Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — I don’t necessarily push dark imagery in my poems as much as I embrace darkness when it arrives in my life, and find a way for that darkness to exist inside language. —
2. — Halloween has changed a lot in my time but it has always been an inspiration to poets —
3. — Writer Lawrence Joseph keeps memories of old store alive [link from here thank you]—
4. — All good poems surprise. Great poems keep surprising for longer, for as long as we can imagine. —
5. — Through Lowell’s dizzying psychological dramas and fits of despair, Bishop remained a steadfast but unsparing correspondent. —
6. — Wendell Berry’s time is now —

In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure

Poetry News:

1. — Does poetry have any real agency in the world? It might not seem so, but poets have made some stirring arguments that it does, —
2. — Canadians are playing key role in `Books 2.0′ —
3. — Saying he has a mandate to make poetry more accessible, P.E.I.’s poet laureate has launched a website —
4. — the plowboy interview: Wendell Berry —
5. — A suspicious degeneration —
6. — Ida Fink, Tuvya Ruebner and Nili Mirsky are the winners of the 2008 Israel Prize for Literature, Poetry and Translation —
7. — One thing that unites the fast-growing small presses on this year’s list is their willingness to experiment —

Poetry News:

1. — The early letters of the future poet laureate reveal many of his lifelong obsessions, from furry animals to the occult, mostly in a financially anxious form —
2. — More to the point, they seem to fill a gap left increasingly by magazines, which rarely publish this type of material anymore —
3. — That Canadians would have no access to works of our own imagination just seemed goofy —
4. — In her Foreword to the book, noted poet Alice Ostriker writes that Farrokhzad belongs in the company with Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Plath, and Sexton —
5. — Midwest Poet Series turns 25 —
6. — He told his father, who expected him to become a scientist, that he was going to be a poet, and headed to the local library —
7. — Charles Simic on Good Morning America (TV) —
8. — Poem of the Week No. 3: Lewis Carroll —
9. — Berry’s new collection, “Window Poems,” is a series he composed while looking out the window of his writing cabin —
10. — Language as Sculpture, Words as Clay —
11. — Poetry, like wisdom, is above all price; it is either worth everything or nothing; yet, as poetry is not, like poets born, but made, those who make it very naturally desire to sell it, and the great difficulty has been, heretofore, to ascertain its market, or commercial value —
12. — New Lit Mag Alert —
13. — Making art of ‘Industrial Scars’ —

Yeah, I guess that might work here. Your robber would be so mentally disturbed by you ignoring him while you festoon yourself into a freaking FABRIC VENDING MACHINE.

My plan: palm an Alka-Seltzer at all times when in risky areas.

Bad guy comes up, pop it in your mouth, and act like a rabid and possessed animal as thick white froth pours down your chin.

Make lots of large, cat-like, limb motions. Scream, hiss, and bark. Toss in a few laughs. Look and point to something behind him. (His head will turn) RUN!! at a right angle from where you were, and then quickly switch into the direction where he was looking.

Ha my sister cracks me up. We were discussing this.

Thanks for the birthday good wishes. We had a fun day. That movie was funny. (It’s up at you tube.) Barbara Stanwyck had some great outfits. And there was one of the funniest poker game scenes.

Poetry News:

1. — How ballads created Finland, opera made Belgium, and fairy stories unified Germany —
2. — A Poet of the Mets Versifies of Gloom [link found here thank you] —
3. — …that is why Adrienne Rich’s poetry has enduring importance huzzah —
4. — Leading writers appraise Wendell Berry —
5. — Shams Skeleton Allegedly Found —
6. — Paris Hilton: poetry plagiarizer? —
7. — The stand-off is symbolic of French society: a rigorous bureaucracy on the surface with a bizarre subculture below —
8. — Poets Biddinger and Gailey to visit SUNY Fredonia —

Poetry News:

1. — Seamus Heaney’s new book “¦ is sold out before most people have even heard about it —
2. — Poet Christopher Buckley Wins Guggenheim after 20 years of Trying —
3. — In Berry tribute, authors explore influence of writer who loves the land —
4. — Harborview lets poetry do some of the healing —
5. — When a new hotel in Edinburgh commissioned local poets to write poems to place on guests’ pillows instead of the usual chocolates, there was a gleefully cynical response —
6. — Chickasaw Nation Announces 2007 Hall of Fame Inductees —
7. — even with the occasional endorsement of the MLA, online projects are not generally esteemed by universities as evidence of scholarly productivity —