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June 29, 2001
So apparently the junior Democratic senator from Massachusetts John Kerry is a poet.
posted by Laurable on 6/29/2001 12:29:23 PM
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June 24, 2001
Reports of more Plath pillaging.
posted by Laurable on 6/24/2001 07:12:15 PM
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Poet Sherman Alexie is promoting the paper back edition of his short story collection The Toughest Indian in the World.
posted by Laurable on 6/24/2001 07:07:34 PM
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The New York Daily News contributes an article about the new Poet Laureate Billy Collins.
posted by Laurable on 6/24/2001 07:02:56 PM
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Rita Dove's poetry selection for The Washington Post is Susan Mitchell's poem titled Lost Parrot. You can also listen to this poem from The Atlantic Monthly's April 1999 issue.
posted by Laurable on 6/24/2001 06:47:40 PM
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June 22, 2001
Poking around the WSUI site I found a program on Iowa Talks with Dr. Science (listen). You can find more Dr. Science stuff on his (it's) website which contains a daily audio link (listen) of Dr. Science answering a science question sent in by the listeners. Remember...He knows more than you do and He's not a real doctor. He's got a master's degree in Science.
posted by Laurable on 6/22/2001 06:43:17 PM
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Why didn't I think of this before! Awhile ago I noticed I enjoyed WBUR's programming more than I enjoyed my own local NPR station WNYC and over the last few months have sifted through the site discovering programs not included on the NPR dot org site such as Here & Now dot org with their poetry challenges.
Today it occured to me to check out a local Iowa station which I know has poetry programming on a regular basis. I kept my fingers crossed as I typed my way through the NPR member stations page to the Iowa City's WSUI (home of the University of Iowa and the Iowa's Writer's Workshop) where I found the Live From Prairie Lights (and that wonderful Internet word...) Archives.
The archives are not that extensive, back to September 2000, considering how regularly and long Prairie Lights has been broadcasting their readings, but I won't complain. Some of the poets in the archives are Timothy Liu, Marvin Bell, Wendell Berry and Stanley Plumly.
posted by Laurable on 6/22/2001 04:22:02 PM
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Another Billy Collins (new poet laureate this fall) article from the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 6/22/2001 01:07:21 PM
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June 21, 2001
I just got a an e-mail notice from Radioscout dot org informing me that Billy Collins will be featured on tomorrow's Fresh Air (NPR). It was unclear if this would be a repeat of their April 7, 1998 show which was already repeated April 7, 2000.
posted by Laurable on 6/21/2001 06:08:29 PM
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Ogden Nash talks on World of Books on the BBC Home Service about James Joyce, women and American humor. The BBC recently [this spring?] added their Voices from the Archive section. I always knew the BBC had an incredible resouce for poetry within their archives and I am glad they are starting to put it up on the Internet.
posted by Laurable on 6/21/2001 11:22:24 AM
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Wired for Books from Ohio University presents various works of William Shakespeare including:
audio of Macbeth in five acts
video of Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus and The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
audio of Sonnets 29, 30, 73 and 144.
posted by Laurable on 6/21/2001 10:25:42 AM
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Billy Collins to be next poet laureate. Stanley Kunitz is the current poet laureate and I know he is ninety something and understandbly not bouncing around the country, but I was hoping he would continue the practice of putting events onto the Internet as former poet laureate Robert Pinsky did with the Poetry Cybercasts, among others.
posted by Laurable on 6/21/2001 10:06:40 AM
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June 20, 2001
One of the misfortunes of the Internet, for me at least, has been becoming privy to listings for events in cities or countries I have no hope of traveling to, for the event in question anyway. The good news is that I can look up these gems which I previously did not know existed. It will take a bit more than a trip to the local video store, but who knows.
posted by Laurable on 6/20/2001 10:08:10 PM
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A great error message. Read this all the way through.
posted by Laurable on 6/20/2001 03:55:29 PM
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Gwendolyn Brooks, besides being an award winning poet, also wrote fiction. Maud Martha, by Brooks, is Paule Marshall's favorite book on Favorite Books with Susan Stamberg during Morning Edition (NPR) June 20, 2001 (listen).
posted by Laurable on 6/20/2001 01:56:07 PM
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Weekend Edition Saturday (NPR) May 19, 2001 (listen) on d.a. levy, 60's Cleveland poet is find a new audience.
posted by Laurable on 6/20/2001 11:24:40 AM
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A few weeks ago, I blogged an article about Sonia Sanchez at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival in Connecticut. Today I found NPR's page on the festival, including a reading of For Sweet Honey in the Rock (listen) by Sonia Sanchez.
posted by Laurable on 6/20/2001 11:18:01 AM
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June 18, 2001
Weekend Edition January 10th, 1998 (listen) explores the appeals of Tibetan Buddhist reincarnation with poet John Giorno, Allen Ginsberg among others.
posted by Laurable on 6/18/2001 02:01:46 PM
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Here Ye! Here Ye! (listen) Local goverment employee and customs agent caught influencing modern language with violent, vulgur and sexual explicite lyrics he writes in his spare time.
posted by Laurable on 6/18/2001 01:56:19 PM
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June 16, 2001
Republicans poo-poo poetry with a poem of their own.
From the Secretary to the Analyst to the lowliest Clerk
Ms. Nichols insists that poets inspire us "to do our work''
(Satisfaction, a paycheck and a sincere "thanks for a job well done'' --
Isn't that adequate for most everyone?)
posted by Laurable on 6/16/2001 06:13:58 PM
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Two new poems by Nick Flynn:
Inside Nothing
Blind Huber
When I caught his reading last May, Nick Flynn said his new book Ultraviolet (from Greywolf Press in 2002) was about a 17th century Swiss Beekeeper named Francois Huber (say it french-like: HooBEAR) who spend 50 years sitting in front of a bee hive with his assistant (Huber was blind).
posted by Laurable on 6/16/2001 05:55:21 PM
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Bloomsday Links:
All Things Considered (NPR) Friday, June 15, 2001 (listen). Commentator Scott Huler says No, no, I won't. No.
Morning Edition (NPR) June 16, 2000 (listen). Bob Edwards talks with Bob Joyce, grand-nephew of James Joyce and executive director of the James Joyce Center in Dublin.
Bloomsday at WNYC dot org. Includes audio of such segments as Bloomsday on Broadway XX, Bloom's Things Considered and my favorite The Full Molly.
Photo's and Audio on In Bloom at Joycean dot com. Well, they say they will have some audio two years ago.
Bloomsday on Broadway at the Symphony Space. Reading Ulysses from noon to midnight.
The James Joyce Portal at Robot Wisdom dot com.
The full text of Ulysses on the Internet from Bibliomania. dot com.
The Irish Times Dyoublong page. Be sure to check out their Bloomsday virtual tour.
Can't reading the whole thing. Why not check out Ulysses for Dummies. One caption and cartoon per chapter.
posted by Laurable on 6/16/2001 03:08:23 PM
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June 15, 2001
WBFO Spoken Arts Bloomsday Tribute (listen to RA download, 4:24) to James Joyce. Remember, Bloomsday is tomorrow! Don't forget not to plan anything.
posted by Laurable on 6/15/2001 04:39:34 PM
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Oh say does tha-at star spangled banner-er yet-et way-ave? Ah, well actually no.
posted by Laurable on 6/15/2001 12:58:54 PM
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June 14, 2001
More bus stop poetry.
posted by Laurable on 6/14/2001 10:58:21 AM
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Oh-oo say did you know that it was a poem first?
posted by Laurable on 6/14/2001 10:10:01 AM
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June 13, 2001
Another poetry challenge from Here & Now on WBUR dot org. This time it is an Alphabet Poem Challenge which works just like it sound. Make up a poem of 26 words so that each word begins with the next letter of the alphabet. Robert Pinsky is mentioned a having written several Alphabet poems including ABC (listen) and the first stanza in Ode to Meaning (listen).
posted by Laurable on 6/13/2001 03:20:20 PM
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June 12, 2001
Poetry for Dummies. I guess it was bound to happen. Poetry Daily clued me into this review which speaks very well of the book, recommending it for apprentices and grizzled veterans.
posted by Laurable on 6/12/2001 06:00:50 PM
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From About dot com's poetry center I found a page at UbuWeb featuring selections from Big Ego, the Dial-a-Poets record put out back in in the seventies. The big payoff came for me with a selection by Frank O'Hara. This past year, after living over seven years in NYC, I have finally explored the poets of The New York School of Poets: John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O Hara, and James Schuyler. I had given up on ever hearing Frank O'Hara's voice. I guess you never know.
posted by Laurable on 6/12/2001 05:05:45 PM
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June 10, 2001
The Haiku Headlines of the Day website features daily (now on haitus) haikus based on the new headlines. The first haiku on Holland's same sex marriages is my favorite. Go check it out. I also found an interview with the site's creator on All Things Considered (listen).
posted by Laurable on 6/10/2001 04:58:59 PM
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A review of a book by Diane di Prima's about life as a poety in New York City.
posted by Laurable on 6/10/2001 03:35:29 PM
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Rita Dove recommends a wedding poem by Marilyn Nelson.
posted by Laurable on 6/10/2001 02:02:40 PM
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Poetry for good or for ill.
posted by Laurable on 6/10/2001 01:54:40 PM
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Sonia Sanchez is performing at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival in Connecticut, unfortunately outside my poetry reading range. The article is very complimentary of her and from my experience an acurate assesment. The article says It would be understatement to say that Sanchez has, somehow, been at the center of everything for the past 40 years: New York CORE, the Black Arts Movement, the black studies debate, the women's movement, the peace movement. The stories she tells from this history are a joy to listen to. She is at the top of my list of poets to be stuck in an elevator with.
posted by Laurable on 6/10/2001 01:47:44 PM
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June 8, 2001
Some Stephen Dunn poems:
At the Smithville Methodist Church
Because We Are Not Taken Seriously
Choosing to Think of It
Essay on the Personal
Essay on the Personal
Evanescence
Flaws
John & Mary
The Listener
Named
Nearing Midnight at the Century Club
The Reverse Side
A Secret Life
The Sexual Revolution
So Far
The Vanishings
Welcome
Essay on the Personal
posted by Laurable on 6/08/2001 10:45:45 PM
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I spent much of today listening to a couple of Morning Edition segments featuring Stephen Dunn.
Morning Edition (listen) December 11, 2000
featuring the poems Different Hours and Men in the Sky
Morning Edition, (listen) October 25, 1996
featuring the poems After Making Love and Diminuendo
I did an audio search hoping I would find more audio, but only found an Online Newshour segment (listen) from when he won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry this past April.
posted by Laurable on 6/08/2001 10:34:26 PM
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Poet sets out on fifteen to twenty year walking tour of the world.
The Kennys said they will produce poetry readings reminiscent of early 20th century traveling medicine shows. Mr. Kenny said that, on arrival in a town, they will unfold the stage from the cart and put on a show.
posted by Laurable on 6/08/2001 09:35:39 AM
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I found remarkably little on the lesser known Beat, Ted Joans. He wasn't on the audio page until All Things Considered did a segment (listen) on him June 1, 2001. After searching, the only other audio link I was able to find was a reading from UC Berekely's Speech Archives. Something doesn't seem quite right, but I can't figure out what I am missing. Does anybody know of other Ted Joans audio files?
posted by Laurable on 6/08/2001 09:22:41 AM
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June 6, 2001
Allen Ginsberg goes to the Opera.
posted by Laurable on 6/06/2001 07:58:09 PM
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Bloomsday is coming! June 16th, a Saturday this year. My personal holiday of serendipity. If you can't bring yourself to read the original, why don't you try this handy version.
posted by Laurable on 6/06/2001 04:11:24 PM
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Glasgow guerrilla poet replaces bus line timetables with poetry.
Instead of learning how long they have to wait for the next No 36 bus to Cumbernauld, passengers are confronted with Scott's memories of eating pizza, working in Asda, playing football, his girlfriend and Billy Connolly.
posted by Laurable on 6/06/2001 10:45:47 AM
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NPR dot org, the site of Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other radio programs that regularly supply poetry segments, has changed their look and reorganized their pages to to improve the functionality of the site to make it easier to link to local stations and search programming on the site. The look is fine, although I don't care for the boxy look myself, and the programs are much easier to access, but unfortunately the search engine still needs work. It isn't returning a 1996 interview or Robert Hass as its first found link, which is an improvement, but the ordering of entries by date is still leaving gaps. The search results also leave something to be desired. For some reason it supplies today’s date which is a bit obvious and unnecessary. Clicking on the search result takes you to a page that only supplies the month of the sought for program and no link to the program page itself. Arrggh! Yes, the audio link is clearly marked and available, but getting to the individual program page is at least four clicks away.
I am sticking with Radioscout dot org.
posted by Laurable on 6/06/2001 10:29:33 AM
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Sir Paul McCartney Reads Poetry at Hay Festival
He seemed a little nervous at what was only his second poetry recital, and made a big fuss of how the audience should recognise when a poem was actually over.
posted by Laurable on 6/06/2001 09:31:24 AM
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June 4, 2001
I noticed Web Del Sol has updated their Media Portal page (or audio poetry) to emphasize the new hypermedia, now truly coming into its own as a dynamic and challenging art form. From what I can tell from this and other sites, this means poetry utilizing the latest Flash gadgetry. I have yet to be able to immerse myself in this dynamic and challenging art form, but Web Del Sol says I can have it all, either the existential new media piece of Born Magazine or the more relaxed, literati voices of Atlantic Monthly. After a quick glance I think I will stick with the later. I haven't decided if this makes me feel old-fashioned or just plain old.
posted by Laurable on 6/04/2001 06:53:07 PM
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Whitman's birthday was May 31 as approriately I made this (listen) my featured link on the Laurable dot com webpage. So just back date this blog of a Mark Doty Ode to Whitman.
posted by Laurable on 6/04/2001 06:33:45 PM
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Just waiting to see what Plath-heads will make of this.
posted by Laurable on 6/04/2001 06:26:23 PM
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In 1992 I was able to say I had read everything Seamus Heaney had every written, due to the fact I had just finished a seminar on just him. Now I can say I have read everything he has every written up to 1992 and a few The New Yorker poems.
posted by Laurable on 6/04/2001 04:17:45 PM
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He choose Keith's book so I guess he at least has good taste.
posted by Laurable on 6/04/2001 04:07:54 PM
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After the whole Kaycee decable, I can't tell if I am noticing this article more than I otherwise would or maybe dimissing it more quickly. Either way, I am invisioning thousands of typists mournfully keying their condolances for whom Reality is optional.
posted by Laurable on 6/04/2001 03:51:04 PM
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June 1, 2001
Helen Vendler on Bookworm (KCRW) Thursday, April 23, 1998 (listen):
The Given and the Made, The Breaking of Style, Soul Says (Harvard) How does a poet change styles? What turns an autobiographical incident into a poem? Helen Vendler on some of the basic issues of modern poetry.
This isn't eligible for the poetry links page, but almost.
posted by Laurable on 6/01/2001 10:58:46 AM
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