Thom Gunn | Poetry Hut Blog

Probably because I feel like the embodiment of destruction right now haha. That picture is of Lhamo riding her mule on a sea of blood. If you are an enemy of the Dharma she has a bag of diseases for you. Among other things.

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Poetry News For April 14, 2009

— 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.

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