Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Where poems come from —
2. — In a poem addressed to the frowning “critic”, Scorn Not the Sonnet, we learn some of Wordsworth’s own opinions about the form and its practitioners —
3. — at the hands of Vancouver poets Jen Currin and Meredith Quartermain, the world as we know it is transformed into something strange —
4. — Becoming the Villainess, Book Picks and the Meaning of ‘Drash’ —
5. — I don’t think poetry has a monopoly on all this, and I know that not all poets would agree with this, but for me it is one place we can go for perspective —
6. — Jane hosts Frank Andrick - from The Jane Crown Show —

Poetry News:

1. — Who Owns That Prayer? —
2. — Anthology traces lines of contemporary poets from across the sea —
3. — Can science explain why ABBA is so catchy? —
4. — A tribute to Jonathan Williams planned —
5. — U.S. isn’t immune from poet’s observations on injustice —
6. — Inspired by Jazz, a Poet Does ‘His Own Thing’ —
7. — Michigan poetry —
8. — her difficulty — her intransigent demand that we pay total concentration to every word — is exciting —
9. — Wordsworth Daffodils estate on the market for £3m —

You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation Within Organisations

Libertarians: A (Not So) Lunatic Fringe

Looks like Mary Oliver and “anybody but Jorie Graham” are neck-and-neck for first place in the Who is going to be the next United States Poet Laureate? poll. I’ll leave it open until the new POLUS POetLaureateoftheUS is announced. Maxine Kumin got some votes but I’m not sure if she would want to do it again?

Poetry News:

1. — on the dearth of great films about great writers —
2. — British Poets Launched Lyrical Revolution —
3. — A Welsh Government minister has apologised after announcing the wrong winner of the Wales Book of Year at an awards ceremony in an embarrassing gaffe —
4. — Kate Clanchy’s workshop: She would like you to write a letter-poem to someone you’ve lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen —
5. — The effects of poetry often depend on the tension between shared and unique memories to set up patterns of expectation in the mind of the reader —
6. — http://www.newsweek.com/id/59182 —
7. — Articles in May/Jun 2008 issue of American Poetry Review, The —
8. — UB Poetry Collection hits the road —
9. — Although speakers of different languages describe events using the word orders prescribed by their language, when the same speakers are asked to “speak” with their hands and not their mouths, they ignore these orders — they all use exactly the same order when they gesture —
10. — In two of her recent Poet’s Choice columns, Mary Karr makes assertions that cannot go unchallenged. —
11. — Stone Circle draws poets, storytellers and singers to spin tales from the heart [Ernie Harwell - yay!] —
12. — Hayes’s poems enact the new race struggle, more up-to-date than the pre-civil rights poems of his lit’rary ancestors (Langston Hughes, say), but equally instructive to this white reader. —
13. — A clear-eyed look at Whitman’s ‘prophets’ —
14. — One of Idaho’s foremost poets and kayakers is missing and was presumed drowned —
15. — Poetry: A ‘Ferocious Contrast to the Clamor’ —
16. — Rupert Graves accused of stealing lover’s work [and a bunch of Laura Riding Jackson MP3s here] —

It’s not me. Google Reader isn’t following my rss feed’s 302 redirects to Feedburner. Sorry. I guess I have to wait for Google to respond to my issue. hahahahaha right. I’ll wait a week and then ditch feedburner. I don’t think that will entirely solve the problem though, because Google reader has some weird caching issues as well. Meh.

Poetry News:

1. — Some of his latest readings include the collected works of American poet Robert Creeley and poet Lyn Hejinian’s book “My Life.” —
2. — American Ghazals —
3. — Hickory poet Scott Owens will have his third chapbook of poems published online in April by the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature —
4. — A copy of a poetry book hailed as one of the most important in English history has been bought for £42,000 —
5. — Why the worst artists deserve recognition —
6. — Kenmore native is a poet and entrepreneur —
7. — To write poems about seeing, you have to disappear; it is essential to relinquish your so-called perspective —
8. — At a special SELECTED SHORTS live performance, the Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor and writer John Lithgow selected his favorite story poems from his anthology, THE POETS’ CORNER and read them along with celebrated performance artist Bill Irwin [MP3 ha that Gertrude Stein was fun] —
9. — Frost’s ‘47 lecture finally gets printed —
10. — No one, surely, will take exception to my list of phobic-friendly poetry —

Poetry News:

1. — rarely has a work of literature ignited or inspired a new sporting event —
2. — he reviewed four of the original Frost notebooks housed in Boston University’s archives and found “roughly one thousand” errors in Mr. Faggen’s work —
3. — ‘Poe Toaster’ avoids being spotted at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave —
4. — Confrontation, the award-winning literary magazine of Long Island University, celebrates its 40th anniversary this month —
5. — There aren’t many poets landing book deals these days, let alone preempts by major houses, but last week it happened twice —
6. — Observations of nature at her most benevolent, when each living thing relishes life, serve only to illuminate our dismissal of the natural world t —

Haven’t we suffered enough?

Poetry News:

1. — Ugly Duckling Presse began as a college 'zine in 1993 and evolved into its present form as a nonprofit art and publishing collective in 2000 —
2. — Established in 2004, the Pegasus Awards are a series of annual prizes with an emphasis on new awards to under-recognized poets and types of poetry —
3. — the literary magazine has decided to shutter so that its book imprint may live —
4. — Bibliophiles see margins shrinking, but aren't ready to close the book on literature —
5. — a special poetry day to be held at the Queen's London home —
6. — Literary review founders honored —
7. — During Memorial Ceremony, Friends, Colleagues Pay Tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet —
8. — Deft variations of approach and imagination keep these poems moving —
9. — A person in a photograph can be reinvented in our minds to be whatever we want them to be —
10. — Some writers seem destined to serve as poets laureate; others would probably hate the job —
11. — He is lyric brown sauce, an unctuous, fruity slop … LOL —

Now Hawking and his 36-year-old daughter Lucy, one of his three children with Jane, have collaborated on a scientific adventure story for children …

This is still the funniest TV blooper I've seen. Cracks me up every time.