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March 29, 2002
The North American Centre for Interdisciplinary Poetics: Articles, commentary, discussions and links on the exploration of inter and paradisciplinary creativity and theory. All this and they have a sense of humor too. This week's survey is:
Language Poetry is to Projective Verse:
What Stalin was to Hitler
What the Cross was to St. John
What boils were to Job
What the Light Brigade was to Tennyson.
You can vote on the front page and the results are here.
posted by Laurable on 3/29/2002 10:50:55 PM
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Brian Henry's review of The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck in Contemporary Poetry Review.
posted by Laurable on 3/29/2002 11:54:16 AM
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Yesterday, Robert Creeley was featured on KCRW's Bookworm (listen). Creeley and Bookworm generously include a selection from new selected poems, Just in Time, with the poems: Heaven Knows, Forty, Out, New England, Too Late, Room, Hotel, Echo and Earth. Note: this Bookworm program was previously aired on the internet as Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award (listen) interview in February.
posted by Laurable on 3/29/2002 11:08:57 AM
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The Cyber Rambler's review of The Cortland Review.
posted by Laurable on 3/29/2002 11:06:46 AM
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Robert Creeley on collecting his life's work in poetry and prose in Poets & Writers.
posted by Laurable on 3/29/2002 09:57:13 AM
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I missed this article on Web del Sol in November/December's Poets & Writers.
posted by Laurable on 3/29/2002 09:43:23 AM
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A summary and update of the Dana Gioia Can Poetry Matter argument by Bart Baxter.
posted by Laurable on 3/29/2002 09:27:02 AM
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March 28, 2002
Griffin Poetry Prize has just linked to my site.
posted by Laurable on 3/28/2002 02:45:45 PM
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An interview with Campbell McGrath from Virtual Writer dot net.
posted by Laurable on 3/28/2002 12:24:16 AM
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March 27, 2002
Yesterday Robert Pinsky read the basketball poem The Courts at Lawton Street (listen) by Alan Shapiro on PBS's Online New Hour.
posted by Laurable on 3/27/2002 11:43:21 PM
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An old (June 2000) Salon article about our poet laureate Billy Collins and his publishers.
posted by Laurable on 3/27/2002 11:00:04 PM
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I somehow stumbled onto two essays in conjection with 'In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art' Exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, November, 1999, housed by The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University. The first is Frank O'Hara: A Personal Portrait, by Bill Berkson and the second In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art, by Michael Goldberg. Jacket Magazine also has an essay from this exhibition by Russell Ferguson. In Art in America, David Lehman has an essay from this conference titled O'Hara's Artful Life
posted by Laurable on 3/27/2002 10:46:11 PM
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Tonight's West Wing will have a fictional poet laureate, played by Laura Dern, advocating for a land mine treaty.
posted by Laurable on 3/27/2002 06:11:28 PM
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Bookworm (listen) (KCRW) talks with poet Ron Koertge about his new book Geography of the Forehead. Jacket Magazine has five of his poems and a prose poem. Billy Collins includes four Ronald Koertge poems in his project as poet laureate, Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools.
posted by Laurable on 3/27/2002 05:30:43 PM
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March 25, 2002
A new Robert Burns' festival seeks to rework his image and Scotland's relationship to their national bard.
posted by Laurable on 3/25/2002 10:00:53 AM
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On the grounds of obscenity, U.S. Customs agents seized 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl on this day in 1957.
posted by Laurable on 3/25/2002 09:08:57 AM
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March 22, 2002
The Poetry Society (U.K.) forgot to renew its domain name and is now no longer at poetrysoc dot com. The mistake may cost them around £20,000.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2002 10:08:11 PM
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The BBC's Shakespeare Sonnet Page including: a sonnet-writing competition, a short history of the sonnet, a scrambled sonnets game, the sonnet tree and audio.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2002 04:51:04 PM
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Apparently it is National Poetry Day in Britian.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2002 04:41:15 PM
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According to this page, might be a biopic about Christopher Marlowe, possibly with Johnny Depp. The premise says, This is the true story of Christopher Marlowe: atheist, spy, and literary genius.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2002 04:35:52 PM
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The Independant (UK) has a short guide to poetic travel, mostly Britian and some of Europe.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2002 04:29:16 PM
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In the March 2002 issue of Jacket Magazine has included a 1-hour radio documentary (listen) about the Ern Malley story. David Lehman has an essay about the hoax in Jacket 2.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2002 03:27:52 PM
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The Conceptual Metaphor Home Page from University of California, Berkeley and Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online from The University of Oregon Philosophy Department.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2002 02:53:28 PM
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Missed this one. Back in January KCRW's Politics of Culture show talked about Poetry Speaks and how poetry speaks in our time.
Back in October, Politics of Culture had a show with Nancy Milford, the author of Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay."
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2002 02:23:49 PM
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Poetic Power dot com: a resource promoting poetry in the classroom.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2002 01:56:01 PM
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March 20, 2002
Mark Doty was on the The Connection (dot org) yesterday (listen).
posted by Laurable on 3/20/2002 11:58:24 PM
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Yahoo! Finance has an article on Poetry Speaks, both the book and the series of events around the country. Poetry Speaks recently made the New York Times Best Seller list. Yahoo! Finance also has an article on Magnetic Poetry today.
posted by Laurable on 3/20/2002 08:33:11 PM
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Brooklyn poet posts haikus on up and down Clinton Street in retaliation of noisy drivers and get whole neighborhood involved, from the New York Times. The rogue haiku writer has set up his own web site at Honku dot org.
posted by Laurable on 3/20/2002 07:48:38 PM
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Looking for Ezra Pound's grave in the Travel Section of the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 3/20/2002 07:06:14 PM
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Another Def Poetry article in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 3/20/2002 07:01:19 PM
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March 18, 2002
The Writer's Block Party is a new audio magazine on CD-Rom and is described on their website as what would happen if you favorite mixed tape married NPR. The first CD contains music which I don't know, but more importantly, the poetry of Billy Collins, Forgetfullness and Kenneth Koch, You Want a Social Life, with Friends. Audio clips in .wav and mp3 format are provided, but only 20 seconds worth.
Publishers Weekly has a short interview with Writer's Block creator Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2002 01:42:39 PM
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From the Poetry Notes in Publisher Weekly: Hymns of St. Bridget & Other Writings, a collection of collaborated works by the poets Frank O'Hara and Bill Berkson comes out this March and poets, translators and publishers Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop tell the stories of their writing lives in Ceci n'est pas Keith—Ceci n'est pas Rosmarie.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2002 11:10:40 AM
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Back on February 12th, NPR's Morning Edition (listen) explored the legend of Miguel Pinero and the new film about his life.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2002 09:58:22 AM
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NPR's All Things Considered (listen) talks with Albert Goldbarth, winner of the National Book Critics Circle 2001 Poetry Award.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2002 09:55:17 AM
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A review of Source by Mark Doty in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2002 09:45:14 AM
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Ian Hamilton picks 50 enduring modern poets of the 20th century and compares his task to Samuel Johnson's Lives Of The Poets in The Guardian.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2002 09:42:31 AM
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Edward Hirsch feature's the poem To Old Age by Kenneth Koch and his latest book New Addresses in this week's Poet's Choice from The Washington Post.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2002 09:29:06 AM
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March 15, 2002
Headline Haikus (dot com): All Your News in Seventeen Syllables. Several haikus out the the day's news. According to the site's About Page, the haikus are generated by a postmodern programming language.
The Full Deck (dot com) also has a Haiku Headline page, but these haiku's are people generated. I also got a kick out of The Full Deck's Haiku Man Comics.
posted by Laurable on 3/15/2002 10:22:22 PM
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News Poetry dot com: not only a poem a day, but a poem a day about the news.
posted by Laurable on 3/15/2002 10:11:11 PM
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March 14, 2002
Booknotes dot org, a companion web site to CSPAN dot org, has several realvideo author interviews, including some on biographies of poets:
Robert Frost: A Life, by Jay Parini (listen)
Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, by David Reynolds (listen)
Emerson: The Mind on Fire, by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. (listen), and
Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son, by Christopher Dickey (listen)
posted by Laurable on 3/14/2002 11:05:50 PM
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Seamus Heaney opens a visitor center at the Sutton Hoo archeology site, a burial ground similar to that in the epic poem Beowulf, which Heaney has translated. Here is a New York Times review of Heaney's Beowulf.
posted by Laurable on 3/14/2002 06:32:28 PM
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The Quad City Times out of Davenport Iowa (my home state) reports of a jury opening thier five page ruling on a personal injury case with a poem. The poem is really a hymn by Isaac Watts of the 18th century.
posted by Laurable on 3/14/2002 05:27:26 PM
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Well, Ftrain dot com liked it so chances of quality are high. Pseudodictionary dot com is an attempt to find a home for made up words, a sentiment this Laurable dot com girl can appriciate. A couple of my favorites (poetical of course) are bloetry and po'fectionist (I think I am a recovering po'fectionist).
posted by Laurable on 3/14/2002 02:08:53 PM
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Well, Ftrain dot com liked it so chances of quality are high. Pseudodictionary dot com is an attempt to find a home for made up words, a sentiment this Laurable dot com girl can appriciate. A couple of my favorites (poetical of course) are bloetry and po'fectionist (I think I am a recovering po'fectionist)
posted by Laurable on 3/14/2002 02:08:33 PM
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March 13, 2002
Albert Goldbarth won the National Book Critics Circle poetry prize for Saving Lives, from the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 3/13/2002 08:54:00 PM
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Today on The Writer’s Almanac, Garrison Keillor reads a the poem September (listen, start 3:17), by Jennifer Michael Hecht from The Next Ancient World (Tupelo Press).
posted by Laurable on 3/13/2002 05:24:51 PM
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March 8, 2002
The good folks at Prionix Corporation are now offering a poetry product called Poem Tags. Similar to conference name tags, these tags sport poems. Prionix Corporation will even photoshop your poem tag for you upon request. It just might inspire me to write more tiny poems.
posted by Laurable on 3/08/2002 02:00:22 PM
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March 7, 2002
Ftrain dot com is requesting your favorite poems. The deadline is March 10th so get to it.
posted by Laurable on 3/07/2002 03:24:10 PM
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March 6, 2002
A review of Blast from the Past by Kenward Elmslie which includes a New York School of poetry moment.
posted by Laurable on 3/06/2002 09:44:54 PM
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Basho's Frogger. I can't begin to comment.
posted by Laurable on 3/06/2002 09:04:19 PM
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Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein on Bartleby dot com.
posted by Laurable on 3/06/2002 08:35:42 PM
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Alienated dot net is a discussion board for contemporary poetry and poetics, with a special focus on the poetics of online culture.
posted by Laurable on 3/06/2002 07:49:34 PM
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How2: a journal of feminist poetics.
posted by Laurable on 3/06/2002 06:12:09 PM
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March 4, 2002
A review of Collected Poems: Volume I & II, by William Carlos Williams in the London Review of Books Online.
posted by Laurable on 3/04/2002 10:52:03 AM
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March 1, 2002
The New York Times, according to Poets & Writers, has begun publishing original poetry in the Book Review and is also posting audio of the poems. After a round about search, I finally found the Nathaniel Bellows audio reading, which includes four poems: Harm's Woods, Foaling, Five Funerals and Why Speak?. I wasn't able to find the February 24th poem. Anybody know where and what it is?
posted by Laurable on 3/01/2002 10:02:37 PM
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Graywolf Press strikes distribution deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (from Poets & Writers)
posted by Laurable on 3/01/2002 09:40:29 PM
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Jason Schneiderman in La Petite Zine with three poems, Charlie Brown in a Well, A Story about Nutrition and Hydration.
posted by Laurable on 3/01/2002 09:32:20 PM
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Found poetry from Pendleton County, West Virginia in La Petite Zine.
posted by Laurable on 3/01/2002 09:25:53 PM
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From Salon dot com, Today in Literary History: today in 1862, Emily Dickinson's published (without her knowledge) her second poem, Safe in Their Alabaster Chamber.
It is also the birthdays of three former poet laureates: Richard Wilbur (1987-1988), Howard Nemerov (1988-1990) and Robert Hass (1995-1997). (from the Writer's Almanac)
posted by Laurable on 3/01/2002 06:03:10 PM
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The Black Mountain College Project website.
posted by Laurable on 3/01/2002 05:48:59 PM
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Russel Crowe's recent hissy fit was over producer's cutting, among other things, his quotes of Patrick Kavanagh’s poem Sanctity.
posted by Laurable on 3/01/2002 05:31:00 PM
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Famed Lithuania children's poet Kostas Kubilinskas revealed to be a former Soviet agent and murderer. Ciny Adams of the New York Post also had her say on the matter.
posted by Laurable on 3/01/2002 05:16:32 PM
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