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October 27, 2001
Duluth poet Louis Jenkins is on Prairie Home Companion this week. I'm listening live so there is no audio link or show link yet. It should be up around Tuesday.
posted by Laurable on 10/27/2001 07:56:27 PM
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Nominees for the National Book Award in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 10/27/2001 04:44:18 PM
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Charles Simic's new book Night Picnic is reviewed in The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 10/27/2001 04:42:57 PM
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October 25, 2001
Billy Collins' reading at the Library of Congress is rescheduled for December 6th. The library has been closed to the public since Oct. 18 so its ventilation system, which is linked to the Capitol's, could be tested for anthrax contamination.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2001 01:41:41 PM
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This is totally taken out of context but struck me nonetheless. On October 17, an advertisement in Singapore's The Straits Times issued a clarion call to "laid-off bankers, dot-gone marketers, unchallenged journalists and failed poets."
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2001 01:31:29 PM
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The Boston Globe, Billy Collins, September 11th.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2001 01:28:10 PM
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The Seattle Times writes about their reader's poetic response to September 11th.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2001 01:27:15 PM
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The Christian Science Monitor interviews Galway Kinnell about the events of September 11th.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2001 01:24:13 PM
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The Christian Science Monitor has a book review on a new Emily Dickinson biography.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2001 01:17:54 PM
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October 19, 2001
Judy Muller on NPR's Morning Edition talks (listen) about the new vocabulary being used in the news and the war on terrorism.
posted by Laurable on 10/19/2001 02:15:04 PM
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from Celia the Poet's weblog I found a picture in the New York Times of 17-year-old Alexis Ignatovich writing a poem in Union Square Park. Anybody have a link to the actual article? I want to read it but the article is now in the paying archive and damn it, I already contribute my 75¢ daily.
posted by Laurable on 10/19/2001 12:57:48 PM
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I can't believe I missed this one. The Washington Post (plus a few of news sources) quoted from The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot's. I will show you fear in a handful of dust. (Listen) (site at Harper Audio)
posted by Laurable on 10/19/2001 10:00:44 AM
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Stanley Kunitz, the former poet laureate, was on PBS's new show Life 360 (listen) talking about his trip to Africa.
posted by Laurable on 10/19/2001 09:35:27 AM
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Billy Collins reads a poem (listen) of affirmation, This Much I Do Remember, on Thursday's Fresh Air.
posted by Laurable on 10/19/2001 09:21:00 AM
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October 13, 2001
Another review of Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay in The National Post Online.
posted by Laurable on 10/13/2001 01:04:43 PM
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October 12, 2001
MSNBC does their salute to the new poet laureate Billy Collins with some video feed which I cannot get to work.
posted by Laurable on 10/12/2001 06:52:11 PM
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A Cape Cod Times article on the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
posted by Laurable on 10/12/2001 06:49:15 PM
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October 11, 2001
The New Yorker has an informative, but humorous article about the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference in Vermont. Apparently poets are superior to fiction writers' when it comes to football. Who knew? On an eerie note, the Talk of the Town Section excerpts a selection from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself about firemen.
On another Whitman note, a while ago now Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project featured a construction worker, John Doherty, reciting (watch) Song of Myself and briefly discussing what the poem meant to him. If I am remembering correctly, this was the first Poem Project video I saw and I loved it for several reasons. I found Mr. Doherty's reading very enjoyable, but most of all, in Mr. Doherty's rough, striking figure, I recognized the same type of young man dear ole Walt probably lusted after while in back of a streetcar. In my mind, Whitman couldn't be more please with this reading.
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2001 12:17:51 PM
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October 10, 2001
I would have put this up sooner, but a couple of days after I saw it on television the website still didn't have the audio link up and I figured they wouldn't. But here it is, Robert Pinsky on the PBS Online Newshour with a post WTC attacks poem (or one of the poems that have come to [Pinsky's attention since September 11th), What are Years? by Marianne Moore.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2001 02:49:25 PM
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The Connection will have the new poet laureate Billy Collins on Friday.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2001 02:42:28 PM
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I was checking out Poetry Daily's News and Reviews page which I haven't done for a few weeks now and I found a link to a review of a new audiobook called Poetry Speaks. For all the reasons I love Amazon (though little have to do with actually purchasing products through the site) their lack of listing table of contents items, as in this case a list of all the poets who are reading and pershaps even the poem they read, can be infuriating. I believe I probably have all these poems, but it looks like a nice collection anyway.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2001 02:15:42 PM
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A Macromedia Flash homage to Charles Bukowski that is kinda silly, but I sort of like the idea of making Charles Bukowski silly.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2001 12:18:32 PM
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This morning on NPR's Morning Edition, Wendall Berry shares a poem (listen) he wrote after his granddaughters visited the Holocaust Museum. The poem title is unknow, but the poem is from the book A Timbered Choir.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2001 12:10:50 PM
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Last Friday, Fresh Air's resident linguist Geoff Nunberg talked about the history of the term terrorism (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2001 09:29:55 AM
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October 9, 2001
Sorry I haven't been tending the news feed as of late. Between the WTC towers collapsing and my own person melodramas I have let it slide for awhile now, but I will be increasingly diligent from now on. On the 8th, Poet Laureate Billy Collins is once again in the New York Times, this time with a review of his latest book (a new and selected) Sailing Alone Around the Room.
posted by Laurable on 10/09/2001 04:29:53 PM
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October 8, 2001
This Saturday on Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor read two poems in relation to the World Trade Center attacks: the first He Resigns (listen) [start 1:09:00] by John Berryman and I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great (listen) [start 1:09:36] by Stevens Spender.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2001 06:23:01 PM
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October 5, 2001
The New York Times bring us more poetry/grieving stories. I really like that after an opening poem, Stephen Dunn choose only to read love poems at his reading.
posted by Laurable on 10/05/2001 04:25:26 PM
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They are talking about poetry on Metafilter.
posted by Laurable on 10/05/2001 04:19:55 PM
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October 4, 2001
Yesterday's All Things Considered had a story (listen) on Language and DNA.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2001 03:29:24 PM
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