Poetry News:

1. — When Lit-Crit Mattered —
2. — Marilyn Hacker, whose volume Presentation Piece won the National Book Award in 1975, is another of Joudah’s champions —
3. — “I think the blossoming time is still to come,” she says. “I’m just beginning and still need to develop as a writer. But there is something very real happening here.” —
4. — Robert Bly: The best poetry is always religious —
5. — “I was just thrilled for about a week straight,” he said. “I went into the conference room and I did a little silent dance.” —
6. — Penniless author sells shares in next novel —
7. — A poet asks: How do you love without losing yourself? —
8. — Spotlight Audio: Ron Silliman reads from “What” —
9. — Some poets write with an urgency to show us a moment from ordinary life that would otherwise disappear —
10. — To keep his brain sharp, Augie is trying to memorize 10000 lines of Minnesotan Tom McGrath’s long poem “Letter to an Imaginary Friend” —
11. — Recorded at Atlanta’s historic Fox Theater on July 5, Waits delivers a stunning and epic two-and-a-half hour performance, including songs he says he’s never attempted outside of the studio before. [mp3] —

Just popping my head up here for a bit. Hope you’re having a good summer. Found out today why I have been feeling so poorly. I’ll know more after an appt later this month. Then I’ll be back here once it is straightened out.

Poetry News:

1. — We’ve published some poetry, even though we both know you may as well be setting fire to hundred-dollar bills —
2. — Bradfield delivers her bruised truths through a quiet honesty that stands in ardent defense of mainstream normative expectations —
3. — Gov. Pawlenty names Robert Bly Minnesota’s first official poet laureate —
4. — So you’d look at the poets who just came before us, folks like Robert Lowell, WS Merwin, and the Beats, and you’d go, `Oh, I see how this works,’ and then apply it to your own poems —
5. — Understanding the great scribes’ fondness for alcohol —
6. — Cash From Poems Launches Successful Venture —
7. — Poet Bukowski’s home now a landmark after Council vote —
8. — This was found in a recently acquired book of poetry by Bill Knott —
9. — This Is Your Brain On Jazz: Researchers Use MRI To Study Spontaneity, Creativity —
10. — I hear it in my ear, and the sound I hear in my ear decides whether it is prose or poetry —
11. — Fisher Poets have listeners hooked —

Professor Stays Home; Conducts Class With Two-Way Radio

Poetry News:

1. — One of America’s most respected literary magazines”Virginia Quarterly Review … is teaming up with the University of Georgia Press … to bring out a new series of poetry books [thanks Claudia C. for the info] —
2. — Make Bush Name 10 American Poets: Memo to Endowment Head Gioia —
3. — On poetry and sorrows: a short conversation with Robert Bly [may require bug me not] —
4. — Eisteddfod winner scales his peak —
5. — Asahi Haikuist Network —
6. — I need a PHP developer, email me if you are one —
7. — Poet and the Poem series at the US LoC. Amy King is up there now. Congrats, Amy. —

I thought this was a headline from the Onion at first. Same Agencies to Run, Oversee Surveillance Program

This song has been going through my head today for some reason. “That echo chorus lied to me with its ‘hold on hold on hold on hold on.’” Mr. Dybka bought me a post-surgery present & I can play a dorky version of House of the Rising Sun. That instrument actually plays very well. I know what guitar chords look like from when I was a bass player [warning: contains the 1980s], but getting my fingers to do that. Well. And the strings are so thin! …maybe I’ll try to learn that Neko Case song. I think there’s a 7th chord in there though. Maybe not. LOL.