- — The shortlist for the TS Eliot award, the UK’s most prestigious prize in poetry, has been announced. more here —
- — Sappho: the great poet of the personal —
- — English professor Leslie Brisman described Bloom as “gravely ill” in a Jan. 7 e-mail to students in Bloom’s fall seminar, “Shakespeare and the Canon: Histories, Comedies and Poems.” Bloom has been in the hospital since December. —
- — Tate acquires eight new works by William Blake —
- — Poem of the week: Waiting by WE Henley —
- — Barnes & Noble announces textbook rental service for college campuses nationwide —
- — This selection of poetry shows how Engonopoulos took Surrealism furthest, largely because he practiced both writing and painting (devoting himself primarily to painting after 1948) —
- — Morbid warnings on cigarette packs could encourage some people to smoke —
- — new Susan Howe at PennSound —
- — Microsoft Word and Office ‘sales ban’ begins —
- — It is rare to find a book of poetry that makes a reader remember why one reads poetry, but Allison Benis White has written one. —
- — Poetry in Education: Literacy on the march —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Our Valley’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS – Philip Levine is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently “News of the World” (2009). The poem above, “Our Valley,” originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Poetry. [mp3] —
- — Is it her best poem ever? Clearly not but it was one I didn’t realize existed until I started preparing for the trip. —
- — new post on my afflictions blog —
- — The reclusive poet Philip Larkin is to become the subject of an interactive tourist trail in Hull as part of events to mark the 25th anniversary of his death —
- — Poet Halima Abadi was given 46 points out of 50 by the jury panel that described here poem as powerful, deals with sensitive issue in a smart way and passes a positive massage on Arab unity. —
- — In the age of e-mail, it has become easy — perhaps too easy — for readers to get in touch with authors. —
- — Former Fugitive, ‘Killer Poet,’ Denied Parole —
- — Copies of his book “Gary Burghoff: To M*A*S*H and Back: My Life in Poems and Songs” will be available for sale and autographing —
- — Wyatt Prunty explains why reports of poetry’s death have been greatly exaggerated —
- — Kunitz bequest an opportunity —
- — On Poetry: Keep poets out of palaces and make work accessible —
- — Listed status for poet’s shelter —
- — Ms. Olds will answer questions in the middle of reading from her work, a practice she prefers. “She considers a reading to be experiential rather than academic,” Professor Yelin said. “She really pours herself out.” —
- — Do You Believe in Magic? {congrats} —
- — Dharma Poetry: Mahmoud Darwish —
- — The Last Poet To Win The Nobel Prize —
- — Experience, including “first book,” changes one’s life. But every book begins in the nowhere. —
- — narrative poetry, an essay —
- — I was about to say that I don’t understand how people can get upset at a lowly little poetry magazine that runs at a loss for the love of the game — but I guess I do understand. —
- — Decimal Points: Poems, play recall mill workers’ lives —
- — Found: Dorothy Parker poem reveals pain of rejection —
- — THE WAR THAT KILLED ACHILLES The True Story of Homer’s “Iliad” and the Trojan War —
- — Winners of Library of Virginia awards —
- — One of the few Nunavik Inuit to ever publish poetry has died. —
- — Writers share the rituals of writing — or not —
- — Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca’s first novel is a mess, a powerful, glorious mess. —
- — Sherman Alexie’s latest collection is fierce, snappy, occasionally funny and always surprising. —
haha Tennessee Titans 0 – New England Patriots 59
Poetry News For August 4, 2009
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Aug 042009
- — Shelley’s Unpublished After-the-War Message ASHLEY THORNDIKE July 3, 1921, Sunday —
- — Gillian Welch: Newport Folk Festival 2009 from NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast [mp3] —
- — “Q” from The New Yorker by Sharon Olds —
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- — On this edition of The Poets Weave, Heather Derr-Smith reads from her new book The Bride Minaret the poems “One Season from Another,” “Evening, Mount Vernon, Iowa” and “Ash-Sham.” [mp3] —
- — Hilbert writes with spare language, in colloquial prose rhythms with irregular stress patterns, yet he is able to maintain deft control through the use of mostly decasyllabic lines and off-rhymes. Perhaps Hilbert’s lines reflect our own precarious hold on the world, where we are always close to losing control. —
- — Poet Nash kept it light, and I say that’s just right —
- — Then there is Cavafy’s life. He, to be both compassionate and fair, was odd. —
- — Beats | McClure [Gray] GROUPS: New Formal Mens Shoe – Whether you are reading poetry to caged lions at the zoo, or writing songs for Janis Joplin to sing, this slip-on loafer is all about you. —
- — This week, one of one of contemporary poetry’s most effortlessly musical writers —
- — At their most successful, these poems make a virtue of understatement, employing simple formal structures (typically unrhymed, three-to-five beat lines arranged in regular stanzas) and straightforward statement that acts as a foil for moments of quiet boldness —
- — Sun Records’ ‘lost giant’ Billy Lee Riley dies at 75 —
- — Bookslut | The Kings are Boring: Some Thoughts on Women’s Poetry —
- — Two Mozart Childhood Compositions Unveiled in Salzburg [youtube]—
- — Portrait of famed lover and poet is, like its subject, flawed —
- — What we lose with no laureate —
- — The Chappell show: Master poet comes to Asheville with duet poems —
- — The Saturday poem: The Hunt in the Forest by John Burnside —
- — Neko Case: Newport Folk Festival 2009 from NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast [mp3] —
- — Kentucky’s 2007/08 poet laureate talks about the state’s rich literary heritage and the duties of the position and reads some of her own poetry. —
- — This week’s theme: Steroids in Baseball —
Reb Livingston twitterededed about this, which gave me a sour stomach and made me think of horse races and jockeying for position so I started humming this song.
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- — A Talk with Sir Rabindranath Tagore; Bengali Poet, Nobel Prize Winner, Now in This Country, Gives His Poetic Creed and Explains Oriental Attitude Toward Literature By Joyce Kilmer. October 29, 1916, Sunday —
- — Frieda Hughes: why I love motorcycle racing —
- — The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, Mr. Carroll’s hometown, has agreed to install a marker that commemorates a moment on Nov. 27, 1925, when the poet Vachel Lindsay was timidly approached at dinner by a busboy who placed three poems he had written next to Lindsay’s plate. —
- — This month’s Across the Page features four noteworthy poetry collections, including: Mary Oliver’s new release, Evidence; Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn; Marilyn Hacker’s Desesperanto, and British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s Rapture. —
- — As you can see, at least two letters at the start of every word are the same as the ending letters of the previous word. Can you make such word-chain sentences that make sense? —
- — 5 Awe-Inspiring Poetry Reads, by Katha Pollitt —
- — Denton woman selected as 2010 Texas poet laureate —
- — D’oh! on a Grecian Urn —
- — Miss Conduct’s 2nd Annual Clerihew Contest! —
- — Like the Levi’s(R) brand, Walt Whitman stands for the democratic power of real people – the self-reliant young men and women who make this country a better place. —
- — “Over the coming weeks, we’ll also be posting a second set of poems by the contributors to the issue. These poems will be ‘made’ using the texts from other contributors’ poems.” —
- — Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2009 Results —
- — “…about the experience of putting together the Multiformalisms anthology I recently edited with Susan Schultz and how the formalism/language poetry are not at all the opposed forces people imagine they are but are practically in cahoots” —
- — Marianne Moore’s five-decade struggle with “Poetry.” —
- — An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs <-- updated link to free access to full article thank you ---
- — Santa Clara County unveiled its first-ever word collage – a collection of lines from county residents organized by county Poet Laureate Nils Peterson. —
- — Poetry presses, getting published & the delightful ampersand
— - — In her collection, “Honeybee” (Greenwillow, 2008), writer Naomi Shihab Nye finds a metaphor for our constant busy–ness in the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder — the unexplained demise of thousands of honeybees. [mp3] —
Hey, happy Canada Day!
Poetry News For Aprille 28, 2009
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Apr 282009
- — Should blog comments be moderated to reduce the number of inevitable “angry, scatological discussion threads?” —
- — Conversation: Poet Carl Phillips from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — Author Makes Famous Poems Fun For Kids —
- — Paul Guest’s Body of Poetry — The Story from American Public Media —
- — For Your Health, Pick A Mate Who Is Conscientious And, Perhaps, Also Neurotic —
- — Today is the annual Dining Out For Life, and dozens of local eateries are donating anywhere from 30-100% of the day’s sales to Nashville Cares, a locally-based AIDS service organization. —
- — Ursula K Le Guin wins sixth Nebula award —
- — Margaret Walker might be the “most famous person nobody knows” but the poet, whose works about African-Americans bridged the gap between the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s and the black arts movement of the 1960s, will take center stage May 3 at the University of Kansas in a unique musical collaboration not to be missed. —
- — Falling In Love With Ideas from David Lynch Foundation Television —
- — My book, finalist yet again, has been selected for publication by Dream Horse Press. —
- — This week, Michael Tyrell, co-editor of “Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn” (NYU Press, 2007), will be answering readers’ questions about the history of Brooklyn’s literary landscape, its place in American poetry and the poets who live and work in the borough. —
- — LETTERS: Laureate of the Louche —
- — Afghan poets tackle scars of war —
- — An Essential American Poet from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine’s poems. [mp3] —
- — Poem of the week: The Mangel-Bury by Ivor Gurney —
- — Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Awarded —
- — Francisco Goya from Pallimed: Arts & Humanities —
- — Are there any ways a smaller publisher can subvert the larger book publishers? To work the currents as a raft in an ocean of big, hulking vessels? —
- — West Tisbury Poet Wins Lilly Prize —
- — In that 10% are poems about a deathmatch between friends, fantasy role-playing games and the people who love them, and closing time at a bar. Schroeder’s been praised by River Styx’s Richard Newman for his distinctive voice, in which he spins lines such as “Nature is a MILF.” —
- — This year’s Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, which took place last month, was more evidence, if one needed any, that Buffalo remains a hotbed of small press activity. —
- — Georgia Review ‘throws great parties’ —
- — That there might be a Ponzi element in all this is something Mr. McGurl never considers. He thinks that writing programs are the best thing that ever happened to American fiction…. —
- — Art mags decry double standard —
- — Miss the Tweet? Here are the Minnesota Book Awards winners —
- — The Poetics of Hip-Hop | New Hampshire Public Radio | Word of Mouth —
- — Jim Powell: Irascible poet with stolen license —
- — ‘Casey at the Bat’ author had local roots —
- — What poem are you going to carry in your pocket on April 30 [Poem in Your Pocket Day]? —
- — Boston honors Poe, a native son who shunned the city —
- — Deborah Digges, distinguished poet and memoirist, dies at 59 —
- — But there is one tombstone at which many women stop and genuflect. It is that of a 25-year-old woman called Nadia Anjuman, and the flowery Persian engraving describes her as a poet who risked her life to keep writing under the Taliban. —
- — In an essay on the poet Muriel Rukeyser, Rich says that Rukeyser “was one of the great integrators, seeing the fragmentary world of modernity not as irretrievably broken, but in need of societal and emotional repair.” —
- — The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 8 —
- — Hobble Creek Review …is fresh. —
- — Poet’s Choice: Susan Wheeler —
- — Poet’s Choice by David Hinton: ‘Drinking Wine’ by T’ao Ch’ien —
- — Woeser, one of China’s best-known bloggers chronicling life in Tibet, has become an accidental hero to a generation of disenfranchised young Tibetans. —
- — The poet-critic William Logan continues his assault on the state of American poetry in these essays. —
- — Marshall is the author of “Meaning a Cloud” (Oberlin College Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 Field poetry prize. With his wife, the poet Christine Deavel, Marshall owns and operates Seattle’s poetry–only bookstore, Open Books, in Wallingford. [mp3] —
- — New collections by Stephen Dunn, J. D. McClatchy, Sharon Olds and Charles Wright. —
- — … Poetry Through the Ages. —
- — Why the Telegraph is wrong on women in IT —
- — Betting closed on next poet laureate amid speculation that Carol Ann Duffy has been chosen —
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- — “For those of you who haven’t heard about it, it’s an award for science fiction and speculative poetry; previous winners include Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Jane Yolen, and Ursula Le Guin.” —
- — These days everything is ironic, so describing an anus as a violet carnation must be deliberately over the top, as tasteless as dressing a toilet roll in a crocheted tutu —
- — Shakespeare Scholar Identifies True Portrait of the Bard —
- — How many professional literary organizations do you belong to? How may literary journals do you subscribe to? —
- — “Mary Flannery is a sweet girl,” protested one of her neighbors, “but I’m afraid to go near her. She might put me in one of her stories.” —
- — “This is the Writing Dance,” Waldman said, and with that, the poetry session commenced —
- — Poet Anthony Cronin tried to see the funny side to two newspaper reports which declared he was a dead man. —
- — The juicy fruits of an eloquent narcissist —
- — Speak, O Muse, of Fallen 401(k)s and Malignant Mortgages —
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