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December 28, 2001
New York Times obituary for Agha Shahid Ali and an article from The Boston Globe.
posted by Laurable on 12/28/2001 08:47:38 PM
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I didn't need a reminder on how far behind I am with Laurable dot com, but The Lannan Foundation is a great one anyway. I just found their site with several audio and video recordings of poets, plus a few other literary types. The audio page includes: Wendell Berry, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lucille Clifton, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Stanley Kunitz, Li-Young Lee, Thomas Lynch, W.S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Dennis ODriscoll, Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich and Gary Snyder. On the video page are audio/video with Lucille Clifton and Li-Young Lee.
posted by Laurable on 12/28/2001 06:21:12 PM
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December 27, 2001
Kenneth Koch 18 minute interview (listen) from Jacket Magazine. Plus eight minutes of a rhyming contest (listen) between Kenneth Koch and Allen Ginsberg at St Mark's Poetry Project, New York City, 9 May 1979.
posted by Laurable on 12/27/2001 06:27:34 PM
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December 22, 2001
Norton Poets Online has posted In Memoriam, Agha Shahid Ali, 1949–2001, by Ellen Bryant Voigt. I received this via e-mail which included an announcement for a memorial reading hosted by the New York University Graduate Creative Writing Program on April 4, 2002.
posted by Laurable on 12/22/2001 11:26:50 AM
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December 21, 2001
Coleman Bark's discusses Rumi on KCRW's Bookworm (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/21/2001 08:48:21 PM
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Poets & Writers writes about the Dylan Thomas audio recording, A Child's Christmas in Wales.
posted by Laurable on 12/21/2001 08:13:31 PM
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December 20, 2001
A new Charles Reznikoff author page over at the Electronic Poetry Archive.
posted by Laurable on 12/20/2001 09:14:09 PM
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Suheir Hammad
posted by Laurable on 12/20/2001 08:01:50 PM
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We had a Robert Bly-esque time in the woods, beating on drums, trying to come up with a message of who we are
~a VeriSign spokesman, referring to the American poet who argued that modern men suffer from being disconnected to their mythic roots.
posted by Laurable on 12/20/2001 07:56:00 PM
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December 19, 2001
Seems like I missed Ai on the Online News Hour (listen) back in 1999 when she was the National Book Award Winner for poetry.
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2001 08:22:03 PM
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Robert Pinsky writes about Alan Dugan and this year's National Book Award Winner, Poems Seven; New and Complete Poetry, in the New York Times. You can also listen to seventeen minutes of audio (listen) and read several poems in the First Chapters section.
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2001 08:20:03 PM
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A New York Times article about Afghan Poets Reviving Literary Tradition.
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2001 08:13:40 PM
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The New York Times review of Joseph Brodsky's Nativity Poems.
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2001 08:07:48 PM
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Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry Jam featuring Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Sara Jones and others will be re-aired December 21, 28 and January 4 at 12 midnight on HBO. The New York Times had an article about it on December 14th.
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2001 08:04:48 PM
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This week's Prairie Home Companion is sponsored by The Synonym Society (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2001 07:15:17 PM
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Linguist Geoff Nunberg, on NPR's Fresh Air (listen), talks about the Word of the Year choosen by The American Dialect Society.
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2001 05:57:19 PM
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Not entirely a poetry free presidency.
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2001 05:46:32 PM
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December 17, 2001
DallasNews dot com recommends audio recordings.
posted by Laurable on 12/17/2001 06:16:19 PM
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On Weekend All Things Considered Richard Lederer continues his crusade against language pet peeves. [Hey you, if you're reading, send me your e-mail address and I'll send you poems.]
posted by Laurable on 12/17/2001 04:28:29 PM
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December 14, 2001
Minnesota Public Radio comes through again! No poetry, but instead its bedfellow comedy. ComedyCollege dot net features real audio recordings from Victor Borge, Bob Newhart, Tom Lehrer and Nichols and May. There is twenty nine minutes of Nichols and May (listen) available, which I am currently enjoying.
posted by Laurable on 12/14/2001 06:15:14 PM
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December 13, 2001
Poets & Writers has an article on Conjunctions Magazine publishing for twenty years this October. Being a bit nostalgic, I guess. I indexed the first ten years while working at the Little Magazine and Small Press Collection at University College London.
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2001 09:57:48 PM
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TinyWords dot com, a site for haiku on the Internet, is still plugging away. Haven't been back there for awhile and I was pleasantly surprised by their continued growth. Their news page is full of good press and they even have a business plan for world domination. I already knew TinyWords gave out subscriptions for handhelds, but now you can receive daily haikus on your mobile as well. Almost makes me want to get a cell phone. Almost. Sorry guys.
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2001 09:36:41 PM
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Apes are more receptive to poetry than people, at least seven poets in Chile think so.
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2001 07:57:50 PM
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December 12, 2001
A review of Dodie Bellamy's Cunt-Ups. Sexy surreal prose poems. Nuff said.
posted by Laurable on 12/12/2001 09:22:30 PM
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On today's Fresh Air (listen), book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Poetry Speaks, a collection English speaking poets reciting their poetry from Tenneyson to Plath.
posted by Laurable on 12/12/2001 06:46:14 PM
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December 11, 2001
Can't resist the self reflective link: Geoff Nunberg explains the phemomenon of blogs on NPR's Fresh Air (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/11/2001 05:23:53 PM
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December 10, 2001
Sound's like Talk of the Nation is adding a regular poetry feature with a poet reading a recently written poem and then discussing it. No details on if this is a weekly feature or not, but I hope so.
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2001 06:08:53 PM
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A review of 2001 National Book Award winner Alan Dugan's book Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry in the Boston Globe.
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2001 06:04:52 PM
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Edward Hirsch said on Talk of the Nation that he will be taking over the weekly Poet Choice column from Rita Dove. Here is the latest Poet's Choice column.
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2001 05:26:39 PM
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I guess Deborah Garrison is not on Talk of the Nation after all. But not to worry. Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sarah Arvio and Marisa De Los Santos ask Do We Need Poetry? (listen)
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2001 04:07:09 PM
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I just received an e-mail reminder from NPR on the New York poet Agha Shahid Ali. He died of brain cancer on Saturday at the age of 52. The World had a story on this, but I couldn't find the audio link and they only have a 5 day archive anyway. I sure there will be audio links in the near future.
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2001 02:57:11 PM
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December 7, 2001
Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi is also having a poetry program on Monday which features an open mike performance from three unnamed but talented Washington D.C. poets.
posted by Laurable on 12/07/2001 09:56:14 PM
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Deborah Garrison, among others, is on NPR's Talk of the Nation (listen) [37:26] discussing memorization. Ira Flatow mentioned that next Monday's Talk of the Nation is about poetry, although not how it is about poetry.
posted by Laurable on 12/07/2001 09:51:21 PM
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A Linda Bierds review in The Seattle Times.
posted by Laurable on 12/07/2001 07:42:59 PM
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Billy Collins makin' the rounds in Allentown, PA.
posted by Laurable on 12/07/2001 09:20:31 AM
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December 6, 2001
There is a new issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Jorie Graham with two Dean Young poems: Side Effects and Lives of the Noncombatants.
posted by Laurable on 12/06/2001 07:59:46 PM
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December 5, 2001
Czeslaw Milosz in the New York Times, December 2, 2001.
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2001 08:56:39 PM
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December 4, 2001
Back in April Amherst College celebrated the publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems. Available on the site are MP3's of the following comments and poems:
Opening remarks by Daniel Hall - Remarks by Agha Shahid Ali
- "The Black Swan" read by Joseph Langland
- Remarks on Merrill and Japan by Mary Jo Salter
- "Fort Lauderdale" read by Mary Jo Salter
- "The Emerald" read by David Sofield
- Remarks by Richard Wilbur
posted by Laurable on 12/04/2001 05:31:57 PM
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