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July 31, 2002
Ftrain is writing about poetry again. This time Yeats.
posted by Laurable on 7/31/2002 10:19:06 PM
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July 29, 2002
Kurt Andersen of Studio 360 creates Headline (non-haiku) Poetry from the Sunday New York Times headlines (listen).
posted by Laurable on 7/29/2002 02:33:53 PM
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Frank Lima is reading this Saturday [Friday, I meant Friday!] at the Cornelia Street Cafe and I will most likely miss it. [Post posting. Yup. I missed it.]
posted by Laurable on 7/29/2002 10:41:46 AM
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It's Stanley Kunitz's birthday today, born in 1905. For the occasion, I will by the paperback of his Collected Poems that the purchased of I have been procrastinating.
posted by Laurable on 7/29/2002 10:12:11 AM
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Andy Borowitz describes his memoir about his thirty-year friendship with Emily Dickinson in the New Yorker.
posted by Laurable on 7/29/2002 09:54:24 AM
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July 28, 2002
NoMoPoMo: another reason why I love Ftrain dot com.
And luckydave? This one is going out to you, even though I logged it way back when: A Historical Analysis of Poetry: (The First in a 632 Part Exhaustive Series), I. Prehistory. Remember the peeping tom poem? Ftrain has his own rumination: The Naked Woman Across the Street, In which I become an 11-second accidental stalker. Be sure to read the address bar.
posted by Laurable on 7/28/2002 03:22:38 PM
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July 27, 2002
Crowds around post office, Lower East Side, New York, by Dorothea Lange 1936
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
posted by Laurable on 7/27/2002 02:04:54 PM
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July 26, 2002
Last month, in honor of Bloomsday, The New Republic posted a review of James Joyce's Ulysses by Edmund Wilson, Jr.'s, originally published in the July 5, 1922.
posted by Laurable on 7/26/2002 09:44:13 PM
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Professor Winkelschnippe’s diagram of the structural dynamics of the typical late-twentieth-century North American poetry career in Jacket Magazine.
posted by Laurable on 7/26/2002 07:32:30 PM
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The June installment/hoax issue of Jacket Magazine includes a free movie poster.
posted by Laurable on 7/26/2002 03:17:24 PM
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The Cornelia Street Cafe in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 7/26/2002 03:04:10 PM
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Perihelion Mag brought to you by Web del Sol.
posted by Laurable on 7/26/2002 10:53:23 AM
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Mind Writing Slogans selected by Allen Ginsberg
posted by Laurable on 7/26/2002 10:40:39 AM
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I finally found it; A Sort of Song by William Carlos Williams.
posted by Laurable on 7/26/2002 10:33:29 AM
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July 25, 2002
Here's an e-mail about found poetry by Nick Piombino on University of Buffalo Poetics Listserv.
posted by Laurable on 7/25/2002 07:58:06 PM
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How did I not find this before? Robert Bly dot com.
posted by Laurable on 7/25/2002 06:10:46 PM
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July 24, 2002
Suite 101's poetry reviews; including Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, Mark Strand, Robert Haas, Robert Pinsky and Mona Van Duyn.
posted by Laurable on 7/24/2002 11:55:09 PM
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A symposium on contemporary avant-garde poetry from the Kelly Writers House (listen), the University of Pennsylvania.
posted by Laurable on 7/24/2002 09:29:53 PM
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Michael Basinski on The New Concrete at Alienated dot net.
posted by Laurable on 7/24/2002 06:12:00 PM
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Extra Extra: Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu.
posted by Laurable on 7/24/2002 05:15:04 PM
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July 22, 2002
A review of Jennifer Michael Hecht's The Next Ancient World in Slope Magazine.
posted by Laurable on 7/22/2002 11:17:21 PM
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I am just realizing this now, but July 20th, which happened to be my birthday, is also the birthday of Francis Petrarch, who often wrote about another Laura.
posted by Laurable on 7/22/2002 09:11:46 PM
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Polysemizer? Ftrain dot com will tell you about it.
posted by Laurable on 7/22/2002 08:43:01 PM
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Edward Hirsch's Poets Choice are swimming poems by Maxine Kumin and William Stafford in The Washington Post.
posted by Laurable on 7/22/2002 03:51:11 PM
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Dennis Loy Johnson of MobyLives dot com writes about Verse Daily's similarity to Poetry Daily.
posted by Laurable on 7/22/2002 03:21:31 PM
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The new Poets & Writers is up, including Sharon Olds sending a Postcard from Paris.
posted by Laurable on 7/22/2002 02:41:49 PM
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Darren at Alienated dot net discusses Glyn Maxwell's attack on Language Poetry in the Times Literary Supplement. Sorry. I can't get the link to the Times article, but Darren posts some of it.
posted by Laurable on 7/22/2002 02:03:08 PM
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July 21, 2002
How about a haiku of my own? Shall we?
My inspiration comes from the Billy Collins Library of Congress reading last December. Listen for yourself in the second section/time 13:58 and section three/time 10:38. My summary: he talked about haikus and long titles. He loves long titles and one favorite long title is Thomas Grey's Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes which is seventeen syllables, a haiku unto itself and it's not really required to read the poem that follows. He also mentioned unintentional haikus, describing that if one has a normally socially active day, everyone probably says at least one a day. One of his unintentional haiku, a sign in an English train station, is:
Attention, when the
train is not stopped it will be
constantly moving.
Today, languishing over old files, I think I found an unintentional haiku of my own. The occasion; I sometimes talk in my sleep and one night I said this unintentional haiku:
But if I draw you
twice on my brown pad then I
can keep both of you.
Of course, being asleep, this was reported to me and I am told I was quite excited about this epiphany.
posted by Laurable on 7/21/2002 08:25:05 PM
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Back in March, I weblogged Headline Haikus dot com. I signed up for the daily e-mail and read them with varying attention. Somedays I would just glance and chuckle at one of the first couple of haikus and somedays I don't read them at all. Today I received a haiku I loved (the first haiku in the list). Is it the best haiku I have received from them? Probably not. But it was personal as I live below where the power plant explosion occurred.
If you don't know Headline Haikus, I recommend checking out their very economical about page. (Don't forget to read the footnote.) In the midst of the very clear summary of their site, they give examples of the kinds of haikus generated, including the haiku as complete story:
officer Hawkins
died in a hail of gunfire
acting on a tip
the juxtaposed image haiku, the unlikely, the politician as haiku-er, the surreal and the playful:
a bomb ran into
a shed by the well the shed
fell into the well.
And hey, luckydave, if you are reading this, please send me your e-mail address. I am too exhausted to talk on the phone any more today.
posted by Laurable on 7/21/2002 07:20:01 PM
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I really like these guy over at The North American Centre for Interdisciplinary Poetics, but ouch, when I click to a link and find this, it just doesn't seem fair. Yes, it is my fault for not being able to read French. Yeah, maybe I could babelfish it, but it just isn't the same.
posted by Laurable on 7/21/2002 07:01:29 PM
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July 19, 2002
The Atlantic Monthly posted a new Soundings poem, To Autumn by John Keats, on Wednesday. The readers are Sven Birkerts (listen), Emily Hiestand (listen), Stanley Plumly (listen), and C. K. Williams (listen) with an introduction by Birkerts.
posted by Laurable on 7/19/2002 10:57:59 AM
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July 18, 2002
Another Laura with golden hair.
posted by Laurable on 7/18/2002 04:59:47 PM
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July 17, 2002
Marianne Moore On Muhammad Ali at The Academy of American Poets (poets dot org).
posted by Laurable on 7/17/2002 09:57:05 PM
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Last night Robert Pinsky spoke and recited his own poem about tennis on PBS's Online News Hour (listen).
posted by Laurable on 7/17/2002 07:38:47 PM
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Ian Frazier writes about The New Poetry in The New Yorker.
posted by Laurable on 7/17/2002 05:26:50 PM
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July 15, 2002
To write a beginner's guide to poetry, as James Fenton has done, is a thankless task: readers who want such a book probably don't need it and those who need it almost certainly won't want it.
~from I'm Here to Read the Metre by Adam Kirsch in The Guardian on James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry.
There is also a contents page containing links to eight excerpts from the book.
posted by Laurable on 7/15/2002 12:27:14 PM
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Another New York Times review of Hart Crane: A Life. The New York Times also made Hart Crane a featured author, providing reviews and articles from the late 20's on.
posted by Laurable on 7/15/2002 10:55:55 AM
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Michael Peich of Aralia Press prints poetry books by hand the old fashion way, from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
posted by Laurable on 7/15/2002 10:49:36 AM
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A review of Gerald Stern's American Sonnets in The Columbus Dispatch. Back in April I blogged Stern discussing sonnets on Weekend All Things Considered (listen).
posted by Laurable on 7/15/2002 09:55:24 AM
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Edward Hirsch's Poets Choice in this weeks Washington Post is Randall Jarrell.
posted by Laurable on 7/15/2002 09:33:28 AM
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July 12, 2002
The L.A. Times obit for Kenneth Koch.
posted by Laurable on 7/12/2002 03:05:55 PM
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There is a new Poetry Challenge (Nonsense Poems) over at Here & Now (listen).
posted by Laurable on 7/12/2002 12:36:21 PM
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Last Sunday The Washington Post had a light-hearted interview with Billy Collins. The first question is, Isn't Billy a stupid name for the poet laureate?
posted by Laurable on 7/12/2002 12:18:18 PM
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Jacket Magazine had a large tribute issue for Kenneth Koch this last December. This includes an 18 minute interview (listen) with John Tranter in New York City, 1989 and Popeye and William Blake Fight to the Death (listen); a hilarious eight minute recording of Koch and Allen Ginsberg dueling rhymes at St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York City, 9 May 1979. The real audio link on Jacket Magazine's page is incorrect (at least at the time of this posting). The working real audio link is here. I highly, highly recommend giving it a listen.
posted by Laurable on 7/12/2002 11:57:52 AM
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Last Monday Fresh Air (listen) had a three-minute tribute to Kenneth Koch including a excerpt from the poem Fate.
posted by Laurable on 7/12/2002 11:54:11 AM
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July 9, 2002
So who is it that was searching for Brian Henry last week on my Atomz Search feature? Not that I mind. Just curious. For those who are interested, readers also searched for sonnet 116 (twice), irish anthem, irish nation anthem, langston hughes, long leg, long legged linda and vantage . Although it doesn't show on last week's search results (except for Langston Hughes), I usually have a healthy number of requests for cummings, Frost, Neruda, Sexton, Plath and Brooks.
posted by Laurable on 7/09/2002 01:03:16 PM
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July 8, 2002
I be a better blogger if I paid attention to dive into mark's 30 days to a more accessible weblog (for people with physical, mental, and technological disabilities). (Them, not me.)
posted by Laurable on 7/08/2002 11:24:23 PM
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Noiseways New York: no poetry, just NYC noise.
posted by Laurable on 7/08/2002 07:43:18 PM
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Edward Hirsch selects three poems from the 11th century to 1987 with reading as the subject matter in this week's Poet's Choice in the Washington Post.
posted by Laurable on 7/08/2002 10:50:12 AM
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An Egyptian man is sentaced to one year and fined $43 for posting a poem by his father online. The poem used obscene language and condemned the Egypt government for its defeat in the 1967 war with Israel.
posted by Laurable on 7/08/2002 10:22:31 AM
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Snooping around in the Library of Congress with its handsome new design I found online scans of four of Walt Whitman's notebooks (and one cardboard butterfly poem).
posted by Laurable on 7/08/2002 09:45:15 AM
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This article in the Billings Gazette is about biography/light verse poetry of little interest for myself, but I loved the comment of flat-footed poetry.
posted by Laurable on 7/08/2002 09:21:14 AM
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Kenneth Koch's obituary in the New York Times on Monday and also Sunday.
posted by Laurable on 7/08/2002 09:02:47 AM
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July 3, 2002
On this last June 16th, Bloomsday, of course, The New Republic republished a 1922 review of Ulysses.
posted by Laurable on 7/03/2002 11:09:18 PM
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The Nation dot com has an article written by Langston Hughes in 1926 urging black intellectuals and artists to break free of the artificial standards set for them by whites.
posted by Laurable on 7/03/2002 09:21:02 PM
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NPR (listen) reads the Declaration of Independence.
posted by Laurable on 7/03/2002 07:47:44 PM
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A new virus (Win32.Zoek.E) falsely threatens to write a poem on a recipient's desktop.
posted by Laurable on 7/03/2002 07:06:35 PM
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A new Summer issue of Cortlandreview dot com is up with a Sharon Olds audio reading and interview (listen) (with David Lehman).
posted by Laurable on 7/03/2002 06:41:21 PM
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July 1, 2002
I just found this gem at The Library of America (listen) site on their Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels volume. Here is a taste from the beginning of the clip: It was about 11 o'clock in the morning. October. The sun not shining and that about-to-snow look on the Christmas tinsle in the shop windows. I was neat, clean, shaved, almost sober. Everything the well dressed bookstore browser ought to be. I needed something to read and I didn't care who knew it.
There is also a half hour discussion (listen) with crime novelists Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, Sue Grafton, Walter Mosley, and Robert B. Parker, and host Max Rudin.
posted by Laurable on 7/01/2002 12:13:39 PM
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I finally got (with some URL editing) the conclusion of Here & Now's (listen) poetry challenge: Vantage Verse. First half of the challenge weblogged.
posted by Laurable on 7/01/2002 11:47:10 AM
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A review of Mona Van Duyn's Selected Poems in The Seattle Times.
posted by Laurable on 7/01/2002 11:14:27 AM
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Hart Crane: A Life by Clive Fisher was reviewed in yesterday's The Washington Post.
posted by Laurable on 7/01/2002 10:14:49 AM
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Membership to Poetry Daily dot org (poems dot com).
posted by Laurable on 7/01/2002 10:04:29 AM
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