Poetry News:

So while I’ve been out Hayden Carruth died, the fake anthology was published (which I think is funny - the Rod McKuen is a nice touch) and the Nobel Committee said American writers are unworthy ….

1. — Exclusive Preview: Bob Dylan’s ‘Tell Tale Signs’ —
2. — Picasso’s interest in poetry comes as no surprise to those familiar with his life. —
3. — The Jane Crown Show: Joe Milford Hosts Jill Alexander Essbaum —
4. — Why do you write? Why did you start? —
5. — Linking Physics and Language Art through Tetractys Poetry —
6. — During the war, my own father was a sailor on the New York docks; had Crane survived and picked him up for some rough trade, I’d have been flattered. —
7. — “There’s Something Haunting and Nihilistic About Your Hairdresser” —

I’ve lost almost 10 pounds on my “OMG I feel like I’m going to throw up” diet LOL. I think I’m going into the hospital for 3 days for a bunch of tests (related to the dysautonomia; gravity I hate you.) I’ll find out in the morning. I’ll be back next week I reckon. xxxooo

Poetry News:

1. — Tasha Tudor, 92 —
2. — From Verse to Controversy — And Fleeting Fame —
3. — One of the liberties that poetry takes, and that prose can’t, is temporarily to break up or interrupt a sentence with a line ending —
4. — On the contrary, Lowell had mastered that style so completely that he had exhausted its possibilities —
5. — One of the hardest subjects to treat in verse, armed conflict has a diverse history in poetry. How would you tackle the subject? —
6. — Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast Listening to Grace Paley read her poems. [mp3] —
7. — Wright’s emphasis on bearing witness, on counting and recounting victims, and calling the powerful to account, makes up one crucial aspect of her project, and calls to mind the work of 20th-century activist poets like Kenneth Fearing, Langston Hughes and Muriel Rukeyser —

Poetry News:

1. — ‘Poet cannibal’ arrested —
2. — Editor meets Henry Rollins —
3. — Writers Debate the Net’s Effect on Their Craft —
4. — A Lawyer, a Poet, and a Love Rekindled —
5. — Poet Hass’ ‘Time’ does not live up to ‘Praise’ —
6. — Robert Lowell’s 1960 statement regarding the state of poetry not only pitted the Beats against “cat-nip” academics, but publicly declared them to be a force —
7. — Writing Aplenty on the Web, but Where’s the Cash? —
8. — …but back to the apparently quite lucrative Beat industry —
9. — The first story on this program is a Eudora Welty classic about the rebellious daughter of a somewhat bizarre Southern family, “Why I Live at the P.O.”, read by Stockard Channing [mp3] —
10. — Writers, publishers gather to celebrate Twin Cities literary scene —
11. — Oct 24: Sonia Sanchez to Present next Joseph N. Patterson Lecture (Winston-Salem) —
12. — Poet Laureate Simic: ‘I grew up bent over a chessboard’ —
13. — Series A: Evan Willner and Joshua Corey —

“Our idea was to go beyond merely displaying how badly a baseball can be thrown.”

Poetry News:

1. — For three decades, he was poetry’s epicenter —
2. — Atwood is at a disadvantage having neither died at a tragically young age nor lived dissolutely —
3. — The Poetry of Phil Rizzuto —
4. — E.E. Cummings‘ book chronicling a 36-day trip in 1931 has been reissued after almost 50 years out of print —
5. — India to charge writer Nasreen with ‘hurting Muslim feelings’ —
6. — Salt Magazine Is Relaunched As A Free Online Journal —

Collin has a 1st book interview up.

Poetry News:

1. — Let’s do it, let’s fall in luff [link via Avoiding the Muse thank you] —
2. — Here’s a tortoise shell that reminds the poet of a soldier’s helmet and which leads me to a pet hate: computer games —
3. — A two-century jinx on a potential literary goldmine held true today —
4. — Galway Kinnell has recently turned 80, making him - with Richard Wilbur and John Ashbery - one of the grand old men of American poetry —
5. — “At eighteen … [Obama] was already a much better poet than our former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who keeps publishing terrible poetry” —
6. — Jurek told BlackAmericaWeb.com that Scott-Heron was released by the New York State Department of Corrections about a month ago —
7. — Baghdad suicide blast kills Iraqi poet who urged national unity —
8. — Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo detainee whose poetry is featured in the collection, talks with Anthony Brooks —

Poetry News:

1. It really seemed to be rather arbitrary that you would distinguish a concrete poem by Ian Hamilton Finley from a text-based work by Lawrence Weiner, to use two artist examples —
2. Frank Bidart’s services to Robert Lowell have been many —
3. Sieving her lines into ever-firmer leanness from collection to collection, she offsets any austerity by the sensuousness of her music —
4. Kurt Vonnegut: In his own words —
5. Australian poet says book of letters is like theft —
6. Prolific poet says translation is a ‘labor of love’ —
7. Wordsworth Poem Honored with a Rap Makeover —

ouch.