Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — “The name ‘Ceptuetics’ comes from combining the words conceptual and poetics” —
2. — The Gulf between Love and Hate is No Greater than 6: Experiments in Language, Literature, and Mathematics —
3. — Make Us Wave Back: Essays on Poetry and Influence —
4. — A native of Puerto Rico, Judith Ortiz Cofer is a poet, essayist, memoirist and novelist —
5. — The National Book Awards finalists were announced yesterday —
6. — Scene reviewers pick their favorite out-of-towners appearing at the Southern Festival of Books —
7. — China: police harass human rights poet Tao Jun after interview for US newspaper —
8. — More TFR News —
9. — After about 6am CST (Noon GMT/UTC) click here to find out the winner of the literature Nobel —

Poetry News:

1. — Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —
2. — Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —
3. — Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan to attend and are not an axe-murderer] —
4. — Emotional poem fills screen —
5. — The Gotham Book Mart (it was originally Gotham Book and Art) became known for embracing avant-garde and, occasionally, controversial writers and challenging censorship —
6. — Is Southern literature exhausted? —
7. — SUNY Brockport seeks to restore paintings of E.E. Cummings —
8. — Simic Interview at NPR —
9. — X-Ray of a Van Gogh Reveals 2nd Painting —
10. — To make the top reaches of this list, I was told by Brent Cunningham, S.P.D.‘ operations director, you need to sell roughly 100 copies a month —

I enjoyed “Masters of Science Fiction” & am looking forward to the next episodes. Stephen Hawking narrates it. Speaking of alternate universes: China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate

Awww. More niece. She kinda looks like she got all of our modicum of Native American genes.

And some deep-linking to the NY Times:

1. — Featured Author: Ishmael Reed With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
2. — Featured Author: Allen Ginsberg With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
3. — Featured Author: Jack Kerouac With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
4. — Featured Author: Langston Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
5. — Featured Author: Randall Jarrell With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
6. — Featured Author: Seamus Heaney With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
7. — Featured Author: James Merrill With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
8. — Featured Author: Joseph Brodsky With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
9. — Featured Author: Robert Frost With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
10. — Featured Author: James Dickey With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
11. — Featured Author: James Joyce With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
12. — Featured Author: Margaret Atwood With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
13. — Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
14. — [More] Featured Author: Sylvia Plath With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
15. — Featured Author: Ted Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
16. — More on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath From the Archives of The NYT —
17. — Featured Author: Hart Crane With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
18. — Featured Author: Maxine Kumin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
19. — Featured Author: Federico García Lorca With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
20. — Featured Author: William S. Burroughs With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
21. — Featured Subject: Cole Porter With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times —
22. — Featured Author: Charles Bukowski With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
23. — Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
24. — [More] Featured Author: W. S. Merwin With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —
25. — Featured Author: Kenneth Koch With News and Reviews From the Archives of The NYT —