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October 31, 2002
Alfred Lord Tennyson guest stars in a poetic panel from Daze of Our Lives: State of the Art 19th Century Humor.
posted by Laurable on 10/31/2002 01:52:00 PM
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The Line Reading series at The Drawing Center (35 Wooster Street, NYC) is of internationally known and emerging writers whose work explores the interrelationship between literature and the visual arts.
posted by Laurable on 10/31/2002 12:53:31 PM
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Some new (as opposed to old) Nick Flynn poems:
Paper Wasp in PoetryDaily dot org
Blind Huber (I), Swarm, Hive, Amber at GreyWorlfPress dot org.
Blind Huber (?) in the Asheville Poetry Review, and
Unfamiliar and Worker in Perihelion
posted by Laurable on 10/31/2002 09:07:23 AM
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October 30, 2002
Tetrameter [dot com]: A Page Devoted to Four-Footed Verse.
posted by Laurable on 10/30/2002 01:01:00 PM
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Ftrain dot com has the Canon of Classifieds. Among my favorites are:
Goods and Services: RAVEN, quoths, $10 o/b/o. Great pet. 212-488-9599 and
Men Seeking Men: Dublin, June 16 - You: pudgy middle-aged man on Grafton St., hat. Jewish? Hope so. Me: poet, Catholic, but only by birth. Let's reinvent prose. Write STEPHEN c/o this periodical.
posted by Laurable on 10/30/2002 12:54:26 PM
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A message from the Professional Organization of English Majors from Prairie Home Companion (listen) on October 19th and another from October 26th (listen). That's because women respond to the power of the English language when it's used by a trained profession. And just because it is one of my favorites, The Lives of the English Majors (listen). It's the largest secret society in America -- bigger than the Mafia --- millions of men and women and they know each other only by their elegant syntax and grammar, their excellent word choice --- and their use of the pronoun "whom" --
posted by Laurable on 10/30/2002 09:52:01 AM
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Ezra Pound was born on this day in 1885, from the Writer's Almanac dot org.
posted by Laurable on 10/30/2002 09:12:11 AM
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October 29, 2002
Poets’ prose is a glorious & little understood jumble. via Ron Silliman @ RonSilliman dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/29/2002 11:32:51 PM
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October 28, 2002
The History/Pre-History of The Poetry Project by Jerome Rothenberg from PoetryProject dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/28/2002 03:50:52 PM
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I just found a new magazine over at WebdelSol dot com called Double Room: A Journal of Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction.
posted by Laurable on 10/28/2002 02:27:49 PM
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A history of Giorno Poetry Systems on at Brainwashed dot com. Also, a discography which The Dial-A-Poem Poets series. Mp3s of The Dial-A-Poem Poets are at UBU dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/28/2002 12:01:06 PM
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A very thorough glossary of poetic terms on Representative Poetry Online from the Department of English, University of Toronto. Version 3.0 of Representative Poetry Online came out in October 2002 with several new improvements including a new database structure.
Also, a Glossary of Literary Theory in University of Toronto English Library section.
posted by Laurable on 10/28/2002 10:38:59 AM
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An Emerson random quote generator from Transcendentalists dot com.
and Self-Reliance at EmersonCentral dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/28/2002 09:57:25 AM
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More about Dana Gioia in the New York Times with more background and biographical information. The article refers twice to the misquoted no great poet has ever come out of California affair. Jack Foley, in The Alsop Review, explains confusion as I logged back in June.
posted by Laurable on 10/28/2002 09:06:27 AM
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October 25, 2002
Blind Huber by Nick Flynn is out this month from GraywolfPress [dot org]. Note: Graywolf mislinked his review section which, correctly, is linked here. This Short Take from Publishers Weekly on May 28, 2001 seemed rather odd.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2002 06:49:08 PM
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Come shadow, come, and take this shadow up by Louis Zukofsky at UBU dot com
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2002 11:20:10 AM
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Even more WNYC [dot org and com] audio links (the previous day's WNYC links are here and the day before here):
April 1, 2001, David Lehman talks about Ern Malley on The Next Big Thing (listen 4:31). Jacket Magazine 17 is, in part, an Ern Malley feature containing an essay by David Lehman, the complete Malley poems, a one-hour radio documentary from 1959, press clippings and more.
June 17, 2001, every year Poets House sponsors a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and in 2001 The Next Big Thing (listen) went along. Bob Holman shepherded the group and Bill Murry read Song (I'm going to New York! (what a lark! what a song!)) by Frank O'Hara. Brooklyn dot net gives a short history of Fulton Ferry Landing.
May 20, 2001, Laura Silver reads location appropriate poems around New York (Water Picture by May Swenson) on The Next Big Thing (listen).
September 11, 2002, David Lehman and Collette Ines talk about poetry after September 11th on The Leonard Lopate Show (listen).
November 17, 2001, Bob Holman reads his poem Cement Cloud about living a few blocks away from the WTC on September 11th for Studio 360 (listen).
July 28, 2001, Hobo poet Buzz Potter talks about transient life on the rails for Studio 360 (listen).
November 11, 2001, Chana Bloch and composer Jorge Liderman talk about their linguistic and musical translation of a love poem from the Hebrew Bible for Studio 360 (listen).
May 19, 2001, Lucille Clifton reads and talks about her poem Memory on Studio 360 (listen).
August 10, 2002, Marie Ponsot reads and talks about A Summer Morning by Richard Wilbur on Studio 360 (listen).
August 31, 2002, Sharon Olds talks about John Donne and reads parts of Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed on Studio 360 (listen 1:21).
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2002 09:41:23 AM
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Misunderstanding Ezra Pound by Garrick Davis reviews three books of criticism on Ezra Pound in Contemporary Poetry Review.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2002 09:21:09 AM
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October 24, 2002
More WNYC [dot org and com] audio links (the previous day's WNYC links are here):
July 21 2002, Poet Laureate Billy Collins dicusses beach poetry and summer reading recommendations on The Next Big Thing (listen).
March 10, 2002, The Next Big Thing (listen) on the October poetry reading in the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Susan Sontag reads Polish poet Adam Zagajewski's Try to Praise The Mutilated World, translated by Clare Cavanagh. Billy Collins talks poetry in times of crisis.
November 24, 2001, The Next Big Thing (listen) gives their rendition of Edgar Allen Poe's Tell-tale Heart.
March 2, 2002, a Brooklyn resident combats traffic noise with haiku on The Next Big Thing (listen).
September 16, 2001, Mark Strand reads The Way It Is on The Next Big Thing (listen).
October 17, 2002, Linda Pastan is one of three writers discussing the book that has changed their life on The Brian Lehrer Show (listen).
June 17, 2002, Robert Pinksy reads works by Ben Johnson and others on Soundcheck (listen).
April 13, 2001, Spinning on Air (listen), for National Poetry Month, plays recordings of William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas (right), e.e. cummings, Amiri Baraka, Mark Strand, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Billy Collins as well as the sound poetry of Jackson Mac Low as well as a music/poetry combination by Kenneth Patchen from 1958.
October 6, 2001, Claude McKay talks about and read the sonnet If We Must Die on The Next Big Thing (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2002 01:52:57 PM
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The Rose of the Name by Joshua Clover in Fence Magazine v1n1.
The editors asked me to write an essay explaining the evolution of Language poetry. I don't know how to. I offer instead theory, history, an apology, a reading, a quotation, and a reading list: the usual suspects.
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2002 11:49:54 AM
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Dana Gioia to head the National Endowment for the Arts upon confimration by the Senate from The New York Times.
Another New York Times article headline with Bush Selects Poet for Arts Position.
The Associated Press article also in The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2002 09:47:29 AM
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The Pre-Face by Jerome Rothenberg to A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980 at GranaryBooks [dot com].
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2002 09:23:38 AM
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October 23, 2002
The first chapter of What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Daniel Mark Epstein from the The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 04:53:06 PM
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Kurt Andersen reads his commentary on the Baraka situation on WNYC's Studio 360 (listen).
On October 6, 2001, Studio 360 (listen) ran a story about Fernando Pessoa.
September 7th, 2002, Studio 360 had Donald Hall as a special guest throughout the show on memorials.
July 14 2002, The Next Big Thing (listen), also on WNYC, did a segment with New Yorker poetry editor Alice Quinn remembering the late Kenneth Koch and talking about the Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion contest. The segment includes a clip of Koch reading To Life at Bowery Poetry Club last May. November 19, 2002, The Next Big Thing (listen) broadcast eight of Koch's One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays and discussed the play with Koch. November 24, 2001 has a slightly different version (listen).
February 11th, 2001, Mark Strand read selections (The Secret Rose, The Siberian Rose) for The Next Big Thing (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 04:22:39 PM
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Linguist Geoff Nunberg talks about the word regime on NPR's Freshair.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 04:13:32 PM
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A review of Becoming George: The Life of Mrs. W. B. Yeats. in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review. Also, a review of Billy Collin's Nine Horses.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 04:01:57 PM
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A Jackson Mac Low interview for the The Radio Reading Project (listen). Other Radio Reading Project interviews are with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, Johanna Drucker, Susan Howe and Hannah Weiner.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 02:56:32 PM
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Last Friday there was New York Times article about Amiri Baraka's press conference at the Bowery Poetry Club. Regarding another slant to the controversy; across the river, in Manhattan, many people were more shocked to learn that New Jersey had a poet laureate.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 02:22:02 PM
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An interview with Edward Hirsch in The Kenyon Review
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 12:09:37 PM
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PoetryMagazine [dot org] turns ninety years old and The New York Times provides a brief history.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 11:56:59 AM
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The City University of New York is undertaking a campus-wide reading of Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins, poet laureate and CUNY distinguished professor, from the The New York Times
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 11:20:51 AM
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The New York Times reports that Dana Gioia is a leading contender for NEA chairman. NEA at arts dot gov has a Writer's Corner featuring past recipients of their Creative Writing Fellowships.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2002 09:01:50 AM
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October 21, 2002
While looking for background information on the terms McPoetry and McPoem which I read in Ron Silliman's poetry Blog, I found the magazine SmartishPace (dot com). In the essay The Problem of Originality by David Gewanter, Donald Hall is given credit for referring to school-based, formulaic American poetry as the McPoem. Six issues old, in addition to poems, the site offers reviews, essays, interviews and a Q&A section that readers can submit their own questions to the poets. Carl Dennis and Campbell McGrath are the next two poets in line.
Continuing with McPoems, I also found I, a Minor Poet: thoughts and counterthoughts on a life in poetry in The Harvard Advocate, which also has Donald Hall speaking of McPoem.
posted by Laurable on 10/21/2002 12:00:24 PM
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I previously thought the audio recording of Resurrection: Elegy by Franz Wright at Knopf's poetry site was unavailable because the link appears to be broken. However, if you spell resurrection (listen) correctly, the RealAudio is available and working. Audio of Homage (listen) and Description of Her Eyes (listen) are also included on this page.
While I am picking at Random House broken links, the link to John Ashbery reading Soonest Mended (listen) is actually a link to The Lines (listen) by Randall Jarrell and the Jarrell audio link has the Ashbery.
Relatively new (and new to me) at Knopf's Boldtype Magazine are the poems The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (listen) and Eighth Air Force (listen) by Randall Jarrell. Eighth Air Force is a new audio poem for me and while I have a link to The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner at the Atlantic Monthly, which is the same recording as they are both from The Voice of the Poet series, The Atlantic recording includes an explanatory introduction of the poem by Jarrell.
Also new in Boldtype are Michael's Boat (listen mp3) and A Thank You Note (To James Wagman) (listen mp3) by Cynthia Zarin.
posted by Laurable on 10/21/2002 10:20:56 AM
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Jim Cohn delivers a lecture (via RealVideo) on Paul Blackburn for the the Museum of American Poetics (PoetsPath dot com). There are approximately thirty other lectures in their archive.
posted by Laurable on 10/21/2002 09:07:09 AM
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October 18, 2002
HardPress has a review of Frank Lima's Inventory by Tom Clark. Also included are scattered poems with a Table of Contents.
Four poem / paintings by Frank O'Hara & Norman Bluhm in Lingo 7.
Five Poems by David Shapiro in Lingo 4.
posted by Laurable on 10/18/2002 07:29:50 PM
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mp3.Studio from KPBS (SanDiego) has three mp3s (and RealAudio streams); Maria by Reg. E. Gaines, she never called me back by Bob Holman and So What by Quincy Troupe.
posted by Laurable on 10/18/2002 02:10:34 PM
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Firesign Theatre is now playing on NPR's All Things Considered.
Present at the Creation (listen) from NPR's Morning Edition explores The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. NPR also provides a reading of The Raven by Basil Rathbone (listen).
Here are four New Yorker cartoons about Poe and The Raven.
posted by Laurable on 10/18/2002 12:28:33 PM
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You May Turn Over and Begin by Simon Armitage from the BBC's Poetry Out Loud (listen) page. Armitage also has a short interview clip on Readers and Writers Roadshow.
Other BBC poetry audio pages are:
Voices from the Archives from BBC Four including short interview clips from Maya Angelou, Auden W(ystan) H(ugh), John Betjeman, E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings, Cecil Day-Lewis, Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney, Laurie Lee, Walter de la Mare, Andrew Motion, Les Murray, Ogden Nash, Ezra Pound, Siegfried Sassoon, Vikram Seth, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott and William Butler Yeats.
Poetry Proms from BBC Radio 3 which has 16 poems with audio commissioned for the Proms Festival at the Serpentine Gallery.
Poem by Post from BBC World Service has people request poems they wanted to have read on the air.
Poem the Lyric also from the BBC World Service commissioned four poets to write a poem especially for BBC World Service, drawing inspiration from four well-known and much-loved lyric poems.
Nature Poetry from the BBC's Nature section includes contemporary poets reading classic nature poems from the Plants section and the Animal section.
posted by Laurable on 10/18/2002 10:15:09 AM
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I just found some newly posted readings & lectures from Slought dot net. I am pretty certain they weren't there last May as I tried poking all round the site for quite a while. I certain would have notice two Charles Olson readings because I didn't have any audio of Olson except a 15 second .au.
The new readings include: Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg (2), Philip Whalen, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley and Charles Olson (2). The lectures are labeled as discussions with two to six poets among Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Margaret Avison, Denise Levertov and Philip Whalen. An Olson reading and lecture (on Melville) are on a seperate page.
posted by Laurable on 10/18/2002 09:19:46 AM
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October 17, 2002
A Bouquet on the Third Day (for Robert Duncan) by Dean Young in Ploughshares Magazine.
posted by Laurable on 10/17/2002 03:05:13 PM
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Advice to the Players by Frank Bidart in Harvard Magazine and Hamlet's advice to the players at Bartleby dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/17/2002 02:51:32 PM
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Villanelle at Sundown by Donald Justice on vers libre.
posted by Laurable on 10/17/2002 01:25:05 PM
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Jeff McDaniel picks 10 new chancellors of American Poetry at Poetry dot About dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/17/2002 12:00:04 PM
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Something Wonderful May Happen: New York School of Poets and Beyond is a new film which I have heard is rumored to be playing next April at the Bowery Poetry Club.
posted by Laurable on 10/17/2002 11:28:06 AM
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Dear Bill,
Love Dee
posted by Laurable on 10/17/2002 10:17:11 AM
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I knew I got 1971 from somewhere.
posted by Laurable on 10/17/2002 10:06:09 AM
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October 16, 2002
Brian Kim Stefans includes a poem (the kind of poem you write when you are sitting at your desk at work, thinking about war, trying to be a good Situationist but ending up somewhere between...) on Free Space Comix: The Blog.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2002 04:50:19 PM
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Projective Verse at Fifty by Jack Foley in The Alsop Review and also a page of Frank Standford including his poems, photographs, essays and letters.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2002 04:41:02 PM
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The University of California Santa Barbara (listen) has an hour long reading of Jane Hirshfield on The Voices. They also have a reading (listen) with Dana Gioia.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2002 04:00:43 PM
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Seriality and the Contemporary Long Poem by Joseph Conte on his University of Buffalo website. He cites Charles Olson, James Merrill, Robin Blaser, Robert Kelly and Leslie Scalapino.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2002 02:19:36 PM
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The Transcendental Friend: A Monthly Journal of Poetry & Poetics, Art & Criticism.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2002 01:02:34 PM
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Robert Duncan talks about Patterson by William Carlos Williams during his Charles Olson lecture (no. 1, part II) provided by Slought dot net (listen 31:26).
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2002 11:36:53 AM
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The Jargon Society on Charles Olson at JargonBooks dot com. While hanging around I managed to discover two pages (page one & page two) with many poets' portraits (and other assorted lit types) including, but not limited to; Russell Edson, Robert Duncan, Basil Bunting, John Wieners, Allen Ginsberg, Mina Loy, Stevie Smith, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams and Robert Creeley.
More poet portraits: Photographs from the American Poetry Review Records, 1971-1998 provided by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2002 10:17:18 AM
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Just A Moment: Paul Blackburn and the Fragmentation of the New American Poetry by Bob Holman in JacketMagazine dot com including Beats, New York School poets, Deep Imagists, Black Mountaineers, Umbra poets, Patarealists, and 2nd Ave poets. These are the people in my neighborhood, pre 1965.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2002 09:50:11 AM
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Stephen Burt reviews the William Carlos Williams Collected Poems in the London Review of Books, March 7, 2002.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2002 09:29:22 AM
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October 14, 2002
The Bowery Poetry Club was mentioned in The New York Times yesterday.
posted by Laurable on 10/14/2002 01:28:40 PM
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Peter Davison reviews Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon in The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 10/14/2002 10:02:45 AM
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On Saturday, Ron Silliman provided Top 10 Myths about Language Poetry at Ronsilliman dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/14/2002 09:05:34 AM
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October 11, 2002
A sharp looking page on the Beats called The Beat Page. It includes a very nice photo gallery that includes William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Bookstore, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Diane di Prima, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Denise Levertov, Herbert Huncke, Ken Kesey, Philip Lamantia, Lew Welch, Charles Bukowski, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams and Robert Duncan.
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 09:56:01 PM
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The Censorship of Allen Ginsberg's Howl at the Smithsonian (listen) (download RealAudio) with RealAudio of the thrid section of Howl (Carl Solomon! I'm with you in Rockland).
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 09:45:51 PM
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Poetry & the Public Sphere: Conference on Contemporary Poetry at Rutgers University with more essays than I can keep list for now, but to rattle off a few:
Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley, Contemporary American Poetry and Its Public Worlds
Amiri Baraka, Social Change & Poetic Tradition
Charles Bernstein, Unrepresentative Verse
Alan Golding, New, Newer, and Newest American Poetries
Anne Herzog, West ChesterUniversity, Art of the World: Muriel Rukeyser's Poetry of Witness
Bob Holman, Plenary Panel Remarks
Brian McHale, Department of English, West Virginia University, Her William Shakespeare: On the Interventionist Poetics of Susan Howe
Charles Vandersee, University of Virginia, Clampitt and Rich as Public Historians in the 1990s
Susan Wheeler, Moderator, A Tag Without a Chit (Roundtable Remarks)
Nick Yasinki, Rutgers University, The Form Identity Takes
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 09:07:49 PM
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day, a Petrarchian sonnet, by Gerard Manley Hopkins on Bartleby dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 07:19:51 PM
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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to [former President Jimmy] Carter With Criticism of Bush from the New York Times.
Mr. Carter has a book of poems, Always a Reckoning and Other Poems.
Going back a ways but keeping with poetry and former presidents, SaveOurSounds dot org (listen) from The Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress has a recording of Poetry and Power (text) with former President John F. Kennedy introducing Robert Frost.
Going back even further, Walt Whitman wrote several pieces including several prose works provided by Bartleby dot com and the poems Hush’d be the Camps To-day, O Captain! My Captain!, This Dust was Once the Man and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd also from Barleby dot com.
Moving ahead towards the most recent and poetically absent president, David Lehman wrote an article in Salon dot com about our current Poetry-Free Presidency.
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 05:30:19 PM
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More poetry schools than I can shake a mouse at: The Authoritative List of Schools of American Poetics by Bob Holman at Poetry dot About dot com.
Also, Rebel Poets of the 1950s by Steven Watson at the Smithsonian quickly reviews the poets of the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain poets, and the New York School.
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 04:45:48 PM
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As a matter a fact, what interested me when the school marms finally restored the way Emily Dickinson wrote it - is that this dash appeared. This is the dash they fought day and night during my public school education, as they say, to get rid of. As a matter of fact, they scared it out of me to the place where I can hardly use it.
~from a Robert Duncan lecture (no. 2) at Slough dot net (listen 3:11) with much more American poetic utterances, junctures [4:22] and something snide about e.e. cummings which I couldn't understand [3:49].
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 03:58:01 PM
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Last Saturday, David Lehman was a guest on A Prairie Home Companion (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 12:07:08 PM
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This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams from Poets dot org.
the hazards of a later era: variation on a theme by Ed Dorn from English 88 at the University of Pennsylvania.
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams by Kenneth Koch at FavoritePoem dot org. The Academy of American Poets at Poets dot org (listen) recently put up a recording of Koch reading One Train May Hide Another.
My own bit of play:
This is just to Babelfish using the Altavista Babelfish translator to go from English to n language then back from n language to English.
Chinese
This is just thinks
I ate
are
and you probably
preserve
the breakfast
in
the icebox
plum
forgive my
them are delicious
are very sweet
and are very cold
French
It Is Right to indicate
I ate
the plums
which were in
the icebox
and which
you probably
save
for the Pardonnez
breakfast me
that they were so soft
and so cold
delicious
German
This is straight line to say
I the plums
ate,
which were in
icebox
and which
you probably
stored
to the breakfast
forgiving you me,
which was so cold
them koestliches
so sweet and
Italian
That Is Right To say
has eaten
plums
that were in
the icebox
and that
probably you were
conserving
for the first Perdonilo
breakfast
that they were therefore sweet
and therefore cold
exquisite
Japanese
As for this
as for me who am fair
in order to say
it was in
the icebox
which ate the plum
and with those which perhaps
you have rescued
because of breakfast
permit tasty
to be very sweet
and very cool
me
Korean
This in order to talk
I which am legitimate ate
the ON plum
which is inside
the icebox
and you for the breakfast
fact by they it is
storing
same were delicious,
to be like this
the sweetness
Low and forgive to me
which it kicks like this
Portuguese
That is Just To say
I ate
the plums
that were in
icebox
and that
you it conserved
probably
for the small lunch
Pardons me
that they were thus
thus delicious
cold candies and
Spanish
This Is Right To say I
I have eaten
the plum trees
that were in
icebox
and that
you probably
saved
for the Perdóneme
breakfast
which they were so sweet
and so cold
delicious
So much for that.
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 11:00:21 AM
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The Des Moines Register had an article back in May on the 12th D.M. Poetry Festival featuring Robert Dana of Coralville, Ia. Does anyone know what happened to my newsfeed? It goes back to February, whereas it used to only go back as far as the previous day before it was full. I am tired of poking around Moreover.
posted by Laurable on 10/11/2002 09:37:39 AM
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October 10, 2002
When I write a song, there is a tune that goes with it. It had begun to dawn on me when I wrote this song that perhaps the reason that poetry and music became separated; that the troubadours were doing all right, except that all of a sudden, up came a bunch of singers who were competing. And as we all know, I mean, if you've ever heard a composer singing something they've set, um, it's really quite a weird experience. And so, gradually a bunch of Frank Sinatras crowded out all those poets and later complained about why aren't poets singing. And all we had was Carl Sandburg in-between.
~from a Robert Duncan lecture at Slough dot net (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2002 04:30:33 PM
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A New Yorker [dot com] cartoon from their CartoonBank [dot com] riffing off the Robert Frost poem Fire and Ice (on Bartleby dot com).
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2002 02:30:33 PM
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Two overlooked audio poems by Jeffrey McDaniel at Salon dot com; The Jerk and Billy Idol (listen). [The RealAudio on the Salon page is not working, but my audio link will work for the second poem.)
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2002 01:17:06 PM
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Bill Knott: No Man is an Eyelid (a wandering fan's notes) by klipschutz at Pith dot net.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2002 11:12:18 AM
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Three Generations in the 70's: Memoir of a Chicago Po-Renaissance by Bob Holman at Poetry dot About dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2002 11:02:43 AM
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Carl Rakosi will be reading October 30th at Kelly Writers House of University of Pennsylvania and it will be available on the Internet via RealVideo webcast.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2002 09:21:39 AM
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October 9, 2002
Al Filreis at the University of Pennsylvania has his Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (5) course online.
Also available are webcast discussions, including; William Carlos Williams and modernism, Whitmanian mode "versus" the Dickinsonian mode, Stein, modernism, and the emergence of postmodernism under the influence of Stein, conversation with Marjorie Perloff and Bob Perelman about Gertrude Stein, and Ashbery and introduction to language poetry.
posted by Laurable on 10/09/2002 01:53:58 PM
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Ron Silliman breaks down and examines the groupings in the Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry on RonSilliman dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/09/2002 12:31:48 PM
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Greg Bachar reviews It Wasn't A Dream, It Was A Flood: The Life and Work of Frank Stanford in the Fall 1998 Rain Taxi dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/09/2002 12:02:49 PM
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The PoetryProject [dot com] at St. Marks is having memorial for John Wieners. The Factoryschool dot org has a ten minute reading and discussion of his work.
TheEastVillage dot com has four poems in QuickTime video: Permanent (video), Yonnie (video), May (video), and White Rum and Limes (video). UBU dot com (listen) has an mp3 of In Public.
Slought dot net has two readings, one from 1965 (listen) and the other from 1967 (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/09/2002 10:17:42 AM
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October 8, 2002
For David Henderson: a Robert Hayden reading and discussion of his work (such as being the consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress in D.C.) over at the FactorySchool dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2002 01:54:41 PM
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October 7, 2002
Franz Wright poems in Perihelion on Web del Sol.
posted by Laurable on 10/07/2002 03:51:35 PM
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A Robert Pinsky lecture, Poetry in the Public Sphere, delivered on May 13, 2002, is now up at the Library of Congress (listen) video archive. Also, Harold Bloom discussing his book How to Read and Why at the Center for the Book (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/07/2002 02:55:18 PM
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New Media Poetry paper abstracts from an upcoming conference at The University of Iowa, such as; Al Filreis Kinetic Is as Kinetic Does: On the Institutionalization of E-Poetries and Marjorie Perloff The Poetics of Click and Drag: Problems and Possibilities of Digital Textuality.
posted by Laurable on 10/07/2002 10:53:34 AM
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Ron Silliman is writing of Actualists once more on RonSilliman dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/07/2002 10:14:05 AM
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October 4, 2002
Poets & Writers reports that GraywolfPress dot org has a new poetry editor; Jeffrey Shotts.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 09:57:27 PM
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Robert Pinsky talks about Poetry and our National Identity on WBUR dot org's On Point (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 09:47:48 PM
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Salon dot com's Literary Day book for today is about Wallace Stevens who published The Man With the Blue Guitar in 1937.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 09:10:13 PM
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Sonia Sanchez speaks about June Jordan's posthumously published book Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays of June Jordan on NPR's The Tavis Smiley Show (listen) September 26th.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 07:35:52 PM
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Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins on Bartleby dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 04:46:11 PM
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Robert Frost anticipates rap music (the new poetry) in 1959 at the University of Iowa (listen start 15:12).
You know there is a new word going around that future poetry is going to be urban, satiric and gang produced. And that its going to be devoid of resonance. They’re going to get the resonance out of it, see … all that. I want you to know in advance about what’s coming... and profit.
And while we are contemplating sedition and treason this morning... Reluctance by Robert Frost at Bartleby dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 11:49:37 AM
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Laura's political/poetry word of the day: sedition.
The Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 provided by The University of Oklahoma Law Center. An explanation from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. on Bartleby dot com and a narrative from PlanetPapers dot com.
The U.S. Sedition Act; 16 May, 1918 from the World War I Document Archive.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 10:57:25 AM
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Laura's book vocabulary for the day:
for·ward: n. A preface or an introductory note, as for a book, especially by a person other than the author.
in·tro·duc·tion n. 2. A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another. 4. Something spoken, written, or otherwise presented in beginning or introducing something, especially: A preface, as to a book.
pref·ace n. 1. A preliminary statement or essay introducing a book that explains its scope, intention, or background and is usually written by the author.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 10:34:29 AM
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Linguist Geoff Nunberg talks about presidents and language, and the pronunciation of nuclear as nucular. on NPR's Fresh Air.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 10:15:38 AM
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A Literary Review at Bellevue? Believe It from The New York Times, October 2nd, about The Bellevue Literary Review: A journal of humanity and human experience. The previews include two or three poetry selections.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 10:03:37 AM
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A list articles regarding the Amiri Baraka/NJ laureate controversy with the poem Somebody Blew Up America (from Diversity@University of Oregon):
New Jersey Laureate Refuses to Resign Over Poem, Sept 28th, New York Times
New Jersey's Unrepentant Poet of Indignation, Sept 29th, New York Times
Gov. Wants Poet Laureate to Resign, Oct 1st, Salon dot com
ADL condemns New Jersey poet laureate for 9/11 'big lie', Sept 30th, Ha'aretz [Daily dot com]
NJ poet laureate refuses to resign, despite ADL charges of anti-Semitism, Oct 1st, The Jerusalem Post
Earth Calling Amiri Baraka, Sept 29th, Arutz Sheva Israel Broadcasting Network
Continuing Controversy Over NJ Poet Laureate, Oct 2nd, Newark-WABC (including video of Baraka's response to request for his resignation).
Poet laureate: 'Won't resign, won't apologize', Oct 2nd, Newsday
The State Grapples With Poet's Rhyme And Reason, Oct 2nd, The Montclair Times
Poet Laureate Stands by Words Against Israel and Won't Step Down, Oct 3rd, New York Times
Baraka sticks by lines on Sept. 11, Israel, Oct 3rd, The Philadelphia Inquirer
N.J. Poet Laureate Won't Resign, Oct 3rd, Guardian, UK
New Jersey's Poet Dilemma, Oct 4th, New York Times
Verse Perverse Oct 4th, The Trentonian
Poet Laureate Fails to See Harm in Hate-filled Verse, Oct 4th, Daily Record dot com.
4,000 Jews, 1 Lie in Slate Magazine from October 5, 2001 tracks the origins of the Internet hoax from last year.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 09:28:14 AM
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Quincy Troupe, poet laureate of California, in MSNBC dot com.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2002 09:24:30 AM
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