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November 29, 2002
The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980 at has new mp3s at UbuWeb dot com
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 07:33:31 PM
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When Tom Raworth is in town, he stays at the Harlem Flophouse.
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 06:29:47 PM
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PhilllyTalks 15 with Kevin Davies and Diane Ward at the University of Pennsylvania (pdf).
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 05:50:13 PM
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Abuse the contraction and you will loose the apostrophe.
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 02:34:32 PM
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NPR's Weekend Edition (listen) on November 24th had an essay about Amiri Baraka's September 11th poem by Alfred Lubrano.
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 01:05:53 PM
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Ruth Stone Wins National Book Award on NPR's Weekend Edition (listen) November 24th.
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 01:02:46 PM
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San Francisco Chronicle riffs on the PoetryMagazine [dot org]/Ruth Lilly donation.
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 12:43:54 PM
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NPR's Weekend Edition (listen) had a story on the book Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters (PoetryMagazine dot org) on November 24th.
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 12:25:16 PM
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Maya Angelou is on NPR's Tavis Smiley Show today.
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 12:22:06 PM
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(From Brian Kim Stefans) Lying Motherfucker is a weblog with entries by various authors such as Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Martin Amis, Edward Gorey, Ernest Hemingway, A. A. Milne, Dr. Seuss and Bret Easton Ellis. A few favorites are these entires by Edward Gorey, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, A A Milne and Dr Seuss.
Alteranumerics at NationalPhilistine dot com explores intimate relationship between language and interactivity by transforming the simple computer font into an art form that explores the fissure between what we type and what we mean Basically he replaces letters (both lower and upper case) and digits with phrases and graphics resembling handwritten mark-ups. I found Self Portrait as a Font most interesting with a quick look-see. Later I will try This is Just to Alternumericise when I can download the font. Or could anyone do it for me before tomorrow? In the comments would be great.
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 11:03:46 AM
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Al Filreis and Shawn Walker audio on aspects of "language poetry" and contemporary avant-garde writing at the University of Pennsylvania (audio).
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 09:57:09 AM
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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s. Includes 35-track CD of audio clips of poetry readings. is due to be released in March of 2003 from The University of California Press.
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 09:44:14 AM
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Jordan Davis at Equanimity dot Blogspot dot com.
Equanimity: n. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure. [Latin aequanimits, from aequanimus, even-tempered, impartial : aequus, even + animus, mind; see an- in Indo-European Roots.]
posted by Laurable on 11/29/2002 08:54:38 AM
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November 27, 2002
On November 20, 2002, NPR's All Things Considered reported on Copper Canyon Press and their thirty year history.
posted by Laurable on 11/27/2002 05:27:09 PM
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On this day in 8 B.C., the Roman poet Horace died. Princeton University Press provides the introduction to their new book Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets, Edited by J. D. McClatchy. Contributors are Robert Bly, Eavan Boland, Robert Creeley, Dick Davis, Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Debora Greger, Linda Gregerson, Rachel Hadas, Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Anthony Hecht, Daryl Hine, John Hollander, Richard Howard, John Kinsella, Carolyn Kizer, James Lasdun, J. D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, W. S. Mervin, Paul Muldoon, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Marie Ponsot, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Ellen Bryantr Voigt, David Wagoner, Rosanna Warren, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, and Stephen Yenser.
posted by Laurable on 11/27/2002 05:18:30 PM
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Starting next Monday at 5:45pm, I will be leading a group reading of William Carlos Williams's epic poem Paterson at the Bowery Poetry Club.
posted by Laurable on 11/27/2002 03:51:36 PM
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I found today's haiku from HeadlineHaikus dot com humorous in a sad kind of way:
New Federal Rule Tightens Demands on Failing Schools
the poorest children
in the worst performing schools
hell or high water
posted by Laurable on 11/27/2002 02:30:13 PM
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From the New York Times: The Imperial War Museum in London has organized the exhibition Anthem for Doomed Youth focusing on twelve World War I soldier poets including, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon and Francis Ledwidge.
posted by Laurable on 11/27/2002 12:23:59 PM
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Inside Nothing; a poem by Nick Flynn with a visual/audio digital additions on BornMagazine dot org.
posted by Laurable on 11/27/2002 11:13:23 AM
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A review of Byron: The Poetry of It All in The New York Review of Books.
posted by Laurable on 11/27/2002 01:12:14 AM
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A former classmate interviews Charles "Mr. Opaque" Bernstein in The Washington Post.
posted by Laurable on 11/27/2002 01:04:45 AM
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November 26, 2002
I need to take a few tips from Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines on UseIt dot com.
posted by Laurable on 11/26/2002 11:32:09 PM
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The Stonington Village web site has a thorough collection of James Merrill links.
posted by Laurable on 11/26/2002 06:10:48 PM
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November 22, 2002
The National Book Award Foundation announces winners for 2002; for poetry, In the Next Galaxy from Copper Canyon Press by Ruth Stone.
The National Book Award Foundation site also includes Acceptance Speeches from past winners including; Marianne Moore, Archibald Macleish, Conrad Aiken, Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell , William Stafford, Mary Oliver, A.R.Ammons, Stanley Kunitz, Hayden Carruth, Gerald Stern, Ai, and Alan Dugan. The Book That Changed My Life project has several poets' entries
You can listen to Ruth Stone's lecture on Emily Dickinson at the Titanic Operas (listen) site hosted by the University of Virginia. Other audio lectures are available from Gwendolyn Brooks, Amy Clampitt, Toi Derricotte, Marilyn Hacker, Cynthia Hogue, Susan Howe, Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds, Alicia Ostriker, Katha Pollitt and Adrienne Rich.
The second folio of Titanic Operas is called Poetry and New Materialities and includes a selection of correspondence between Cid Corman and William Bronk, a collaboration between John Yau and the artist Archie Rand, the poetry of Lisa Bourbeau, Charles Borkhuis, Jordan Davis, Edward Foster, Fanny Howe, Geoffrey O'Brien and Maureen Owen.
posted by Laurable on 11/22/2002 09:32:30 AM
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Another Ruth Lilly, $100 Million gift to PoetryMagazine article in the New York Times. The article contains a bit of the magazine's history, some of Parisi's (the ediitor) intentions and quotes poets.
New York Times articles on Harvard/offensive poet hullabaloo:
November 21, Harvard Mulls Offensive Speech Ban (AP)
November 21, Poet Who Spoke Against Israel Is Reinvited to Talk at Harvard
posted by Laurable on 11/22/2002 09:10:19 AM
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November 21, 2002
Does anyone have a list of poems written on the day of the Autumnal Equinox, such as Rilke's Autumn Day?
posted by Laurable on 11/21/2002 09:06:19 AM
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November 20, 2002
Performance poet Sekou Sundiata is a guest on NPR's Freshair (listen) today.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2002 04:29:49 PM
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Book 1, No. 11 by Horace, translated by David Ferry at poets dot org. Also, To Sestius plus commentary by Robert Hass in The Washington Post. Ferry's Postcard from Gambier, Ohio in Poets & Writers. Robert Pinsky reads To Licinius on PBS's Online News Hour (listen start 52:47). Ode II.3 at Tear dot com.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2002 12:36:28 PM
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Poets Choice from March 3, 2002 in the Washington Post by Edward Hirsch on William Matthews. The article includes the Matthews poem Grief and a short but comprehensive summary of all the subjects for lyric poetry.
Edward Hirsch also commented on the Matthew's poem A Poetry Reading at West Point on NPR's Anthem (listen) in September of 2000.
Old Dominion University's (listen, part 1) Annual Literary Festival has RealVideo of Matthews from 1978.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2002 12:01:23 PM
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November 18 by David Lehman in Slate Magazine (listen wmp).
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2002 11:46:58 AM
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Dean Young to judge the 2003 Slope Editions Book Prize.
Last Words by Dean Young in The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2002.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2002 10:30:57 AM
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John Erhardt has an essay oriented poetry weblog at JohnErhardt dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2002 09:37:38 AM
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From the transcript of a news conference (New York Times) in Prague Wednesday with George W. Bush and Vaclav Havel, the president of the Czech Republic:
Bush: Mr. President, thank you for having us. This is an historic meeting, an historic city, an historic country led by an historic figure. I'll answer some questions.
Q: I have one question for Bush, and a second question for Havel. Bush, you have said some lofty words here. The Czech Republic --
Bush: I said some what?
Q: Lofty words.
Bush: No one has ever accused me of being a poet before, but thank you.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2002 09:03:35 AM
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Articles on the $100 Million bequest to PoetryMagazine [dot org]:
November 20 New York Times Editorial
November 19 New York Times Book Section
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2002 09:00:14 AM
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November 18, 2002
Glyn Maxwell reviewed by David Orr in The New York Times Book Review.
posted by Laurable on 11/18/2002 12:13:55 PM
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PoetryMagazine dotorg receivces $100 million donation, from The Chicago Tribune.
posted by Laurable on 11/18/2002 11:58:37 AM
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A run down of the MLA 1996 Poetry Events provided by the Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo). This years convention will be held December 27th though December 30th in New York City.
posted by Laurable on 11/18/2002 10:23:53 AM
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Three poems (Lives of the Deep Sea Divers, Lives of the Surge Protectors and Lives of the Veterans) by Dean Young in JacketMagazine dot com (19).
posted by Laurable on 11/18/2002 09:52:56 AM
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Jonathan Mayhew's contemporary poetry/jazz weblog at JonathanMayhew dot Blogspot dot com
posted by Laurable on 11/18/2002 09:38:22 AM
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November 15, 2002
A Mini Digi Poetry Festival Flyer by Brian Kim Stefans at Arras dot net
posted by Laurable on 11/15/2002 06:45:53 PM
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The FactorySchool dot org has changed it poetry audio archive page address once again and also added readings that are not included in the Updates.
posted by Laurable on 11/15/2002 06:13:03 PM
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More Def Poetry Jam on Broadway today in the New York Times, the Daily News and the New York Post.
posted by Laurable on 11/15/2002 09:17:45 AM
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Bob Holman and the Bowery Poetry Club in the New York Times.
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November 14, 2002
CBS News on Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, including RealVideo (downloadable) of the Russell Simmons interview (watch).
The Def Poetry Jam on Broadway website claims to have music and video coming soon exclamation mark.
posted by Laurable on 11/14/2002 11:59:46 AM
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The Boston Globe muses on Dante's ''Divine Comedy'' and our contemporary the star-charted firmament.
posted by Laurable on 11/14/2002 09:18:37 AM
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November 13, 2002
Today in 1797, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge embarked on the first of several walks where from The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner was conceived.
posted by Laurable on 11/13/2002 12:39:04 PM
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The MLA's 118th annual convention will be in New York City from Friday, December 27th to Monday, December 30th.
posted by Laurable on 11/13/2002 10:20:54 AM
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November 11, 2002
Jason Schneiderman on Mark Jarman and the formalist trend in poetry in FrigateZine dot com.
posted by Laurable on 11/11/2002 12:43:24 PM
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Poetry International Web (Netherlands) featuring the Poetry International Festival, National Poetry Day (January 30th) and focus presentations on individual countries.
posted by Laurable on 11/11/2002 12:36:47 PM
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Elsa's Housebook:A Woman's Photojournal with Paul Blackburn, Gary Snyder, Harvey Silverglate, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Gail Mazur, Mark Mirsky, Joanne Kyger, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Harry Rand, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Bly, Ken Irby, Anne Waldman, Alan Lelchuk, John Limon, Seymour Simches, Bobbie Louise Hawkens, Hannah Green, Tom Pickard, Andrea Dworkin, Victor Bockris, Michael Mazur, Lee Harwood .
posted by Laurable on 11/11/2002 11:39:57 AM
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FactorySchool dot org change their poetry archive page again and has a new poetry reading (listen) of Carolyn Forche.
posted by Laurable on 11/11/2002 09:43:02 AM
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The New York Times has an article about Russell Simmons and Def Poetry Jam's new poetry run on Broadway.
posted by Laurable on 11/11/2002 09:04:07 AM
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November 8, 2002
The People vs. Gertrude Stein posted by Gary Sullivan on Buffalo Poetics listserv.
posted by Laurable on 11/08/2002 10:08:21 PM
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Here-Now dot org (listen) has a new poetry challenge: Lost Poetry.
Jim Behrle reads John Berryman's Ball Poem [00.49], part of W.D. Snodgrass's Heart's Needle [4:26] (listen to the entire poem read by Berryman) and part of Donald Hall's Without [6:18]. Molly Saccardo reads Elizabeth Bishop's One Art [2:19] and Thomas Gray's Ode on the death of a favorite cat Drowded in a Tub of Goldfishes [5:21].
posted by Laurable on 11/08/2002 11:27:11 AM
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Gregory Orr was on the Diane Rehm Show (NPR) last Friday, November 1, 2002. However, the poet was hawking his memoir.
posted by Laurable on 11/08/2002 10:35:12 AM
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The Laurable Poetry Newsfeed appears to finally be unclogged.
posted by Laurable on 11/08/2002 09:24:40 AM
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The new Poets & Writers Magazine is online with precious little poetry.
posted by Laurable on 11/08/2002 09:04:39 AM
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November 7, 2002
An overview of the National Book Awards nominees for poetry (Sleeping With The Dictionary by Harryette Mullen, The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds, The Smallest Muscle In The Human Body by Alberto Ríos, In The Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone and Shadow Of Heaven by Ellen Bryant Voigt)
in The Christian Science Monitor. Full of poetry this month, the Monitor also has a profile of Lucille Clifton and a review of Complete Sonnets & Poems by William Shakespeare.
posted by Laurable on 11/07/2002 09:11:59 AM
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November 4, 2002
Andrei Codrescu's poem 9/11 (with Allen Ginsberg in mind) on All Things Considered (listen).
posted by Laurable on 11/04/2002 12:39:01 PM
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The controversy with both Amiri Baraka and Quincy Troupe as poets laureates bring up the question of whether poets should be under government payrolls The Tavis Smiley Show (listen). Baraka was also on The Tavis Smiley Show (listen) October 22nd.
posted by Laurable on 11/04/2002 12:31:17 PM
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Brenda Hillman reads at the UC Berkeley (listen). The Lunch Poems series is now in RealVideo (opposed to RealAudio). The Lunch Poems (listen) kick off is also in RealVideo. Li-Young Lee will be reading this Thursday.
posted by Laurable on 11/04/2002 12:03:33 PM
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Brought to you by Slought dot net, a Conference on Marjorie Welish from April 2002 at University of Pennsylvania. RealAudio of the lectures are provided within the presentation links.
posted by Laurable on 11/04/2002 11:58:43 AM
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East River by David Semanki in The Paris Review.
posted by Laurable on 11/04/2002 10:21:01 AM
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The Poetry Society of America will be having a Lorine Niedecker tribute this Thursday.
posted by Laurable on 11/04/2002 08:58:42 AM
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November 1, 2002
A blogspot weblog for a graduate seminar in English from University of South Dakota.
posted by Laurable on 11/01/2002 07:46:39 PM
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Ron Silliman on Political Poets: an quote on Modern & Contemporary American Poetry at the University of Pennsylvania.
posted by Laurable on 11/01/2002 06:21:40 PM
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Wedneday, the 99th birthday of Carl Rakosi, the Kelly Writers House (listen) hosted an audio cast with Rakosi who was connected from his home in San Francisco.
posted by Laurable on 11/01/2002 05:47:19 PM
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If Poet Amiri Baraka Becomes Ex-Laureate, Is It Bad for Writers?; The New York Observer weighs in with their Baraka banter.
posted by Laurable on 11/01/2002 09:15:57 AM
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