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Poetry News For December 7, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — When she died a spinster of 55 in 1886 only five of her poems had been published, all anonymously —

  2. — Woman nicknamed ‘lyrical terrorist’ escapes jail sentence —

  3. — Made in Chicago: Wickedpen [ congrats :) ] —

  4. — He is often poised discomfortingly and achingly between emotional immediacy and wiseass —

  5. — Poet Maya Angelou’s “Celebrations” is also in the running —

  6. — Philip Larkin, rock god? —

  7. — a mystical zone that for 500 or so years has been the sweet spot of civilized consciousness —

crap. I guess I’ll keep an eye out for my letter. :(

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Poetry News for November 9, 2007

Poetry News:

  1. — More than 60 years after it was written, George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” remains the classic essay on the relationship between words, truth, propaganda and politics —

  2. — ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ found guilty in British court and ‘Lyrical Terrorist led double life’ and ‘Lyrical terrorist’ convicted for jihad poems —

  3. — Here is another photo from St. Petersburg: taken from the bench where KGB agents would sit everyday in the 40’s and 50’s to watch one the land’s great poets, Anna Akhmatova —

  4. — Penguin Wins U.S. Decision in Dorothy Parker Copyright Trial —

  5. — Creativity, innovation and ‘coolness’ often emerge from the grungier areas of a city —

  6. — “poets cannot be coddled and nurtured in universities - that depletes their minds from having relationships with poetry” —

  7. — The artwork of two local artists, sculptor Lisa Scheer and poet E. Ethelbert Miller, was recently installed at the east entrance —

  8. — Nobel laureate to explain connection between arts, sciences —

  9. — The rhythm of the poem is the rhythm of the train; it scans beautifully and is irresistible as a result —

  10. — Gertrude Stein, fearless and flushed —

  11. — Hardy’s poem was printed in the TLS of September 10, 1914 —

  12. — WHY NOT ABOLISH POETS? ANYBODY WRITES POETRY NOW; Bards Are No Longer Picturesque But Look Prosaic and Wear Everyday Clothes and Cut Their Hair and Drink Milk Shakes and ;- Oh, It’s Simply Awful! —

Have you heard of The Soulforce Institute for Nonviolent Change? I haven’t and I’m right here in the city with the Southern Baptist HQ.

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