Poetry Hut Blog

• — When Whitman Was Editor; When Whitman Was Editor A Review by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN January 2, 1921, Sunday —
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• — Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF —
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• — Don’t Hate the Poet, Hate the Po-Biz —
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• — Draw this Turtle, Go to Art School —
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• — Host Hip-Hop/Jazz Poet A. K. Toney reviews the Anthology “From Totems to Hip-Hop” A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 edited by Ishmael Reed from Da Capo Press (2003) [mp3] —
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• — Patti Smith just reread ‘Pinocchio’ —
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• — New York U. Computers Learn Creative Writing —
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• — “Instead of publishing my first full-length poetry book in the traditional way, I decided I would go all-digital, no paper unless a reader decides to print a hard copy” —
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• — Wall Street Bank For Poets Proposed. Never Too Big To Fail? —
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• — Bidders sought for Bard’s Bible —
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• — Blogging for Hughes —
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• — Media Personality Named National Spokesperson —
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• — 498. The Grass so little has to do by Emily Dickinson from Classic Poetry Aloud by Classic Poetry Aloud [mp3] —
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• — Philip Levine: Essential American Poets: Recordings of Philip Levine, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded September 13, 2007, New York, NY. [mp3] —
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• — Dharma Poetry: Stephen Dunn —
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• — Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing’s media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage [mp3] —
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• — The Annual Return of Sunny the Turtle —
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• — Barn Owl Review 3 Call for Submissions —
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• — Artists Find Inspiration In Genetic Research —
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• — People with a family history of genetic disease are often discriminated against by insurance companies and their relatives and friends, according to new research. —
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• — Who Buys Poetry Books? —
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• — playlist 11 june from Wordsalad by paul —
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• — R.I.P. Shaman Drum —
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• — What Really Prompts The Dog’s ‘Guilty Look’
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• — “A lot of people have already pointed out Louis Menand’s (that’s him at right) article on MFA programs in The New Yorker, but I just finally read it, so I’m joing in with a passage I liked” —
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• — Poetry of Rumi Spans Across Centuries, Cultures from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
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• — “Tim Green has some interesting thoughts on print vs online publication and on poetry publishing in general.” —
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• — Hucksters, mavericks and visionaries: Ian Sansom savours the detail in a mammoth celebration of early 20th century avant-garde poets —
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• — NP Books Podcast: Summer Books preview, The Griffin Prize and introducing The Gentlemen’s Reading Society [mp3] —
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• — An Invitation into the Wilderness with Kim Stafford [mp3] —
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• — ‘Frog And Toad’ Leap Off The Page Again —
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• — Ten Questions for Poetry Editors – Justin Evans —
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• — The Poetry Show: Michael and Mathew Dickman [mp3] —
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• — Werd is a book review show this Week Veronica reviews King By Rebecca Wolff , B.H. Fairchilds, Usher, & Brendan Constantine’s Letters to guns [mp3] —
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• — Poet’s Choice by Carl Phillips: ‘Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices’ by Carl Phillips —
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• — The general assumption seems to be that poetry is a good thing and we should all have more of it in our lives. But what if poetry is not a thing at all? —
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• — Maxine Kumin: “Seven Caveats in May” —
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• — “Hat tip to Max Boot. Here’s Harlan Ellison in a very memorable rant about why you should pay writers if you want them to write something for you.” —
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• — WS Merwin’s “The Shadow of Sirius” deserved to win the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and not just because the book is one of his strongest in years. —
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• — An Oulipo Mini-Anthology: When members of the Oulipo convened in New York, Bookworm was there to record this mini-anthology of the transcendentally witty, sometimes hilarious goings-on. [mp3] —
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• — “But a new release would reconcile the division “between the experimental and the conventional,” we were promised, and this year Norton released its hybrid (as if all serious poems didn’t arise from a mixture of styles and influences) anthology.” —
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• — Behind the recent scandal at Oxford lies a more intractable conflict between the myths of poetry and the realities of the modern university. —
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• — George Oppen: New Poems, Audio, and Biography —
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• — “I’m wondering why we hate poetry. I don’t mean people who don’t write it. I mean people who do.” —
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• — Poet’s Choice by Jeanne Larsen: ‘Wrong All These Years — It Isn’t’ by Jeanne Larsen —
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• — Canadian university welcomes Derek Walcott to teaching post —
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• — Possible sound recording of Walt Whitman reading from “America” —
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• — Dan Albergotti from Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio [mp3] —
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• — “We are all delighted to announce the release of the 12th issue of Galatea Resurrects, with a record number of 87 new reviews! “ —
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• — Modernist minotaurs —
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• — A.F. Moritz and C.D. Wright are the winners of the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize —
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• — The Surprising Advantages of Being a Poet —
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• — Elvis inhabits the psyche of poet CaConrad, author of Advanced Elvis Course, an odd compendium of poems, dialogues, quotations, dreams and anecdotes. The first half describes the poet’s pilgrimage to Graceland, Mecca for Elvis fans, consisting of a gauche plantation-style mansion and museum complex. —
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• — Lost Ted Hughes children’s poem discovered —
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• — “10 or 15 years ago a large state press like Shanghai Literature Press would not have gone near these poets. Things are opening up. But…the in-house censor chopped out a few of my favorites.” —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘Luminous Great Mass’
  from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS —
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• — Judge Orders Former Bristol-Myers Executive to Write Book —
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• — Poster poems: Fame —
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• — Linklog: How the web changes readers, lit-Twitters and more —
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• — How to Sleep, by Dorianne Laux from Poetry Daily —
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• — Israel’s oldest newspaper surprised 50,000 readers this week, giving the paper’s journalists a vacation–turning over the newspaper to writers and poets. —
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• — Tim Martin explores the mad humour of nursery rhymes in foreign tongues —
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• — Beat poet Harold Norse dies at 92 —
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• — Articles in May/Jun 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
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• — Locating Narrative In Medicine’s Moral Domain: Notes (Musical And Otherwise) From A Recent Presentation —
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• — Bloomsday around the world —
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• — Poet’s Choice By Edward Hirsch: Claribel Alegría trans. by Carolyn Forché —
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• — photo —
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• — Poetic Form: Found Poem —
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I’m just posting poetry news every Bloomsday from now on.

Since I last posted I lost my job (I need ADA Accommodations), I had to have Betty “put to sleep” (our 18-year old cat who slept on my feet each night), I’m dealing with being broke (being sick and out of work for months will do that), I’m dealing with my husband being on the road all year (I don’t mind saying that online because I believe in all the Amendments of the Constitution and I can still lift things haha) and I got my job back (I think).

More tomorrow.

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• — The Sonnets at 400 and also Did Shakespeare Want To Suppress His Sonnets? —
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• — Poet’s Choice: ‘Turning’ By Janice Harrington —
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• — We Got a Yeats, You Got a Wallace Stevens —
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• — Dharma Poetry: Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche —
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• — Monkeys playing a game similar to “Let’s Make A Deal” have revealed that their brains register missed opportunities and learn from their mistakes. —
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• — Sadly, the mythology of poet Bob Kaufman almost rivals all we have left of his poetry. —
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• — a nervy and rich collection of poems in the voices of women both infamous (Moors murderer Myra Hindley and fascist moll Unity Mitford) and writerly (Carson McCullers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jane Bowles) —
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• — Her latest collection of poetry proves Frieda Hughes to be a writer capable of standing on her own —
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• — And then there’s the triumph of free verse, which to many people turns poetry into largely banal or incoherent stream of consciousness prose —
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• — Naughty Classical Chinese Poetry, And What It Means Today —
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• — From Page to Pixels: The Evolution of Online Journals —
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• — Boyd argues that art, including fiction, is a unique human adaptation whose chief function is “for improving human cognition, cooperation and creativity” —
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• — Diane di Prima — a beat poet, prose writer, playwright, teacher and Excelsior resident — has been named San Francisco’s fifth poet laureate —
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• — Yoko Ono to judge Twitter haiku competition —
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• — Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites audience to jury duty —
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• — Pet Haiku Contest: my top 26 picks (so far) —
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• — Pa. poet wins undergraduate literary prize —
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• — Pinoy poet to receive Italy’s top prize —
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• — The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, HD and the Imagists —
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• — ‘YouTube’ for books signs up Random House, Simon & Schuster —
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• — Dahlia Ravikovitch, one of Israel’s major poets, played a formative role in both the poetic culture of the state and the undoing of the male dominance in Israeli poetry and culture. —
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• — Daring poet mortified by blasphemy case —
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• — Are litmags facing more funding cuts? —
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Here is another Ebay scan. New Poetry 1964. [20mb PDF] If there are any copyright objections I’ll take it down.

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• — Ex-Tiger Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych found dead —
• — “Blondes, Box Scores, and Elizabeth Bishop” —
• — Batter up! This very special baseball program of SELECTED SHORTS includes stories, memoirs, and poems that celebrate the national game, and an interview with radio sports commentator Bill Littlefield, host of NPR’s “Only A Game.” [mp3] —
• — The neglected war poet Francis Ledwidge’s pastoral work reflects on Irish nationalism after the Easter Rising —
• — I didn’t really expect my book to be reviewed in The Times (‘The London Times’ to those of you outside the UK), but there you go. Who knows how these things happen? —
• — Slash Pine Press is pleased to announce the first annual Slash Pine Poetry Festival, to be held in five distinct locations in the greater Tuscaloosa, AL area on April 24th and 25th —
• — Arts Friday: Commemorating 50 years of The Elements of Style [mp3] —
• — Recent winner of The Fence Modern Poets Series, it is easy to understand why this one was chosen among its stealthy competition. —
• — Any poet of such longevity faces a choice between reinvention and repetition. Splitting the difference, Simpson’s work is repetitious, but in the mode of a narrowing spiral. —
• — As he did in his youthful work, the poet strictly limits the length of his poems, in this case to six lines each. Yet these 70 poems feel spacious rather than condensed. —
• — Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven —
• — Interview With Poet Denise Duhamel —
• — Poetry dies in latest U.S. culture —
• — Photo from garfield minus garfield —
• — Poetry and Subsidies: Is Materialism Ruining Creativity? —
• — How Philip Larkin rewrote the first, indiscreet article about him to appear in the British press —
• — New site captures authors’ identities and won’t let go —
• — Too close for comfort: aphasia and mediocre poetry —
• — Every Friday, bloggers in the kidlitosphere enthusiastically offer up their favorite poems for kids. Susan Thomsen takes a tour through this billowing online community. —
• — We are writing about GREGOR SAMSA’s claim for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments. Based on a review of his/her medical condition, he/she does not qualify for SSI payments on this claim. This is because he/she is not disabled or blind under our rules. and related: Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport —
• — “The Nut Lady” Reconsidered —
• — I think an eBook is a book, but in a Supreme Court case argued today (Tuesday), a brief discussion about guarantees given to books included a reference to whether or not there is a difference between a physical and digital version of a book — and what is likely the first mention of the brand name “Kindle” in the Supreme Court. —
• — Norton anthologies are among the most respected in the country, but respectability can suggest stodgy, predictable. “American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry” is neither, proving that much contemporary American verse is daring and original. —
• — Mathematics and love coupled in professor’s book of poetry —
• — A major conference on the long career of Robert Bly will include poets, translators, academics, editors and Bly himself. —
• — Forty-three years later, the International Poetry Forum is shutting its doors. —
• — The new class will also include the poets Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa, the visual artist Judy Pfaff, the architect Tod Williams and the composers … —
• — SIRIUS XM Radio Beefs Up Book Radio Programming —
• — Deborah Digges, poet and Tufts English professor, dies at 59 —
• — All good poets find strains and paradoxes within the language they learn to wield, but Thom Gunn (1929-2004) found more than most —
• — In the context of this, the contemporary poet is often left with the choice of following the example of the hard-nosed L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, or seeming like a fluffy, nostalgic Longfellow. —
• — It features centuries of creative work by mathematicians, poets, and artists, including Fibonacci, Albrecht Dürer, M. C. Escher, David Hilbert, Benoit Mandelbrot, William Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, and many contemporary experimental poets. Original illustrations include digital photographs, mathematical and poetic models, and fractal imagery. —
• — Seven steps to becoming a poet [LOL there seems to be an important step missing] —
• — Octopus Books will hold an open reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts in April of 2009. Manuscripts must be submitted between April Fools day and April 30, 2009. —
• — In addition to the “regular” Tattoosday features, every day in April will feature a different poet’s tattoo(s). —
• — Muriel Rukeyser Goes to War: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Politics of Ekphrasis —
• — Living POET LARGE: An Interview with Reb Livingston on the Future of Poetry Publishing —
• — To read this book is not to behold a completed work but to stand onstage with a writer who finds herself in the middle of a story in which she has been reluctantly cast. —
• — Frederick Seidel has been called crass, disturbing, a name-dropping, upmarket sinner. And that’s what may make him America’s greatest living poet —
• — THE BEATS A Graphic History Text by Harvey Pekar and others. —
• — Articles in the Mar/Apr 2009 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
• — A New Chapter of Grief in Plath-Hughes Legacy —
• — Shellie Braeuner, a Nashville nanny, is the winner of the first Cheerios Spoonful of Stories New Author Contest. Her book will be put inside 1.5 million boxes of Cheerios. —
• — I, Too, Am a Vegetable: The Whitman Parodies —
• — Amazonfail & The Cost of Freedom —

data dump – cleaning out my rss feed

There’s a review of my book in the spring issue of Main Street Rag. I haven’t gotten my copy in the mail though. I don’t know if my subscription expired.