Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — New issue of New England Review features fiction, poetry and prose —
2. — An article about me and my husband, Darryl Dybka on the Tennessean (local Nashville) paper’s website & in the Ashland City Times newspaper —
3. — This week, a chilling journey to ‘the shadow side’ with a master of psychology —
4. — Southern Gothic meets metafiction in a new novel by Minton Sparks —
5. — David Gest claims to have collaborated with pop legend on album setting poems to music —
6. — New works of poetry inspired by Katrina —

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There is a bluntness here that I respect. Both McCain and Obama are running for Caesar. I get that. But part of the game of running for Caesar has always been pretending you don’t want it, that the proles need you, and you’re one of them.

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New anthology:

“This wonderful and important anthology…is a solid act of generosity…a gift of testimony from poets across a broad range of experience and language, poems that tell us we can gather ourselves from the shock of upset and loss in life and continue…After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery is a book that seeks to stand up and walk among us as a living thing, a force to activate the good and prepare us to weather the bad.”

—Afaa Michael Weaver
Author, The Plum Flower Dance
Alumnae Professor of English, Simmons College

The poets in After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events:

Rita Dove · Simon Armitage · Carol Dine · Douglas Dunn · Cathy Smith Bowers · Patricia Wellingham-Jones · Donald Hall · Carol Ann Duffy · Molly Gloss · Thomas Lux · Pam Bernard · Elizabeth Bernardin · Sandor Kányádi · Stellasue Lee · Doug Anderson · Jim McGarrah · Sonja Besford · Martha Collins · Rachel Tzvia Back · Brian Turner · Nazand Begikhani · Liu Hongbin · Paul Sohar · Satyendra Srivastava · Marjorie Wentworth · Diana Woodcock · Majid Naficy · Shelley Davidow · J. P. Dancing Bear · Margaret Chula · Major Jackson · Lisha Adela Garcia · Ron Rash · Annie Finch · Barbara Mitchell · Roseann Lloyd · Joy Helsing · Nehassaiu deGannes · Peter Cooley · Paul Allen · R. G. Evans · Barbara G.S. Hagerty · Clinton B. Campbell · Iain Haley Pollock · Laurel Blossom · Willie James King · Satyendra Srivastava · Georgia Ann Banks-Martin · Kevin Young · Tolu Ogunlesi · Meir Wieseltier · Randall Horton · Richard Garcia · György Faludy · Bette Lynch Husted · William Stafford · Terri Wolfe · J. Stephen Rhodes · Gail Rudd Entrekin · Anthony S. Abbott · Faye J. Hoops · Annie Finch · Farideh Hassanzadeh · Rebecca McClanahan · Sister Lou Ella Hickman · Anna Rabinowitz · David Bottoms · Janet Winans ·Stellasue · Lee Alexa Selph · Dennis Ward Stiles · Renée Michele Breeden · Ellen Doré Watson · Joseph Mills · Liesl Jobson · Deborah P. Kolodji · Aimee Nezhukumatathil · Kurtis Lamkin · C.C. Thomas · Barbara Presnell · Naomi Ruth Lowinsky · Jericho Brown · Therése Halscheid · Becky Thompson · John McAllister · J. E. Pitts · William Greenway · Susan Varon · Shaindel Beers · Genie Cotner · Marcia Slatkin · David Bottoms · Barbara Mitchell · Joan Houlihan · Jenni Meredith · Rhett Iseman Trull · Pramila Venkateswaran · Diane Holland · Valerie Nieman · Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda · Susan Meyers · Meir Wieseltier · Satyendra Srivastava · Joseph Enzweiler · Jane Gentry · Rachel Eliza Griffiths · Gail Peck · Jennifer Barber · Ilya Kaminsky · Allison Hedge Coke · Steven Cramer · Linda Annas Ferguson · Kevin Simmonds · Gail Rudd Entrekin · Nancy Tupper Ling · Carole Baldock · Deema Shehabi · Kate Gale · Jeffrey Levine · Bernardo Atxaga

Order at www.poetryofrecovery.com

Poetry News:

1. — Why do his poems so often feature husbands who kill or resent their wives? —
2. — On The Gurlesque Part 3 —
3. — Poet keeps win close to chest —
4. — USC Pigskin Poets Get Kids Reading —
5. — Time, reconfigured by poetry, allows connection —
6. — Library of Congress Organizes Eighth Annual National Book Festival Hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush on the National Mall; Famed Authors To Participate —
7. — Southeast publishes 1921 poem by William Carlos Williams —
8. — Poet Hart Crane was born on this day in 1899 —
9. — Exactly why we take personal poems so, well, personally remains a mystery and a muddle. —
10. — Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity —
11. — a poem whose logic is a mockery of logic —
12. — Quantum poetics —

‘Frequency Hopping’ Showcases Screen Siren’s Smarts

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So do you think this poem is racist, as has been interpreted here? I can think of a few poems with the P word — Plath, Bukowski … Macbeth. Philip Levine I bet.

I am sooo getting sick of political-correctness groupthink. Die Gedanken sind frei.

Poetry News:

1. — Diane Ronayne: Remembering kayaker, poet, teacher Bill Studebaker —
2. — Sometimes I think critics resent poets who are understandable —
3. — Anecdote answers the origins of a Richard Hugo poem —
4. — Bookmonger: Poets Deal with Life’s Physical Limitations —
5. — Judging a letter by its cover, these were remarkable —
6. — Overshadowed poet gets overdue attention —
7. — It Will Not Wash: Does It Work, or Not? —
8. — Was Whitman Really Gay? [MP3] —

church of human bones (Nat’l Geo. video)

Poetry News:

1. — rarely has a work of literature ignited or inspired a new sporting event —
2. — he reviewed four of the original Frost notebooks housed in Boston University’s archives and found “roughly one thousand” errors in Mr. Faggen’s work —
3. — ‘Poe Toaster’ avoids being spotted at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave —
4. — Confrontation, the award-winning literary magazine of Long Island University, celebrates its 40th anniversary this month —
5. — There aren’t many poets landing book deals these days, let alone preempts by major houses, but last week it happened twice —
6. — Observations of nature at her most benevolent, when each living thing relishes life, serve only to illuminate our dismissal of the natural world t —

Haven’t we suffered enough?