Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Some of his latest readings include the collected works of American poet Robert Creeley and poet Lyn Hejinian’s book “My Life.” —
2. — American Ghazals —
3. — Hickory poet Scott Owens will have his third chapbook of poems published online in April by the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature —
4. — A copy of a poetry book hailed as one of the most important in English history has been bought for £42,000 —
5. — Why the worst artists deserve recognition —
6. — Kenmore native is a poet and entrepreneur —
7. — To write poems about seeing, you have to disappear; it is essential to relinquish your so-called perspective —
8. — At a special SELECTED SHORTS live performance, the Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor and writer John Lithgow selected his favorite story poems from his anthology, THE POETS’ CORNER and read them along with celebrated performance artist Bill Irwin [MP3 ha that Gertrude Stein was fun] —
9. — Frost’s ‘47 lecture finally gets printed —
10. — No one, surely, will take exception to my list of phobic-friendly poetry —

Poetry News:

1. — Poets’ Opportunities Greater than Ever Before; Arthur Guiterman Tells How to Make a Living Out of Verse and Gives a List of Don’ts for Aspiring Poets ;- Advises Writing on Topical Themes By Joyce Kilmer. —
2. — Defending the M.F.A. [link good for a few days] —
3. — Mr. Wilson’s work was less effective in two vocal pieces, “Four Short Poems of Louis Zukofsky” and “Lotus Dam,” based on a poem by Les Murray —
4. — Just in time for Thanksgiving, hear delectable poems from Stanley Kunitz, W.S. Merwin, Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, and Philip Levine —
5. — He won the 2005 Lannan Literary Poetry Fellowship and has made presentations at more than 300 national conferences, universities and prisons —
6. — NEA May Funnel Addtional Funding to Artist Colonies —

I hope these weren’t some of the toys I sent. But a high probability that, yeah. My condolences. How can somebody suicide-vest-bomb a bunch of little kids? I won’t be sending any more stuff to hand out to the kids over in Iraq (after these school supplies are sent) I don’t think. (My family member is OK.)

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I have some poetry up at the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. These poems are formal poems, including a dactylic poem that made electricity come out of my forehead when I was trying to write it, haha. I don’t think I’ll be writing any more dactylic poems anytime soon. So go read my poems and the other poet’s poems & be sure to not miss Dale Wisely’s poems because his poems just kill me.

Thank you for the invitation.

Poetry News:

1. — Poets Speak Out —
2. — We want to believe the omission was related to space and not because city leaders thought it was too gay —
3. — In 1923, Alfred A. Knopf published the first book of poems by Wallace Stevens —
4. — Take 20-minute trip to poet’s birthplace —
5. — The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova once said her country silences poets by sending them to a gulag, while America silences poets by ignoring them —

Pals with work up now at storysouth:

J Lynn Laughlin’s story at StorySouth

3 poems by Susan Meyers at storysouth

Also do you guys know about the dead mule? (It was [really] dead for a while but has been back for a long time I guess and I didn’t know that.)

 Cliff nominated me as a thinking blogger. That is kind, thanks. Passing it on:

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