Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Best of Southern literature honored —
2. — Robert Frost removed his coat to show the ruffians at Methuen’s Second Grammar School he wasn’t someone they should mess with —
3. — Miami a natural haven for persecuted writers —
4. — It may sound cliché, but every once in a while a writer, musician or anyone who calls himself an artist presents the world in a way that teaches a unique perspective on the beauty of life —
5. — The Bat Poet Needs Your Help —
6. — Tightrope Books Launches The Best Canadian Poetry 2008 —
7. — Antiques dealer in Bard probe bailed —

The lit mag readership poll is still open.

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 — Grove Press will soon release a previously-unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac —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. — The Rebirth of a Suicidal Genius —
2. — Poetry, Pottery & Pies Raises Funds for Poet Laureate’s Medical Bills —
3. — Shakespeare’s Bootlegger, Dylan’s Biographer, Nabokov, and Me —
4. — Nadine Chapman: Colleague and friend —
5. — Alum’s Passion for Poetry Pays Off —
6. — There’s an inherent interest in Knight’s personal experiences within the asylum, and all of the poetry contains a deep introspection that opens a thin sliver of light into the line between sanity and insanity. —

Poetry News:

1. — In general, US poetry presents a disturbingly white face for a lot of nefarious reasons, but it strikes me that there may be an intriguing explanation for why so many white women writers take up the Gurlesque in particular —
2. — A Few Ways to Read a Book of Poems —
3. — scientists have taken an important step toward understanding how the human brain codes the meanings of words —
4. — Was William Shakespeare a Jewish woman in disguise? —
5. — Listen. There are poets, and then there are poets. —
6. — Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poems —
7. — NH’s Frost Farm getting federal grant —
8. — Sonics’ lawyers don’t want author Sherman Alexie testifying —

I enjoyed this poem about Michigan. (Link found here thank you.)

posting here is going to be intermittent

Poetry News:

1. — So what did Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, do to handle all the pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, woe, bitterness, unhappiness and misery in a life that lasted over 90 years? —
2. — Others believed poet Sylvia Plath was lead singer of pop group the Black Eyed Peas —
3. — Do not panic…yet. —
4. — Confusion in reading poetry, she says, is a “non-problem. I prefer to think of it as an alternative kind of knowing. It’s not one that gets a lot of credit in our culture.” —
5. — It’s hitting hardest the writers who write books that you dip in and out of: poetry, cookbooks, travel guides, short stories —
6. — Three Grand Prize winners will receive $100 each, plus their poems will be read to music, choreographed, costumed and danced by the Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company —
7. — O’Hara’s personality became famous long before his poetry did —
8. — From Punk Pioneer to Mother and Poet —
9. — Like many of the poet’s biographers, Greenblatt is convinced that Shakespeare despised his wife —

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Poetry News:

1. — National Book Critics Circle winners unveiled in New York —
2. — Where are the women writers in translation? —
3. — Find of the Day —
4. — Poetry of Li-Young Lee Is ‘Descended from Dreamers’ [MP3] —
5. — Note to Jack London, poet: Don’t give up your day job —
6. — McSweeney’s (online) wants pantoums and senryu [this link found here thank you] —
7. — Is Free Speech and Commerce Endangered Internationally? —
8. — The first story, a mysterious, dreamlike piece by Eudora Welty, draws back a “Curtain of Green,” to reveal a widow at a moment of crisis [MP3] —
9. — Dominant on page and stage: but is the greatest writer in the English language primarily a poet or a dramatist? —
10. — A full life, shaped by water and words —

I hope you enjoy today’s links. It was the best that I could do with my feeble & disadvantageous womanly intellect.