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Poetry News For June 30, 2008

Poetry News:

— These are poems of stark strength and startling honesty, constantly revealing the shock of the reality of everyday existence, touched often by a quiet dry humor —

— With invention, irony, and uncanny instinct, three poets show off their mastery of the surreal —

— T.S. ELIOT v. PORTISHEAD —

— Stray Questions for: Mary Jo Salter —

— Sounds of final partings fill Schultz’s verse —

— Ernest Cipolone, 87, of Brooklawn, who has been writing poetry for 60 years, read his verses before an audience for the first time —

— If anyone these days is hanging onto a notion of consistent stylistic evolution as aesthetic merit, this volume will do its best to disorient them —

— Sylvia Plath Trivia - Answers! —

— Poetry roundup —

“Third Genders” in Societies with Rigid Gender Roles

The Guardian recently asked its arts critics to cover sports for a day — and vice versa. The results are quite winning!

I don’t think my RSS feeds are working properly since my upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress. Sorry. If you have problems, please email. Though if folks aren’t getting the RSS feed they won’t see this request haha.

Poetry News For April 30, 2008

Poetry News:

— You’re saying to the world, this is how I want to be read, this is how I want to be seen, and those are hard decisions to make —

— Poetry in Motion, Thanks to YouTube —

— The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce Hall —

— Manitoba Authors Honoured at Manitoba Book Awards —

— Gioia’s Poetry Set to Music as Hudson Review Turns 60 —

— It’s time for difficult writing to step up —

— Elegy for a Scarred Shoulder will debut May 1, 2008 at free reading and booksigning at 7:00 pm in Kalman Auditorium at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center, 18101 Oakwood Blvd in Dearborn, Michigan —

— A Spring Bouquet of Poetry —

— Nuyorican Poets Cafe celebrates 35 years of odes —

— He currently writes for the New York Review of Books and is Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He answered your questions on the state of poetry today. [links to MP3] —

— Fifteen months in India in the early 1960s had a lasting influence on Allen Ginsberg. —

— The metrical pattern, with its short, tumbling line, is sometimes known as “skeltonics” —

— Groundbreaking Book: Ariel, by Sylvia Plath —

— Cinderella Schools for Writers —

— Former beat movement member Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize —

Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation, by Some Chinese Intellectuals

Ach, my appt at the pain clinic got moved back a week, due to a conference. You’d think a pain clinic consultation would be zippy.

How to be a jerk
1. Read a lukewarm review of your book on Amazon.
2. Explain to reader how she is mistaken.
3. Encourage deletion of reader’s review.
4. Have friends / fellow authors harass reviewer?
5. Have Private Investigator dig up personal information on reviewer. (?!)
6. There is no #6.
7. Amazon bans the reviewer.
8. Profit?
(there’s a boycott amazon group at Facebook BTW.)
And Writers call for 1 May Amazon, eBay boycott
…RSS feed backlog.

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