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Poetry News:

1. — Publish and Perish —
2. — What did it mean to buck the tide and take women writers’ works and lives seriously? [link found here thank you] —
3. — From Abolition to Dickinson, Rev. Higginson made his mark —
4. — His seminal poems, “The Neo-HooDoo Manifesto” and “The Neo-HooDoo Aesthetic,” delve even deeper into this artistic practice to demonstrate its vitality as an international, multicultural aesthetic that embraces spiritual creativity I guess this is safe for work… (?) —
5. — Blogging - is it worth it? —
6. — The coming economic giant also has a proud tradition of poetry that is being restored to its central position in the country’s culture —
7. — St. Louis cast mysterious spell on poet T.S. Eliot —
8. — That is where X is the length of lines, for Y = X – 2, Y ~ Poisson (lambda) —
9. — A new (to me) blog. —

Strange, because:

a.) Cher was in Nashville. (?)
b.) Nashvillians generally really don’t even acknowledge celebrities in public. That’s part of the reason why a lot of even non-musician celebs have moved here.
c.) There’s a “roped-off area” at Tootsies (no apostrophe) Orchid Lounge now???

ps no news this weekend — I’m getting over the stomach flu or bad tomato or something.

Poetry News:

1. — Why is America ambivalent about Whitman? —
2. — Eliot the poet has to be rescued from thesis mongers and academic apologists, and liberated from the ballast of both an outsize critical reputation and his own Olympian criticism —
3. — The controversy threatens to forge a permanent divide in the city’s small press community, where two degrees of separation might be one too many. —
4. — “Interpretive Work” is the first book in a new imprint established by Red Hen Press in Southern California to publish literary works of high quality by lesbian writers —
5. — Bookstores here are so scarce that many readers have trouble naming one —
6. — His work also reached a wider audience thanks to the 2003 film ”21 Grams” by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu —
7. — Poetry Roundup —

Poetry News:

1. — The 5-minute Interview: Felix Dennis, publisher and author —
2. — Poetry workshop: David Morley finds variety and accomplishment in equal measure in the nature poetry prompted by his March poetry ‘field trip’ —
3. — First mantra of the Rig Veda is the first known poem in the world —
4. — 2008 is the 120th anniversary year of poet T. S. Eliot’s birth —
5. — For many career lawyers, poetry isn’t simply a weekend hobby; it’s a second calling —
6. — Are Smart People Drawn To The Arts Or Does Arts Training Make People Smarter? —
7. — Telegraph.co.uk’s week-long series celebrating the great poets of the English canon —

I’m going to Lulu.com my poetry manuscript. I don’t want to have my poems checked for dingleberries - I don’t like the contest system.

I need some help with the cover. If you are an artist & are interested, please email me. I can’t pay much, because of my medical bills.

Also, if you have any advice re: lulu.com layouts — fonts, etc — so the book doesn’t look stupid, that would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Poetry News:

1. — Online Bronx magazine taking shape —
2. — A 17-year-old boy who had once worked as a kitchen aide at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus recognized the remote farmhouse’s potential for parties —
3. — T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were the “Odd Couple” of 20th-century poetry —
4. — Tuesday marks the 163rd anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous poems in American literature —
5. — Poems of vitality and mortality —
6. — … “unusual and unwanted items,” including a petrified alligator’s foot, dead beetles and poems —
7. — La Petite Zine is fresh —
8. — Experts Stunned By Discoveries In Home Of Late 77-Year-Old Frugal Librarian —
9. — Latino poets will have their own Super Bowl this Friday as nearly 30 established and upcoming poets will come together for a reading —

Safe travels to AWP.

Poetry News:

1. — Primary care physician and self-described Scrabble junkie Peter Pereira reads from his new collection of poetry, What’s Written on the Body [There is also a review of Peter's book (here).] —
2. — Books of poetry will fascinate kids of all ages —
3. — Egypt poet refuses to pay court fine —
4. — The Rhymes of the Ace Mariner —
5. — T.S. Eliot In The Gas Station —
6. — Give Poetics a Chance —

These are the 3 most popular outgoing links for last month (as far as feedburner is concerned):

Copper Canyon is the leading U.S. independent publisher of poetry

The great poet William Carlos Williams called [her] ‘one of the major phenomena of history

We’re poets, so this was an amazingly stressful situation for us [Now you have to pay to read it at the NY Times]

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