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February 27, 2002
On WBEZ public radio (Chicago):
Mark Strand on Odyssey (listen).
posted by Laurable on 2/27/2002 09:12:03 PM
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February 25, 2002
NPR (listen) examines Lincoln's second inaugural address.
posted by Laurable on 2/25/2002 10:22:58 AM
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February 21, 2002
Surrealist love poems, read by Cary Tennis, brought to you by Salon dot com's audio section. Includes the poems:
Free Union , by Andre Breton
I Love, by Jacques-Bernard Brunius
Oh Pangs of Love! and Never Anyone But You, by Robert Desnos
The Earth is Blue Like an Orange, I've Told You and The Lover, by Paul Eluard
Now He Comes, by Frida Kahlo
I Want to Sleep With You, by Joyce Mansour
Wink, by Benjamin Péret
Cary Tennis also has commentary about surrealist poetry in that day's Salon.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2002 10:03:13 AM
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Ellen Bryant Voigt receives the Academy of American Poets (poets dot org) Annual Fellowship awarded for poetic achievement at mid-career. The Atlantic featured three of her audio poems, Lesson, Practice and The Others, in January of this year.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2002 12:51:22 AM
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February 20, 2002
Maxine Kumin is interviewed in The Atlanic this month.
posted by Laurable on 2/20/2002 10:39:32 PM
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Robert Pinksy on PBS's Online Newhour:
for the Winter Olympics, a passage (listen, start at 52:14) from The Preludes, by William Wordsworth, and
for Valentine's Day, a passionate poem by Emily Dickinson, #249 (Wild Nights-Wild Nights!) (listen, start at 53:36)
posted by Laurable on 2/20/2002 06:24:21 PM
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February 15, 2002
Keats' Odes. Keats at Bartleby dot com
posted by Laurable on 2/15/2002 07:17:57 PM
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February 14, 2002
Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg looks at the word evil on the February 11th Fresh Air (listen) (NPR).
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2002 11:30:41 PM
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Robert Creeley recieved the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award this year. An audio interview (listen) with Michael Silverblatt (Bookworm on KCRW) is included.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2002 11:17:21 PM
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Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2002 11:12:19 PM
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Lord Byron poems from the U of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-line
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2002 12:52:35 AM
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February 13, 2002
The New York Times adds to the Shakespeare Whodunit.
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2002 09:43:55 PM
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The Nation reprints an article from February 1926 by Langston Hughes.
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2002 09:36:06 PM
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From the New York Times, California seems to be having a hard time finding their next poet laureate
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2002 08:28:01 PM
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The first chapter of Tales From Ovid, by Ted Hughes in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2002 07:52:17 PM
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Under sonnets dot org's Miscellaneous Curiosities page, I found this gem: The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum, By Wallace Irwin (1901). What does a ragtime hoodlem write about in his sonnets? It is the same old story. Or will she jolt me lightly on the sand,/ Leaving poor Willie froze to beat the band, from Sonnet I.
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2002 02:08:16 PM
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February 12, 2002
Today, well, today 37 minutes ago, in literary history, Sylvia Plath committed suicide at age 30.
posted by Laurable on 2/12/2002 12:37:05 AM
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February 11, 2002
Tree Swenson named the new Executive Director of The Academy of American Poets. Also, The New York Times article.
posted by Laurable on 2/11/2002 05:14:37 PM
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February 8, 2002
About the Sonnet from Modern American Poetry @ the U of Illinois.
posted by Laurable on 2/08/2002 10:52:16 PM
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February 7, 2002
Weekend Edition (NPR) talks with Noah Blaustein, editor of the new anthology Motion: American Sports Poems. Poets Edward Hirsch and Christopher Merrill read their work, Fast Break and The Diver, respectively. Apparently, there are many more baseball poems written than about other sports, so here are two non-baseball poems:
Cheap Seats, the Cincinnati Gardens, Professional Basketball, 1959 (listen) by William Matthews, and
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio (listen) by James Wright
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2002 11:34:10 PM
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Today's The Connection dot org (listen) is about the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island by Frank O'Hara is a re-working of the Mayakovsky poem, An Extraordinary Adventure Which Happened to Me, Vladimir Mayakovsky, One Summer in the Country. Brad Gooch writes briefly on A True Account on the Modern American Poetry site.
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2002 10:28:16 PM
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February 6, 2002
Poet, librarian, teacher and poet laureate of Maine Baron Wormser reads (listen) his poem Oil Man on NPR's Talk of the Nation today.
posted by Laurable on 2/06/2002 07:49:46 PM
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A New York Times review of Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet. The New York Times also provides a Hughes sampler with the poems Visit (excerpt), Apprehensions, St. Botolph's, 18 Rugby Street and Night Arrival of Sea Trout.
posted by Laurable on 2/06/2002 05:42:55 PM
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February 5, 2002
Sandra Gilbert on the Poet-Critic in The Writer's Chronicle from the AWP
posted by Laurable on 2/05/2002 11:45:59 PM
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A review of W. S. Merwin's The Pupil in The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 2/05/2002 11:18:00 PM
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Another Angelou/Halmark link but this time from The New York Times
posted by Laurable on 2/05/2002 10:39:18 PM
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February 1, 2002
Langston Hughes is all over NPR right now because today would be his 100th birthday. There is an essay (listen), a recording (listen) of Hughes reciting The Negro Speaks of Rivers, a conversation on Performance Today with a conductor who has put Hughes words to music and a recording (with commentary) (listen) of Hughes reciting I, Too. I, Too, by the way, is one of the most searched for poems on Laurable dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/01/2002 08:26:24 PM
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The University of Kansas in Lawrence Kansas is sponsoring a Symposium on the Art, Life and Legacy of Langston Hughes, February 7th through the 10th. Poking around the site, I found what they are calling Poetry Circles. Fortunately for us, these Poetry Circles, or lectures with discussion, are available online in Real Audio. There are four Poetry Circles with accompanying transcripts, but there is only audio for the first three.
posted by Laurable on 2/01/2002 07:42:26 PM
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Alice Walker recals Langston Hughes in The Wichita Eagle.
posted by Laurable on 2/01/2002 07:18:27 PM
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An article about a graduate of the The Distance Learning Program at Goddard College in Vermont in the Gainesvillesun dot com
posted by Laurable on 2/01/2002 07:09:35 PM
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Maya Angelou pens lines for Hallmark Cards Inc. from the Charlotte Observer. Includes text from an interview.
posted by Laurable on 2/01/2002 07:03:15 PM
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Hart Crane's index page in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 2/01/2002 02:00:02 AM
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