected, our article on Miss Eliza Cook has drawn upon us the fierce wrath of a fair lady, who has written us a trenchant note, in which she declares that Miss Cook is a great poetess. Now, we by no means wished to convey the idea that ladies cannot write poetry. We believe and know the contrary to be the fact. —
4. — Nasreen has been in exile since 1994 when Islamic fundamentalists issued a fatwa - death order - on her —
5. — Sex, death and foxes —
6. — The sound of music amok in the mind —
7. — Acclaimed poet Ruth Stone, 92, shows no signs of slowing down —
8. — Poetry unsettles complacency —
9. — Syllabus search engine — good for teachers and autodidacts —
10. — Adventures in Poetry — BBC Radio 4 —
11. — U of A pioneers micro-publishing —
12. — It is estimated that between five and ten per cent of known books are currently in print, and twenty per cent—those produced between the beginning of print, in the fifteenth century, and 1923—are out of copyright —

I have some diagrams up at the online mag DIAGRAM, which as you probably have guessed, is fresh.

Top 3 most popular links for October 2007 (as far as Feedburner is concerned):

More to the point, they seem to fill a gap left increasingly by magazines, which rarely publish this type of material anymore

The early letters of the future poet laureate reveal many of his lifelong obsessions, from furry animals to the occult, mostly in a financially anxious form

Three Reasons Why We Don’t Read Poetry

I had no idea that you could get tonsillitis even though you have had your tonsils out. There’s some tonsily stuff down your throat I guess. So the “ear” problem has been figured out. What a crappy year hahahaha. Good news is that I am going to Vermont over the holidays, so I get to visit my folks in their … new accommodations, my new niece, PLUS my sister will be there for sure and hopefully my 2 older brothers will drive in from Michigan. So for the first time in a very very long time, all 5 kids + my parents will be all together. Fingers crossed.

In other news, I’m ready to retire haha. (I started working when I was about 7 — after school during the week and on Saturdays.) I think I’m getting sick of it hahaha. (I’m just tired.)