Poetry News:
- — This Ecstatic Nation: Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11 —
- — Q&A: Rebecca Wolff’s Fence Turns Ten —
- — Holy Road: Paula Gunn Allen (1939 - 2008) —
- — He wanted to create, as he put it, “echoes realer / than originals.” Unfortunately, echoes have a nasty way of fading. —
- — Elizabeth Kirschner’s book of poems, ‘My Life as a Doll,’ chronicles her memories of child abuse —
- — Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago —
- — It’s easy to forget that American poetry was not always as friendly to the middle class as it is today —
The book reviews at New Pages are fresh and so are the lit mag reviews
dancing girl press has opened the chapbook manuscript reading period — they make good chapbooks.
I like persona poems - a whole online lit mag issue of them
Poetry Midwest has an e-chapbook available as a downloadable PDF file.
My family member is back from Iraq - thank you for your prayers.
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Poetry News:
- — The Mainichi Newspapers is inviting participation in the 12th Annual Mainichi Haiku Contest —
- — Punk rocker Exene explores a creative space in Missouri —
- — DNA Analysis Exposes Fake Schiller Skull —
- — “Sort of Gone,” a collection of poems by Sarah Freligh, follows the adventures and misadventures - mostly misadventures - of a ballplayer who makes a life in the game in part to show his worthless sot of a father that he can do it. —
- — “I mask it. I make my poems seem simpler then they really are,” Snyder said. —
- — Everyday world sizzles with alarm in his poetic vision —
- — Stafford’s wartime poetry shows the power of his convictions —
- — A web of associations connects a group of New England writers, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe. —
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A prediction that Google will end up buying Ingram Digital (and Booksurge). I’m sure those folks over in La Vergne, TN would be surprised to hear that.
All I can say is, I’m glad that I forgot to watch the Kentucky Derby this weekend. Sometimes I think there’s something wrong with me - I cannot cannot cannot stand to see an animal get hurt. I have a greater reaction to that than I do from seeing a human get hurt. Though in my defense, I don’t like to watch those stupid home video TV shows where people get hit in the balls and stuff, either.
The Kentucky Derby was always a big deal when I was growing up. My dad’s drive-in restaurant wasn’t too far from the Detroit Race Course (actually in Livonia) and a lot of the regular customers (my extended family) were bookies and gamblers. So on derby day my mom would make sure we’d pick the horse’s names out of a hat (a “to go” white paper bag, actually) and my dad would put the b&w TV with a coat hanger antenna up on the counter & we’d watch the race. 
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