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Thank God 2009 is over! I think it even surpassed 1983 as the worst year ever, for me. So it is 2010 & 7th year of poetry news here on the blog. A couple questions:

1. At year’s end, again, my question: Where’s my flying car?

2. Have you downloaded my poetry book? It’s free to download, which over 800 folks have done, thus far. (Little sales and never did make it to any year end lists.) But I still like it and am proud of it and if you like it, too, you can buy it.

I hope you all have a good 2010 & have a solid foundation. xoxo

— Rifts have surfaced at Chicago’s Poetry magazine since… —

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— A poetic clash over millions in cash —

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— 2010: Poetry Collections to Come… —

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— poet Annie Finch’s blog link from here, thanks
— Methuen preserving Frost artifact —

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— Indianapolis philantropist Ruth Lilly dies at age 94 and In 1939, The New York Times published four poems by “R. Lyly.” Ruth Lilly’s lawyer, Thomas Ewbank, is “95 percent sure” the name was a pseudonym for Ruth Lilly. and Ruth Lilly, RIP Willy Lilly Nilly—venture capital for poets. —

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— AbeBooks’ Most Expensive Sales of 2009 —

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— Right-handers sit to the right of the movie screen to optimise neural processing of the film —

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— Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo’s 11-year prison sentence —

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— SPD Poetry Bestsellers 2000-2009 (The ‘OO’s!) —

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— Where Are the Nurse Writers? —

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— A poet considers the lasting influence of Eleanor Ross Taylor —

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— When a young writer from Massachusetts named Eileen Myles, above, was still new to the East Village, she went St. Mark’s Church for what would become her New Year’s Day ritual: a poetry marathon. —

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— In Memoriam: Activist Poet Dennis Brutus —

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— Learning Lab: Anne Bradstreet: “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Emily Warn —

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— Learning Lab: Philip Larkin: “An Arundel Tomb” by Jeremy Axelrod —

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— Orwell’s birthplace to be saved from decay —

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— From the UNDERLIFE book launch party on December 16, 2009. congrats —

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— Don Paterson awarded Queen’s Medal for Poetry —

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— Reginald Gibbons finds poetry in Chicago —

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— Missouri’s first poet laureate found the job engaging, consuming —

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— The best medal a poet could wish for is a wider readership —

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— Whoopee! Author Daniel Nester is most inappropriate —

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— The Dream Poet Anthology 2009 The only poets I can remember dreaming about are Akhmatova and Tsvetsaeva. I have Sadge in the 12th house so yeah it’s be foreigners haha. —

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— But apparently, since she wrote about housewives and domestic issues, there’s nothing to admire about what she did. And if you want to mock a woman writer these days, why, you just link her to Erma Bombeck and call it at day. —

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— So, for the i-ROBOT adaptation (the play based on Jason Christie’s I-ROBOT) when I started to think about how to write dialogue for robots I looked up some chatbots on the Internet and had conversations with them about poetry. —

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— Ten Ways to Send Your Work Into the World —

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— Collections by Katha Pollitt, Philip Levine, Mary Jo Bang and Patty Seyburn. —

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Poetry News For August 17, 2009

— Dean of Poetesses Says This Is the Brass Age of Poetry; Edna D. Proctor, Poet-Friend of Whittier, Recalls the Past and Talks of Present State of Verse April 1, 1917, Sunday —

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— Cuisine sauce oulipo —

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— Johnny Be Good: The Poetry of 21 Jump Street —

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— We speak with former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur about new poems and old, the art of translation, and his evolution as a poet. Wilbur also reads from his work for us. [mp3] —

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— Johnathon Williams (of Linebreak) has written a poetry aggregator, called Swindle, that scrapes various magazines for fresh poetry uploads. —

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— Poster poems: Aubades —

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— Detecting a clogged artery in the wheezing body of modern verse, Clive James writes in the July/August issue of Poetry magazine that, once upon a time, “the status of ‘poet’ was not so easily aspired to, and the only hankering was to get something said in a memorable form.” —

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— Shooting the Freaks —

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— “When Zombies Attack! Mathematical Modeling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection” —

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— “I think people are turning to online because a wealth of literary magazines is accessible” —

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— UT’s refuge for writers could be threatened —

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— These days, poetry and commerce are rarely on good speaking terms. But in 1955, Marianne Moore, the famous American writer, tried to help Ford name one of its new creations. —

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— Since humility is not often the hallmark of poets —

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— Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts Jeremy Halinen, a coeditor and cofounder of Knockout Literary Magazine. [mp3] —

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— Three New Titles on Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Thom Gunn by Ron Slate —

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— Rumi, the movie —

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— The winner of the Idaho Prize, a national competition for poetry sponsored by Sandpoint’s Lost Horse Press, is “Frescoes,” by Stephen Gibson —

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Poetry News For August 10, 2009

— NORTH OF BOSTON; Robert Frost’s Poems of New England Farm Life NORTH OF BOSTON. By Robert Frost. New York: Henry Holt & Co. $1.25. By Jessie B. Rittenhouse May 16, 1915, Sunday —

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— Stepping Stones: Interview with Seamus Heaney, by Dennis O’Driscoll | Book review —

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— Poetry/ Not Poetry & The Turn —

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— O SAY CAN YOU SEE: Nonverbal Reviews and Adaptations of Women’s Poetry, New Deadline: August 20 —

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— The International Society of Poets, also known as the International Library of Poetry, Watermark Press and [formerly] poetry.com has gone out of business. —

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— Subscription Cards, RIP —

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— Why we all want more poetry, please —

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— “Maybe one poem has anything to do with the game. The rest is like ‘Spoon River’ meets ESPN,” he says. —

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— A project to encourage prisoners to explore their inner self through verse has suffered a setback after inmates were caught plagiarising poems in a bid to win a £25 prize. —

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— This June, eight poets and one very arty oncologist, most from East Tennessee, joined me for the workshop, “Writing/Revising the Senses in Deep France.” We ate chicken tergine, paella, pasta putenesca, fresh strawberries with real cream, almonds —

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— Aesop Fable Experiment —

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— American Poetry Review, The, Jul/Aug 2009 —

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— Faber and Faber’s tale of independence —

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— Visit 2River to sample their e-chapbooks. —

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— At an 18th-century auction in Amsterdam, Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter sold for about one-third the amount that its owner spent to obtain a then rare Conus gloriamaris shell. —

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Poetry News For May 25, 2009

— Poet cornered: Ruth Padel fights to keep Oxford post over tip-offs about her rival and A male poet wouldn’t have been blamed for rough tactics: Ruthless power plays in academia are as common as good wine and Oxford’s top poet urged to quit for sex slurs against literary rival —

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— It measures, perhaps, the success of New Formalism’s self-serving argument that writing in meter is difficult that Joel Brouwer (“Poetry Chronicle,” April 26) should be astonished to the point of italics at the news that J. D. McClatchy spoke an iambic pentameter line in his sleep. —

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— Why do women defend Walcott? —

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— BBC plans to send poet to Afghanistan battlefields —

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— Litterbug released after 4 years in jail —

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— The lousy economy might be bad for artists when it comes to paying rent, but after a decade of record prices — and what some might call wretched excess — it might actually be good for art. —

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— Film Made About Rebellious Chilean Poetess and —

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— Wee row erupts over old Robbie: Town resists call to remove statue —

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— Sunday Poetry for the New Moon Jupiter/Chiron/Neptune conjunction —

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— Poet’s Choice by Paul Otremba: ‘In an Adirondack With You’ by Paul Otremba —

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— Frederick Seidel has spent the last half-century being the darkest and strangest sort of poet. —

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— People By Nature Are Universally Optimistic, Study Shows —

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— A few years ago I used baseball as a metaphor to lament the lack of an amateur/professional split within the poetry world: no one thinks they have to be a major leaguer to have fun taking hacks at the batting cage, but for some reason the idea of being an amateur poet and having fun in the same way with words strikes us as embarrassing. —

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— French artist Bernard Pras (scroll for biography) arranges everyday objects, then photographs them at such an angle as to recreate iconic portraits and artworks. —

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— APSU literature professor to read his work in Nashville —

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— So, just to be clear, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as we have come to call it, is an untitled poem written by an unknown author in about 1400. It is 2,530 lines long and written in Middle English. —

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— Two engaging books in distinct styles and voices — clearly from male and female perspectives — experience our shared world, but translate it through individual visions worthy of a wide readership. —

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— Ros, who died in 1939, abused (some would say, tortured) the English language in three novels and dozens of poems. you can read some poems here —

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— Campbell McGrath’s anti-Tweet —

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— Doomed to neglect were any films the jury doubtless deemed too conventional and/or too warm. These included “Bright Star,” Jane Campion’s exceptionally intimate and restrained examination of the tragic romance of poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, and “Looking for Eric,” a genial change-of-pace for British director Ken Loach. —

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— The National Library of New Zealand is seeking nominations for the 2009-2011 New Zealand Poet Laureate Award. —

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— Poets of the Central Committee of the Writers Union of Korea produced more than 100 poems and words of songs encouraging the army and people by conducting dynamic creative activities in the seething reality. —

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— Computer scientist to ‘unroll’ papyrus scrolls buried by Vesuvius —

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— Rafael Escalona, 81, Folk Musician and Balladeer of Colombia, Is Dead —

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— The Futurists: masters of outrage who embraced the new —

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— Peter Sacks finds common themes between the paintings of Edward Hopper and the works of poets such as Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and TS Eliot. [mp3] —

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— Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques —

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— Joe Milford Show: John Poch is poetry editor of the journal 32 Poems. His first book, Poems (Orchises Press), appeared in 2004. His work has appeared in many journals, and in 2004, he was a Howard Nemerov Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches at Texas Tech University. —

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— Conferences, Festivals Taking a Hit —

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— The Jane Crown Show: Lyn Lifshin —

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— “If the occupation is afraid of a literature festival,” he said, addressing the elephant in the room of literature buffs and the culturally inclined, “than they are very fragile indeed.” —

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— In this essay Gary muses on how a poem or in
this case how a poem fragment works, complete with excellent illustrations. —

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— How did you and your publishers decide that now was the time for your “Collected Poems”? —

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— The end of an era in American letters —

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— Recently, I’ve been reading through Jim Elledge’s Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock & Roll in American Poetry.” —

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— Anna Journey’s first book of poems, “If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting” (University of Georgia Press: 104 pp., $16.95 paper), is a deeply American debut —

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Have you noticed lately that people are acting ugly all of a sudden out of the blue? I’m not sure what to make of it. Maybe I’m just being in the wrong time at the wrong place.

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