- — “Now everything comes from China,” said Brian Campbell, whose book of prose poems, Passenger Flight, invokes global warming, globalization, 9/11 and state-sanctioned torture. —
- — “Ninety-eight percent of the time I agree with them,” said Graham, referring to the current processes that her book is undergoing. “It really shows how important revision is.” —
- — McSweeney’s Next Incarnation: An Old-Fashioned Broadsheet —
- — Transcript: James Wright on the Poetic Prose of H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, E. M. Forster, and Leo Tolstoy —
- — Astrology chart Walt Whitman —
- — Rosmarie Waldrop on Metaphor & Metonymy —
- — Bonnie Jo Campbell Rocks the Twittersphere —
- — Lunch Poems: Tracy K. Smith – UCTV – University of California Television —
- — St. Teresa of Avila (October 15, 2009) from Saint of the Day —
- — Monitor reviews of National Book Award nominees -The 2009 National Book Award nominees are out. You can see the full list below, but for now I’m simply going to quote blogger Laura Nathan who notes, “I recognize the names of far more National Book Award judges than I do book titles and authors.” —
Poetry News For October 15, 2009
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Oct 152009
I’m back I think. In another clinical study – I think it is helping. 
- — WCBN Living Writers with T Hetzel – interview with Henry Grimes [mp3] —
- — Oh, Walt Whitman, And Jeans, and Walt Whitman —
- — Poetry is rubbish. —
- — Here some famous writers, looking sensitive: Exhibit A, B, C, D, E. —
- — Poetic Form: Sevenlings —
- — Brian Turner, a poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, has been awarded the 2009-10 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship —
- — The poet as the letter ‘I’ —
- — Poem of the week: Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar —
- — Chappell Invents Fresh Form with ‘Shadow Box’ —
- — The Last Days of The Writer Jim Carroll —
- — Dharma Poetry: Jane Hirshfield —
- — C. Dale Young —
- — ‘Smell of space’ strong, metallic and unique —
- — The World According to Philip Levine —
- — 40 poets, including McHugh, have received MacArthur Fellowships since the MacArthur Foundation began offering them in 1981. Here they are, from least recent to most recent recipient —
- — Then she started singing and stopped making sense —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Erasers’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Mary Jo Salter [mp3] —
- — TS Eliot rejected Bloomsbury group’s ‘cursed fund’ to work in bank —
- — Hockey poetry? Check. [ok that made me laugh] —
- — Former poet laureate Robert Hass discusses the power of poetry, particularly during times of great loss and confusion. [mp3] —
- — Kafka — and Eraserhead — can make you smarter: Study says surrealism can improve learning by compelling the brain to seek out structure —
- — Poetry and Information Are NOT free —
- — Poet’s Wordplay Leads To MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award —
- — Tracy K. Smith: “Alternate Take: Levon Helm” —
- — An award-winning University of Maryland professor who founded the school’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing has been named the state’s poet laureate. —
