Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — on the dearth of great films about great writers —
2. — British Poets Launched Lyrical Revolution —
3. — A Welsh Government minister has apologised after announcing the wrong winner of the Wales Book of Year at an awards ceremony in an embarrassing gaffe —
4. — Kate Clanchy’s workshop: She would like you to write a letter-poem to someone you’ve lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen —
5. — The effects of poetry often depend on the tension between shared and unique memories to set up patterns of expectation in the mind of the reader —
6. — http://www.newsweek.com/id/59182 —
7. — Articles in May/Jun 2008 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
8. — UB Poetry Collection hits the road —
9. — Although speakers of different languages describe events using the word orders prescribed by their language, when the same speakers are asked to “speak” with their hands and not their mouths, they ignore these orders — they all use exactly the same order when they gesture —
10. — In two of her recent Poet’s Choice columns, Mary Karr makes assertions that cannot go unchallenged. —
11. — Stone Circle draws poets, storytellers and singers to spin tales from the heart [Ernie Harwell - yay!] —
12. — Hayes’s poems enact the new race struggle, more up-to-date than the pre-civil rights poems of his lit’rary ancestors (Langston Hughes, say), but equally instructive to this white reader. —
13. — A clear-eyed look at Whitman’s ‘prophets’ —
14. — One of Idaho’s foremost poets and kayakers is missing and was presumed drowned —
15. — Poetry: A ‘Ferocious Contrast to the Clamor’ —
16. — Rupert Graves accused of stealing lover’s work [and a bunch of Laura Riding Jackson MP3s here] —

It’s not me. Google Reader isn’t following my rss feed’s 302 redirects to Feedburner. Sorry. I guess I have to wait for Google to respond to my issue. hahahahaha right. I’ll wait a week and then ditch feedburner. I don’t think that will entirely solve the problem though, because Google reader has some weird caching issues as well. Meh.

Poetry News:

1. — These aren’t pastoral poems delighting in nature; they’re set in a muddy town of drunken fights —
2. — Try doing it, and what you’ll end up with is cheap imitation Frank O’Hara —
3. — Thieves steal homeless poet’s words —
4. — Agenda will celebrate its half centenary next year, having been founded by William Cookson and Ezra Pound in 1959 —
5. — Reading the work of other contemporary writers makes your own work derivative, say some. —
6. — Gardens and their flowers have inspired poets down the ages, but will they inspire you to your own florid contributions … —
7. — He discusses life as a poet in Pittsburgh, “where no one is a stranger,” and shares some of his work [links to MP3] —

I messed up my blog software this weekend, while I was upgrading. Let me know, please, if you encounter any weirdness.

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I think Verse Daily forgot to pay their domain renewal. Or Paul Guest broke it. He was the last poet I saw up there. Or maybe they threw in the towel.