Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Vandals ransacked the interior of Homer Noble Farm, the summer home of the late poet Robert Frost —
2. — Every New Year’s Eve, the normally dry Coast Guard log takes on a lyrical charm —
3. — John Ashbery’s verse can be hard to understand, but the simple act of reading his latest collection, Notes From the Air, is a pleasure in itself —
4. — The theatrics of Russia’s Silver Age poets come alive in Paul Schmidt’s theatrical translations —
5. — Revisiting Cole Porter’s ‘Top’ —
6. — Landis Everson was one of the Berkeley Renaissance, an avant-garde poets’ group from the 1950s —
7. — The Blush of the New —
8. — Ken Tolson is the real-life grandson of Melvin B. Tolson, whose work as an educator, mentor and poet is highlighted in the new film The Great Debaters —

Most clicked links of last month:

1. Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry
2. Since 1945, only three poems have been published by the charming grey-haired spinster who has won every US poetry prize worth winning.
3. Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass On American Poetry, Bob Dylan, Impact of ‘The Big Lebowski’

Most popular posts of 2007:

1. Once upon a time
2. Poetry News for October 16, 2007
3. Poetry News for October 10, 2007

Poetry News:

1. — Podcast options aplenty for poetry [ congrats Thom ] —
2. — Poets Resort to Guerilla Marketing —
3. — On the same day, “Verses,” DiFranco’s first published collection of poems and lyrics, will be released —
4. — Would-be authors say they were let down; ‘vanity’ publisher says business went bad —
5. — Responses to the anthology question from last week —
6. — I Demand to Speak with God by Kay Ryan —
7. — A rookie poet might fear to write poems that included the names of other poets, as though the life of art were not quite part of life —
8. — Coalition Aims to Expose Shakespeare —
9. — hmmmm —

What kind of bizarro world have we stepped into?

Poetry News:

1. — In order to encourage the pursuit of execrableness, Slate is hosting its first “Bad Poetry Contest” —
2. — Robert Frost’s Musings Are Both Insightful, Insane —
3. — Here’s a villain wallowing in his malevolence and deformity —
4. — A Canadian magazine dedicates its summer issue to overlooked poets and finds there’s a pattern to the neglect —
5. — Popularity of Poker Prompts Poetic Technique For Player Expression —
6. — A lot of people go on for far too long and no one takes them to one side and says, `it‘ time you handed in your licence”™.” —

Poetry News:

1. — Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —
2. — Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —
3. — Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan to attend and are not an axe-murderer] —
4. — Emotional poem fills screen —
5. — The Gotham Book Mart (it was originally Gotham Book and Art) became known for embracing avant-garde and, occasionally, controversial writers and challenging censorship —
6. — Is Southern literature exhausted? —
7. — SUNY Brockport seeks to restore paintings of E.E. Cummings —
8. — Simic Interview at NPR —
9. — X-Ray of a Van Gogh Reveals 2nd Painting —
10. — To make the top reaches of this list, I was told by Brent Cunningham, S.P.D.‘ operations director, you need to sell roughly 100 copies a month —

I enjoyed “Masters of Science Fiction” & am looking forward to the next episodes. Stephen Hawking narrates it. Speaking of alternate universes: China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate

Awww. More niece. She kinda looks like she got all of our modicum of Native American genes.

And some deep-linking to the NY Times:

1. — Featured Author: Ishmael Reed With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
2. — Featured Author: Allen Ginsberg With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
3. — Featured Author: Jack Kerouac With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
4. — Featured Author: Langston Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
5. — Featured Author: Randall Jarrell With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
6. — Featured Author: Seamus Heaney With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
7. — Featured Author: James Merrill With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
8. — Featured Author: Joseph Brodsky With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
9. — Featured Author: Robert Frost With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
10. — Featured Author: James Dickey With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
11. — Featured Author: James Joyce With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
12. — Featured Author: Margaret Atwood With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
13. — Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
14. — [More] Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
15. — Featured Author: Ted Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
16. — More on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath From the Archives of The NYT —
17. — Featured Author: Hart Crane With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
18. — Featured Author: Maxine Kumin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
19. — Featured Author: Federico García Lorca With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
20. — Featured Author: William S. Burroughs With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
21. — Featured Subject: Cole Porter With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times —
22. — Featured Author: Charles Bukowski With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
23. — Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
24. — [More] Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
25. — Featured Author: Kenneth Koch With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —