- — The Genius of Thom Gunn —
- — This week’s poem is an extract from “Medea in Athens”, one of a number of psychologically complex dramatic monologues by the remarkable Victorian poet, Augusta Webster. —
- — One day later, early college and randomly, I acquired a Black Sparrow collection of Gertrude Stein’s interviews, poems, and portraits. They were too bizarre for words, pun intended, so I started to read them aloud to college friends on the phone to annoy them. I did this for awhile for I was a jokester and wanna-be comedian. Eventually, the joke became tired, and I finally had to admit that the phone was an excuse that permitted me to say the weird words aloud and revel in them. —
- — These days, if I read a poem now of a certain kind — one that avoids feeling, a speaker, or making any connection with the reader, of which there are many — I feel sick. —
- — Gather Ye Rosebuds, Etc: Things Which Have Already Been Said Many Times and the Pickup Artist Poem —
- — The book is absolute pleasure, though it is sometimes a pleasure of the sort you might reserve for peeing in a shower, eating liverwurst, fiddling with a hangnail… —
- — newspaper blackout poems also see the Wave Books erasures application —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘New Year’s’ from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Robert Creeley (1926-2005) was one of the most important and influential American poets of the twentieth century. —
- — 2010 is the year in which Drunken Boat becomes a semi-annual publication. We will be launching our 11th issue on January 30th, featuring an interview with United States Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, a themed nonfiction folio looking at Life in a Time of Contraction around the world, as well as some of the best poetry, fiction, photography, sound and web art we’ve ever come across —
- — The project (to give credit where credit is due) is inspired by PBS’ blog “Artbeat” which also posts a weekly poem. However Arbeat draws from the entire nation’s poetry archive; I find Minnesota has more than enough on offer to satisfy my needs. —
- — Costa Award shortlist announced —
- — Wherever you begin in a poem both a beginning and potential for infinite flows and “reflows” can be assured. —
- — Anna Akhmatova – My Winter Poet —
- — Kanye West vows to be more like Maya Angelou —
- — Ladies & Gentlemen, Your 2010 Slash Pine Poetry Festival —
- — Joe Milford Hosts Mark Bibbins – from Joe Milford Show | “Bibbins . . . has the courage to stop, to pin down the always irrational present moment, and the reader is eager to follow, to inhale its scathing or enticing perfume. . . . A brilliant young poet.”–John Ashbery In his second collection, The Dance of No Hard Feelings, Lambda Award winner Mark Bibbins pressures language into a performance of surprising, invigorating movements across syntax and line. Vulnerable, yet suspicious and sharp-witted, he responds to a nation responsible for and besieged by a bankrupted presidency, employing concise lyrics and longer sequences while in the process inventing a new form, the exploded double haiku. Incited by progressive blogs, ad campaigns, elegy, and Eros, Bibbins addresses environmental catastrophe and grotesque political posturing in our nascent millennium, as well as the corporate media’s willingness to front for the worst offenders as it both panders and condescends to audiences drunk on doublespeak. These are songs of passionate and ambivalence sung in a dark time. [mp3] —
- — Ross Gay reads from his new manuscript Bringing the Shovel Down – from WFIU: The Poets Weave Podcast Ross Gay holds a Ph.D in American Literature from Temple University. He is a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man, a painter, and a faculty member at Indiana University and in the low-residency program at New England College. [mp3] —
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Poetry News For August 27, 2009
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Aug 272009
- — WALT WHITMAN. March 28, 1892, Wednesday (obit.) —
- — You betcha! by William Logan —
- — Alice Fogel joins us from her home in Acworth, New Hampshire. —
- — Israeli scientists have modified a potent antibiotic that may allow it to treat cystic fibrosis and other genetic diseases caused by “stop mutations”. —
- — Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll and an MP3 —
- — Diane Lockward on Barbara Crooker’s RADIANCE —
- — 12 or 20 questions: with John Kinsella —
- — Thrive as a Starving Writer–Lessons from the Experts —
- — So goes the legend of Tsangyang Gyamtso, one of the most popular historical figures among Tibetans and the most colorful of the long line of Dalai Lamas. His poetry is among the most iconic in Tibetan literature. —
- — How Dudley Randall used poetry to express the truth elegantly —
- — Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language? —
- — Nonprofit group rallies rural artists —
- — It was Millay and her Dutch husband, Eugen Jan Boissevain, who had the home renovated from the Italiante to the Dutch Colonial style in the 1920s. During their short stint in the home, they added the casement windows, skylight and Dutch stepped gable that passersby see today. —
- — The Poetry Show: Eva Salzman and Amy Wack’s anthology Women’s Work [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts William S. Burroughs [mp3] —
Poetry News For August 17, 2009
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- — Dean of Poetesses Says This Is the Brass Age of Poetry; Edna D. Proctor, Poet-Friend of Whittier, Recalls the Past and Talks of Present State of Verse April 1, 1917, Sunday —
- — Cuisine sauce oulipo —
- — Johnny Be Good: The Poetry of 21 Jump Street —
- — We speak with former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur about new poems and old, the art of translation, and his evolution as a poet. Wilbur also reads from his work for us. [mp3] —
- — Johnathon Williams (of Linebreak) has written a poetry aggregator, called Swindle, that scrapes various magazines for fresh poetry uploads. —
- — Poster poems: Aubades —
- — Detecting a clogged artery in the wheezing body of modern verse, Clive James writes in the July/August issue of Poetry magazine that, once upon a time, “the status of ‘poet’ was not so easily aspired to, and the only hankering was to get something said in a memorable form.” —
- — Shooting the Freaks —
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- — “When Zombies Attack! Mathematical Modeling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection” —
- — “I think people are turning to online because a wealth of literary magazines is accessible” —
- — UT’s refuge for writers could be threatened —
- — These days, poetry and commerce are rarely on good speaking terms. But in 1955, Marianne Moore, the famous American writer, tried to help Ford name one of its new creations. —
- — Since humility is not often the hallmark of poets —
- — Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts Jeremy Halinen, a coeditor and cofounder of Knockout Literary Magazine. [mp3] —
- — Three New Titles on Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Thom Gunn by Ron Slate —
- — Rumi, the movie —
- — The winner of the Idaho Prize, a national competition for poetry sponsored by Sandpoint’s Lost Horse Press, is “Frescoes,” by Stephen Gibson —
Jul 272009
- — WHAT IS THE NEW POETRY? CALE YOUNG RICE. December 7, 1919, Sunday —
- — Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts Gabriel Gudding —
- — “David Orr, in his review of Thom Gunn’s new Selected Poems (July 12), makes an interesting, good observation by calling Gunn ‘a poet of friction.’” —
- — On Poetry: Contemporary American work has turned from beauty —
- — Gibson Interview: Patti Smith on Rock and Roll, Poetry and Lullabies —
- — Of Poetry, Paula, Professors and Presidents… —
- — If you love a writer… —
- — Spotlight Poet: Denise Duhamel —
- — Maxine Kumin from How a Poem Happens by Brian Brodeur —
- — This Awards program will provide grants to artists of excellence who happen to have disabilities. —
- — Poem In Tongues Of The Ocean —
- — Writer and teacher Mike Hickey is Seattle’s “poet populist” for 2009. He talks with KUOW’s literary producer Elizabeth Austen about how writing saved his life — and why he thinks it can save your life, too. [mp3] —
- — In the halcyon days of the punk movement, artists knew no bounds. Musicians like Richard Hell, above, of the band Television wrote poetry; poets like Eileen Myles read at CBGB; and they and other future punk legends left enough videos, album covers and other art in their wake to form several retrospectives of the era. —
- — J. V. Cunningham: Essential American Poets [mp3] —
- — A history of Henry Ford’s disastrous attempt to build an ideal American society on an Amazonian rubber plantation. wow I never heard of that. —
- — Slow Poetry: Recipe for a new avant-garde? —
- — Today, librarian Nancy Pearl shares her latest book picks with two ways of sharing a window on experience: The graphic novel and the poetic form. [mp3] —
Jul 132009
- — SOUTHERN LITERATURE.; Facts about Southern Authors. November 12, 1865, Wednesday —
- — For the first time in its ten-year history, Drunken Boat is offering the chance to get email-delivered updates. —
- — Like dangerous toys or perilous amusement park rides, Matthea Harvey’s poems careen into the unknown… [mp3] —
- — Thom Gunn’s “Selected Poems” shows his development was steadier than often thought. —
- — The handful of his poems in the anthology stuck with me over the years since, poems of gritty working-class grappling with life, an unsentimental warmth, and at times nightmare visions of the political events of the larger world. —
- — The poetry of Fred Marchant explores literal battles as well as those of the mind and spirit. —
- — This gives some suggestion of the scale on which Stone has been working for the past 50 years: at one end, something as tangible as a spider’s web; at the other, the entire cosmos. —
- — Mass. lawmakers weigh creating poet laureate post —
- — ‘Deep in my heart I see poetry as a branch of the entertainment industry. I’m trying to do a song and dance act’ —
- — Dolly Parton poems @ Project Verse —
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- — The afternoon before Michael Jackson died, David Blair told BTL how his poetry collection would unite life in Detroit and the Jackson family. —
- — St. Clair Shores poet and Wayne State University professor M.L. Liebler has received double literary honors for his 2008 book —
- — Poet, 80, has first book published —
- — Writer, Poet Jim Harrison Is a Determined ‘Outsider’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — The poems of Grand Rapids poet Robert VanderMolen are sly, ingeniously crafted and indebted to film as well as to 20th century poets. —
- — Campaign to protect Margate shelter where TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land —
- — Daniel Radcliffe revealed as a budding poet —
- — The Poetry of Dick Cheney —
- — Remixed Messages —
- — Stop for a sonnet before catching bus —
- — Nashville poetry calendar new
— - — Paul Hemphill, whose 1970 nonfiction work The Nashville Sound was one of the first serious popular studies of country music and stands among the most important books ever written on the subject, died Saturday in hospice care in Georgia. —
- — Tennyson was ideally suited to radio, argues Michael Symmons Roberts, who has adapted his epic Arthurian cycle for broadcast —
- — Hundreds memorialize James Baker Hall —
- — Does God Hate Women? —
- — Piercy’s latest collection, The Crooked Inheritance, features poems on the U.S. occupation of Iraq , health care, “the poet as a young nerd”, hospital hallways, and mangoes at the beginning of a new love affair. [mp3] —
- — Carol Ann Duffy : ‘I was told to get a proper job’ —
Poetry News For July 2, 2009
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- — POETS WHO MUST OR WHO MAY WRITE; Three Writers of Verse Whose Work Illustrates Afresh the Wisdom of Horace E. Scudder’s Two Questions THE SINGLE HOUND. By Emily Dickinson. With an Introduction by Martha Dickinson Blanchi. Little, Brown & Co. ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER AND OTHER POEMS. By Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1.25. IN DEEP PLACES. By Amelia Josephine Burr. George H. Doran Company. $1. September 19, 1915, Sunday, Section: Review of Books, Page BR333, 2021 words —
- — Another Author Lets Loose Over Bad Review Via the Internet —
- — An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs <-- they updated link for free access to full article thank you ---
- — Summer Poetry Sale! —
- — bad, bad, bad… —
- — Rhyme, Meter, and Poetry for Children —
- — On McSweeney’s: “Comments written by actual students extracted from workshopped manuscripts at a major university.” —
- — In May, we marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s sonnets by asking NPR listeners and readers to write in with modern love poems or songs that they think will be remembered 400 years from now. Here are a few of those suggestions. —
- — Wislawa Szymborska: “One hole in the net” —
- — CUE …is fresh. —
- — Gunn’s ‘Movement’ —
- — Each of these collections poses elusive questions whose answers, embedded in the asking, form the basis of eloquent poems. —
- — Bangladesh have reportedly picked up Indian national Jibon Singh, the main suspect of the theft case of Nobel Prize Medal of Poet Rabindranath Tagore —
- — Sarabande Books will accept submissions during the month of July for The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. —
- — in the poem, Revere arrives in Concord at 2 a.m., but in reality, he was detained by the British at a roadblock in Lincoln on the way to nearby Concord. —
- — Cornelius Eady and Sarah Micklem Do the Write Thing —
- — “The purpose of this showcase event is to celebrate the literary journals that give us poets a place for our work.” —
- — The collection as a whole hangs together with the shape and atmosphere of René Magritte’s surreal painting —
- — The first step to getting published —
- — The Waterboys will perform a series of five concerts at the national theatre around St Patrick’s Day, with frontman Mike Scott, Irish fiddler Steve Wickham and guest musicians performing An Appointment with Mr Yeats, combining the poetry of Yeats with the passion of the Waterboys’ music. —
- — They might be the zit-ridden little brothers of science fiction geeks, but fantasy readers still deserve our respect —
- — It seems my recent Billy Collins post has garnered much interest and discussion, so thank you all for your comments. I am always glad to have these conversations, though I am interested in folks’ responses to my Kay Ryan post. —
- — new cat alert —
- — Karen is also part of the Fourth Plinth project, meaning she’ll be standing on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square for an hour July 31 reading poetry and tweeting about it. —
- — Even from the bleak perspective of the arts and humanities as a whole, the outlook for literary study per se is especially grim. and part two—
No visit from the birds today, so no new pics.
Here’s an article on Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that was in a newspaper.
Poetry News For May 21, 2009
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May 212009
- — The Sonnets at 400 and also Did Shakespeare Want To Suppress His Sonnets? —
- — Poet’s Choice: ‘Turning’ By Janice Harrington —
- — We Got a Yeats, You Got a Wallace Stevens —
- — Dharma Poetry: Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche —
- — Monkeys playing a game similar to “Let’s Make A Deal” have revealed that their brains register missed opportunities and learn from their mistakes. —
- — Sadly, the mythology of poet Bob Kaufman almost rivals all we have left of his poetry. —
- — 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) —
- — Her latest collection of poetry proves Frieda Hughes to be a writer capable of standing on her own —
- — And then there’s the triumph of free verse, which to many people turns poetry into largely banal or incoherent stream of consciousness prose —
- — Naughty Classical Chinese Poetry, And What It Means Today —
- — From Page to Pixels: The Evolution of Online Journals —
- — Boyd argues that art, including fiction, is a unique human adaptation whose chief function is “for improving human cognition, cooperation and creativity” —
- — Diane di Prima — a beat poet, prose writer, playwright, teacher and Excelsior resident — has been named San Francisco’s fifth poet laureate —
- — Yoko Ono to judge Twitter haiku competition —
- — Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites audience to jury duty —
- — Pet Haiku Contest: my top 26 picks (so far) —
- — Pa. poet wins undergraduate literary prize —
- — Pinoy poet to receive Italy’s top prize —
- — The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, HD and the Imagists —
- — ‘YouTube’ for books signs up Random House, Simon & Schuster —
- — 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. —
- — Daring poet mortified by blasphemy case —
- — Are litmags facing more funding cuts? —
Here is another Ebay scan. New Poetry 1964. [20mb PDF] If there are any copyright objections I’ll take it down.
