Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Tomorrow (Thursday October 23rd), enthusiasts will be able to pay tribute to John Milton for a full 12 hours by tuning into the first live internet broadcast of his marathon masterpiece, ‘Paradise Lost’. —
2. — Laundromat writer takes his poetry to the cleaners —
3. — Yeats poem sold at auction —
4. — A look at how an iconoclastic young writer revolutionized the poetic form. —
5. — Grove Press will soon release a previously-unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac —
6. — Lines for Hard Times from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast [MP3] —
7. — Call for Submissions–2010 Poet’s Market! —
8. — Interviewed by Cortney Davis, physician and poet Rafael Campo discusses the shared attributes of caregiving and writing. —
9. — Bard is given Beatles treatment —

Poetry News:

1. — Jazz Age poet’s NY home, grounds are being restored —
2. — But the plight of being an old man in a country that values youth is just one of the many strands of this complex, sentimental yet transcendant poem —
3. — Missouri’s poet laureate highlights area writers —
4. — Q&A: Twichell Passes Ausable Torch —
5. — This week we capture the sensitive, romantic and ultimately tragic talent of early 20th-century poet and prose writer Charlotte Mew —
6. — College maintenance worker honored for his poetry —
7. — The unique library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, buried beneath lava by Vesuvius’s eruption in AD79, is slowly revealing its long-held secrets —
8. — Poets and critics have been around for a long time, and some writers have been both poets and critics, but the “poet-critic” was invented in the 20th century —
9. — Leontia Flynn emerged fully-formed in 2004 with a first collection, These Days, that placed her at the centre of a new wave of Belfast poets —
10. — In prosperous America, the poet’s economic reality usually involves working a crap job while scribbling nightly in a cheap apartment —

Poetry News:

1. — This month, your task is to carry on with Coleridge’s unfinished masterpiece Kubla Khan —
2. — Was New American Review the Best Literary Magazine Ever? —
3. — Nike Langston Hughes commercial [you tube] —
4. — “An important piece from poet (and good friend) Stacey Brown on an unethical press and its dealings with her and her book.” —
5. — With a fresh, wry voice, Meghan O’Rourke can make the quotidian sound strange, the same way Joseph Cornell could assemble a magical collage —
6. — One of the problems with political poetry, then, is that like all speech, it exists at the mercy of time, history, and other people. —
7. — 50 Greatest Books: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats —
8. — Lansing Community College Professor Dennis Hinrichsen has won the 12th annual FIELD Poetry Prize for his manuscript, “Kurosawa’s Dog.” —
9. — Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak about “The State of the Humanities” at Vanderbilt University, on Friday, Sept. 5, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. —
10. — Virgil, Monteverdi, James Joyce, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ralph Ellison and Derek Walcott are just a few of the artists to have transformed this spellbinding and mysterious epic into powerful works of their own —

Licking Your Wounds: Scientists Isolate Compound In Human Saliva That Speeds Wound Healing

Poetry News:

1. — Why do his poems so often feature husbands who kill or resent their wives? —
2. — On The Gurlesque Part 3 —
3. — Poet keeps win close to chest —
4. — USC Pigskin Poets Get Kids Reading —
5. — Time, reconfigured by poetry, allows connection —
6. — Library of Congress Organizes Eighth Annual National Book Festival Hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush on the National Mall; Famed Authors To Participate —
7. — Southeast publishes 1921 poem by William Carlos Williams —
8. — Poet Hart Crane was born on this day in 1899 —
9. — Exactly why we take personal poems so, well, personally remains a mystery and a muddle. —
10. — Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity —
11. — a poem whose logic is a mockery of logic —
12. — Quantum poetics —

‘Frequency Hopping’ Showcases Screen Siren’s Smarts

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So do you think this poem is racist, as has been interpreted here? I can think of a few poems with the P word — Plath, Bukowski … Macbeth. Philip Levine I bet.

I am sooo getting sick of political-correctness groupthink. Die Gedanken sind frei.

Poetry News:

1. — With passion, precise imagery, astute description, the well-traveled poet covers a lot of ground —
2. — Some say that if we make a space for the person we wish for, then that spot may be suitably filled —
3. — As T. S. Eliot once remarked, we cannot say where technique begins or where it ends —
4. — He is a Pulitzer Prize nominee, a two-time Academy award nominee, the translator of Jacques Brel and the most successful living poet. And you’ve probably never heard of him. —
5. — A friend told me years ago that he read poetry because it cleaned up his act —
6. — Academic critics and high school students, feminists and curmudgeons, fellow poets as different as Frank O’Hara and James Merrill - all have embraced this sharp-edged, slyly elegant work, with its way of interlacing the domestic and the volcanic —
7. — Almodovar films story of poet jailed by Franco —

Outline of Monocle in Lady’s Veil Makes Latest Fashion

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Poetry News:

1. — Then there was a whole slew of psychological tests and all they could discover was that memorizing poetry helps you to memorize poetry —
2. — Creatures: Heart Medicine For Humans —
3. — Q&A: Poet Kevin Young —
4. — Patter up: Verse that covers all the bases —
5. — 2007 Georgia Literary Festival —
6. — Drunkards, hypocrites and ne’er-do-wells ” that’s how poet Edgar Lee Masters portrayed many of the dearly departed —
7. — Among those subsidizing expenses for the event are Marilyn Nelson, the former Connecticut poet laureate, and Howard Zinn —
8. — For college teachers, September is the month of returning to work, often with mingled feelings of eagerness and dread —

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