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Poetry News For August 13, 2008

Poetry News:

— Dreams for the waking mind —

— Movie Review — Patti Smith: Dream of Life [and a big list of movies with poetry] —

— How To Write Suspense Without Punching Your Reader in the Nose —

— Are there certain things that you will never do in a poem, either intentionally or unintentionally? —

— Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New Criticism —

— Springsteen’s Ten Suggestions for Spiritual Living —

Poetry News For March 3, 2008

Poetry News:

— Soon, she was weaving together poems about the employees’ experiences in America and at work at the factory —

— In the meantime, his poetry is massively overrated: rhymes are amateur, scansion is sloppy and the content is unintelligible, bordering on insane —

— Armed with magnifying glasses and mirrors, the censors are on a mission to root out hidden political messages in poems, novels, stories and advertisements —

— Robert Frost, shown above circa 1915, wrote to his son that “you can say a lot in prose that verse won’t let you say.” —

— Toledo helped shine light on gifted black poet —

— “To me, this is the Grammy of poetry” —

— College Restores Artwork by Poet E.E. Cummings —

— the day Wallace Stevens punched out Ernest Hemingway —

— Because language isn’t simple and poetry isn’t simply language, translation is never a zero-sum game —

— Robert has good news, congrats —

— Massive gathering celebrates Stegner as bard of the West —

— Free online barcode generator for DIYers —

— Edward Limonov, a poet-turned-populist, has joined the chess master Garry Kasparov to form a threadbare alliance that constitutes the only genuine opposition to President Vladimir Putin —

Poetry News for August 5, 2007

Poetry News:

— ‘Penelopiad’ Opens on Stage —

— What makes Stevens tough to interpret is his unique diction, which is a mixture of the hymn, the ornate and the bizarre —

— Inductee Sanders turns poetic —

— In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka converted from Greenwich Village Beat poet to Harlem agitator, influencing a generation of young black writers —

— Visiting poets use tools like ‘wormhole haiku’ to inspire young writers —

— Here is an awesome one minute trailer for the Roethke Readings —

— How does one journey from opacity to transparency? —

— what a gifted stand-up artist or actor does with face, body and voice, poetry does with the rhythms of words and the rhythms of thought, in language —

me at myspace

Lead Less Toxic to the Well-Read

Yay!: my new niece, Abigail, and some word puzzles. (And physics.)

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Poetry News for June 11, 2007

Poetry News:

— Poets Speak Out —

— We want to believe the omission was related to space and not because city leaders thought it was too gay —

— In 1923, Alfred A. Knopf published the first book of poems by Wallace Stevens —

— Take 20-minute trip to poet’s birthplace —

— The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova once said her country silences poets by sending them to a gulag, while America silences poets by ignoring them —

Pals with work up now at storysouth:

J Lynn Laughlin’s story at StorySouth

3 poems by Susan Meyers at storysouth

Also do you guys know about the dead mule? (It was [really] dead for a while but has been back for a long time I guess and I didn’t know that.)

Cliff nominated me as a thinking blogger. That is kind, thanks. Passing it on:

Radish King

Emperor of Ice-Cream Cakes: Poems Are Jokes

Erik’s Choice

If you've clicked on a tag, you will see posts from my blog that have featured that tag. At the bottom of the page is a list of all the tags I've ever used on this blog. -- Jilly