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January 31, 2002
The Last Elizabethan: Hart Crane at 100, by Eric Ormsby in The New Criterion.
posted by Laurable on 1/31/2002 11:00:05 PM
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I realized late on Tuesday that the Writer's Almanac puts the entire week online at the very beginning of the week. Therefore you can listen to all of this week's (7 total) daily poems by David Lehman from his book The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry as read by Garrison Keillor. The audio is only temporarily archived so listen now. Click the poem title to listen, conviently cued to the poem's start for your audio listening pleasure:
March 6
February 10
February 7
January 31
April 15
February 8
February 28
posted by Laurable on 1/31/2002 07:05:01 PM
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Poet Laureate Billy Collins opened the Library of Congress literary season on December 6, 2001. The usual October date was disrupted by a handful of dust. The archived cycbercast of this reading (listen) is available, along with Poetry in American, a 2 day symposium with Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove, Louise Gluck, W.S. Merwin, Joshua Weiner and Naomi Shihab Nye in April of 2000 and Poetry and American Memory, a lecture by Robert Pinsky in 1998. I highly recommend checking out all three.
posted by Laurable on 1/31/2002 06:44:10 PM
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January 29, 2002
February 10, a daily poem by David Lehman from his book The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry was read today by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac (MPR). Poem starts at 3:48 on your Real Audio dial. (listen). Listen now because the audio is no longer archived after a couple of weeks.
posted by Laurable on 1/29/2002 08:06:41 PM
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A poetry weblog from near Melbourne, Australia.
posted by Laurable on 1/29/2002 06:44:05 PM
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Reminder: weblog some of Celia the Poet's weblog links.
posted by Laurable on 1/29/2002 06:38:39 PM
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Billy Collins (Poet Laureate) is featured in this month's Boldtype Magazine. The article refers to Garrison Keillor helping him up the heap of American poetry by featuring him frequently on his Prairie Home Companion. I am not sure about frequently because within the archives going back to 1996 I could only find him once. But nonetheless, here is the referenced Prairie Home Companion on January 31, 1998 when Collins read the poems Night Club, I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three Blind Mice", Forgetfulness, Nostalgia and On Turning Ten.
posted by Laurable on 1/29/2002 06:11:23 PM
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January 28, 2002
All this week on The Writer's Almanac (MPR), Garrison Keillor reads a daily poem by David Lehman from his book The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry. Monday's poem is March 6 (listen) and it starts towards then end of the segment, 3:16. Listen now because the audio is no longer archived after a couple of weeks.
posted by Laurable on 1/28/2002 05:35:31 PM
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January 25, 2002
It is Robert Burns birthday today. Read about Burns Suppers at this excellent Burn tribute site, Rabbie-Burns dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/25/2002 10:45:16 PM
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Running short of laughes? Head over to ApeCulture dot com's poetry page littered with haikus and featuring Poems you can take with you to the video store, Heavy Metal Haikus, Haikus for the Ole New Wave Celebrity Love Poems, Celebrity Scandal Limericks, Poetic reviews of new movie releases.
posted by Laurable on 1/25/2002 02:17:53 PM
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Chiasmus dot com: Bringing Quotations into your Life. Bringing Life into your Quotations. chiasmus (ky-AZ-mus) n .
a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases. chiastic adj
posted by Laurable on 1/25/2002 12:38:32 AM
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SciFaiku dot com. I am not saying a word.
posted by Laurable on 1/25/2002 12:37:29 AM
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Here and Now (listen) out of WBUR Boston reviews Poetry Speaks and speaks with Rebekah Presson Mosby, co-editor of the book.
posted by Laurable on 1/25/2002 12:21:16 AM
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January 24, 2002
Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use? Don't worry, the Cliche Finder has indexed over 3,300 cliches for you to search. Poetry in motion is the only poetry cliche. There are no cliches for poet or poem.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2002 10:39:47 PM
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Google's Year-End Google Zeitgeist page maps the search patterns of 2001.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2002 10:37:08 PM
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Linguist Geoff Nunberg talks about retronyms on today's Fresh Air (listen) from NPR.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2002 10:21:37 PM
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Wired for Books, from Ohio University, has a new reading by Thomas Lynch. He is also reading some of his essays.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2002 10:14:44 PM
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I'm re-blogging The Love Song Of J. Alfred Crew because, gosh darn it, it always makes me laugh and I just listened to Prufrock (listen from Salon dot com). The companion cartoon is here.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2002 02:46:22 PM
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Upon the advice of a bar bud in the Unnamable Sophies, I listened first to Ezra Pound's Canto I (Factory School site) (listen) and then Yeats' The Lake Isle of Innisfree (listen). Not that I doubted him, but I am still surprised how correct he was. Chicken or the egg aside, now I know.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2002 02:11:35 PM
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(via Ftrain dot com) Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm is Ezra Pound's Song.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2002 02:00:29 PM
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January 23, 2002
On NPR's All Things Considered, (listen) Noah Adams talks with Peter J. Stanlis about Robert Frost's Vermont home which was recently offered one hundred thousand dollars to be turned into a museum. Frost recites Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. Here is the Friends of Robert Frost web page.
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2002 09:24:32 PM
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Elizabeth Farnsworth talks to Billy Collins on PBS dot org's Online New Hour. (watch & listen) Collins reads Introduction to Poetry and Design.
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2002 09:15:33 PM
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January 22, 2002
Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky remembers a friend and fellow poet, Agha Shahid Ali (who died December 8) on PBS dot org's Online News Hour. (listen)
posted by Laurable on 1/22/2002 03:04:14 PM
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January 21, 2002
New e.e. cummings audio in Salon's MP3 Lit selections: a man who had fallen among thieves, next to of course god america i, my sweet old etcetera and since feeling is first.
posted by Laurable on 1/21/2002 11:27:36 PM
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A larger New Collected Poems (of George Oppen) to be published by New Directions in February. Poets & Writers interviews Michael Davidson on assembling the collection.
posted by Laurable on 1/21/2002 08:26:05 PM
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A report about The Poetry Project's (St. Mark's Church, NYC) 28th Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading from Poets & Writers Magazine.
posted by Laurable on 1/21/2002 08:24:42 PM
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A review of Torn Awake, by Forrest Gander in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 1/21/2002 06:59:03 PM
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Fanny Howe was selected for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize by The Academy of American Poets in conjunction with the The Nation.
posted by Laurable on 1/21/2002 06:44:37 PM
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January 18, 2002
Walt Whitman was a blogger. Who Knew? Don't forget to Nudge Nudge the button at the bottom of the page.
posted by Laurable on 1/18/2002 08:31:37 PM
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Cummings poetic justice in the New York Times and a follow up letter to the editor.
posted by Laurable on 1/18/2002 12:21:28 AM
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January 17, 2002
This American Life contemplates Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, from July 4, 1997. (listen)
posted by Laurable on 1/17/2002 11:10:07 PM
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Today in Literary History: from Salon dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/17/2002 08:04:52 PM
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Rob's Amazing Poem Generator. Type in a URL and Rob's program will re-generate the text of the web page into a poem. I thought I would be clever and generate a poem from John Ashbery's poem When Half the Time They Don't Know Themselves... hosted on the Dia Center's website. Here are the results, but unfortunately you will be seeing a different poem as it re-re-generates the poem every time. Here are a couple of my tries:
John Ashbery: When HALF THE slow
purpose Under it is
simply
there. already. Just
because someone
is simply there. Yet
a relief to the way
they walk quickly past, no nonsense, cabbages And
turnips, the Arts www.
diacenter.
The language is rough on this one, but I like it anyway:
John Ashbery: When Half THE
Time...
WHEN HALF THE Time...
WHEN HALF THE TIME WHEN
HALF THE way stones sink,
So gracefully, rob them Puts some kind of
shine on us We consent to,
As they seem. Maybe our not getting
closer to be a relief
to As though we consent to, look up
To be a heart to the way
stones sink, So gracefully, rob
them of their cantankerous gravity. They get
put
into
songs: One always
feels intercepted As
a heart to
As a metaphor.
Just one more:
John Ashbery: When Half THE slow purpose
Under it is simply there. Yet
a metaphor. And what they walk
quickly
past,
no nonsense, cabbages And the
way stones
sink, So gracefully,
rob them
of their cantankerous gravity. They walk
quickly past, no nonsense, cabbages And
the TIME WHEN HALF
THE river looks like flowing
backwards mean that incorrect
as though we consent to,
be a
metaphor. And old streets, one
feel offended
Or shut out
just because
the
way they seem.
posted by Laurable on 1/17/2002 07:12:46 PM
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January 16, 2002
I found Old Dominion University's Annual Literary Festival months ago, but forgot to add the enormous amount of audio/video to the audio page. There are so many fabulous poetry readings (& lectures and discussions) that I couldn't possibly select a few, but right now I am listening to a young William Matthews from 1978.
posted by Laurable on 1/16/2002 08:39:29 PM
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A Maze of Murdered Poems. Click through for awhile. Here is the index page if you want to take a overview/peek at some of the poets she included.
posted by Laurable on 1/16/2002 06:55:39 PM
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January 15, 2002
Ghazals (listen) on Weekend All Things Considered, January 13, 2002
posted by Laurable on 1/15/2002 05:04:21 PM
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O.K. Now Edward Hirsch is taking over the Poet's Choice column at The Washington Post for Rita Dove. For his first time at bat Hirsch selects A Clear Midnight, by Walt Whitman, showing our yalping national bard can also be delicate and tender.
posted by Laurable on 1/15/2002 05:02:32 PM
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Mary Karr says The events of Sept. 11 nailed home many of my basic convictions, including the notion that lyric poetry dispenses more relief — if not actual salvation — during catastrophic times than perhaps any art form, in The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 1/15/2002 04:57:04 PM
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Another project from Bob Holman, Out Loud Live features six poet's excerpts from the PanCanadian Wordfest in October of 2000. A smart looking site to boot.
posted by Laurable on 1/15/2002 04:33:45 PM
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January 14, 2002
Edna St. Vincent Millay's biographer on NPR, December 30, 2001, commenting on her lover's and love poems.
posted by Laurable on 1/14/2002 11:55:23 PM
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NPR discusses The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
posted by Laurable on 1/14/2002 11:51:47 PM
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The Connection dot org (WBUR) (listen) remembers Mark Twain.
posted by Laurable on 1/14/2002 06:31:31 PM
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January 12, 2002
Since the NYC Poetry Calendar seems to no longer be in existance, I think I found an alternative with the Poetz dot com calendar.
posted by Laurable on 1/12/2002 01:09:09 AM
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About dot com's poetry section summarizes the year 2001 in poetry.
posted by Laurable on 1/12/2002 12:59:21 AM
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Crowd Magazine, new and from The New School focuses on writing that confronts and originates from urban places, where genres tend to overlap almost excessively. Limited online material available.
posted by Laurable on 1/12/2002 12:18:40 AM
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January 11, 2002
The Love Song of J. Alfred Crew, my favorite New Yorker cartoon. (I should have put this up before Christmas.) Here are a few more of my favorites cartoons for you to read.
posted by Laurable on 1/11/2002 07:39:36 PM
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An essay on Czeslaw Milosz according to John Updike in The New Yorker.
posted by Laurable on 1/11/2002 05:38:14 PM
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Mary Karr on T.S. Eliot, How to Read 'The Waste Land' So It Alters Your Soul, in The Chronicle Review. Read The Waste Land at Bartleby dot com. Listen to The Waste Land in what format you prefer linked at Laurable dot com's audio page.
posted by Laurable on 1/11/2002 04:51:15 PM
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A one hour real audio program (listen) with Stanley Kunitz hosted on The Cortland Review.
posted by Laurable on 1/11/2002 04:32:05 PM
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The Purest Heart in the Whole Wide West and Sam, collaborations of Frank O'Hara & Tony Towle from 1964 brought to you by Faux Press.
posted by Laurable on 1/11/2002 03:36:46 PM
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Slope Magazine and about Slope Magazine.
posted by Laurable on 1/11/2002 03:15:48 PM
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News on The Academy of America Poets financial crisis also from Poets & Writers.
posted by Laurable on 1/11/2002 03:13:32 PM
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A Poets & Writers short article on Robert Bly's magazine The Fifties [and The Sixties and The Seventies] and newly created, The Thousands.
posted by Laurable on 1/11/2002 03:00:47 PM
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The New York has an article about Henry Darger Collection currently at the American Folk Art Museum, on West Fifty-third Street till mid June. The article mentions evidence of Darger's influence in John Ashbery's Girls on the Run.
posted by Laurable on 1/11/2002 02:09:53 PM
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January 10, 2002
Pith dot net: eight Russell Edson poems, The Family Monkey, Ape, Hands, The Closet, Vomit, The Philosophers, The Man Rock and The Road.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2002 10:24:10 PM
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Russell Edson at Ploughshares: seven poems.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2002 07:08:50 PM
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Kelly Writers House's Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night from October 10, 2001. (listen)
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2002 06:46:30 PM
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Note to self: Ashbery will be at Kelly's 3/25/02 & 3/26/02.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2002 06:37:35 PM
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Also from University of Pennsylvania, Cid Corman at the Kelly Writers House (listen) (11/01). Cid Corman on poetry over the radio, October 1952 from Poetry Magazine printed by U Penn.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2002 06:31:17 PM
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From the Kelly Writers House: Finding the Words: Responses to crisis from the Marianne Moore papers & Philadelphia poets. Webcast (listen) available (1:15).
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2002 06:07:06 PM
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Kenneth Koch:
First chapter (To Jewishness, To My Twenties) of New Addresses from the New York Times Book Review.
A (non-Lehman) New York Times article on The New York School of Poets and Koch.
Koch poetry paper sections for the New York Times (1968), Koch interviews Allen Ginsberg (1977) and a 1977 article on the enjoyment in writing.
Online News Hour transcript (1996 with no audio).
A 1993 interview by David Kennedy on the English 88 site at the University of Pennsylvania.
May 2001 article/interview from Cincinnati CityBeat.
What is American About American Poetry from The Poetry Society of America. Other poets' responses including Frank Bidart, Thom Gunn, Ann Lauterbach, Marilyn Hacker, David Lehman, Mark Rudman, Rafael Campo, Donald Hall, Philip Levine, Lloyd Schwartz, Michael S. Harper, Naomi Shihab Nye, J.D. McClatchy, Bob Holman, Anne Stevenson, W.S. Merwin, E. Ethelbert Miller, Mark Doty, Denise Duhamel, Carol Muske-Dukes, Donald Justice, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin and others.
A Koch Bold Type Magazine interview about New Addresses.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2002 05:39:25 PM
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The Todd Show on NPR has a discussion about how poetry addresses racial issues and intolerance in Detriot. Listen now because the audio links disappear after a couple a weeks.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2002 01:13:40 PM
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Commentator, poet and doctor David Watts, reads his poem Brilliance on NPR's All Things Considered. You can also find his audio poems on Laurable dot com's poetry audio links page, conveniently anchored for your audio listening pleasure.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2002 02:17:35 AM
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January 9, 2002
A Marvin Bell interview from The Drunken Boat.
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2002 10:23:57 PM
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Listen closely to Charles Berstein.
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2002 10:16:26 PM
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January 25th is the birthday of Scottish poet, Robert Burns. Start planning your Robert Burns dinner now.
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2002 08:38:30 PM
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From an Imagist manifesto.
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2002 06:00:05 PM
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A Great Moment in Literature: Belgrade researchers pinpoint location of "Poetry Gland" in brain, brought to you by Jacket Magazine.
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2002 05:32:59 PM
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January 7, 2002
The Billy Collins (Poet Laureate) Poetry 180 page at the Library of Congress. Here are sixty-four of the recommended poems with a more to become available as permissions are acquired.
posted by Laurable on 1/07/2002 12:28:56 PM
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January 6, 2002
Nando Times on Billy Collins' (poet laureate) Poetry 180 project.
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2002 02:36:21 PM
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January 4, 2002
New(?) Charles Reznikoff page at the Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo). A good amount of poems, plus the usual EPC supplemental links.
posted by Laurable on 1/04/2002 07:40:40 PM
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William Bronk. Jack Kimball essay on William Bronk.
posted by Laurable on 1/04/2002 07:35:44 PM
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For teachers out there, I found this site, American Poetry for Students of English Worldwide, by Jack Kimball of TheEastVillage dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/04/2002 07:32:33 PM
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Note to self: remember Lyn Hejinian.
posted by Laurable on 1/04/2002 07:26:33 PM
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From Minnesota Public Radio, an audio article (listen, note: RA link on page is broken, but mine is correct) on the new fans of Magnetic Poetry.
posted by Laurable on 1/04/2002 05:51:30 PM
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On this day in 1965, poet T.S. Eliot died in London at age 76.
posted by Laurable on 1/04/2002 05:29:57 PM
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Apparently, a Hollywood movie about Edna St. Vincent Millay is in the works. I'm rooting for Cate Blanchett.
posted by Laurable on 1/04/2002 05:27:11 PM
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January 3, 2002
David Lehman essay: (Frank) O'Hara's Artful Life.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2002 10:32:33 PM
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Gary Hawkins of the University of Houston gave a class on Exploring the New York School of Poets last spring. But more than just the sylabis and source materials, this class has assigned everyone to become an expert on a particular poet and blog them. Here is the first class and here is the second.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2002 09:00:21 PM
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A John Ashbery tribute and a Kenneth Koch tribute page from Gennarose Pope. Several poems included.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2002 06:25:49 PM
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Poetry and Personality. Nine types of personalities and poems categorized accordingly.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2002 06:02:31 PM
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The Here & Now Poetry Challenge: Holiday Odes (results). Here was the initial challenge aired on December 3.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2002 05:23:43 PM
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A Rachel Zucker poem in the Iowa Review.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2002 12:35:49 AM
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Jubilat's current issue features an interview with Dean Young, plus a new poem titled Peach Farm. I also just found the poem, Honeycomb, in Poetry Daily.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2002 12:19:14 AM
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A Sarah Manguso poem.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2002 12:17:11 AM
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Another positive Magnetic Poetry article.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2002 12:06:33 AM
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January 2, 2002
Brian Henry's homepage. Four poems with audio by Andrew Zawacki.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2002 11:52:07 PM
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Slate Magazine reviews Poetry Speaks.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2002 09:29:24 PM
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Jeffery Bahr has created a comprehensive list of literary sites on the Internet, especially literary zines, for The Alsop Review.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2002 09:08:57 PM
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The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is featured on the front page of the New York Times Arts Section today.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2002 09:05:55 PM
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The Prose Poem: An International Journal is now being hosted on Web del Sol. Poetry Daily featured an interview with Peter Johnson, the editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal and Robert Bly.
Peter Johnson has plenty of prose poems hosted on Web del Sol as well or listen to him read Barcelona (listen) from the National Endowment for the Arts.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2002 08:50:35 PM
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Harold Bloom was on Morning Edition (listen) December 27th talking about his book (as editor) Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2002 08:38:27 PM
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A new Mark Doty book, The Source, came out at the end of November.
The University of Toronto Library has a nice (for the price) selection of Mark Doty poems.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2002 08:07:11 PM
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Time to pick up the Carol Ann Duffy that I have been neglected for awhile. According to this article in The Times, she has been doing quite well without me.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2002 07:56:04 PM
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Poking around the New York Times Bestseller list (hardcover fiction), I noticed Poetry Speaks (poetry w/ audio) is currently positioned at #26 and Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins is currently at #35 (NYTimes excerpts).
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2002 06:03:48 PM
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