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william blake

Poetry News:

1. — Soon, she was weaving together poems about the employees’ experiences in America and at work at the factory —
2. — In the meantime, his poetry is massively overrated: rhymes are amateur, scansion is sloppy and the content is unintelligible, bordering on insane —
3. — Armed with magnifying glasses and mirrors, the censors are on a mission to root out hidden political messages in poems, novels, stories and advertisements —
4. — 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.” —
5. — Toledo helped shine light on gifted black poet —
6. — “To me, this is the Grammy of poetry” —
7. — College Restores Artwork by Poet E.E. Cummings —
8. — the day Wallace Stevens punched out Ernest Hemingway —
9. — Because language isn’t simple and poetry isn’t simply language, translation is never a zero-sum game —
10. — Robert has good news, congrats —
11. — Massive gathering celebrates Stegner as bard of the West —
12. — Free online barcode generator for DIYers —
13. — 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:

1. — In the summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans —
2. — An Interview with Cathy Smith Bowers —
3. — “Poet’s Choice” columnist Robert Pinsky fields questions and comments on this year in poetry — transcript —
4. — From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts? —
5. — Basho’s Irish echoes —
6. — Why devote seven years to proving an esoteric theory — in four volumes amounting to more than 2,000 pages — about which many academics remain skeptical and most people are unaware? —

I’ve been meme tagged — so here are 7 things and you consider yourself tagged, you hear?

1. I grew up in Michigan but have never been on a boat. (I’m not counting rowboat or canoe.)
2. My favorite Christmas Carols are O Holy Night and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen but I couldn’t tell you many of the words.
3. As part of my spiritual practice I try to keep an open heart but I’m naturally kind of melancholy and leery.
4. I think I am going to adopt this slogan for the near future hahaha. (Link found here)
5. More of a cat person but I like dogs too.
6. Men from both sides of my dad’s family first came to America to avoid serving in the military.
7. I like vanilla.

check out the skeletons

Poetry News:

1. — Nothing But Itself Can Harm American Poetry; May Riley Smith Thinks Magazines Fail to Benefit It, Because They Do Not Demand a High Order of Verse — By Joyce Kilmer —
2. — Entries wanted for ‘Dylan Days’ creative writing contest —
3. — Flash of bad sex wins late Norman Mailer coveted book prize —
4. — Candle Vigil For Taslima —
5. — His own religion … the Blake window in St Mary’s Church, Battersea —
6. — After two previous nominations, Domanski earns Governor General’s Literary Award for latest collection —
7. — Any hope of life to come is removed; this place is born of the loss of her father and her mother’s betrayal —

My mom is still in ICU but stable after surgery and a couple blood transfusions. Thanks for your good wishes.

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I can’t help it. I’m rubbing my hands together in anticipation.

Poetry News:

1. — Poets Marched in the Van of Irish Revolt; Pearse and MacDOnagh, Executed Last Week, Well Known for Their Verse;;-Other Writers Prominent in Sinn Fein Ranks — By Joyce Kilmer —
2. — Interview: Author Kim Addonizio is fearless in verse and prose —
3. — The search continues for Missouri’s first poet laureate —
4. — Eleanor Rees enjoys the engagement with specific, sensual experience in the responses to this month’s workshop —
5. — American leaders have a history of writing, and inspiring, poetry that is mediocre or just plain bad. Ariel Ramchandani encourages poets, and presidents, to do better when the next inauguration comes round … —
6. — View from the lab: Science’s debt to William Blake —
7. — Bombed Baghdad book market turns the page —
8. — Workshop practices poetry as one of the healing arts —
9. — Kipling’s India home to become museum —
10. — Anne Shelby embraces Appalachian language in her daily life, writing and music —
11. — Ondaatje, Domanski win Governor General’s Lit Awards —
12. — The Iron Man who had a heart after all —

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Poetry News:

1. — Five years after Ruth Lilly’s $100 million gift to the Poetry Foundation, a mixed verdict —
2. — Singer gives Dickinson’s verse a new voice —
3. — Big brother is reading your poetry —
4. — University of Arkansas Press Poetry Book Wins Virginia Literary Award —
5. — Long-lost Blake watercolours shown for 1st time —
6. — William Matthews Birthday podcast with Sebastian Matthews too [links to MP3 at WPVM] —
7. — Jessica Smith podcast [links to MP3 at WPVM] —

Kate Light is reading tonight at Vanderbilt, Nashvillians.

Hedy Lamarr has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists, as an historical honorary member.

Yay! A bass poem! I’m still trying for the definitive Bootsy Collins poem. Someday.

Poetry News:

1. the true credit for the world’s first science fiction novel should go to Percy Bysshe Shelley —
2. Memorising poetry is a marvellous mental exercise to keep our minds alive and working —
3. It’s clear that Berryman is where Troy Jollimore started as a poet —
4. I want them all to just live literature, love poetry and love life —
5. And the Guggenheim (finally) goes to … Lompoc poet —
6. Mystery poem names murder suspect —

Poetry News:

1. It‘ God vs. Satan. But What About the Nudity? —
2. Blake once wrote that “I labour upward towards futurity” —
3. Mastering complexity is beautiful, a great human pleasure —
4. Poets’ daughter faces midlife with art —
5. The 3,000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, its unlikely rediscovery, and its echoes in literature and politics —
6. If you were to approach 10 people on the street and ask each one to recite from any narrative poem … —

newspaper blackout poems < -- link courtesy of pitcherlady (go look at some of her photos)

Poetry News:

1. the process of getting published didn’t involve a single rejection letter —
2. Blake used the notebook for more than 30 years —
3. It’s fitting that Ginsberg’s juvenilia should serve as a beacon in the night of bad poetry —
4. After 700 years, Dante gets nose job —
5. Better nature after incalculable loss —
6. This week belongs to Tatiana, because millions of eyes will focus on her 29 words —

Fascinating comparision between LBJ’s January 10, 1967 State of the Union speech and GWB’s (disappointing and vague, to me) speech January 10, 2007.