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May 31, 2001
If Light Could Howl:
Georgia Tiffany wins the Washington Poets Association's coveted William Stafford Award.
posted by Laurable on 5/31/2001 08:48:18 PM
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I just found another small gold mine! Titanic Operas: A Poets' Corner of Respones to Dickinson's Legacy from the Dickinson Electronic Archives at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. The site describes itself as is a forum for contemporary poets, and their complex, contradictory, always inspiring responses to the nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson and includes 30 poets presenting essays doing just that. Nine of the poet's essays are available in RealAudio format, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich, Maxine Kumin and others.
posted by Laurable on 5/31/2001 11:59:03 AM
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Langston Hughes won the American Poet Stamp Project. A recent audio show from The Connection dot org on WBUR.org disucssed Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance.
posted by Laurable on 5/31/2001 11:22:11 AM
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The folks over at the NPR program Here & Now have quite an ongoing poetry schedule over at WBUR.org. Roving poets Jim Behrle and Molly Saccardo keep it lively with Poetry Challenges. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find and index for the poetry programing, but the previous link will bring you the latest poetry challenge. Previous poetry challenges include:
I Remember Poems
Poems of Address
Triplets
Found Poems.
posted by Laurable on 5/31/2001 10:37:33 AM
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May 30, 2001
Poetry (in Motion) on the New York Subway System from the New York Times.
The article discusses some of the dynamics involved in the poems accepted and rejected for Poetry in Motion.
posted by Laurable on 5/30/2001 03:50:01 PM
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American Writers: Emerson & Thoreau
Companion site to C-SPAN's special television series on America Writers. This two hour and thirty-seven minute video program on Emerson and Thoreau is also broken up into convient sections. Many other writers, from William Bradford to the final section on Vietnam writers, are available in the archives after the programs are broadcast on TV through the end of the year. Unfortunately, few poets are featured, the exceptions being Langston Hughes and the Beat writers.
posted by Laurable on 5/30/2001 01:09:54 PM
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Eileen Myles in the New York Times
I didn't realize she was considered the last of the New York School poets, but o.k. Here she proves once again that the best way for a poet to get into the New York Times is to publish a fiction book.
posted by Laurable on 5/30/2001 10:58:06 AM
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Contemporary Poetry Review
I am surprised I never ran into this link before. It is reviews only and their peripheral resources are limited, but looks like a good site to keep an eye on.
Oops. Just figured it out. The site seems to have stopped updating Spring of 2000. Oh, well.
posted by Laurable on 5/30/2001 10:01:15 AM
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Morning Edition (NPR) May 15, 2001 (listen)
Writer Vertamae Grosvenor reflects on her days growing up with poetry, listening to performances and reciting it herself. Grosvenor has come to believe that poetry can live in your mind and heart as well as on the page. (4:31)
posted by Laurable on 5/30/2001 09:50:30 AM
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May 18, 2001
As sestinas have been defeating me lately, perhaps this site of daily haikus will inspire me to dip my pen into a less intimidating formal form.
posted by Laurable on 5/18/2001 09:13:11 PM
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While I can't say that I use my magnetic poetry kit often or effectively, I certainly do not view poetry magnets as a destructive force as this Slate article does.
The site suggests that "Madonna and Magnetic Poetry are just listening to the same muse … have tapped into the poetic zeitgeist. If this is the case, we feel like we're in pretty good company." But Madonna isn't a poet, and whatever muse she's guided by should not be the one presiding over poetry month. Let's make April—after all, the cruelest month—the one in which we recognize that.
Back in 1997, Robert Pinsky, who also happens to be Slate Magazine's poetry editor, was a guest on Talk of the Nation's show about Magnetic Poetry. Robert Pinsky, in his usual form, was very generous regarding the phenomena, even after several caller voiced their aversion and disgust. While some enthusiasts were calling in, most people seemed to think some damage was being done to Poetry itself. And then there were the callers upset for the tendency of magetic poetry to attract erotic topics. I was so pleased when Robert Pinsky pointed out that it could be argued the very beginnings of poetry came about with erotic intentions.
Slate:
I'll be the first to admit that Magnetic Poetry can remind folks that words are fun to play with. But let's be honest: More often than not, Magnetic Poetry is bad poetry.
What I don't understand is how many people seem to believe that poetry is being graded on a curve and that if WE allow bad poetry to proliferate, the good poetry will be drug down into the mire with them.
posted by Laurable on 5/18/2001 08:42:14 PM
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Public Lives: Poetry as Armor Against Highs and Lows of Life
Alice Quinn, the new head of the Poetry Society of America, in the New York Times is discussing among other things, memorizing poetry. She is gripped by the "sad mechanic exercise," as Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, the "dull narcotics, numbing pain." She is making other words her own.
posted by Laurable on 5/18/2001 01:59:40 PM
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Crazy Horse Magazine is going online. Issues #57 and #58 available.
posted by Laurable on 5/18/2001 10:59:08 AM
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Dean Young poems on the Internet:
All the King’s Men
And You Don’t Even Have to Leave the Building
Bright Head
The Business of Love is Cruelty
Cloud Conversion
Public Address
Noncompliant
The Unattainable
The Velvet Underground
We Through Mists Descry
posted by Laurable on 5/18/2001 10:57:33 AM
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May 17, 2001
Last week I discovered Ploughshares magazine redesigned both visually and functionally. I love how well organized the site is now, especially with the author pages. Now I can see all of Dean Young's poems or Nick Flynn's poems that are available in one spot.
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2001 04:19:32 PM
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The Connection on Roget's Thesaurus.
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2001 03:53:42 PM
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Nick Flynn poems in Painted Bride Quarterly:
Listenerland
Reside and Trickology
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2001 03:48:05 PM
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The Periodic Table of Poetry:
Poetry and Chemistry together in perfect harmony.
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2001 03:26:46 PM
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