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January 29, 2003
My e-mail access is back.
I received 283 e-mails last night.
BOOM.
posted by Laurable on 1/29/2003 04:29:10 PM
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BookTV dot org (listen) (a subsite of CSpan dot org where you can watch the state of the union address) has RealVideo of the 2002 National Book Awards finalist readings and awards ceremony. The poets include:
Harryette Mullen (start 00:22:00)
Alberto Rios (start 00:44:20)
Naomi Shihab Nye (start 00:51:20)
Sharon Olds (start 1:08:08)
Ellen Bryant Voigt (start 1:32:45) and
Ruth Stone (start 1:56:38)
You can here more Mullen readings at FactorySchool dot org.
Note: the archives along extend back two months.
posted by Laurable on 1/29/2003 01:26:44 PM
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January 27, 2003
From the Halifax Daily News, Robert Burns day was last Saturday.
posted by Laurable on 1/27/2003 09:46:47 AM
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From the Miami Herald (AP), the Library of Congress (www dot loc dot gov) begins archiving the National Recording Registry.
posted by Laurable on 1/27/2003 09:05:31 AM
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January 24, 2003
First Lines to Book I Won't Write by Jim Behrle in McSweeneys dot net.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2003 04:46:48 PM
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My FreeWillAstrology [dot com] horoscope (triple Cancer) this week includes a passage from a poem by James Tate which describes an unfinished metaphor for a situation you're actually involved in.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2003 04:39:43 PM
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Morning Edition (listen) January 23, 3003: Amiri Baraka may see his honorary title of New Jersey's Poet Laureate eliminated by the state's legislature today.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2003 12:17:53 PM
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A New York Times letter to the editor answers Anthony Hecht with Wallace Stevens.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2003 09:24:17 AM
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From the New York Times (AP), the New Jersey Senate votes to eliminate the poet laureate position.
posted by Laurable on 1/24/2003 09:11:13 AM
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January 23, 2003
ThirdFactory dot net
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 02:25:02 PM
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Impersonal message that I would send if I had access to my Laurable e-mail #4:
Dear Kevin @ IDontHaveABlogIOnlyAppearOnEveryBodyElsesBlog dot blogspot dot com,
...borges...
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 02:07:51 PM
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Impersonal message that I would send if I had access to my Laurable e-mail #3:
Dear Gary @ garysullivan dot blogspot dot com,
Here is the remotely hosted commenting function, enetation dot co dot uk, that I spoke to you about briefly at the BoPo Club.
Also, note the Team button on the top toolbar of your blogger entry page.
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 01:55:39 PM
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Impersonal message that I would send if I had access to my Laurable e-mail #2:
Dear Drew @ DrewGardner dot blogspot dot com (and all other blogspotters using the same template),
Here is the information on META TAGs I spoke to you about on Saturday eve.
Meta tags appear in the web page header. They tell search engines how to categorize a website and what search terms it is to be associated with. The only Meta tag in your template is giving someone else author credit. Here are the most important Meta tags that you can cut and paste into the header of your blogger template. The header is everything between <header> and </header> and is located near the very top.
<META NAME="description" CONTENT= "A weblog focusing on blah, blah, blah, etc... by Drew Gardner.">
This will be the text which Google or other search engines show below the link to your website. Right now Google is using a snippet of your content selected in relation to the terms searched.
<META NAME="author" CONTENT= "Drew Gardner">
This tells search engines who wrote the document. Your weblog is currently giving Andrew Hoshkiw (he designed the template you are using) author credit.
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Drew Gardner,weblog,blog,poetry blog,poetry weblog,poetry,poet,poetics,poem,contemporary poetry,language poetry">
Most search engines no longer support this feature because their crawlers have become much more efficient viewing content, but a few still do. You might want to put in keywords that some people might associate with you, even if the blog isn’t about that in particular. Perhaps “piano”. Note: no spaces after the comma.
<META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright © 2003">
This tells search engines the copyright.
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I have spot checked most of the other blogspot templates and I didn't find anyone else with contradictory Meta Tags.
Hopefully this will help people locate your site, especially people who aren’t using Google.
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 12:43:24 PM
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Impersonal message that I would send if I had access to my Laurable e-mail #1:
Dear Joel@FactorySchool dot org,
You have a Bernadette Mayer poetry reading listed on your wonderful Digital Audio Archive, but alas, there is no real audio link or file to be found. I am very interested in listening to this and if you could please fix this, I would be very grateful.
p.s. Dave is psyched. Rights are being queried.
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 11:24:32 AM
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FYI I am having Laurable e-mail issues and might for a bit, so my apologies if I've been out of touch.
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 11:05:24 AM
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There is finally a googlism [dot com] for Laurable, slight as it might be.
laurable is a perky poetry blog that specializes in audio feeds of contemporary poetry [via Joseph Duemer's blog]
laurable is maintaining an admirable collection of poetics blogs links [via wood s lot who sends me tons of referrals thank you kindly].
Perky, hmm?
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 10:17:56 AM
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[Impersonal message that I would send if I had access to my Laurable e-mail #neg1:
Dear Miles,]
So here is the audio recording of Ted Berrigan reading The Sonnets from the FactorySchool [dot org] (listen part 1), but what was the first bit of audio I was going to send your way?
Oh yeah, text not audio. Sonnets by Jim Behrle posted on the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Listserv; Sonnets 1-100 and Sonnets 100-120.
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 09:58:32 AM
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Via Arras dot net, via Alienated dot net, The Millennium Project by Bruce Andrews from Eclipse at Princeton dot edu.
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 09:41:16 AM
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Today (1904) is the birthday of Louis Zukofsky, born on New York City's Lower East Side. The FactorySchool [dot org] has 10 audio recordings of Zukofsky including excerpts from "A" - 12, Mantis, Song 22 and "A"-24.
posted by Laurable on 1/23/2003 09:13:03 AM
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January 22, 2003
PoetryEtc, a British listserv, providing a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics.
posted by Laurable on 1/22/2003 03:47:36 PM
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Listen to Ed Dorn reading sections of Gunslinger at the FactorySchool dot org.
posted by Laurable on 1/22/2003 03:41:33 PM
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The very first weblog (1992) as archived on W3 dot org.
posted by Laurable on 1/22/2003 03:19:19 PM
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Kasey @ Limetree dot blogspot dot com, Anastasios and others have commentary regarding the New York Times Anthony Hecht article.
posted by Laurable on 1/22/2003 11:07:47 AM
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In Training War Leaders, the Lessons From Poetry in last Friday's New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 1/22/2003 11:00:22 AM
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Harlem Gallery by Melvin B. Tolson in FlashPointMag dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/22/2003 10:37:45 AM
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Anthony Hecht is reviewed in yesterday's New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 1/22/2003 10:02:48 AM
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Today (in 1788) is the birthday of George Gordon Noel "Lord" Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale.
posted by Laurable on 1/22/2003 09:53:35 AM
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January 17, 2003
A description of Toothpaste Press (Actualism) from University of Iowa's Special Collections. Includes titles issued by year.
posted by Laurable on 1/17/2003 06:17:22 PM
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An interview with Bob Perlman in Issue 4 of the Electronic Poetry Review at Poetry dot org.
posted by Laurable on 1/17/2003 04:19:45 PM
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Merriam-Webster (m-w dot com) has archives of their radio program Word for the Wise from January 2001 - January 2003. (They actually have archives going back to January 1998, but they aren't listed on the index page, so you will have to change the URL manually.) The programs are an average of 2 minutes and the words for this month are: Cuban revolutions, Colored collared workers, Waitress, Mondegreens, Coy, Foucault's Pendulum, Nixon and nix, Expedition, Cleaning off the desk, Caesarean section, Confused or bemused?, Fruit or vegetable?, Ben Franklin, the printer, George Burns, the straight man, Filibuster, National Compliment Day, John Hancock, Whether or not, Portmanteau and other cases, National Speak Up and Succeed Day, W.C. Fields and epitaphs, More mondegreens and Musings on mews.
posted by Laurable on 1/17/2003 12:24:02 PM
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Constant Critic dot com: tri-weekly poetry reviews brought to you by Fence Magazine. Includes reviews by Jordan Davis, Christine Hume and Ray McDaniel.
posted by Laurable on 1/17/2003 10:42:13 AM
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Dear Lore from Brunching dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/17/2003 10:28:21 AM
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More poetry/poetics weblogs:
Cahiers de Corey by Joshua Corey: An online notebook primarily devoted to my adventures in reading.
The Skeptic by John Erhardt: An occasional blog (three to four posts per week) that deals with American poetry. I basically read the canon of a particular author, and work out any issues I have with him/her here on the blog. Until late December or January, posts will be on Jack Spicer. James Schuyler will be next.
Mike Snider's Formal Blog: One new poem a week, occasional rants and raves on how poetry works and how it doesn't, and links to news about poetry. Your comments, reactions, and verse are welcome.
reading & writing by Joseph Duemer: Notes about what he is currently reading.
Ineluctable Maps by Anastasios Kozaitis: poetics and sundry etcetera.
posted by Laurable on 1/17/2003 09:23:32 AM
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January 16, 2003
According to Jim Behrle, On the Green Line, no one is talking..., from a May 8, 2001 Here-Now dot org (listen) page.
Also, another Here-Now dot org (listen) poem, Behrle on Bourque, from February 21, 2001.
While I am on a roll, here is T Poem (listen) from January 11, 2001 and on December 13, 2000 Behrle read a poem, titled Poem (listen) about the Supreme Court ruling for the 2000 election.
This last October I missed the Here-Now [dot org] (listen) broadcast on Halloween.
posted by Laurable on 1/16/2003 11:08:39 AM
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The New York Times (AP) article announcing the National Book Critics Circle finalists.
posted by Laurable on 1/16/2003 10:54:03 AM
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Richard Howard's Talking Cures is briefly reviewed in the New York Times Book Review.
posted by Laurable on 1/16/2003 10:53:59 AM
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Bob Holman, poet and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, has a whimsical cameo in a Public Lives New York Times article yesterday about the Lower East Side Girls Club.
posted by Laurable on 1/16/2003 10:44:45 AM
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January 13, 2003
The Contemporary Poetry Review website has a new look.
posted by Laurable on 1/13/2003 02:06:00 PM
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Perhaps a trend of imprinting poetry onto livestock is beginning to take hold. A month ago, there was the cow poetry incident and now a vegetarian artist is tatooing pigs with poems according to Ananova dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/13/2003 09:52:53 AM
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Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy was reviewed in yesterday's New York Times Book Review.
Also in yesterday's New York Times, the Close Reader column is about Tom Paulin, the Irish poet of recent fame for being disinvited then reinvited to speak at Harvard because of remarks viewed as anti-semetic.
posted by Laurable on 1/13/2003 09:08:22 AM
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January 10, 2003
From CBC [dot ca] ArtNews, the Canadian poet laureate, George Bowering, has a problem with slam poets. A true classic poet, says Bowering, is humble before the word and respects language. He says a poet who uses poetry to win a competition for his or her own glory is missing the point. Morality and art again.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2003 06:35:32 PM
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Stanley Plumly was very recently interviewed in TheAtlantic dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2003 05:25:43 PM
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I just noticed that Silliman's Blog has made it to the top of the google search for poetry blog.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2003 10:14:56 AM
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Yesterday's Poetry Challenge on Here-Now dot org (listen) was on Cut-Up poetry in the tradition of William Burroughs. Two sonnets by Ted Berrigan are read by Jim Behrle and Molly Saccardo. Hamilton's Brain Cut-up Engine, mentioned on the show, is a website that will cut-up text for you. The Poetry Challenge deadline is January 16th.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2003 09:33:15 AM
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It's the birthday of both Robinson Jeffers (1887) and Philip Levine (1928) today.
posted by Laurable on 1/10/2003 09:20:25 AM
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January 9, 2003
Composed on the Tongue, a radio show on WKCR dot org; features interviews and readings by writers and poets. Recent guests include Cynthia Ozick, Tobias Wolfe and Jane Smiley. Sunday 8:30p to 9p. No audio archives. (listen to live feed).
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2003 10:55:34 AM
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Re-logged: an article in the New York Times on the American Poetry Archives and turning old poetry cassette tapes into digital files.
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2003 10:20:58 AM
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The BBC [dot co dot uk] has a short story on the U.K.'s poet laureate Andew Motion and his poem questioning George W Bush's probable war on Iraq. This includes an accompanying RealAudio interview and recitation of the poem (listen).
The BBC (listen to first clip only) also has an audio interview with Motion.
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2003 09:30:41 AM
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Haiku CD reviews from the Riverfront Times.
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2003 09:23:37 AM
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More on the debate over the proposed New Hampshire state poem from the Portsmouth Herald (AP) found via the Laurable dot com newsfeed.
posted by Laurable on 1/09/2003 09:08:33 AM
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January 8, 2003
Ftrain dot com featured the Kenneth Koch poem You Were Wearing in his Poetry Anthology on December 12th.
posted by Laurable on 1/08/2003 03:36:08 PM
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Brian Kim Stefans from Arras dot net found a Google poem generator which composes either a sonnet, pantoum, sestina, collage poem or some couplets out of a google search.
Sounds like flarf to me.
posted by Laurable on 1/08/2003 03:31:26 PM
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Two new John Ashbery poems, Memories of Imperialism (listen) and The Underwriters (listen) in real audio and mp3s at Salon dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/08/2003 11:18:33 AM
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The New York Times (AP): New Hampshire tate Sen. Ted Gatsas receives a backlash for proposing an official state poem.
posted by Laurable on 1/08/2003 09:22:26 AM
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[Gwyneth] Paltrow began work Monday in the southern city of Dunedin on South Island on ``Ted and Sylvia,'' a film about the life of poet Sylvia Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes.
~New York Times
posted by Laurable on 1/08/2003 09:19:18 AM
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Yesterday, the New York Times Tunnel Vision column printed three of its entries for the Poetry Society of America Poetry in Motion contest. None of the entries were winners.
posted by Laurable on 1/08/2003 09:08:34 AM
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January 6, 2003
Yet another new poetry/poetics weblog over at HGpoetics dot blogspot dot com. Welcome Henry!
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 04:42:26 PM
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Shaving in the Dark, Thanks Prayer at the Cove, The Word "I", April Orchard, Flight, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Registration of Names, The New Child, Entry and Prayer, and From a Discarded Image by Franz Wright in PoetryMagazine [dot COM]
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 03:11:07 PM
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I was in need of a laugh, so I went to the CartoonBank dot com. This one always gets a chuckle out of me as well.
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 02:50:41 PM
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Drew Gardner has a brand-spanking new weblog called Overlap at DrewGardner dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 02:35:08 PM
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Dana Gioia is on TheConnection [dot org] today (listen).
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 02:33:46 PM
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The poetry correspondents are back with reports of poetry from around the globe at Poetry dot About dot com. This week Gary Mex Glazner reviews Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters and gives Joseph Parisi ten suggestion on what to do with the Ruth Lilly gift to PoetryMagazine [dot org].
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 11:38:28 AM
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Poems by Jennifer Michael Hecht:
History and Waiting to Happen, Villanelle If You Want to Be a Bad-Ass, Trotsky’s Hand, Please Answer All Three Of The Following Essay Questions, and Swamp Thing are the sample poems provided by TupeloPress dot org
September and The Bottom of the Nile on JenniferMichaelHecht dot com.
Naked in Nerve dot com
Two at a Time at PoetryDaily dot org, but cached by Google
On the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love at the WritersAlmanac dot org.
The Innocent on [Newspoetry] and
Plus an interview in Poetry Santa Cruz and a review by Amy Holman in the Cortland Review dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 10:29:07 AM
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Last Friday, NPR's Fresh Air (listen) did the second half of the show on poet and essayist Lucy Grealy who died last month.
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 10:10:48 AM
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The San Francisco Chronicle has an article/interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti by Garrison Keillor.
Also in the Chronicle, a review of Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets edited by J.D. McClatchy (the Princeton University Press page), a review of Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski and a review of As Ever: Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger.
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 09:59:46 AM
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Found on the Laurable dot com Newsfeed; a review of Die On Me, poetry audio by Gregory Corso at Music-Critic dot com.
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 09:50:08 AM
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This week's New York Times Book Review has an review of The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds.
Also in the Book Review, a review of Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle.
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 09:38:50 AM
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On January 1st, the New York Times had a Public Lives article on Ed Friedman and St. Marks Poetry Project.
posted by Laurable on 1/06/2003 09:27:01 AM
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January 3, 2003
Best American Poetry On the Air, an interview and reading with Denise Duhamel, conducted by David Lehman, is the new winter feature at New at the Cortland Review (listen).
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2003 10:40:01 AM
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The January/February issue of Poets & Writers is available and includes an article on poetry audio at Naropa University and their Audio Preservation and Access Project.
PoetsPath dot com provides RealAudio of five seasons and thirty-one lectures from Naropa on their American Poet Greats Lecture Series page which includes:
2000-2001
The Wild West Wind / Remembering Allen Ginsberg: A lecture by Susan Edwards
Lew Welch by Bill Scheffel
Michael Ondaatje by Katie Yates
James Schuyler by Gary Allen
The Naropa University Audio Archive Project
Poetry Has Helped Me Make Films: A talk by Stan Brakhage
2000-2001
Jack Spicer by Mark DuCharme
Lorine Niedecker by Mary Angeline
Performance Poetry by Justin Veach
Digital Poetry by Veronica Corpuz
Ted Berrigan by Anselm Hollo
Patti Smith by Kayanne Pickens-Solem
1999-2000
Carl Sandburg by Tree Bernstein with Jane Wodering, Carlos Seegmiller, & Ken Bernstein
Kenneth Rexroth by Richard Wilmarth
Susan Howe by Cole Swensen
Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley by Jack Greene
Gertrude Stein by Kay Campbell
Jaime de Angulo by Andrew Schelling
1998-1999
James Ryan Morris by Ed Ward
Robert Duncan by Lisa Jarnot
Anne Waldman by Akilah Oliver
Alice Notley by Patrick Pritchett
Carla Harryman by Laura Wright
Charles Olson by Reed Bye
1997-1998
Jack Kerouac by Thomas R. Peters, Jr.
Philip Whalen by Randy Roark
Clark Coolidge, Jackson Mac Low,
Harry Mathews & Stephen Rodefer
by Michael Friedman
Frank O'Hara by Sue Rhynhart
Emily Dickinson by Joseph Richey
Ani DiFranco by Shira Segal
Paul Blackburn by Jim Cohn
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2003 09:48:03 AM
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From Salon dot com's Literary Daybook: on this day in 1841, Herman Melville set sail on the south seas voyage from which his novels would develop.
In the last few months, Slought dot net(works) has made available the only Charles Olson audio over 15 seconds that I have been able to find. One of several audio recordings is a lecture (listen) on Melville from Goddard College in 1962. A pdf transcript is also available.
Whoops. I take that back. UBU dot com has a few Olson mp3s from the Giorno Poetry Systems series including; The Ridge, Maximus of Gloucester (Only My Written Work), and Letter 27: Maximus to Gloucester.
posted by Laurable on 1/03/2003 09:08:02 AM
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January 2, 2003
Firesign Theatre presents their own take on Twas the Night Before Christmas on NPR's All Things Considered (listen).
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2003 04:15:37 PM
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Letters to the editor regarding the article on memorizing poetry by Carol Muske-Dukes in The New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2003 10:33:46 AM
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I am adding a couple poetic weblogs to my list. New links in italics.
I am also fiddling with the idea of creating subject index for the poetry blogs, but at present I waiting for the critical mass of blogging to further develop. If anyone is interested in assisting me, please e-mail.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2003 09:49:15 AM
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One of the reasons why I adore Paul Ford and FTrain dot com. And another. And my favorite. (Just go do a search of Ftrain for poetry and in addtion also read this.) Someday, he will finally write for me the Dewey Decimal love story.
posted by Laurable on 1/02/2003 09:07:14 AM
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