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April 29, 2002
A Billy Collins interview in The Christian Science Monitor.
posted by Laurable on 4/29/2002 11:44:37 AM
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Sharon Olds' April reading/discussion is up on the Lannan Foundation's audio archives.
posted by Laurable on 4/29/2002 11:18:06 AM
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A brief review of Campbell McGrath's Florida Poems in The New York Times.
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April 28, 2002
Marie Ponsot in The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 4/28/2002 03:02:40 PM
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April 26, 2002
Robert Pinsky recites Lynne McMahon's poem Spring on PBS's Online Newshour (listen: start 54:06).
posted by Laurable on 4/26/2002 06:02:39 PM
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T.S. Eliot Meets Beavis and Butt-head from The New Yorker's CartoonBank dot com, plus my favorite, The Love Song Of J. Alfred Crew and Mermaids Singing.
posted by Laurable on 4/26/2002 03:10:40 PM
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A summary of Language Poetry from the Suny Buffalo listserv.
posted by Laurable on 4/26/2002 01:08:47 PM
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April 25, 2002
The Kelly Writers House has put up the RealVideo of John Ashbery's March visit. There is video of a reading (listen) and also an interview/discussion (listen).
posted by Laurable on 4/25/2002 10:31:11 PM
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Brian Kim Stefans responds to a criticism of the Language Poets for their institutionalization. Also, After Language Poetry at UBU dot com.
posted by Laurable on 4/25/2002 10:21:46 PM
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A review of Springing by Marie Ponsot, in The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 4/25/2002 08:35:10 PM
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A review of Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius from The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 4/25/2002 08:31:47 PM
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Campbell McGrath gets some paragraphs in The New York Times Magazine article about Florida last Sunday.
posted by Laurable on 4/25/2002 08:22:46 PM
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Billy Collins will continue as Poet Laureate for second year, from The Library of Congress and The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 4/25/2002 08:18:59 PM
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April 22, 2002
Billy Collins was on Prairie Home Companion last Saturday. He read the poems Love, More Than A Woman and Sonnet (listen after fiddles). Then later he read Dharma, Litany and Forgetfulness (listen).
posted by Laurable on 4/22/2002 04:52:31 PM
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A new Harte Crane biography is due out in May, from Publishers Weekly.
posted by Laurable on 4/22/2002 02:39:44 PM
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Today Salon makes available two more poems from the Random House Voice of the Poet Series; Wallace Stevens reading To the One of Fictive Music (listen) and Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself (listen).
posted by Laurable on 4/22/2002 10:42:15 AM
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From Salon's Literary Daybook: on this day in 1960, Anne Sexton published her first book of poems, Bedlam and Part Way Back.
posted by Laurable on 4/22/2002 09:14:56 AM
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April 19, 2002
I was searching for audio links when I ran into the article New York School vs. New Criticism in an previously undiscovered offshoot of Jack Magazine called Beat Generation News. There is a healthy amount of content here, including large poet biographies, essays, reviews, links, a calendar and some poetry texts.
posted by Laurable on 4/19/2002 08:07:26 PM
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Just noticed the new Spring Issue of Ploughshares it up and online and guest edited by Cornelius Eady.
posted by Laurable on 4/19/2002 06:36:08 PM
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KCRW's Bookworm (listen) yesterday discussed the Library of America, plus what is American and what is classic.
posted by Laurable on 4/19/2002 02:56:29 PM
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After a mailing list debate on how to earn money with net art, Christophe Bruno decided instead to answer a much easier question, to spend money with my art and lauched a poetry advertizing campaign using Google AdWords. Bruno also examines semantic capitalism, at least according to laws of Google.
posted by Laurable on 4/19/2002 10:55:33 AM
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A report on the 2002 Las Vegas Poetry Slam Finals from Las Vegas City Life.
posted by Laurable on 4/19/2002 09:52:20 AM
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April 17, 2002
Billy Collins, poet laureate, will be on Prairie Home Companion this Saturday.
posted by Laurable on 4/17/2002 05:50:04 PM
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The Connection dot org talks about Arthur Rimbaud with translator Wyatt Mason. Poets and Writers also has an interview with Mason.
posted by Laurable on 4/17/2002 05:39:29 PM
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April 15, 2002
Publishers Weekly on The Academy of American Poetry sans Wadsworth.
posted by Laurable on 4/15/2002 02:47:16 PM
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Live From Prairie Lights, a reading series in Iowa City, home of The Iowa Writer's Workshop, has updated its site and added several late winter and spring readings to their archive including: Jorie Graham, Sarah Manguso and Forrest Gander.
posted by Laurable on 4/15/2002 02:45:44 PM
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The Poetry in Motion page on the New York City Transit MTA site and the Poetry Society of America site.
posted by Laurable on 4/15/2002 11:20:24 AM
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Old-Fashioned Poetry but a Wild Life in the New York Times.
a review of the new Edna St. Vincent Millay biography Savage Beauty.
posted by Laurable on 4/15/2002 09:32:45 AM
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April 14, 2002
A daily haiku-er in Belfast, from the Kennebec Journal.
posted by Laurable on 4/14/2002 02:21:12 PM
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William Safire ends his New York Times language column with a riff on T.S. Eliot's April is the cruelest month.
posted by Laurable on 4/14/2002 02:17:17 PM
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April 13, 2002
Some thrown down poetry links:
The National Poetry Association
The International Poetry Museum
NPR's The Savvy Traveler on poetry slams
posted by Laurable on 4/13/2002 02:39:57 PM
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April 12, 2002
A review of Saving Lives by Albert Goldbarth in The Christian Science Monitor.
posted by Laurable on 4/12/2002 10:07:06 PM
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Prionix dot com has added a "store" to The Poem Tag Project where you can purchase a mug, shirt or mouse pad for your very own poem tag.
posted by Laurable on 4/12/2002 04:08:36 PM
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A poetic panel from Daze of Our Lives: State of the Art 19th Century Humor.
posted by Laurable on 4/12/2002 01:32:59 PM
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An original essay, National Schmational: Do We Really Need A "National Poetry Month"?,
from Plagiarist dot com scrutinizes The Academy of American Poets on National Poetry Month.
posted by Laurable on 4/12/2002 11:42:42 AM
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A bit of Hart Crane trivia.
posted by Laurable on 4/12/2002 10:57:03 AM
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Upcoming retrospective on Herschel Silverman.
posted by Laurable on 4/12/2002 09:16:11 AM
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April 10, 2002
Donald Hall is on today's Fresh Air (NPR) (listen). The University of New Hampshire Library has an exhibit on the Poetry of Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall called Life at Eagle Pond.
posted by Laurable on 4/10/2002 03:10:40 PM
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WBFO story (listen) about Hollywood taking the words out of Shakespeare’s mouth.
posted by Laurable on 4/10/2002 11:59:33 AM
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Carl Dennis wins the Poetry Pulitzer Prize for Practical Gods. Januray 11th, WBFO (listen) interviewed Dennis about Practical Gods and back on May 4, 2000 was he interviewed (listen) on his book Ranking The Wishes which was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Modern Poetry Association.
posted by Laurable on 4/10/2002 11:56:55 AM
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This week's Washington Post Poet's Choice column, by Edward Hirsch, is about childhood memories in poems and features the The Whipping by Robert Hayden. The other day I listened to this Factory School real audio recording (listen) of Hayden discussing his poetry and term as poet laureate in 1976.
The March 17th Poet's Choice column featured Kenneth Koch and poetic apostrophe from his book New Addresses along with the poem To Old Age. UBU dot com has the audio of Spring (listen), the only (functioning) audio of Koch I have been able to find.
posted by Laurable on 4/10/2002 09:29:35 AM
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Back on March 20th Edward Hirsch was on All Things Considered (listen) talking about what spring means to poets as well as reading a few spring poems.
posted by Laurable on 4/10/2002 09:21:30 AM
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Donald Hall is on Fresh Air today.
posted by Laurable on 4/10/2002 09:15:36 AM
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April 9, 2002
Just found a load of poetry reading audio at The International Poetry Forum. Unfortunately its is m3u (streaming form of mp3) and buffers constantly.
posted by Laurable on 4/09/2002 05:07:35 PM
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New poetry audio of Adrienne Rich from Salon dot com (mp3) (realaudio). She reads six poems (What Kind Of Times Are These, In Those Years, To the Days, Miracle Ice Cream, Rachael, Amends) from the Voice of the Poet series.
posted by Laurable on 4/09/2002 01:29:57 PM
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April 8, 2002
Gerald Stern talks about talks about sonnets on Saturday's Weekend All Things Considered (listen) in honor of National Poetry Month. Recordings of Places You Wouldn't Believe (listen) and Les Neiges d'Antan (listen) are also included.
posted by Laurable on 4/08/2002 05:55:18 PM
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Marie Ponsot reads three poems, Springing, I've Been Around; It Gets Me Nowhere and Even, Part 4 from her forthcoming collection, Springing in The New York Times (listen) Book Review.
posted by Laurable on 4/08/2002 03:42:46 PM
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KGB Bar in the New York Times style section.
posted by Laurable on 4/08/2002 12:31:27 PM
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The Breakdown Of Criticism Before The Printed Deluge from Contemporary Poetry Review.
posted by Laurable on 4/08/2002 10:54:15 AM
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The Vocabula Review on famous last words, especially the dissappointing ones.
posted by Laurable on 4/08/2002 09:48:23 AM
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A review from L.A. Times of the new Jorie Graham book, Never.
posted by Laurable on 4/08/2002 09:42:18 AM
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April 5, 2002
I have added a comments feature (click at end of entry) today. I am not sure how utilized this will be since most of my posts are bare bones announcement type blurbs. But hey, you never know who has something to add.
posted by Laurable on 4/05/2002 03:54:06 PM
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Digging around in the KCRW dot org archives (mostly because of Bookworm), I noticed I missed more than one poet or poetry related program. A search for "poet" includes such overlooked programs as Carl Phillips, July 01 (listen) and Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, June 01 (listen).
posted by Laurable on 4/05/2002 12:26:32 PM
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TomPaine dot com has been posting poem with audio without my noticing until today. Most poems/audio seem to be from Gary Margolis, a Vermont poet and firefighter. I will have to give him his due entries on the audio page when every I catch up.
posted by Laurable on 4/05/2002 12:14:30 PM
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Rich of Inferiority dot com put Laurable dot com at the top of his list of interesting and cool websites on Powazek's blog comments responding to the web dissing New York Times article. Thanks Rich!
posted by Laurable on 4/05/2002 10:10:50 AM
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April 4, 2002
A personal note on National Poetry Month from The Christian Science Monitor.
posted by Laurable on 4/04/2002 02:11:55 PM
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Arab-American poet Lawrence Joseph at Ground Zero, from The New York Times.
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April 3, 2002
A new Allen Ginsberg site set up by The Allen Ginsberg Trust. It includes a bio, poems, audio, video and timeline.
posted by Laurable on 4/03/2002 10:18:40 PM
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Garrison Keillor reads April 3 by David Lehman on The Writer's Almanac dot org (listen start: 3:38).
posted by Laurable on 4/03/2002 09:39:48 PM
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Cynthia Zarin on Talk of the Nation (listen: start 44:50), March 4, 2002, reading a gardening poem, Baby's Breath.
posted by Laurable on 4/03/2002 08:36:04 PM
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The Origin of OK (listen: start 44:28) on Morning Edition, April 1, 2002.
posted by Laurable on 4/03/2002 08:25:40 PM
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Raphael Campo on Talk of the Nation, March 11, 2002 (listen) reads a September 11th memorial poem, .Questions for the Weather
posted by Laurable on 4/03/2002 08:05:08 PM
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Six Princeton poets, comment about the recent resurgence of poetry.
posted by Laurable on 4/03/2002 07:48:26 PM
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Stealth poetry provider in Philadelphia.
posted by Laurable on 4/03/2002 06:38:14 PM
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A new issue of The Cortland Review for spring and with it comes an interview (listen) with poet laureate Billy Collins.
posted by Laurable on 4/03/2002 05:22:05 PM
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According to Elizabeth Gold of Salon, poetry doesn't stack up to patchouli or lint in its importantace within our lives. Her solution? Repackage poetry as self-help. Some of her suggestions are Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?: You Can Decide to Live a Better Life by T. S. Eliot, Frank O'Hara's Guide to Better Urban Living and Boost Your Self-Esteem With Walt Whitman.
posted by Laurable on 4/03/2002 04:56:33 PM
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April 2, 2002
A National Poetry Month cartoon from The New Yorker.
posted by Laurable on 4/02/2002 06:31:35 PM
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April 1, 2002
Forrest Gander's postcard from Iowa City in Poets & Writers.
posted by Laurable on 4/01/2002 01:26:41 PM
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Publisher Weekly tells of the golden anniversary for audio poetry starting with Dylan Thomas in 1952.
posted by Laurable on 4/01/2002 01:21:53 PM
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A New York Times review of The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin. Spode Plate is available on the Knofp poetry site.
posted by Laurable on 4/01/2002 12:06:52 PM
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April is National Poetry Month, brought to you by The Academy of American Poets since 1996. Poets & Writers also has a poetry month article with additional links.
posted by Laurable on 4/01/2002 11:34:33 AM
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Out in March of this year, Dean Young's latest book of poems, Skid.
posted by Laurable on 4/01/2002 10:22:00 AM
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Diane di Prima, Francisco Alarcon or Quincy Troupe are the three finalists for California's poet laureate to be choosen by Gov. Gray Davis.
posted by Laurable on 4/01/2002 10:19:55 AM
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Edward Hirsch tells the story of Caedmon, the first known poet of the vernacular in English, along with a Caedmon poem by Denise Levertov's in his weekly Poet's Choice column in The Washington Post.
posted by Laurable on 4/01/2002 10:09:07 AM
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