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Vladimir Mayakovsky

Poetry News:

1. — Comparing the Processing of Music and Language Meaning Using EEG and fMRI Provides Evidence for Similar and Distinct Neural Representations —
2. — Poetry can be true without being True —
3. — Lamantia anticipated by decades the elegant involutions and torqued interiority made familiar to us by other poets influenced by Surrealism such as Paul Celan and John Ashbery —
4. — “I must have been a fierce particle,” she marveled in a 2003 conversation with Spires. —
5. — Of verse and violent crime —
6. — A Yale-educated WASP, Matthews mocked the tight-lipped stoicism that was his birthright, while elevating it into high style. —
7. — “It’s for everybody,” she said. “It’s music. If you love music, you love poetry. It’s for everyone.” —
8. — Just when Almereyda has inclined us to the notion that agitprop can be noble, sincere and effective, Night Wraps The Sky accounts for the simultaneous unraveling of Mayakovsky’s life and Lenin’s communism. —
9. — a list of print journals that accept email submissions —
10. — As a new biopic probes the life and loves of Dylan Thomas, the writer’s daughter gives her verdict to biographer Andrew Lycett —

America has always struggled to live up to ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the freedoms written by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. Nowhere has this idea played out more visibly than on the baseball field where men and women have fought to cross racial, cultural, and gender barriers for the equal opportunity to play the game. In conjunction with our spring 2008 exhibit, Baseball as America, the National Constitution Center presents “Baseball: The Melting Pot,” a special conversation about the ways in which the game of baseball has served as a reflection of our social tensions as well as ideals, and our struggle to become a more inclusive society: MP3.

Poetry News:

1. — “The Poem of a Life,” Mark Scroggins’s terrific new biography, never strays far from Zukofsky the poet. —
2. — Over the past 100 years Milton’s standing has declined more steeply than that of any other great English poet —
3. — City officials see Cornish as a poet of the people, someone who will reach across racial and socioeconomic lines to promote literacy through poetry —
4. — Poet Li-Young Lee achieves transcendence in works such as ‘To Hold’ —
5. — Maya Angelou’s poem in praise of Hillary —
6. — Lilya would become the muse for Mayakovsky’s poetry for the next 20 years, and the couple a key presence in the Soviet Union’s new literary and artistic movements —
7. — Brian Turner had a master’s in fine arts degree tucked in his ruck sack when he enlisted at the age of 30 —
8. — Poetry turns out to be a better survival tool than you might think —
9. — Gloomy poets are rarely very good, and good poets rarely very gloomy —

So what’s the deal? Why do the mainstream media hardly ever do articles or reviews about women poets? It is often hard to find ANY article to link to.

Are there more men poets than women poets? (When I got my MFA, the poetry students were mostly women.) Are men poets simply better poets than women poets? More interesting? Better at self-promotion maybe? Do articles in which the subject has a penis make for increased sales or something? Are men poets more likely to get published by a large press? What? Is? The? Deal? Here?

Poetry News:

1. — Spent 22 Years Collecting 15,000 Similes; Frank J. Wilstach’s Ardent and Relentless Hunt for This Elusive Figure of Speech Results in a Remarkable Collection - By Joyce Kilmer [book is at Google books] —
2. — The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in Conversation —
3. — “Jennifer L. Knox is pure magic.” —
4. — West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a ‘Soldier’s Heart’ [links to MP3] and more here at Ron Slate’s blog —
5. — Poet Confidential: I WAS A GREETING CARD WRITER —
6. — A new collection from America’s most playful poet —
7. — It is one of the more delicious workings of karma that Singapore, which criminalizes homosexuality, should have as its leading young poet an openly gay man —
8. — Interview with wordsmith Gary Snyder —
9. — But The Stray Dog Cabaret is as compelling for the poems included as for its back story, which tells us a great deal about Russian society and literature in the period preceding the revolution —
10. — A.Van Jordan writes books of poetry that approach a subject the way a filmmaker or nonfiction writer might —

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Poetry News:

1. — Mashile Scoops Pan African Book Prize —
2. — Sharing her personal history with a major literary and countercultural movement has been a mixed blessing —
3. — written poetry among Tibetans remained largely the work of scholars until the exile to India in 1959 —
4. — ‘Bard of Belltown’ a ‘great poet’ and a man of mystery —
5. — “I Have Been Given a Baseball … ” By Alan Michael Parker —
6. — The ‘raging bull’ of Russian poetry —
7. — Reclusive Nobel laureate publishing latest novel online —

Hands Up! To Hold Your Books.

Curious.

Not sure if I am going to post this weekend. If not, have you a good weekend.