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Walt Whitman

Poetry News:

1. — Diane Ronayne: Remembering kayaker, poet, teacher Bill Studebaker —
2. — Sometimes I think critics resent poets who are understandable —
3. — Anecdote answers the origins of a Richard Hugo poem —
4. — Bookmonger: Poets Deal with Life’s Physical Limitations —
5. — Judging a letter by its cover, these were remarkable —
6. — Overshadowed poet gets overdue attention —
7. — It Will Not Wash: Does It Work, or Not? —
8. — Was Whitman Really Gay? [MP3] —

church of human bones (Nat’l Geo. video)

Poetry News:

1. — on the dearth of great films about great writers —
2. — British Poets Launched Lyrical Revolution —
3. — A Welsh Government minister has apologised after announcing the wrong winner of the Wales Book of Year at an awards ceremony in an embarrassing gaffe —
4. — Kate Clanchy’s workshop: She would like you to write a letter-poem to someone you’ve lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen —
5. — The effects of poetry often depend on the tension between shared and unique memories to set up patterns of expectation in the mind of the reader —
6. — http://www.newsweek.com/id/59182 —
7. — Articles in May/Jun 2008 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
8. — UB Poetry Collection hits the road —
9. — Although speakers of different languages describe events using the word orders prescribed by their language, when the same speakers are asked to “speak” with their hands and not their mouths, they ignore these orders — they all use exactly the same order when they gesture —
10. — In two of her recent Poet’s Choice columns, Mary Karr makes assertions that cannot go unchallenged. —
11. — Stone Circle draws poets, storytellers and singers to spin tales from the heart [Ernie Harwell - yay!] —
12. — Hayes’s poems enact the new race struggle, more up-to-date than the pre-civil rights poems of his lit’rary ancestors (Langston Hughes, say), but equally instructive to this white reader. —
13. — A clear-eyed look at Whitman’s ‘prophets’ —
14. — One of Idaho’s foremost poets and kayakers is missing and was presumed drowned —
15. — Poetry: A ‘Ferocious Contrast to the Clamor’ —
16. — Rupert Graves accused of stealing lover’s work [and a bunch of Laura Riding Jackson MP3s here] —

It’s not me. Google Reader isn’t following my rss feed’s 302 redirects to Feedburner. Sorry. I guess I have to wait for Google to respond to my issue. hahahahaha right. I’ll wait a week and then ditch feedburner. I don’t think that will entirely solve the problem though, because Google reader has some weird caching issues as well. Meh.

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. — Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation —
2. — new lit mag alert —
3. — The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist —
4. — She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles —
5. — Never has so much genius,” he wrote, “been combined with so little talent.” I never heard that one before, hahaha.—
6. — Taking the Pain Out of Poetry —
7. — Tracking Olympic Torch Relay, PEN Poem Relay lands in North America —
8. — Next on American Experience - Walt Whitman, Airing April 14, 2008 —

If you are doing NaPoWriMo, there are some writing prompts here

Geez you guys are stingy with the ad clicks, LOL:

I’ve tried to promote poetry as best I know how, but I need to close for a while. (It hasn’t anything to do with adverti$ing pittances.) Have a good remainder of the National Poetry Month. I love you, poets!

Poetry News:

1. — Who can explain why the practice of poetry has become the object of so much satire and snide dismissal? [link found here thanks] —
2. — The Poem as Comic Strip #6 —
3. — For this, my farewell “Poet’s Choice” column, here are two poems related by a form: the sonnet —
4. — He is the leading New Zealand poet of his generation, but Bill Manhire prefers to “bump into meaning” rather have an agenda —
5. — How do you capture the tortured life of one of hockey’s greatest goaltenders? Why, you turn it into verse, of course —
6. — BBC to broadcast lost Philip Larkin poems —
7. — Classic Review: Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman —
8. — “Saliva Trails” - Currently the Best Selling Book of Poetry in English, Released from Korea Through Lulu.com —

Poetry News:

1. — Psychologists Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University ran three experiments to study existential dread in the laboratory —
2. — Three Reasons Why We Don’t Read Poetry —
3. — I guess this collection is about the shadowy presences and outlaw characters who haunt the margins of American, particularly Southern, history —
4. — He is, we are constantly told, a great poet and a big wind-bag, a profound seer and a boisterous humbug —
5. — Jennifer Grotz once wrote poetry like a drunken Patsy Cline, sick on love —
6. — Akron poet Thomas Dukes wins prestigious national book prize; and some thoughts on poetry for profit —

There are a lot of sleep / dream articles up at the NY Times. “Once seen as a blank screen, a metaphor for death, it has emerged as an active, purposeful machine, a secretive intelligence that comes out at night to play and to work during periods of dreaming and during the netherworld chasms known as deep sleep”

Poetry News:

1. — We knew he was a genius all along [and more here]—
2. — Abu Dhabi TV crowns ‘Prince of Poets’ —
3. — his work draws parallels between the depiction of the war heroes in the Iliad and the Odyssey and the experiences of his patients —
4. — It was damned rot — rot of the worst sort — not insincere, perhaps, but rot, nevertheless —
5. — “Good God, I can”™t publish this,” his publisher told him. “We”™d both be in jail.” —
6. — What Did Shakespeare Look Like As a Kid? hahaha thanks Chad —

“The Anti-Muses

Like the Muses, they are attracted to talent and promising projects, and the presence of several at once probably means you are on to something big. Still, they can frustrate or even destroy the most inspired tender new poem, and send the poet into despair, alcoholism, or flash fiction. The more we know about them, the better.

Their mother is Amnesia, “Forgetfulness.”

They are goddesses, 13 in number….” [read the rest]

Poetry News:

1. — The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife by Jeannine Hall Gailey [congrats Jeannine] —
2. — ” … he cut through all the rubbish and I think that should be admired” —
3. — Art work marks end of poet’s walk —
4. — Momaday named state’s centennial poet laureate —
5. — I’d be out playing and I would hear a poem way off —
6. — They’ve convinced Congress to hold hearings on the matter [Yay! and you can keep an eye out here: there is an RSS feed] —
7. — First interview with JK Rowling —
8. — “Damn My Captain . . . I’m almost sorry I ever wrote the poem . . .” —

File-Card Conveyor Operated by Pedals

Poetry News:

1. — Didi Menendez is reviewing online lit mags —
2. — Poets Walk Across Bridge; Read Whitman, Hart Crane —
3. — Biggest literary prize goes to little-known Norwegian —
4. — Poet William Meredith will be announced as a finalist for the National Book Awards —
5. — Court says Strauss heirs must pay “Rosenkavalier” royalties to heirs of librettist —
6. — Nidhi Shukla the sister of slain poetess Madhumita Shukla today expressed her apprehension that she might be attacked or even murdered —
7. — Acclaimed Nashville performance poet Minton Sparks’ first book is not quite what it seems —
8. — Stars pay homage to Yeats —

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The Creation Museum looks like another wonderful roadside attraction. Yay weirdo America! [and they have a blog]
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“In a survey of 1,700 women with ovarian cancer, Dr. Goff and other researchers found that 36 percent had initially been given a wrong diagnosis, with conditions like depression or irritable bowel syndrome.”

“‘Twelve percent were told there was nothing wrong with them, and it was all in their heads,’” Dr. Goff said.”

Gawd.

Poetry News:

1. — Poets Speak Out —
2. — We want to believe the omission was related to space and not because city leaders thought it was too gay —
3. — In 1923, Alfred A. Knopf published the first book of poems by Wallace Stevens —
4. — Take 20-minute trip to poet’s birthplace —
5. — 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