Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Emily Dickinson’s ‘White Heat’ from NPR Programs: Fresh Air from WHYY —
2. — How Keats’s most popular rival rescued him from the critics —
3. — Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky wins the 11th Triennial Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize —
4. — Williams turns 125 years old —
5. — Lucille Clifton’s poem “brothers” shines a bright new light on Lucifer, who answers God in a whirlwind of verse. —
6. — “This is a broad request. I’m compiling a list of contemporary poets from the South or poets that have moved to the South and adopted it as a home.” —

Poetry News:

1. — Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet —
2. — Hilly Kristal, a Rock Midwife, Is Dead at 75 —
3. — Southeast Missouri State University’s manuscript by prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams is no longer unpublished —
4. — Why can”™t more writers be smart enough to be beautiful, handsome, or at least cute —
5. — he did it for poetry, and that’s a great thing —

I really like it when poetry disturbs me. (Said the Mercury/Neptune-conjunction-in-Scorpio woman.) Mr. Dybka was up in Michigan playing some gigs on Mackinac Island so I was home alone for a majority of the past week. One of the books I read while he was gone was Arielle Greenberg’s odd chapbook, Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials. Especially delicious on a full moon night when you are all alone in a house in the woods. Tree limb shadows and the dogs barking at deer. Mostly it is a verse play but it is a mix of poems, too. About a murder trial. And influenced by folk ballads/murder ballads.

Somehow I’ve fallen deeply in love with chapbooks. (Maybe it is my newly-acquired deficiency in concentration haha.) Every chapbook I’ve bought from New Michigan Press has been wonderful. Not a dud so far.