Poetry News:
- — You’re saying to the world, this is how I want to be read, this is how I want to be seen, and those are hard decisions to make —
- — Poetry in Motion, Thanks to YouTube —
- — The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce Hall —
- — Manitoba Authors Honoured at Manitoba Book Awards —
- — Gioia’s Poetry Set to Music as Hudson Review Turns 60 —
- — It’s time for difficult writing to step up —
- — Elegy for a Scarred Shoulder will debut May 1, 2008 at free reading and booksigning at 7:00 pm in Kalman Auditorium at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center, 18101 Oakwood Blvd in Dearborn, Michigan —
- — A Spring Bouquet of Poetry —
- — Nuyorican Poets Cafe celebrates 35 years of odes —
- — He currently writes for the New York Review of Books and is Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He answered your questions on the state of poetry today. [links to MP3] —
- — Fifteen months in India in the early 1960s had a lasting influence on Allen Ginsberg. —
- — The metrical pattern, with its short, tumbling line, is sometimes known as “skeltonics” —
- — Groundbreaking Book: Ariel, by Sylvia Plath —
- — Cinderella Schools for Writers —
- — Former beat movement member Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize —
Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation, by Some Chinese Intellectuals
Ach, my appt at the pain clinic got moved back a week, due to a conference. You’d think a pain clinic consultation would be zippy.
How to be a jerk
1. Read a lukewarm review of your book on Amazon.
2. Explain to reader how she is mistaken.
3. Encourage deletion of reader’s review.
4. Have friends / fellow authors harass reviewer?
5. Have Private Investigator dig up personal information on reviewer. (?!)
6. There is no #6.
7. Amazon bans the reviewer.
8. Profit?
(there’s a boycott amazon group at Facebook BTW.)
And Writers call for 1 May Amazon, eBay boycott
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