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Poetry News:

1. — Actress backs medieval Norwich mystic appeal —
2. — out their business as usual, rarely consulting their Shakespeare, William Wordsworth or Robert Frost. One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 21st century —
3. — What, exactly, is an artist book? —
4. — Music and poetry have been kissing cousins since each began —
5. — Medvedev, Putin congratulate poet Yevtushenko on jubilee —
6. — In “Hardheaded Weather,” poet Cornelius Eady vividly explores issues of racial division in American life —
7. — More Kay Ryan: What I love even more than the simple cliché is maybe the malapropism—the happy confusion of TWO cliches and Fairfax poet’s original voice draws notice and highest honors and Spike in sales for next poet laureate —
8. — LOL —

The Frank Stanford Literary Festival
October 17 - 19, 2008
Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Poetry News:

1. — Taking stock of the wood —
2. — Wordplay features Philadelphia-based poet Ross Gay [links to MP3] —
3. — This week’s poem is the delicate and flirtatious 16th-century French “Villanelle”, along with a brand new translation —
4. — Jonathan Thirkield has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Walt Whitman Award for his first book-length collection of poems, The Waker’s Corridor, chosen by poet Linda Bierds from over 1,000 entries —
5. — Have blogs been good for books? —
6. — Folk singer/activist Utah Phillips ’has caught the westbound’ —
7. — Interestingly, though, the omnipresence of words in artworks is a relatively recent phenomenon. —
8. — When she discovered that the feminist poet Adrienne Rich lived up the road, she asked her for a job and helped to work on Sinister Wisdom, a lesbian literary journal —
9. — Amy Winehouse lyrics analysed as poetry by Cambridge University students —

I have to take a break again - my body is  kind of  rebelling right now. This is gross - my joints are really cracking/popping. I’m like a sheet of bubble wrap! It’ll get sorted out.

I think this is my first review. Thanks Justin. And I think this is my second review - thanks Mary.

Poetry News:

1. — Her early writing is set in a structured style with familiar rhyming schemes, yet its tone foreshadows her charged works to come —
2. — Consistencies Found In Synaesthesia: Letter ‘A’ Is Red For Many; ‘V’ Is Purple —
3. — Poet Giovanni honored with historic marker —
4. — Poems not only rhymed but the syllables of each line were exactly calculated; to make matters trickier, there were tonal patterns as well, dictated by the pitch accents of the language. —
5. — Though he is best known for his medicine–related poems, Peter Pereira successfully exploits his devotion to anagrams and other word games in poems that celebrate the malleabality and surprises possible in language —
6. — Twas the year 2008, when the world’s worst poet got his day - a little late —
7. — The true legacy of the inventor of LSD, who died yesterday aged 102, is in the music, literature and visual arts that were produced as a result of acid —
8. — The problem of describing trees —

This country sure is going to hell in a handbasket. Maybe someone else will do an Idiocracy-type movie that won’t be as terrible.

Poetry News:

1. — I think that you have to go on your nerve—that’s something Frank O’Hara used to say —
2. — Most critics thought the young Barker a better poet than the young Thomas, and the latter, who called his rival’s poems “masturbatory monologues”, seems to have been madly jealous —
3. — Definition of poetry splits the literati —
4. — The Victorian poet William Barnes proposed wheelsaddle as an alternative to bicycle, and in the same vein suggested painlore, folkwain and nipperlings in lieu of pathology, omnibus and forceps —
5. — Collected here are poems from 59 countries and territories spanning Asia and the widest definition of the Asian diaspora —
6. — Blake Morrison celebrates livres d’artistes, texts have been cut open, painted over, burnt and locked up by the likes of Matisse and Hirst —
7. — Q&A with California Poet Laureate Al Young —
8. — WILD NIGHTS! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway —

Important net neutrality developments.

My 6 word story - thanks Thierry Brunet.

…catching up.

Poetry News:

1. — There should be a place for more original poetry to be posted and shared - let’s start right here —
2. — Needed: Contemporary Visual Poetry for Poetry —
3. — Psalms offer source of inspiration for prayer —
4. — University Comes To Aid Of Literary Magazine —
5. — Here are 15 short poems as animated films. They’re the first in a series from Poetry Everywhere, a fresh initiative to introduce new audiences to poetry through cinema —
6. — Custom Ringtones From Poets.org —
7. — The UK’s biggest poetry competition, founded in 1978, attracts thousands of entries – here are this year’s winners —
8. — Mr. Williams founded the Jargon Society, a small publishing house that has introduced the works of little-known writers, photographers and artists —

A Veteran MAD Man Remains in the Fold

Yay, baseball. As always, there’s free baseball poetry in a PDF chapbook here. The Nashiville Sounds’ first home game is on the 11th.

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry should have punch. It should jab, it should undercut, clinch in the corners and consider in hard times the head butt —
2. — The mother of so much —
3. — MLB Poetry Preview: Minnesota Twins —
4. — English poetry masters: Percy Bysshe Shelley —
5. — Call for Entries to the Festival of Visual Poetry 2008 —
6. — It’s a great shame that the work of a great poet has spawned so many mawkish imitations —
7. — Revealed: how poet set up ‘charity’ fund —

Oklahoma! where the wind comes sweepin’ down [state legislator Sally Kern's] brain

Have a great weekend. No news this weekend.

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry Chronicle —
2. — Poems on the frontiers; a lobster lesson on the sea
3. — Jenny Holzer Makes Light of Poems and Beats Swords Into Paintings —
4. — Pakistani’s Poem Offers Hope in Despairing Time —
5. — In ‘Telephone Ringing,’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words —
6. — Here is Arizona poet Steve Orlen’s lovely tribute to the great opera singer, Maria Callas —
7. — Ferlinghetti argues that poetry can save the world —
8. — Creative Work Has Health Advantages, Population Research Center Study Shows —
9. — Dylan Thomas’s passport can now be viewed online thanks to the National Library of Wales [more] —
10. — An “honest guildsman” of a poet melds the political and the personal —
11. — Possibly the most moving use of a poet’s own name in English poetry is Ben Jonson’s “On My First Son —

Poetry News:

1. — Two hundred and fifty favored subscribers received a bewildering book last week —
2. — The Library is on Fire —
3. — Joel Lipman confirmed as Lucas County poet laureate —
4. — Poetry Roundup —
5. — Spam, spam, spam, spam, and poetry —
6. — Amazon.com Buys J.K. Rowling Fairy Tale for 1.95 Million Pounds —

On Tuesday, The Plain English Campaign awarded its annual Golden Bull Awards

Poetry News:

1. — Paul Guest, a poet who teaches at West Georgia, will be in New York Wednesday to accept the prestigious $50,000 Whiting Prize and Whiting Award Winners Announced — [congrats]
2. — Indian politician and wife jailed for murder plot against Hindu poetess —
3. — Solitary Woman in a Glass House: Visual Translations of Emily Dickinson Poems —
4. — Poetry unlocks woman’s memory —
5. — She also sent poems, letters, packages saturated in perfume, a petrified alligator head, dead beetles and other items —
6. — From Old to New Media: Blog Begets Publishing House —
7. — These excerpts from Moore’s letters feature her correspondences with numerous literary figures, including Pound, Cummings, and William Carlos Williams —
8. — 13 Percent of Collection Misplaced, Survey Finds —
9. — Our findings suggest that it is in fact Democrats, not Republicans, who tend to favor the DH. In addition, we find no effect for respondents”™ proximity to American or National League teams, though older respondents were consistently more likely to oppose the rule. —

Today is my honey’s birthday. It’s celebration week.

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