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Poetry News:

1. — Local writer hopes to make a difference —
2. — That frozen timepiece is an appropriate image for a poet whose best work seems to still time, to suspend a moment of clear-sighted observation —
3. — Are Those Shakespeare’s “Balls”? —
4. — Director Nick Loven said the film will be the perfect way to mark Tennyson’s 200th anniversary next year —
5. — Canadian lesbian poet wins prestigious book prize —
6. — Pound foolish —
7. — The Fate of The Sentence: Is the Writing On the Wall? —
8. — Within the bright forgetfulness of our modern blindness, acts of creativity cast their redemptive light —

Poetry News:

1. — How often have we tried to convey our feelings, only to find our mouth issuing words that we had never intended to speak? —
2. — Australian Mullahs Attack Literature Course on Women —
3. — Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, Bloodaxe has established itself as a fundamental force in British poetry —
4. — How to outsource the slush pile —
5. — ‘Pantun’ festival presents Malay hospitality —
6. — What often surfaces in Salter’s poems are the moments when earnestness of feeling is in play with artificiality of expression. —
7. — architect Ian Stainburn has been given the tricky task of restoring and preserving Shakespeare’s tombstone, - a slab bearing a terrifying curse which warns people not to move it —

There will be a special announcement in 2 days.

ha ha I’m famous.

Poetry News:

1. — Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is so moved by a shipwreck that he starts writing again —
2. — Quiet, dear, Mummy’s writing —
3. — Pulp Fiction was a seminal film. Will Shakespeare was a seminal poet. Obviously it follows that the two should be mixed together, which is exactly what has been done at Pulp Bard. LOL —
4. — But Pritikin is taking nothing for granted, and continues to promote Wrigley’s salvation. Here is his poem to rally the troops —
5. — Pupils were asked to imagine how it feels to be imprisoned without access to a fair trial and then express their feelings in the form of a poem —
6. — Alexander Pope’s longest and most elaborate poem, The Dunciad, has a good claim to be the greatest unread poem in the language. —
7. — place the pauses in his lines in different places and you get different poems, like removing the dashes from Emily Dickinson’s poems —

“Guns buried in flowers” is how Schumann described them.

ha.

ps. I hope you moms have a nice Mother’s Day today.

Poetry News:

1. — Her first poetry collection was 10 years in the making, part of which she spent working on her master’s of fine arts in English at Western Michigan University —
2. — But what people may not know is that Scott-Heron played an instrumental role in getting an official national holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. —
3. — Poetry in Motion: SpotCo Designs National Poetry Month Poster —
4. — Literature or Litigation?: A Threatened Lawsuit Rattles Toronto’s Small Press Community —
5. — With apologies to A.A. Milne, Mary Jane hasn’t lost her wits. She’s begun to study scansion…. —
6. — University Press tries digital publishing —

I’m going to keep linking to MSM news articles I think because maybe the traffic will encourage them to do more of those types of things. Not that this is a huge traffic blog or anything. (Thanks for your input.)

I have had Pluto rolling back and forth over my Mars for the past couple years and now going to be rolling back and forth over my Ascendant for another couple years. If you know about astrology, this is a pretty intense happening. Heck I’ve already lost a few body parts hahaha.

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. — In the summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans —
2. — An Interview with Cathy Smith Bowers —
3. — “Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry — transcript —
4. — From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts? —
5. — Basho’s Irish echoes —
6. — Why devote seven years to proving an esoteric theory — in four volumes amounting to more than 2,000 pages — about which many academics remain skeptical and most people are unaware? —

I’ve been meme tagged — so here are 7 things and you consider yourself tagged, you hear?

1. I grew up in Michigan but have never been on a boat. (I’m not counting rowboat or canoe.)
2. My favorite Christmas Carols are O Holy Night and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen but I couldn’t tell you many of the words.
3. As part of my spiritual practice I try to keep an open heart but I’m naturally kind of melancholy and leery.
4. I think I am going to adopt this slogan for the near future hahaha. (Link found here)
5. More of a cat person but I like dogs too.
6. Men from both sides of my dad’s family first came to America to avoid serving in the military.
7. I like vanilla.

check out the skeletons

Poetry News:

1. — Charles Nicholl pieces together the untold story of a Jacobean court case and asks what it reveals about the ordinary life of ‘a certain Mr Shakespeare’ —
2. — Free Verse Hampers Poets and Is Undemocratic; Josephine Preston Peabody Says That, Nevertheless, the War Is Making Poetry Less Exclusive and the Imagiste Cult Will Be Swept Away —
3. — If I’ve succeeded at writing an effective persona poem, I am not quite the same person I was at the outset —
4. — The Baghdad Blues is his latest homage to the country’s traumatized capital, though this discomfiting collection of poems is much less political than the film —
5. — A treasure trove of poet’s voices —
6. — Fellowship Of Southern Writers Elects First Board —

…off to look up “Jacobean” LOL.

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. — Pavarotti’s Death Gets Little Attention in Italy —
2. — The name “troubadour” likely comes from trobar, which means “to invent or compose verse” —
3. — Changing of the literary guard - UM appoints creative writing director —
4. — Benedetti worries about small-press publications … —
5. — Acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, a visiting professor at Fisk University this semester, will begin a community writers’ workshop Monday, school officials said today. —
6. — The camera lingers over a pitted surface, haunted by the ghosts of indecipherable letters —
7. — Blame It on Shakespeare —

Mickey is blogging! He’s posting vignettes & drawings.

See you next week. (Monster ear infection — got some Cipro ear drops. I haven’t had antibiotics in years.)

Poetry News:

1. — Liam Rector, 57, a Poet and Educator, Dies —
2. — Germaine Greer on Shakespeare’s wife and why she could have inspired the bard’s sonnets —
3. — Today’s poem is Praying to the Patron Saint of Saved Marriages by Kelli Russell Agodon congrats Kelli —
4. — Questions and Answers from the American Poetry Association on Poetic Orientation —
5. — Shakespeare’s plays are being rewritten as comic strips for pupils who find his poetry boring, it emerged today —
6. — You have to be in the mood for some death-defying Orwellian back-flips, then, to read “Poems From Guantanamo” —
7. — How Poetry Took Root In A Garden —
8. — What good is science to poets? And what good is poetry to scientists? —
9. — Fraser believes he has hit upon a revolutionary new way of impressing the beauties of poetry on the public: Orchestral Verse —

Poetry News:

1. — The way to become a poetry lover, according to the next U.S. poet laureate, Charles Simic … [and more: Politics and the Poet Laureate link found here thank you] —
2. — Poetry is not a populist enterprise. When it matters at all, it’s the opposite of populist. [link found here thank you] —
3. — Mock ad in Myanmar Times ushers in stringent regulations —
4. — Duke Ellington’s heirs reflect on the resemblance between their grandfather and Shakespeare —
5. — Why is WD Snodgrass hanging out with the poetry.com organization? [and more] —
6. — Heretofore, not many people outside the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference felt they needed to know more —

Poetry News:

1. — Baseball is all about loss and failure,” he joked. “So what better subject for poetry? —
2. — Online, Second Life avatars are prosing and poetizing —
3. — He turned ‘unschooled’ from insult into a compliment and ‘rule-bound’ from a compliment to an insult —
4. — He ruled, in effect, that only readers had the right to censor publications - by simply refusing to buy or read any that offended them —
5. — As a poet, Chase Twichell tells the plain truth and tries to surprise herself —
6. — Carl Phillips is a master of expressive syntax, athletic turns of sentence that mime feeling —

Yeah, pretty much.

Top 3 links for June, as far as Feedburner is concerned:

* The Scorn of the Literary Blog

* by the time the poetry awards were announced, three hours into the event, the theater was half empty

* Poet Accused of Harassment

1. All the World Still a Stage for Shakespeare’s Timeless Imagination

2. Prison Poet Turns Focus To Learning Life‘ Lessons

3. Much more than a “woman writer”

4. London pubs done write

Poetry News:

1. William Butler Yeats’s “The Fiddler of Dooney” suggests that idea … —
2. Prof. Joe Heithaus Wins ‘Discovery’/The Nation Poetry Contest —
3. McBride‘ poetry leaves lasting impression —
4. Feelings of sadness for the passing of spring —
5. Stratford has celebrated Shakespeare’s birth and death date as St George’s Day for over a century —
6. For more than 230 years, seven generations of the publishing firm John Murray kept almost every scrap of paper relevant to their roster of clients —

Wow — the sun sounds like Eraserhead.