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May 30, 2002
A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman.
posted by Laurable on 5/30/2002 12:30:35 AM
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May 29, 2002
Tattletale (dot net) reviews Edward Hirsch’s The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration.
posted by Laurable on 5/29/2002 08:57:48 PM
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Adam Zagajewski is Edward Hirsch's Poet's Choice The Washington Post. I've had three seperate people tell me how much they like this guy so I guess it is time to check him out. The Lannon Foundation has a reading and conversation (the conversation is also with Hirsch) with Adam Zagajewski in their audio archive. Two poems, Fire and Don't Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve are included in this University of Texas page.
posted by Laurable on 5/29/2002 08:41:45 PM
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Alan Shapiro talks about poetry as an expression of mourning and his new book Song and Dance in The Atlantic Monthly. Note: For some reason The Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages page is not updated, but the article is linked on the front cover.
posted by Laurable on 5/29/2002 08:32:02 PM
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May 26, 2002
New York City poems from David Lehman, Grace Schulman, Philip Schultz and John Yau in The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 5/26/2002 04:12:43 PM
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May 24, 2002
Google Labs now has Google Glossary. Use at your own risk kiddies.
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 10:46:00 PM
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A feature (Feb 2000) from PoeticVoices dot com on Kevin Stein and his book Private Poets, Worldly Acts: Public and Private History in Contemporary American Poetry.
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 09:00:51 PM
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The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe and other Poe criticism.
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 08:39:57 PM
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JoDaviess County Concrete: a study in concrete poetry has all you want to know about concrete poetry, especially its history page.
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 08:28:36 PM
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The Kenneth Rexroth Archive contains many out-of-print essays, articles and reviews and well as many in-print works, including several poems.
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 08:14:51 PM
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A new anthology Poems For Refugees has British show biz biggies selecting and reciting poems for the Warchild Afghanistan charity.
...and even when the Titanic sank, poetry was sold for disaster victim relief.
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 06:48:36 PM
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Boldtype Magazine (Randomhouse) has put up its latest installment of Voice of the Poet featuring two audio recordings by Randall Jarrell: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (listen) and Eighth Air Force (listen).
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 06:36:44 PM
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The Poetry Center at Smith College has a very good looking site with bios and three poems of the impressive poets from their reading series.
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 01:39:44 PM
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A quote from Jack Gilbert in the Poetry Society of America's What is American About American Poetry? questionaire:
When W. H. Auden was talking to me about a survey [of expatriots both here and abroad] like this back in the fifties, he said it was nonsense. That if you want to know something about the poet you should ask him whether he preferred beer or gin.
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 01:17:49 PM
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Today, back in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public. Some Brooklyn Bridge poems are:
To Brooklyn Bridge by Hart Crane
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore by Elizabeth Bishop
The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife Who Has Left Him by Martín Espada and
The Brooklyn Bridge Blues by Jack Kerouac.
I was not able find Granite and Steel by Marianne Moore or Brooklyn Bridge by Vladimir Mayakovsky online.
In the Academy of American Poets' (poets dot org) exhibit The Modernist Revolution: Make It New!, describes The Brooklyn Bridge in Hart Crane's epic poem The Bridge (which includes To Brookly Bridge) as both a symbol of the new world and a metaphor allowing the poet to cross into different time zones, where he may shake hands in the past with Walt Whitman and watch as the train called the Twentieth Century races into the future.
posted by Laurable on 5/24/2002 09:23:47 AM
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May 23, 2002
A review of Rae Armantrout's A Wild Salience in the Boston Review. Two poems, The Fit and Seconds, are also in the issue.
posted by Laurable on 5/23/2002 02:30:05 PM
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John Donne Online from Global Language Resources includes several texts of poems plus an audio archive of the poems; Batter My Heart Three Personed God, If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree, The Broken Heart, Goe, and catche a falling starre, The Cannonization, Devotion XVII, Elegy XIX, The Flea, The Good-Morrow, The Message, The Sunne Rising, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning and one poem of the month.
Here is another John Donne site from Luminarium (dot org) with several poems and some audio.
posted by Laurable on 5/23/2002 11:18:48 AM
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A new study released by Duke University's Center For The American Family finds that children of divorce are twice as likely to write bad poetry as those whose parents are married. From The Onion.
posted by Laurable on 5/23/2002 09:57:00 AM
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Poetry and syphilis from The Times (U.K.).
posted by Laurable on 5/23/2002 09:08:36 AM
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May 21, 2002
Broadway Salutes New York in Verse with such poets as Whitman, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg and Elizabeth Bishop, from the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 5/21/2002 06:43:01 PM
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Apparently Meg Ryan want to put on her Plath as well.
posted by Laurable on 5/21/2002 06:40:15 PM
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May 20, 2002
The Poet Roundtable from AuthorsOnTheWeb.com. Mary Jo Bang, Billy Collins, Cornelius Eady, Jeffrey Greene, Richard Matthews, Honor Moore, Marge Piercy and Marc Woodworth answer ten questions on the appeal of poetric expression.
posted by Laurable on 5/20/2002 03:45:07 PM
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The new issue (20) is up at The Cortland Review. If you go to the front page often, be sure to refresh for new content.
posted by Laurable on 5/20/2002 03:19:02 PM
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Three reviews from yesterdays New York Times: Grace Schulman's Days of Wonder, Jorie Graham's Never and from Book in Brief, Maya Angelou's A Song Flung Up to Heaven
posted by Laurable on 5/20/2002 02:36:07 PM
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A new poetry challenge is up today at Here and Now (listen) from WBUR (Boston). The challenge is based on the Wallace Stevens poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (start listening at 00:50) and they are call the challenge Vantage Poems. Jim Behrle give a great reading of the Stevens Thirteen Ways... and contributes his own Vantage poem titled 13 Ways of Looking at Someone Else's Girlfriend. The submission deadline is May 27th.
posted by Laurable on 5/20/2002 02:04:26 PM
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May 19, 2002
Slate Magazine reviews two time National Book Critics Circle Award winner Albert Goldbarth's book Saving Lives.
posted by Laurable on 5/19/2002 06:14:03 PM
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Rain Taxi has a new look and an article on the influence of Black Mountain College on St. Mark's Church Poetry Project.
posted by Laurable on 5/19/2002 05:27:48 PM
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Gwyneth Paltrow is cast to play Sylvia Plath in a biopic focusing on her love affair with Ted Hughes.
posted by Laurable on 5/19/2002 01:36:40 PM
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May 18, 2002
Robert Frost's To the Thawing Wind from Bartleby (dot com)
posted by Laurable on 5/18/2002 11:11:17 AM
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Bedford/St. Martin's press has an interactive poetry tutorial focusing on the poems; The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop, To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke. The poems also include audio requiring a Flash plugin. The Fish is read by Elizabeth Bishop herself and also by Randall Jarrell, To His Coy Mistress is read by Paul Muldoon and My Papa's Waltz is read by Theodore Roethke himself and also by Philip Levine.
posted by Laurable on 5/18/2002 10:58:03 AM
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May 17, 2002
Robert Pinsky reading I Am by John Clare in Slate Magazine (listen).
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2002 07:50:22 PM
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On April 20th of this year, Garrison Keillor had a Night Out (listen) on Cornelia Street (Greenwich Village NYC) with U.S. Poet Lauerate Billy Collins, writer George Plimpton and poet Sharon Olds.
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2002 04:42:04 PM
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An online only Q&A with Alice Quinn and Franz Wright in The New Yorker. Ploughshares (dot org) has a stack of seven Franz Wright poems.
Eavan Boland also has an online only Q&A interview with Alice Quinn in The New Yorker.
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2002 01:57:07 PM
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From The New York Times, poetry centers around the country are saving their poetry recordings on tape and digitalizing them.
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2002 01:49:15 PM
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Bloomsday events in Dublin, New York, Melbourne, Philadelphia, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Trieste, Italy in The New York Times.
Ulysses to long to read for you? Try Ulysses for Dummies.
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2002 01:34:01 PM
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I just stumbled onto Farrar, Straus and Giroux's audio page which includes John Ashbery reading And the Stars Were Shining, Can You Hear, Bird and Your Name Here plus Thom Gunn and Robert Pinsky.
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2002 10:13:42 AM
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Philip Larkin's lawnmower/muse has been saved for Larkin's archives at the University of Hull, from the Guardian Unlimited and Telegraph Group Limited.
posted by Laurable on 5/17/2002 09:50:51 AM
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May 15, 2002
Dictionaraoke dot com combines karaoke-style background music with pronunciation samples from online dictionaries. They include such favorites as A-ha "take on me", Barry Manilow "copacabana", Celine Dion "my heart will go on", Devo "beautiful world", Dr Seuss "green eggs and ham", Fred Astaire "let's call the whole thing off", Irving Berlin "puttin on the ritz", James Brown "i feel good", Liz Phair "fuck and run", Lou Reed "walk on the wild side", etc. You have to hear it to believe it.
posted by Laurable on 5/15/2002 10:34:38 PM
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Emily Dickinson died today. Or died today in 1886.
posted by Laurable on 5/15/2002 06:43:41 PM
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May 13, 2002
Shakespeare and Sexuality on The Connection (listen)
posted by Laurable on 5/13/2002 12:17:57 PM
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April 30th, The Connection (listen) had a program with Frank Conroy, Director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.
posted by Laurable on 5/13/2002 11:38:35 AM
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Carl Dennis year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry talks with Elizabeth Farnsworth on PBS's Online News Hour (listen, start 44:56). He reads The God Who Loves You.
posted by Laurable on 5/13/2002 11:15:17 AM
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Derek Walcott was interviewed in The New York Times Magazine yesterday.
posted by Laurable on 5/13/2002 10:41:55 AM
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More language pet peeves (lie/lay, literally/figuratively and verbing nouns) from Richard Lederer (listen) on yesterday's Weekend All Things Considered.
posted by Laurable on 5/13/2002 10:11:54 AM
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May 10, 2002
Back at the end of April, The Tavis Smiley Show (NPR) read some listeners' favorite poems for National Poetry Month. The poems read include; Langston Hughes's I Too, Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni's Ego Trippin.
posted by Laurable on 5/10/2002 09:57:08 AM
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May 8, 2002
Slough dot net has realaudio recordings of poetry readings from the sixties including Ed Dorn, Basil Bunting, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Fielding Dawson, Gerry Gilbert, John Wieners, Robert Creeley and George Oppen.
posted by Laurable on 5/08/2002 06:55:37 PM
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Poet tranquil major (lower case intentional) is San Francisco's third poet laureate, from The San Francisco Examiner
posted by Laurable on 5/08/2002 05:49:59 PM
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May 6, 2002
A Poets & Writers article about collecting the work of Lorine Niedecker.
posted by Laurable on 5/06/2002 01:56:10 PM
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The new (May/June) issue of Poets & Writers in online.
posted by Laurable on 5/06/2002 10:44:04 AM
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Today is the birthday of Randall Jarrell.
posted by Laurable on 5/06/2002 09:33:02 AM
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Poetry Northwest will be shutting down after 43 years of poetry only publication, from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
posted by Laurable on 5/06/2002 09:23:00 AM
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May 5, 2002
Poet Laureate (this year and next) Billy Collins talks about Poetry Magazine in The Chicago Sun Times.
posted by Laurable on 5/05/2002 02:48:33 PM
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The 12th National Poetry Festival in Des Moines is this week, from the Des Moines Register. I was at the 2nd festival myself.
posted by Laurable on 5/05/2002 02:30:25 PM
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May 4, 2002
A review of dam Zagajewski's Without End in The New York Times. Also available are four poems; To See, The Soul, Farewell for Zbigniew Herbert and The Early Hours.
posted by Laurable on 5/04/2002 02:02:47 PM
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May 3, 2002
A biography of Vivienne Eliot in The New York Review of Books.
posted by Laurable on 5/03/2002 07:00:28 PM
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Poetry boot camp on today's All Things Considered.
posted by Laurable on 5/03/2002 06:57:46 PM
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May 2, 2002
Japan Poem dot com has a greeting service, those internet/e-mail postcard deals, using poems by the 13th century poet Fujiwara no Sadaie (Teika) and the tanka form. The postcards come with Japanese pictures and options of sound and visual effects.
posted by Laurable on 5/02/2002 05:27:37 PM
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Laura Kasischke reads her poem The Night Sky on today's Talk of the Nation about protecting the night sky.
posted by Laurable on 5/02/2002 05:20:50 PM
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The New York Times has a short article on the Allen Ginsberg Trust of New York's website.
posted by Laurable on 5/02/2002 05:17:52 PM
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