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August 31, 2002
A snippet from Kenneth Koch on the neglect (or lack thereof) of poetry from his last interview posted on the SUNY Buffalo Poetics List archive.
By the way, the audio list is out of date as my carpel tunnel cannot keep up. Do a search for Koch if you don't want to miss anything.
Posted Sunday 9/1/02: Thanks to WilliamJamesAustin [dot com] I now know the interview is in this month's issue of Poets & Writers. And low and behold, the interview is conducted by Dean Young.
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2002 04:23:02 PM
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August 30, 2002
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman.
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2002 08:14:50 PM
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The Polish Biographical Dictionary in a Library in Houston by Adam Zagajewski on Slate dot com (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2002 07:29:34 PM
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posted by Laurable on 8/30/2002 01:05:00 PM
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Laura's poetry words of the day:
epigram: n. 1. A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation. 2. A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement. See Synonyms at saying. 3. Epigrammatic discourse or expression.
epigraph: n. 1. An inscription, as on a statue or building. 2. A motto or quotation, as at the beginning of a literary composition, setting forth a theme.
epitaph: n. 1. An inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there. 2. A brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2002 12:57:30 PM
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August 29, 2002
It is now official. Laurable dot com has a Press, baby! (Because I have printed out several copies, not just because I am saying it here.)
posted by Laurable on 8/29/2002 03:54:58 AM
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August 26, 2002
M.A.S.H. Repeats by Daniel Kane on EvilTwinPublications dot com
posted by Laurable on 8/26/2002 04:46:05 PM
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My Lover by John S. Hall in The United States of Poetry (watch).
posted by Laurable on 8/26/2002 03:48:43 PM
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FTrain dot com does it again when Scott Rahin takes The Lizard King to task for his putrid poetry. Read all the way to the end of the entry because it is really baaaaaaad. And that is without even mentioning today's entry Cake: Terrible things done with the human language. Now if he would just Dewey with the decimal system...
Today's F-train recommendation: Marginalia by Edgar Allan Poe in ~HYPER's Poe folder.
posted by Laurable on 8/26/2002 02:40:42 PM
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So We'll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon, Lord Byron at Representative Poetry On-line for Tim (not that he reads this page or anything).
posted by Laurable on 8/26/2002 12:33:51 PM
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The Adventureland of Under-rated Poets at Taverners-Koans dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/26/2002 10:43:05 AM
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Basic Sonnet Forms from Sonnets dot org.
How Do I Slam Thee?, a sonnet by Gary Glazner on Poetry dot About dot com. Note the bonus fixed form included in the last line.
posted by Laurable on 8/26/2002 10:33:39 AM
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Spokennerd dot com: words by nerds, about nerds, for nerds brought to you by the Uncle Shappy show.
posted by Laurable on 8/26/2002 09:44:22 AM
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Gary Mex Glazner in Salon dot com. I give you what I can, but you just don't know until he's whispered a poem in your ear.
And on another note, word of the evening: vivisection and such connotations.
posted by Laurable on 8/26/2002 02:19:52 AM
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August 25, 2002
John Ashbery on Larry Rivers in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2002 08:46:21 PM
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking by Walt Whitman at Poets dot org.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2002 07:04:48 PM
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Laura's poetry word for the day: strophe.
luckydave's publishing word for the day: colophon. There is also a Dean Young Colophon poem, but unfortunately not online.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2002 05:55:31 PM
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The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata by Robert Burns at Robert Burns dot org.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2002 05:54:03 PM
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August 24, 2002
Some little known Emily Dickinson poems from The Lives of the English Majors on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion (listen):
I never Mowed --- my Yard
I never Swept --- the Walk,
But Yours is rather Messy too
So who are You --- to talk?
and my favorite:
Because I could not --- Hire Death
He kindly Hired --- me
As Waitress in --- a Luncheonette
Perpetual Trainee.
I like to make --- a few Mistakes
To Help the Hours --- Go By
And (HAWK) --- into Vanilla Shakes
And then drop in --- a Fly.
I make the Coffee --- Boiling hot
And Full --- and then for Fun
I place a Napkin --- in Between
The Burger --- and --- the Bun.
posted by Laurable on 8/24/2002 03:12:06 PM
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August 23, 2002
Blind Huber by Nick Flynn to be published in October 2002 according to Amazon.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 10:07:04 PM
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Songbird by John Brehm in disquietingmuses dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 09:45:50 PM
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The North American Centre for Interdisciplinary Poetics (newly updated) has another humorous survey posted: Why do architects tend to live longer than poets?
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 09:28:13 PM
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poetics@ by Joel Kuszai from Roof Books is a book of poetics from the SUNY Buffalo Poetics List discussion group. You can also find it in electronic form from SUNY Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 08:12:30 PM
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Unremitting Verse: a blog's poetic responses to politics.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 07:52:07 PM
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Christian Bök's Eunoia, winner of the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, is fully viewable ebook as well as a trade paperback from Coach House Books.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 07:01:27 PM
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Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City has put up some new poetry reading audio that I haven't managed to update on the main page yet, including; Greg Hewett, Douglas Goetsch, Contributors to the anthology Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, Bruce Bond, Anne-Marie Cusac, Karen Volkman, Cate Marvin, Forrest Gander, Sarah Manguso, and Jorie Graham. It looks as if I am even further behind than I realized.
Marvin Bell and Robert Dana will be reading from the works of Jane Cooper September 5th and Marvin Bell will read his own work September 30th.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 01:33:28 PM
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Joe Parisi, editor of POETRY Magazine was on Eight Forty-Eight from WBEZ dot org yesterday, but the audio link is not working.
An Eight Forty-Eight (listen) audio link which is working is a chat with Parisi about hundreds of thousands of letters form poets accumulated during the journal's nearly 90 year history. The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine is coming out in October (hardback only), at least according to Amazon.
I also found The Poetry of William Blake on Odyssey (listen). The guests include Gerald Stern, Nancy Willard and Phillip Levine.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 12:00:34 PM
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The married poet William Carlos Williams declared he was in love with the Baroness, but their flirtation ended in a fistfight, and later he took up boxing to defend himself from her. Check out this chick in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Also in the Sunday NY Times Magazine, Corpus Linguistics. It is clear I could only be a descriptivist, but that doesn't mean we should go all crazy kiddies.
To whom it may concern: Google provides gramatical correction. Last year, when one searched for the term Laurable, Google suggested laudable, which I thought was very astute for a search engine. I am not sure what happened, but about six to nine months ago, Google changed its opinion about Laurableness.
Before we leave all this grammar griping behind, let me remind you of some previous logs including The Lives of the English Majors, The Connection's Word Court, some strong opinions on punctuation, and Freshair dot org linguist Geoff Nunberg.
While reviewing Nunberg, I found his audio on language purists and post modernism in this week's Fresh Air (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 10:29:58 AM
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Portrait of Six Tuscan Poets from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 09:55:06 AM
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An article in last Sunday's New York Times and another in Salon contemplate the sexiness of us with a bookish bent. While the articles support the possibility, they both wrote about movies in order to ruminate on the subject. Once again, poets know their place.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 09:24:02 AM
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So, um, like luckydave, we were suppose to, like, comment and stuff...
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2002 01:39:04 AM
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August 21, 2002
An Encounter with William Stafford from Literary Traveler.
posted by Laurable on 8/21/2002 11:57:12 PM
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I have more haiku
for all my weblog readers
to go read elsewhere.
Tiny Words dot com, home of the daily delivered haiku service, now has a haiku postcard gallery.
I just found the The World Haiku Association and their extensive site as well as The Haiku Society of America.
The Jack Kerouac Haiku Page has some background and Kerouac haiku samples.
posted by Laurable on 8/21/2002 08:04:12 PM
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Poets & Writers's Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers is online and searchable. Under Type, you are given three options; Fiction Writer, Performance Poet and Poet. Interesting.
posted by Laurable on 8/21/2002 07:47:24 PM
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The Nobel e-Museum contains some very nice exhibits for their laureates, including the full text of their lectures. The Joseph Brodsky lecture comes highly recommended.
The museum also contains audio of the lectures in what is referred to as The Nobel Literature Radio.
posted by Laurable on 8/21/2002 07:31:17 PM
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Areopagitica: Freedom of the press according to John Milton.
posted by Laurable on 8/21/2002 06:58:50 PM
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Stopping Spam with Poetry and the Law in siliconvalley dot internet dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/21/2002 05:55:46 PM
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Laura's poetry word for the day: alliteration.
posted by Laurable on 8/21/2002 04:10:00 PM
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August 19, 2002
Laura's poetry word for the day: dactyls.
posted by Laurable on 8/19/2002 04:33:31 PM
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An old New York Times article on multimedia poetry.
posted by Laurable on 8/19/2002 04:18:02 PM
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While in the About poetry realm, I discovered A Field Guide to the Poetics of the '90s by R.S. Gwynn in Expansive Poetry & Music Online. Dana Gioia dot net has an essay on Gwynn which also served as the introduction to his collection of poems No Word of Farewell.
I also found The Authoritative List of Schools of American Poetics by Bob Holman on the Poetry dot About dot com site.
posted by Laurable on 8/19/2002 03:41:21 PM
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Three Generations in the 70's: Memoir of a Chicago Po-Renaissance by Bob Holman on Poetry dot About dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/19/2002 03:30:32 PM
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BeeHive; a Hypertext/Hypermedia Literary Journal.
posted by Laurable on 8/19/2002 11:38:27 AM
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Les Murry dot org contains links to audio of his interviews and poems.
posted by Laurable on 8/19/2002 11:10:28 AM
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I thought I'd check out magazines and small presses today so I decided the Poets dot org: National Poetry Month Sponsors page would be a good place to start. A is for AGNI still at Web del Sol...
posted by Laurable on 8/19/2002 10:45:55 AM
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August 17, 2002
Poem Tag now has it's own URL, which is of all things, PoemTag dot com, a production of GigoCorp dot almost ibid. Here was my contribution.
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2002 12:31:39 PM
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August 16, 2002
Turk's Head Review defends Wordsworth against an Atlantic Monthly columnist. Warning: link contains obscenities and violent diction.
posted by Laurable on 8/16/2002 06:47:52 PM
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This week's Slate (listen) poem is Lay Back the Darkness by Edward Hirsch.
posted by Laurable on 8/16/2002 02:36:16 PM
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An interview with this year's Nationals Slam Master, Cynthia French, in Pioneer Press.
posted by Laurable on 8/16/2002 12:10:28 PM
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Last Tuesday, The Connection dot org (listen) had a show on Ogden Nash with Poet Laureate Billy Collins and biographer Douglas Parker. The Atlantic Monthly has an article on Nash in their July/August 2002 issue.
posted by Laurable on 8/16/2002 11:27:21 AM
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Poems on paintings at Emory University.
posted by Laurable on 8/16/2002 10:12:39 AM
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The Pioneer Press has a Slam Nationals article, but not a lot of dish.
posted by Laurable on 8/16/2002 09:23:19 AM
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More Larry Rivers articles:
The Washington Post article,
another New York Times obituary,
Seattle Post Intelligencer,
Guardian UK,
Frank O'Hara on the painter Larry Rivers at UPenn
his Tibor de Nagy Gallery artist page, and
an Emory University page with the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware and the Frank O'hara poem On Seeing Larry Rivers' "Washington Crossing the Delaware" at the Museum of Modern Art.
posted by Laurable on 8/16/2002 09:15:34 AM
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August 15, 2002
Larry River's obituary in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 8/15/2002 06:46:24 PM
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August 14, 2002
Done in Pen: The Poems of New York Times Puzzle Editor Will Shortz, an old (9/00) McSweeney's dot net. Regarding the first poem, note the Ron Padgett sonnet Nothing in That Drawer on NPR's All Things Considered (listen).
Also from McSweeney's: Ten Poets Named Like Porn Stars, A Letter from Ezra Pound to Billy Wilder, 1963, Potential Names for Christian Rock Bands Taken from Lines in Emily Dickinson's Poems, Seamus Heaney: Lost Episodes and my favorite, Plath or Gabrielle?
posted by Laurable on 8/14/2002 07:55:59 PM
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And speaking of Slams... I'd like to give a shout out to the Des Moines team. In the summer of ‘93, I fled for the skyscrapers of New York in a Greyhound bus on the 37th day of rain of the worst flood anyone I knew could remember. And I worked in a nursing home. Now, living in the malicious heat of 2002, this morning I had my coffee at The Des Moines Cafe on Manhattan’s luxurious Lower East Side.
Good luck and don't listen to any of those Minnesotans' southerner jokes.
posted by Laurable on 8/14/2002 02:27:15 PM
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Everyone give luckydave a warm welcome as he weblogs to us live from the 2002 National Slams in Minneapolis!
posted by Laurable on 8/14/2002 10:10:36 AM
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Hello laurable-ites. luckydave here, field reporter for laurable.com. I'll be keeping you posted this week as the National Poetry Slam unfolds before my eyes. And if we're lucky, I'll return with plenty of audio files for all of you audiophiles. Keep checking back, and cheer for NYC Urbana tonight at 7PM CST. In the meantime, check out Poetry Slam Inc. and the National Poetry Slam 2002 website.
posted by lucky on 8/14/2002 06:06:25 AM
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August 12, 2002
A profile of Geoffrey Hill in the Guardian Unlimited.
posted by Laurable on 8/12/2002 02:37:02 PM
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poetry as News column, which appeared weekly in the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, are collected on the Citylights dot com site.
posted by Laurable on 8/12/2002 11:49:42 AM
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Black Sparrow Press closes its door in the San Francisco Chronicle.
posted by Laurable on 8/12/2002 09:33:13 AM
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Marie Ponsot has a review of Springing: New and Selected Poems in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
posted by Laurable on 8/12/2002 09:11:44 AM
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August 9, 2002
I was very torn as to buy A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980
or not. Another time I guess.
posted by Laurable on 8/09/2002 07:41:41 PM
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berriganesque: variant sonnet generator by deadboy brain extensions.
posted by Laurable on 8/09/2002 02:50:41 PM
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Hey guys. Here is that Ron Padgett sonnet in audio on NPR (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/09/2002 12:32:56 PM
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A Bibliography of Poems about Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas.
posted by Laurable on 8/09/2002 11:25:16 AM
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Anselm Hollo gives a lecture on Ted Berrigan in the American Poet Greats Lecture Series (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/09/2002 09:56:29 AM
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Notes on S&M from the boundless reserves at SUNY Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center.
posted by Laurable on 8/09/2002 09:28:57 AM
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August 7, 2002
A new issue of Ploughshares dot org is up and NO POETRY. Count them! Zero none.
posted by Laurable on 8/07/2002 09:00:21 PM
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August 6, 2002
New to the Academy of American Poets Listening Booth: One Train May Hide Another by Kenneth Koch. Listen.
posted by Laurable on 8/06/2002 04:50:32 PM
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August 5, 2002
The downside of being a muse; in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 8/05/2002 09:53:35 AM
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Edward Hirsch explores lyric poetry since William Wordsworth with poems by Randall Jarrell and Marie Howe in this week's Poet's Choice in the Washington Times.
posted by Laurable on 8/05/2002 09:47:43 AM
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