Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — New pop-culture haiku says a lot with few words. thanks for letting me know —
2. — Favorite signatures: from Ginsberg to Sedaris —
3. — Poetry embraces Vancouver hotel tower —
4. — The Common Law Illusion: Literary Justice in Coleridge’s On the Constitution of the Church and State —
5. — Test your knowledge of literary trivia found in “Who the Hell is Pansy O’Hara” —
6. Poet Collin Kelly, author of the new chapbook “After the Poison,” will also be featured. —
7. — Half-rejected —

Wish me luck at my Dr appt today I’m hoping it will lead to some answers.

Poetry News:

1. — on the dearth of great films about great writers —
2. — British Poets Launched Lyrical Revolution —
3. — A Welsh Government minister has apologised after announcing the wrong winner of the Wales Book of Year at an awards ceremony in an embarrassing gaffe —
4. — Kate Clanchy’s workshop: She would like you to write a letter-poem to someone you’ve lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen —
5. — The effects of poetry often depend on the tension between shared and unique memories to set up patterns of expectation in the mind of the reader —
6. — http://www.newsweek.com/id/59182 —
7. — Articles in May/Jun 2008 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
8. — UB Poetry Collection hits the road —
9. — Although speakers of different languages describe events using the word orders prescribed by their language, when the same speakers are asked to “speak” with their hands and not their mouths, they ignore these orders — they all use exactly the same order when they gesture —
10. — In two of her recent Poet’s Choice columns, Mary Karr makes assertions that cannot go unchallenged. —
11. — Stone Circle draws poets, storytellers and singers to spin tales from the heart [Ernie Harwell - yay!] —
12. — Hayes’s poems enact the new race struggle, more up-to-date than the pre-civil rights poems of his lit’rary ancestors (Langston Hughes, say), but equally instructive to this white reader. —
13. — A clear-eyed look at Whitman’s ‘prophets’ —
14. — One of Idaho’s foremost poets and kayakers is missing and was presumed drowned —
15. — Poetry: A ‘Ferocious Contrast to the Clamor’ —
16. — Rupert Graves accused of stealing lover’s work [and a bunch of Laura Riding Jackson MP3s here] —

It’s not me. Google Reader isn’t following my rss feed’s 302 redirects to Feedburner. Sorry. I guess I have to wait for Google to respond to my issue. hahahahaha right. I’ll wait a week and then ditch feedburner. I don’t think that will entirely solve the problem though, because Google reader has some weird caching issues as well. Meh.

Poetry News:

1. — Austin poet and activist Raúl Salinas has died. —
2. — First-Ever Essence Literary Awards Celebrate African-American Writers —
3. — A provocative new edition of Faustus claims to solve a literary mystery and unite two of Romanticism’s greatest poets —
4. — “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader,” was how he put it in the same essay —
5. — To get comfortable with this second exercise, take any good field guide you have to hand and open it at random - allow chance to have its say on your choice —
6. — Poet Kay Ryan Discusses New Collection of Poems [MP3] —
7. — Love Poems for Valentine’s Day —
8. — Peter Cole is the Editor-in-Chief for Keyhole, a new literary magazine out of Nashville, TN which recently saw its inaugural publication this past fall —

I hope you have a delicious Valentine’s Day.

The Creepy Love Song Extravaganza

Poetry News:

1. — The most accomplished poetess in the English-speaking world today is Marianne Moore, a greying, mobile-faced, almost reckless spinster, born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1887 —
2. — She started by looking at the $50000 question: According to its author, what famous poem was conceived during an opium-induced dream? —
3. — Looking Back: The poet of the American Revolution —
4. — ever since, heterosexual critics have turned themselves into pretzels trying to explain why Shakespeare reserved his most passionate love lyrics (”You are my all the world”) for a member of his own sex —
5. — Haiku in English —
6. — Gloria Steinem slams govt for shunting out Taslima —

Poetry News:

1. — Ravens Lead Rescuers To Missing Oregon Woman [ thanks Jessica ]—
2. — Warrior poet’s story is one of hope, dogged determination —
3. — “Why does anybody tell a story?” Ms. L”™Engle once asked, even though she knew the answer. [and her Newberry Award Acceptance Speech] —
4. — NPR Affiliate to Feature Poet and Prof. Eugene Gloria Sunday —
5. — In this interview, Barbara Jane Reyes tells us what it‘ like to be a Filipino poet writing about her homeland in San Francisco —
6. — Program Brings Poetry to Mass Transit Systems —
7. — Professor uncovers poet‘ darker side —
8. — How Do You Survive The Tough Times As A Writer? —
9. — “I knew what to expect because I truly trust Emily Dickinson. She‘ been right so many times before.” —

some links above were found here http://poetry.about.com/b/a/257441.htm

Someone that I know, who has (sometimes) prophetic dreams (that I can vouch for), would like you to know that you should be careful at the grocery store, Americans. Take a sec to see where all the exits are. Might be prescient might not be prescient but I am putting it out there for said person and that is all I’m going to say on the matter. Nothing is ever written in stone, anyway.

Now I have tinnitus & lost much of the hearing in my right ear. I hope it comes back when this infection clears up. As a child, I was partially deaf for a long while (~40% hearing loss) and was put in the “retard” class for a while — that’s what everyone called it back then — & then they realized oh she can’t hear anymore, and I had an operation.

Another photo from my family member in Baghdad. Another guy in my family member’s Company died yesterday. I don’t know how many people are in a Company. I’ll delete this file in a couple days:

[redacted]

Oh, Gen. Petraeus wrote a letter to the troops.

Poetry News:

1. — The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife by Jeannine Hall Gailey [congrats Jeannine] —
2. — ” … he cut through all the rubbish and I think that should be admired” —
3. — Art work marks end of poet’s walk —
4. — Momaday named state’s centennial poet laureate —
5. — I’d be out playing and I would hear a poem way off —
6. — They’ve convinced Congress to hold hearings on the matter [Yay! and you can keep an eye out here: there is an RSS feed] —
7. — First interview with JK Rowling —
8. — “Damn My Captain . . . I’m almost sorry I ever wrote the poem . . .” —

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