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December 30, 2002
On December 26th, NPR dot org's (listen) Talk of the Nation discussed 'Lost' Literary Classics. The poetry books mentioned are The World Split Open: Four Centuries of Women Poets in England and America by Louise Bernikow [start 8:10] and The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees edited by Donald Justice.
posted by Laurable on 12/30/2002 11:33:33 AM
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For what car did Ford ask Marriane Moore to name? (Someone else's suggestion was used.) Find out over at the Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! archived quiz (question no 6) on NPR dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/30/2002 11:28:01 AM
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BYRON: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy is reviewed in the New York Times Book Review.
posted by Laurable on 12/30/2002 11:03:21 AM
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Is John Milton a terrorist sympathizer? Find out in Saturday's New York Times.
Carol Muske-Dukes has an essay on her mother memorizing poetry in Sunday's New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 12/30/2002 10:56:23 AM
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Ron Silliman at RonSilliman dot blogspot dot com posted his list poetry/poetics weblog links today. My own list of weblog links duplicates and expands upon Silliman's:
ECONOMICS: Poetry and Essays by Daniel X. O'Neil
Elsewhere by Gary Sullivan
Equanimity by Jordan Davis
Free Space Comix: The Blog by Brian Kim Stefans
Jill/Txt by Jill Walker. Jill also has a Theorising Weblogs log.
Jonathon Mayhew’s Blog
Lester’s Flogspot by Patrick Herron
Lime Tree (K. Silem Mohammad)
Lying Motherfucker with guest entries by Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, D H Lawrence, Edward Gorey, Ernest Hemingway, A A Milne, Dr. Seuss and others.
Million Poems by Jordon Davis.
Overlap by Drew Gardner'
nether by Angela Rawlings
Pantaloons: Tykes on Poetry by Jack Kimball
Silliman's Blog by Ron Silliman
squish by Katherine Parrish
Texturl by Brandon Barr
The Tijuana Bible of Poetics by Heriberto Yepez. Also, Border Blog, a weblog in Spanish.
Ululations by Nada Gordon
posted by Laurable on 12/30/2002 09:53:20 AM
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Recently found on Alienated dot net, the new digital magzine Poetics dot ca, an open site for poetic theory and practice.
posted by Laurable on 12/30/2002 09:18:52 AM
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December 27, 2002
More KUOW dot org poetry audio links (continued from December 24th and 26th):
January 9, 2001: The Beat (listen) interviews Edward Hirsch on poetry and his book How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.
December 1, 2000: The Beat (listen) interviews Baxter Black on cowboy poetry.
October 30, 2000: The Beat (listen) interviews George Plimpton and New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth on the late wordsmith, poet and literary wit Willard P. Espy.
October 10, 2000: The Beat (listen) interviews Simon Ortiz.
February 28, 2000: Weekday (listen) interviews Philip Levine.
posted by Laurable on 12/27/2002 11:00:50 AM
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Alison Dorfman reads the poems Fluke Is Decent Under 4 Easy Dots, That Sushi Bar?, and Lotto in BoldType Magazine.
posted by Laurable on 12/27/2002 09:51:39 AM
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Poetry and audio of 30 poets from Berkshire England on the BBC [dot co dot UK].
posted by Laurable on 12/27/2002 09:20:02 AM
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Today is the birthday of one of the tallest American poets, Charles Olson (1910). JacketMagazine dot com has Robert Creeley's preface to the biography Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life by Tom Clark.
posted by Laurable on 12/27/2002 09:07:54 AM
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December 26, 2002
More KUOW dot org poetry audio links (continued from December 24th):
November 18, 2002: The Beat (listen) Mary Lou Sanelli talks about her new book The Immigrant's Table, food and poetry.
September 16, 2002: The Beat (listen) broadcasts a reading/preformace of Kurtis Lamkin (with Kora music) recorded live at Bumbershoot, Labor Day weekend 2002.
September 9, 2002: The Beat (listen) broadcasts a reading of Breyten Breytenbach recorded during Bumbershoot 2002.
August 28, 2002: The Beat (listen) broadcasts Naomi Shihab Nye reading at the Skagit River Poetry Festival.
August 5, 2002: The Beat (listen) with Bill Radke, host of NPR's Rewind, asked listeners to submit the worst poems they could come up with and they did.
April 5, 2002: The Beat (listen) interviews Eileen Myles. She reads the poems Milk and Inauguration Day.
April 1, 2002: The Conversations (listen) invites listeners to read their favorite poems for April Fool's Day.
December 27, 2001: The Beat (listen) interviews Gary Lemons and talks about his book Fresh Horses.
September 18, 2001: Weekday (listen) asks its listeners what fiction and poetry they are reading after September 11th.
September 3, 2001: The Beat (listen) interviews Bill Moyers about literature and poetry.
posted by Laurable on 12/26/2002 10:17:00 AM
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A very merry Boxing Day to everyone, but it is also the birthday of Thomas Gray (1716-1771).
posted by Laurable on 12/26/2002 09:11:04 AM
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December 24, 2002
KUOW dot org poetry audio links:
May 14th, 2002: The Beat (listen 24:28) interviews Ed Hirsch about Duende and his new book Demon and The Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration.
May 3, 2002: The Beat (listen m3u 2nd half) interviews Sekou Sundiata.
April 1, 2002: The Beat (listen 25:17) interviews Jorie Graham for National Poetry Month.
April 10, 2001: The Beat (listen) interviews Robert Hass during National Poetry Month.
March 23, 2001: The Beat (listen) interviews Mark Doty. He opens with a reading of Mercy on Broadway.
May 1, 2000: Weekday (listen) previews the Seattle Poetry Festival with the Typing Explosionists Local Union 898.
posted by Laurable on 12/24/2002 01:29:00 PM
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Jim Berhle is the object of an entertaining poetic experiment performed on WNYC's The Next Big Thing (listen) last Sunday. Riffing off the Ruth Lilly $100 million to Poetry story, Behrle is taken from his home of squalor to the luxurious Charles hotel. Poems were composed in both habitats and then were compared to observe the effect of money on poets and their compositions. Also includes special guest appearance by Alice Quinn, poetry editor of the New Yorker (and president of the Poetry Society of America).
posted by Laurable on 12/24/2002 01:09:01 PM
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On this coming January 2nd, PBS's Frontline will be airing Much Ado About Something about various mysteries surrounding the poet Christopher Marlowe. Frontline provides real video segments in their archives.
posted by Laurable on 12/24/2002 12:59:34 PM
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KUOW dot org has two shows on the Skagit River Poetry Festival. Part 1 (listen) on August 21, 2002 has a 50 minute reading with Naomi Shihab Nye and part 2 (listen) on October 30, 2002 has readings by Edward Hirsch and Timothy Liu.
posted by Laurable on 12/24/2002 10:16:50 AM
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NPR's All Things Considered (listen) remembers writer and poet Lucy Grealy who died last week.
posted by Laurable on 12/24/2002 09:12:59 AM
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December 23, 2002
Robert Pinsky reads and talks about The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats on Public Radio International's TheWorld dot org (listen). Audio link is temporary. Audio of W. B. Yeats reading The Lake Isle of Innisfree is available at Poets dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/23/2002 10:28:37 AM
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From a Saturday New York Times letter to the editor, more criticism for the Newark school board and their support of Amiri Baraka.
posted by Laurable on 12/23/2002 10:09:09 AM
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From the WritersAlmanac org, today is the birthday of Robert Bly (1927). It is also the birthday of Harriet Monroe (1860), founder of PoetryMagazine dot org.
posted by Laurable on 12/23/2002 09:14:35 AM
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December 20, 2002
A New York Times letter to the editor doesn't like the Newark school board's support of Amiri Baraka.
posted by Laurable on 12/20/2002 09:04:04 AM
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December 19, 2002
New York Times: the Newark school board anoints Amiri Baraka as the districts poet laureate to counter the state's calls for his resignation.
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2002 09:16:05 AM
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December 18, 2002
After Language: 10 Statements by Christian Bök, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Karen Mac Cormack, Jennifer Moxley, Jena Osman, Juliana Spahr, Brian Kim Stefans and Chet Wiener in UBU:Papers section of UBU dot com.
posted by Laurable on 12/18/2002 12:30:48 PM
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The Onion recently had a front page story about a young poet.
posted by Laurable on 12/18/2002 12:24:48 PM
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The Phrase Finder might come in handy from time to time. Today's phrase in question was I have to go see a man about a horse. I couldn't find anything about galoshes.
posted by Laurable on 12/18/2002 11:35:35 AM
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Bathhouse Magazine: A Journal of the Arts.
posted by Laurable on 12/18/2002 10:09:54 AM
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Brian Kim Stefans introduces /ubu ("slash ubu") editions at ubu dot com on his weblog Free Space Comix: The Blog. Fall 2002 titles are: Pause Button by Kevin Davies, The Relative Minor by Deanna Ferguson, Now That Communism is Dead My Life Feels Empty! by Richard Foreman, What the President Will Say and Do!! by Madeline Gins, Vexed by Jessica Grim, Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson, Vérité by Michael Scharf, 2197 and Sunset Debris by Ron Sillman, Response by Juliana Spahr, Little Books / Indians by Hannah Weiner, The Lesser Magoo by Mac Wellman and The Tapeworm Foundry by Darren Wershler-Henry.
posted by Laurable on 12/18/2002 09:51:20 AM
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Ron Silliman writes about the poem as book and focuses on bk of (h)rs by Pattie McCarthy in today's entry at ronsilliman dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 12/18/2002 09:17:14 AM
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December 16, 2002
Another review of Kenneth Koch's A Possible World by Daisy Fried in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Kenneth Koch's Seasons on Earth a tribute from Columbia College Today by David Lehman.
posted by Laurable on 12/16/2002 12:07:10 PM
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I am looking for the meaning of flarf. A Publishers Weekly short review has the best (but brief) explaination I can find so far.
posted by Laurable on 12/16/2002 11:59:45 AM
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On December 1st, NPR's All Things Considered (listen) reported on newly discovered poems from the third century B.C. by the poet Posidippus. The new works are epigrams (some erotic).
posted by Laurable on 12/16/2002 10:38:23 AM
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From December 7th, Ise Lyfe presents a poetry documentary on violence in Oakland, California on NPR's Weekend Edition (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/16/2002 10:16:54 AM
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Sharon Olds had a review of The Unswept Room in the New York Times on Saturday. Also available are two poems, Bible Study: 71 b.c.e., Sunday Night, in the New York Time's First Chapter section. An older, smaller review of Family Ties from November 14, 1999 is also in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 12/16/2002 10:05:53 AM
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In the New York Times; A justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court incorporated a poem (of seven quatrains) into her dissenting opinion. Other judges are not happy. There also appears to be precedence for rhyming judicial statements.
posted by Laurable on 12/16/2002 09:54:34 AM
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The New York Times audio archives of author (and poets) interviews and readings.
posted by Laurable on 12/16/2002 09:29:13 AM
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On October 20th, Billy Collins read five poems from Nine Horses in the New York Times (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/16/2002 09:23:46 AM
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Reviews of two Kenneth Koch books (A Possible World and Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952-1954), James Merrill's Collected Novels And Plays and Chinese Whispers by John Ashbery in yesterday's New York Times Book Review.
posted by Laurable on 12/16/2002 09:05:02 AM
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December 13, 2002
Yesterday, Lloyd Schwartz described saving an Elizabeth Bishop on NPR's Fresh Air (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2002 07:13:59 PM
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Christian Bok recites Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate, and performs it double-speed live on WFMU dot org (listen end of show).
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2002 05:29:31 PM
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A Conversation Between Joe Wenderoth And Sandy Brown in FenceMag dot com.
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2002 03:10:50 PM
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Veterans Day, 1981, a humorous anti-war sestina by Carole Oles in TomPaine dot com.
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2002 11:22:17 AM
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A New Jersey State Senate committe is moving towards abolishing the position of state poet laureate outright in order to rid themselves of Amiri Baraka, from the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2002 10:42:10 AM
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A 1972 interview with James Wright at the University of Washington's Department of English.
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2002 09:29:47 AM
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Today, in 1927, James Wright was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio (listen). There is a whole slough of James Wright poems on Plagiarist dot com.
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2002 09:04:50 AM
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December 12, 2002
To the Best of Our Knowledge from Wisconsin Public Radio recently started putting up their audio archives (and back dated to late 2001).
August 25, 2002: The Poet (listen). Section 1 with Charles Hartman on computer poetry, section 2 with Patiann Rogers on science poetry and section 3 with Louis Colaianni on speaking Shakespeare and biographer Graham Robb on Arthur Rimbaud.
August 11, 2002: Literary Lives (listen). Section 3 with Edward Hirsch on duende and his book The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration.
July 21, 2002: Everyday Nature (listen). The end of segment one with Laure-Anne Bosselaar on the poetry anthology Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City .
May 12, 2002: Mother's Day (listen). Section 3 with Gillian Ferguson on her book Baby: Poems on Pregnancy, Birth and Babies.
February 17, 2002: Sweet Dreams, Sleepless Nights. Segment 1 with Lisa Russ Spaar on her anthology Acquainted with the Night about insomnia, or written by insomniacs.
January 6, 2002: Do Writers Still Matter? (listen). Section with Dominique Raccah on Poetry Speaks, an anthology of poetry which includes three CD's of poets reading their own work.
January 4, 2002: Weekday (listen) interviews Seamus Heaney.
December 2, 2001: Seeking Solace (listen). End of section 3 with William Gass explicating a poem of Rilke's about a bowl of roses.
August 1, 2001: The Beat (listen) interviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
July 30, 2001: The Beat (listen) interviews Marie Ponsot.
April 11, 2001: The Beat (listen) interviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
March 6, 2001: The Beat (listen) interviews Marie Ponsot.
posted by Laurable on 12/12/2002 01:57:26 PM
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Aspen Magazine's audio exhibits at UBU dot com.
posted by Laurable on 12/12/2002 12:37:00 PM
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Woodstock Meets The New Surrealism: Rimbaud’s Tribe At The Little Big Horn, a review and more by James Rother in Contemporary Poetry Review
posted by Laurable on 12/12/2002 09:00:33 AM
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December 11, 2002
FauxPress dot com got a new look while I wasn't looking.
posted by Laurable on 12/11/2002 12:43:59 PM
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On Monday, Paul Muldoon was on TheConnection dot org (listen). Also available recordings of Muldoon reading the poems As (listen), Moy Sand and Gravel (listen) and The Sightseers (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/11/2002 11:44:17 AM
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The New York Times has an article on Ruth Stone, winner of this years National Book Award.
posted by Laurable on 12/11/2002 09:10:38 AM
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December 9, 2002
Five New York poems (Area Code 212 by Frederick Seidel, Contradictions by Alfred Corn, Song and Dance by Alan Shapiro, The Fall by D. Nurkse and 123rd Street Rap by Willie Perdomo) from yesterdays New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 12/09/2002 10:28:19 AM
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On this day in 1854, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade was published. The BBC (listen) has a Thomas Edison wax cylinder recording with twenty-two seconds of Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Today in 1608, John Milton was born in London, from the WritersAlmanac [dot org].
Tomorrow, in 1830, Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts. Reblog: Andy Borowitz describes his memoir about his thirty-year friendship with Emily Dickinson in the New Yorker.
posted by Laurable on 12/09/2002 10:14:54 AM
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UBU dot com is mentioned briefly in a New York Times article about Aspen magazine and experimental/avant-garde poetry on the Internet.
posted by Laurable on 12/09/2002 10:03:37 AM
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Last week I logged a brief blip on NPR's Morning Edition (listen) about an upstate student writing words on the sides of cows so that the herd would form different poems as they moved about. On December 4th, the BBC (listen) had a similar story except using sheep and an accompanying Ł2,000 grant.
posted by Laurable on 12/09/2002 09:56:17 AM
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John Ashbery's poetry is seen as difficult in the AP article 'Greatest living poet' lets words slide on CNN dot com and in the HeraldTribune [dot com].
posted by Laurable on 12/09/2002 09:47:29 AM
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U.S. Writers Do Cultural Battle Around the Globe in the New York Times. The State Department has recruited writers (and the poets Billy Collins, Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Creeley and Robert Pinsky) to further American diplomatic interests and promote American culture by giving readings overseas. Essays from the anthology Writers on America can be found on the State Department's website.
In the New York Times had an explainitory article on the poem An Account of a Visit From St. Nicholas (Twas the Night Before Christmas) yesterday.
posted by Laurable on 12/09/2002 09:00:22 AM
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December 6, 2002
Bob Holman reviews of Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word on Poetry dot About dot com.
posted by Laurable on 12/06/2002 06:06:16 PM
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I just located the transcript to President John F. Kennedy's remarks at the Amherst College dedication of Frost Library in October 26, 1963 on Tom Mayo's Southern Methodist University home page. The audio of Kennedy has been listed in the audio index for some time and is housed at The Smithsonian Institution's SaveOurSounds dot org (listen) website.
posted by Laurable on 12/06/2002 05:51:00 PM
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Editor of Poetry Magazine, Joe Parisi and poet Galway Kinnell are on today's Leonard Lopate Show (listen) discussing Poetry Magazine’s 90th anniversary and the Ruth Lilly donation.
posted by Laurable on 12/06/2002 05:00:44 PM
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December 2, NPR's Morning Edition (listen): A SUNY Purchase tries to make poets out of a herd of cows. Bovine poetry sort of like Magnetic Poetry.
posted by Laurable on 12/06/2002 04:29:33 PM
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I am keeping good company on Ray Davis' update list.
posted by Laurable on 12/06/2002 01:51:41 PM
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Yesterday, Inside Nothing and Blind Huber (vi) by Nick Flyn were featured on PoetryDaily dot org.
Wednesday, Autumn by John Brehm was the feature poem on PoetryDaily dot org. Over at VerseDaily dot org, John Brehm's A Returning was featured on October 17th, Revelation on September 25th and My Emotions Are Like Fish on September 9th.
posted by Laurable on 12/06/2002 09:03:36 AM
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December 5, 2002
Brian Kim Stefans and Alan Licht performing at the St. Marks Poetry Project on UBU dot com (listen/mp3).
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2002 02:05:52 PM
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Stanley Kunitz is on this week's The Infinite Mind (listen/start 27:42) on surviving suicide.
October 30th, Philip Schultz was on The Infinite Mind's (listen) program on Alzheimer's.
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2002 01:34:00 PM
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Georgia Me, a headliner in the Broadway adaptation of Def Poetry Jam was on the NPR's Tavis Smiley Show November 11th.
On August 13th, Elizabeth Alexander spoke about Sarah Baartman, a South African woman who was displayed in carnivals and freak shows around Europe at the beginning of the 19th century on the Travis Smiley Show (listen).
On June 20th, Quincy Troupe spoke about his new appointment as Poet Laureate of California on the Tavis Smiley Show (listen).
On April 23rd, the Tavis Smiley Show (listen) interviewed Kamau Daaood.
On April 17th, the Tavis Smiley Show (listen) interviewed regular commentator Kimberle Williams Crenshaw about poet Sarah Jones, whose poem, Your Revolution, attracted the wrath of the Federal Communications Commission when it was played by KBOO-FM, a public radio station in Portland, Oregon.
On February 1st, the Tavis Smiley Show (listen) played a recording of Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues in honor of his 100th birthday.
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2002 12:17:59 PM
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Today on NPR's Morning Edition (listen), the 50th anniversary of Caedmon recordings, now with HarperCollins dot com, which pioneered the audio book industry.
NPR also has a feature page which includes an extended version of the Morning Edition interview (listen), audio of Dylan Thomas reading A Child's Christmas in Wales (listen) and Do Not Go Gentle into that Goodnight and various Thomas and Caedmon links.
The Harper Collins Caedmon site includes several audio experts from their poety audio collection, but unfortunately the particular poems being experted are not labeled.
St. Caedmon (seventh century) is usually credited with writing the first poems in English, from the University of Toronto .
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2002 11:11:23 AM
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Nikky Finney reads her poem Charm on WNYC's The Next Big Thing (listen) in honor of Thanksgiving on November 24th.
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2002 10:51:15 AM
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B.H. Fairchild talks about his collection of poems, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, on yesterdays All Things Considered (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2002 10:35:11 AM
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Thirty RealAudio poems of Dorothy Parker at DorothyParkerNYC dot com including; Men, Resume, One Perfect Rose, Partial Comfort, Bohemia, Coda, The False Friends, The Satin Dress, A Fairly Sad Tale, They Part, The Lady's Reward, The Evening Primrose, Afternoon, The Burned Child, Recurrence, Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom, The Counsellor; To Newcastle, Plea, The Red Dress , The Little Old Lady in the Lavender Silk, The Veteran, Parable for a Certain Virgin, For an Unknown Lady, Story, and Tombstones in the Starlight.
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2002 09:40:08 AM
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Poetry of Praise for New York City, a New York Times article today about The Words of My City reading at the Great Hall at Cooper Union last Tuesday hosted by the Poetry Society of America for the upcoming anthology.
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2002 09:14:38 AM
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December 4, 2002
A review of Hazmat by J.D. McClatchy in November 24th's New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 12/04/2002 04:51:04 PM
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An editorial to Dana Gioia, the upcoming chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, asking for the reinstatement programs that benefit individual artists in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 12/04/2002 04:46:52 PM
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Yet more Amiri Baraka/NJ Poet Laureate news in the New York Times.
Helen Vendler has a letter to the editor in November 28th's New York Times regarding Tom Paulin, the poet who was invited/uninvited/invited to speak at Harvard.
posted by Laurable on 12/04/2002 04:44:47 PM
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California Poet Laureate Quits Faculty Post from the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 12/04/2002 12:20:18 PM
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Various missed WBUR dot org links:
September 12, 2002, OnPointRadio dot org (listen): Robert Pinsky presents audio poetry and reads poems relating to the American identity.
September 11, 2002, Here-Now dot org (listen): Jim Behrle and Molly Saccardo talk about poetry then and now, and its meaning in difficult times.
July 14, 2002, BUWorldofIdeas dot org (listen): An evening of poetry with Rosanna Warren.
May 31, 2002, TheConnection dot org (listen): Jorie Graham was a guest on the show for a second time.
March 15, 2002, OnPointRadio dot org (listen): Greg Delanty, Owen Dudley Edwards, Liam O'Muirthile, and Eavan Boland discuss Irish poetry.
January 23, 2002, Here-Now dot org (listen): Guest Tyler Hoffman, author of Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry.
January 18, 2002, WBUR dot org Special Coverage (listen): Patricia Smith, slam poet, riffs on the post 9-11 nation.
November 20, 2001, WBUR dot org Special Coverage (listen): Robert Pinsky talks about the power of poetry to console.
posted by Laurable on 12/04/2002 12:03:03 PM
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From the WritersAlmanac [dot org], today is the birthday (1875) of Rainer Maria Rilke. Perhaps coincidentally, Ron Silliman referrs to Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo on today's RonSilliman dot blogspot dot com entry.
posted by Laurable on 12/04/2002 08:56:47 AM
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December 2, 2002
Billy Collins was on Praire Home Companion (listen) yesterday.
posted by Laurable on 12/02/2002 01:19:13 PM
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Old New York Times articles:
April 30, 2002, Poetry on a Par With the Wordlike Sounds of a String Quartet: the Ying Quartet's three-part series at Symphony Space called No Boundaries, featuring (among other things) the spoken (by Robert Pinsky) poetry of Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Robert Frost, Ben Jonson, Edward Arlington Robinson, William Carlos Williams and William Butler Yeats.
April 26, 2002, Writings That Defy Time's Toll: Victorians, Moderns and Beats: New in the Berg Collection, 1994-2001 at the New York Public Library featuring manuscripts, letters, books, juvenilia and realia.
April 21, 2002, a review of Springing: New and Selected Poems by Marie Ponsot.
April 20, 2002, A Turkish Poet Whose Struggles and Art Touch a Universal Chord: worldwide celebrations are being conducted for Nazim Hikmet, who is universally acknowledged as Turkey's greatest modern poet.
April 19, 2002, Poor, Miserable and Addicted? They Must Be Poets: a review of the movie Chelsea Walls about the Chelsea Hotel, directed by Ethan Hawke .
April 14, 2002, New York Times Book Review: a Books in Brief review of The Evening Sun by David Lehman.
April 14, 2002, New York Times Book Review: a Books in Brief review of The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill.
April 14, 2002, New York Times Book Review: a Books in Brief review of The Painted Bed by Donald Hall.
April 14, 2002, New York Times Book Review: a Books in Brief review of Homesick by Roger Fanning.
April 14, 2002, New York Times Book Review: a Books in Brief review of Landscape With Human Figure by Rafael Campo.
April 14, 2002, New York Times Book Review: a Books in Brief review of Shadow of Heaven by Ellen Bryant Voigt.
April 14, 2002, Bringing Out the Music in Poetry: a review and commentary on the Takacs Quartet with the poet Robert Pinsky reading the poets Ben Jonson, Louise Bogan, Robert Frost, William Butler Yeats, Louise Glück and Pinsky himself at Lincoln Center's Spoken Word series.
April 7, 2002, Verses From bin Laden's War: Poem found last fall in an abandoned house once used by Al Qaeda fighters which notes two authors, "the poet Dr. Abd-ar-Rahman al-Ashmawi" and "Sheik Osama bin Laden." The poem itself: The Travail of a Child Who Has Left the Land of the Holy Shrines.
posted by Laurable on 12/02/2002 11:56:41 AM
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This week's The New York Times Sunday Book Review has an three poetry articles:
Sing, Muse . . . or Maybe Not on poets' reading styles,
a review of Ted Hughes new Selected Poems, 1957-1994, and
a review of Dear Editor, A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912-1962.
posted by Laurable on 12/02/2002 09:23:41 AM
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December 1, 2002
Old NPR Audio Links:
May 22, 2002, All Things Considered (listen): Gregory Pardlo reviews Leaving Saturn by Major Jackson published by University of Georgia Press.
April 18, 2002, Talk of the Nation (listen): Ibtisam Barakat joins the conversation on the best books on the Middle East.
Feb. 25, 2002, Talk of the Nation (listen): Karen Chase joins the conversation on the new travel security laws (towards the end of the audio clip).
December 28, 2001, Morning Edition (listen): A story about 11-year-old Mattie Stepanek whose books are best-sellers, and many, like former President Jimmy Carter, find him to be an inspiration.
December 24, 2001, Talk of the Nation (listen): Clarence Major joins the conversation about Pakistan and the war on terrorism.
December 19, 2001, Talk of the Nation (listen): Jeffrey Harrison reads a poem about lying (towards the end of the audio clip).
November 15, 2001. All Things Considered (listen): Alan Dugan talks about receiving his second National Book Award for his seventh book of poetry Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry. In another audio clip he reads poem Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli (listen).
September 21, 2001, Freshair (listen): Robert Pinsky reads Mark Strand's translation of Souvenir of the Ancient World.
September 21, 2001, Freshair (listen) Robert Hass reads talks about the memorial service at Berkeley for September 11th and reads his translation of the Czeslaw Milosz poem In a Parish.
September 10, 2001, Morning Edition (listen): An interview with Nancy Milford about her new biography of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. It includes a recording of Millay reading her Love Is Not All.
Note: The NPR program page links are no longer accurate and NPR is not forwarding to the appropriate page. I will update them when time allows.
posted by Laurable on 12/01/2002 12:48:25 PM
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