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February 28, 2003
New from the Blogger folks: AudioBlogger dot com.
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When is a dream just a dream? a poem by Jim Behrle read January 20, 2003 on Here-Now dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 2/28/2003 11:24:33 AM
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Jim Behrle blogs with audio (mp3s) on KickthePodium dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/28/2003 09:59:19 AM
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It's Such a Good Feeling sung by Fred M. Rogers on PBSKids dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 2/28/2003 09:40:54 AM
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Has the internet suddenly gone pastel or is it just me?
posted by Laurable on 2/28/2003 09:28:20 AM
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The PoetryCenter [dot org] of Chicago is now posting mp3s.
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February 27, 2003
WhileSeated dot org (listen to mp3) is blogging Dean Young and provides the first Dean Young audio (of A Student in a Distant Land) I've every come across.
posted by Laurable on 2/27/2003 11:06:58 AM
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Why I Hate Snow a poem by Steve Almond on The Next Big Thing (listen).
posted by Laurable on 2/27/2003 10:09:07 AM
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The Derek Walcott reading and conversation is now available at Lannan dot org (listen).
Also from Lannan dot org (listen), a William Butler Yeats tribute with Helen Vendler.
posted by Laurable on 2/27/2003 09:44:46 AM
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This is not Ron Silliman's Blog.
posted by Laurable on 2/27/2003 09:19:57 AM
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Today is Kenneth Koch's birthday (1925). Earlier this fall, Poets dot org (listen) put up audio of Koch reading One Train May Hide Another.
Today is also the birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807). On September 18, 2000, NPR's The Connection dot org (listen) had a show about Longfellow with J.D. McClatchy and John Hollander.
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February 26, 2003
Breaking new on PublishersWeekly dot com: Bob Holman, writer Ishmael Reed and novelist Amy Tan win the 2003 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award (established in 1996 by Poets & Writers).
posted by Laurable on 2/26/2003 12:44:46 PM
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A Frank Stanford index at ClockWerks dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/26/2003 11:48:38 AM
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Equanimity
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It's not the most fabulous word out there, but DISTILLED was what I was trying to remember.
posted by Laurable on 2/26/2003 10:03:07 AM
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February 12, 2002, Flashpoints dot net (listen) from KPFA (Berkeley) has a reading and commentary on the National Poetry Against War Day.
posted by Laurable on 2/26/2003 09:49:16 AM
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L.A. schoolteachers use rap as a teaching method on yesterday's NPR Morning Edition (listen).
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February 24, 2003
Nick Piombino says I am adorable. Aw, Shucks.
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 04:31:39 PM
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From the (AP) New York Times, Maya Angelou wins a Best Spoken-Word Album Grammy for her album A Song Flung Up to Heaven
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 01:16:40 PM
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A Google poem, Against Shock and Awe by Bob Perelman, is in today's Philadelphia Inquirer.
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 12:44:36 PM
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CBC Radio One's (listen) From As it Happens has a story about beer poetry out of Anchorage Alaska which originally aired April 20, 2001.
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 12:34:21 PM
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Here-Now dot org's (listen) current Poetry Challenge is instead a Poetry Invitiation for war poems. Jim Behrle read The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Molly Saccardo read next to of course god america i... by e.e. cummings. The deadline is March 3, 2003.
Salon dot com (listen) hosts a recording of cummings reading four poems including next to of course god america i.... The BBC Outloud (listen) radio program hosts a recording of Tennyson reading Charge of the Light Brigade from a Thomas Edison wax cylinder recording.
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 11:47:12 AM
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VOANews dot com (listen) (Voice of America) has a review of Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China translated by David Hinton from February 16, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 11:24:03 AM
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The editor of the Dictionary of Regional English is a guest on University of the Air from Wisconsin Public Radio/WPR dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 11:12:17 AM
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Eavan Boland is featured in this week's Washington Post Poet's Choice column by Edward Hirsch.
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 10:53:32 AM
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strophe: n. 1. a. The first of a pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based. b. A stanza containing irregular lines. 2. The first division of the triad constituting a section of a Pindaric ode. 3. a. The first movement of the chorus in classical Greek drama while turning from one side of the orchestra to the other. b. The part of a choral ode sung while this movement is executed.
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[Greek stroph, a turning, stanza, from strephein, to turn. See streb(h)- in Indo-European Roots.]
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 09:46:35 AM
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February 17 2003 on the Leonard Lopate Show from WNYC dot org (listen), Sam Hamill, Andre Gregory, and Ann Lauterbach discuss the Poems Not Fit for the White House poetry reading at Lincoln Center.
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 09:20:50 AM
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In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone reviewed in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Billy Collins interviewed in the New York Times Magazine. ...the public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
February 19, 2003, Arab-American Writers, Uneasy in Two Worlds in the New York Times.
Till Human Voices Drown Us, an Australian movie ghost story wrapped around T.S. Eliots' Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (at least the last three lines) and staring Helena Bonham Carter is reviewd in the February 21st New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 2/24/2003 09:00:38 AM
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February 22, 2003
taciturn: adj. Habitually untalkative. See Synonyms at silent.
[French taciturne, from Old French, from Latin taciturnus, from tacitus, silent. See tacit.]
posted by Laurable on 2/22/2003 01:24:51 AM
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February 21, 2003
Robert Frost's granddaughter writes to The Washington Post regarding the prior week's Poets Choice column and Edward Hirsch responds.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 09:30:47 PM
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More anti- anti-war poet commentary from the February 18th Washington Post.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 09:28:55 PM
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ArabNews dot com interprets Wallace Stevens's The Emperor of Ice Cream as a prophetic description of the current Bush administration and its policies.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 09:27:53 PM
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Boston poet Joe Torra was featured in (MPR's) SavyTraveler dot org (listen) on May 11, 2001.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 09:25:35 PM
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Amiri Baraka still resigned to keep his New Jersey poet laureate position from WPVI dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 08:23:24 PM
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The Salon dot com / Paris Review poetry (and prose) audio as mp3 and streaming RealAudio.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 07:19:47 PM
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This week's Washington Post Poet's Choice by Edward Hirsch is on Kenneth Rexroth.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 06:49:34 PM
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This upcoming Sunday is the birthday of Samuel Pepys.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 05:53:35 PM
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PBS's Online News Hour (listen starting at 44:29) interviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 05:37:34 PM
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The trailer for The Business of Fancydancing on Sherman Alexie's website FallsApart dot com (watch).
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 04:48:50 PM
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NPR's FreshAir (listen) resident linguist Geoff Nunberg comments on the word appeasement and its connotations regarding war in Iraq.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 04:38:11 PM
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From XML dot com - RSS: possibly another future fine poetry product to be brought to you by the good folks at Laurable dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 01:51:39 PM
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Robyn Su Millerz interviews Emily Dickinson about the Poetry and the American Voice symposium and whether she is a polictical poet or not at Poetry dot About dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 01:37:22 PM
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A review of the Poems Not Fit for the White House Reading at the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 01:24:17 PM
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Johner Hardt at The Skeptic remarked on Tuesday that he thinks I am the only poet who blogs “properly”. I am thankful that he noticed and understands this part of internet history, yet I believe this is an example of how easily proper can slid into old-fashioned with time and a very short time with the Internet. As an example of where I am coming from: I remember reading My Ass is a Weblog at TheObvious dot com back in late 1999 and thinking that the weblog controversy had reached its peak. Instead, it turns out there was another peak for every community that started blogging.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 12:47:23 PM
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More kind words for Kevin Davies' Lateral Arguement from Froth [dot blogspot dot com].
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 12:23:04 PM
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Today is the birthday of W.H. Auden (1907). The New York Times (listen) has 54 minutes of Auden reading at the 92nd Street Y in 1972.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 10:22:28 AM
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Gary and Nada's blogs have seemed to have disappeared. Anyone know what is up?
Ah hah! status.blogger says that some blogspot people need to republish their blogs and blogger is currently looking into the problem.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 10:16:22 AM
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This just in! Jordan Davis at Equanimity dot blogspot dot com just informed me of the new site Ron Padgett dot com which includes sections of Works, a Bio & Resume, Collaborations, Commentaries, Events and Links.
In September of 1997, Padget was interviewed on Bookworn from KCRW dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 10:03:50 AM
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Radio Radio a new division of UBU dot com is a sixteen-part series of forty-five minute broadcasts which ask the question; Is there really a place on radio for experimentation?
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 09:52:24 AM
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The Alterran Poetry Assemblage edited by David Dowker includes the Silliman praised poem Lateral Argument by Kevin I don't have a blog Davies.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 09:43:39 AM
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Adeena Karasick dot com includes seven poems. Two of them Mumbia (watch) and Alphabet City (watch) are windows media video poems.
posted by Laurable on 2/21/2003 08:59:52 AM
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February 19, 2003
Google snaps up Weblog pioneer Blogger.com, from yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle.
posted by Laurable on 2/19/2003 09:58:55 AM
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February 14th on the NPR's The Travis Smiley Show (listen), Nikki Giovanni talked about love, Valentine's Day and space exploration.
posted by Laurable on 2/19/2003 09:35:09 AM
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Monday, February 17th, Firesign Theatre had a Presidents' Day segment on NPR's All Thing's Considered (listen) which included a bit about a White House poetry slam.
posted by Laurable on 2/19/2003 09:30:33 AM
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Bill Wadsworth, former executive director of the Academy of American Poets, had a New York Times letter to the editor regarding the Laura Bush tea party/political protest on February 15.
posted by Laurable on 2/19/2003 09:07:56 AM
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February 14, 2003
In Which Poems By Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost Are Made Into Crowd-Pleasing Hollywood Blockbusters from Brunching dot com.
Also from Brunching, Dante's Inferno Punishments, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 09:51:23 PM
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The Myelin [dot co dot nz] blogging ecosystem will keep track of your (or my) forward and backward links.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 09:15:04 PM
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Into the breach.
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And a very happy Valentine's Day to you as well Nick.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 07:06:28 PM
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Concrete-Visual Poetry: A Web Log by Michael P. Garofalo. Includes an index to specific concrete-visual poems on the web, specific concrete-visual poems
on the web, 'crete 'oems: mpgarofalo (poems by Garofalo), and Re:This&That (another blog)
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 06:41:35 PM
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Tina the Troubled Teen
from Brunching dot com
quote updates daily
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 06:27:04 PM
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NPR's FreshAir (listen) resident linguist Geoff Nunberg comments on the word gallic.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 03:32:23 PM
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Sacramention Poetry from Capital Public Radio: Part 1 with River City verse (listen), part 2 with Sacramento's poet laureate (listen) and part 3 with young poets and performance poetry (listen).
Also from the Capital Public Radio arts archives: July 8, 2002 - Sacramento State professor Josh McKinney (listen), August 29, 2002 - California's new Poet Laureate, Quincy Troupe (listen), October 10, 2002 - The Sacramento Poetry Center annual workshop with Quincy Troupe (listen) and October 11, 2002 - the Beat Generation & Beyond conference (listen.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 02:09:02 PM
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How the White House canceled a poetry symposium and started a peace movement on The Kojo Nnamdi Show at WAMU dot org (listen, start 29:48)
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 12:58:01 PM
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Maya Angelou on the The Diane Rehm Show at WAMU dot org (listen)
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 12:48:10 PM
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Jim Behrle weighs in the the poets' protest of Laura Bush's Tea party with a poem on Here-Now dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 12:30:13 PM
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Deirdre is a champion heckler as reported by equanimity dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 12:16:15 PM
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An interview with Sherman Alexie on True West, a radio extra from MPR dot org (listen, start 16:19).
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 11:22:45 AM
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An excerpt from Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus (biography) by Lisa Jarnot in the Chicago Review.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 09:56:22 AM
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One of the first weblogs I used to read, back in the day, was Unpopular[dot com]/is/canceled by Maura [dot com] and Gregory.
posted by Laurable on 2/14/2003 09:34:47 AM
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A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson by Gertrude Stein at UBU dot com (listen).
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February 13, 2003
Another glowing review of Kevin Davies' Lateral Argument by K. Silem Mohammad at Limetree dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2003 11:32:19 AM
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A new weblog by Brian Kim Stefans, Circulars, poets, artists and critics respond to u.s. global policy
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2003 10:51:23 AM
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Nick Piombino has a new weblog at NickPiombino dot blogspot dot com although, as of yet, there is only one small entry for February 11th
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2003 10:39:52 AM
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Description of an Horatian Ode provided by H. T. Kirby-Smith.
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2003 10:01:57 AM
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It appears my new referrals feature is pushing my columns out of wack. I will have to adjust the javascript later tonight
posted by Laurable on 2/13/2003 09:25:49 AM
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Vivid: a poetry weblog out of Ontario, Canada by Erin Noteboom.
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February 12, 2003
February 28th, Iowa Talks on WSUI dot org will host a discussion on Walt Whitman with Univerity of Iowa professor Ed Folsom.
The University of Iowa Library has a quicktime recording of Folsom giving a speech on Whitman in 1998. The quicktime movie is in four sections: on the occasion of the Presidential Lecture and on interdisciplinarity (watch), on re-PRESENTATION and academic community (watch), on reading, presence, and democracy (watch), the Presidential Lecture (watch).
Also included is Jorie Graham reading So Long (text from watch) (Bartleby dot com) and Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (watch) (text from Bartleby dot com).
posted by Laurable on 2/12/2003 01:39:41 PM
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On February 10th, Slate dot com had an article no two newly discovered Philip Larkin poems.
posted by Laurable on 2/12/2003 01:32:56 PM
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Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday (1809). The Atlantic Monthly (listen) has a recording of Robert Pinsky reading a poem written by Lincoln in October 1999 issue.
posted by Laurable on 2/12/2003 01:29:13 PM
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Note the new referrers system below the other poetry/poetics weblogs list.
posted by Laurable on 2/12/2003 01:22:05 PM
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The follow-up to the pro-war Wall Street Journal column soliciting pro-war (pro-American, pro-freedom, anti-Saddam, anti-idiotarian) poems was posted today. There were reportedly over 300 e-mail submissions.
Roger Kimball, also in the Wall Street Journal, had a anti-Hamill column on February 5th.
J. Bottum also has a anti-Hamill column in the February 17th issue of TheWeeklyStandard [dot com].
posted by Laurable on 2/12/2003 01:14:35 PM
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Three letters to the editor regarding Sam Hamill's poetry protest in today's New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 2/12/2003 12:30:26 PM
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On April 27, 2002, the Library of Congress (listen) and The Center for the Book hosted A River of Words, an international poetry and art program for students from kindergarten to 12th grade which promotes literacy and environmental stewardship founded by Pamela Michael and Robert Hass in 1995.
posted by Laurable on 2/12/2003 11:37:15 AM
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Yesterday, All Thing's Considered (listen) had a story about Sam Hamill and A National Day of Poetry Against the War. Transcript included.
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February 10, 2003
Tomorrow is the feast of Saint Cædmon, the first poet to compose in English.
posted by Laurable on 2/10/2003 04:53:51 PM
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Ron Silliman gives Kevin "I don't have a weblog" Davies props on RonSilliman dot blogspot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/10/2003 01:38:07 PM
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On the weblog front, here is an old (like, the year 2000 old) article from my friend Rich Robinson of (Inferiority dot com) on deterioration of the weblog in AListApart dot com.
posted by Laurable on 2/10/2003 01:17:03 PM
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From Poets & Writers, Louise Glück replaces W.S. Merwin as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets series.
posted by Laurable on 2/10/2003 01:01:13 PM
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The Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web column by James Taranto commented on a Poets Against the War poem with, We've never heard of Adrienne Rich, but how can she claim to be a poet? This stuff doesn't even rhyme! He encourages readers to send in pro-war poems to be posted February 12th.
posted by Laurable on 2/10/2003 12:47:03 PM
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The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth reviewed by Dana Gioia in the LA Times.
posted by Laurable on 2/10/2003 12:34:20 PM
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Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush, a column on poets protest of the White House in The Nation.
posted by Laurable on 2/10/2003 11:10:54 AM
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On Saturday, the president of the Jazz Museum in Harlem, criticized the protesting poets in a New York Times Letter to the Editor.
More harsh words for Sam Hamill in the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal.
posted by Laurable on 2/10/2003 11:06:33 AM
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Elizabeth Bishop's birthday was on February 8 (1911). Amy Lowell's birthday was on February 9 (1874).
posted by Laurable on 2/10/2003 10:00:57 AM
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February 7, 2003
George Bowering, Canadian Poet Laureate, joins other laureates in opposing war on Iraq in the CBC dot ca Art News.
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2003 09:47:04 PM
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Posters for the February 15th anti-war rally at United for Peace dot org thanks to Drew.
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2003 07:28:51 PM
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Aristotle on epic poetry from Gutenberg dot org:
versus Tragedy
Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher type. They differ, in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of metre, and is narrative in form. They differ, again, in their length: for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this
limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time.
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Epic poetry has, however, a great--a special--capacity for enlarging its dimensions, and we can see the reason. In Tragedy we cannot imitate several lines of actions carried on at one and the same time; we must confine ourselves to the action on the stage and the part taken by the players. But in Epic poetry, owing to the narrative form, many events simultaneously transacted can be presented; and these, if relevant to the subject, add mass and dignity to the poem. The Epic has here an advantage, and one that conduces to grandeur of effect, to diverting the mind of the hearer, and relieving the story with varying episodes. For sameness of incident soon produces satiety, and makes tragedies fail on the stage.
on the Odyssey
In the drama, the episodes are short, but it is these that give extension to Epic poetry. Thus the story of the Odyssey can be stated briefly. A certain man is absent from home for many years; he is jealously watched by Poseidon, and left desolate. Meanwhile his home is in a wretched plight---suitors are wasting his substance and plotting against his son. At length, tempest-tost, he himself arrives; he makes certain persons acquainted with him; he attacks the suitors with his own hand, and is himself preserved while he destroys them. This is the essence of the plot; the rest is episode.
on parts of the epic
Again, Epic poetry must have as many kinds as Tragedy: it must be simple, or complex, or 'ethical,' or 'pathetic.' The parts also, with the exception of song and pectacle, are the same; for it requires Reversals of the Situation, Recognitions, and Scenes of Suffering. Moreover, the thoughts and the diction must be artistic. In all these respects Homer is our earliest and sufficient model. Indeed each of his poems has a twofold character. The Iliad is at once simple and 'pathetic,' and the Odyssey complex (for Recognition scenes run through it), and at the same time 'ethical.' Moreover, in diction and thought they are supreme.
on Homer
Homer, admirable in all respects, has the special merit of being the only poet who rightly appreciates the part he should take himself. The poet should speak as little as possible in his own person, for it is not this that makes him an imitator. Other poets appear themselves upon the scene throughout, and imitate but little and rarely. Homer, after a few prefatory words, at once brings in a man, or woman, or other personage; none of them wanting in characteristic qualities, but each with a character of his own.
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The irrational, on which the wonderful depends for its chief effects, has wider scope in Epic poetry, because there the person acting is not seen. Thus, the pursuit of Hector would be ludicrous if placed upon the stage--the Greeks standing still and not joining in the pursuit, and Achilles waving them back. But in the Epic poem the absurdity passes unnoticed. Now the wonderful is pleasing: as may be inferred from the fact that every one tells a story with some addition of his own, knowing that his hearers like it. It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully. The secret of it lies in a fallacy, For, assuming that if one thing is or becomes, a second is or becomes, men imagine that, if the second is, the first likewise is or becomes. But this is a false inference. Hence, where the first thing is untrue, it is quite
unnecessary, provided the second be true, to add that the first is or has become. For the mind, knowing the second to be true, falsely infers the truth of the first. There is an example of this in the Bath Scene of the Odyssey.
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..the transcendent excellence of Homer is manifest. He never attempts to make the whole war of Troy the subject of his poem, though that war had a beginning and an end. It would have been too vast a theme, and not easily embraced in a single view. If, again, he had kept it within moderate limits, it must have been over-complicated by the variety of the incidents. As it is, he detaches a single portion, and admits as episodes many events from the general story of the war--such as the Catalogue of the ships and others--thus diversifying the poem. All other poets take a single hero, a single period, or an action single indeed, but with a multiplicity of parts.
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Real Audio of Fanny Howe reading at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of the Segue Reading Series provided by the FactorySchool dot org.
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2003 06:14:34 PM
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Literary readings of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University on WBUR dot org's (listen) World of Ideas including Robert Pinsky, Geoffrey Hill, Roseanna Warren and Derek Walcott.
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2003 05:11:43 PM
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The Belle of Amherst with Julie Harris as Emily Dickinson at the Internet Movie Database.
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2003 11:03:36 AM
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The Electronic Poetry Center out of SUNY Buffalo has recently added mp3s of Nathaniel Mackey's reading (listen mp3) and discussion (listen mp3) at the Modern Language Association conference in late December 2002.
The Electronic Poetry Center has also recently added an author page for Robin Blaser.
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2003 09:51:51 AM
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From The Guardian Unlimited (UK), February 3, 2003: Frieda Hughes is criticizes the BBC for their upcoming biopic on the relationship between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes..
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2003 09:38:18 AM
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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle editor Will Shortz is hosting a weekly word challenge on Weekend Edition Sunday.
posted by Laurable on 2/07/2003 09:22:12 AM
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Borderlands [dot org]: Texas Poetry Review Web Audio Project contains a few poems by nine poets with audio of the poems and brief commentary/interviews. The magazine is current but the audio project has been stagnant since mid 2001.
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February 6, 2003
Laura's Word of the Day
anaphora:
a·naph·o·ra n.
1. The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs; for example, “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills” (Winston S. Churchill).
2. Linguistics. The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer back to another unit, as the use of her to refer to Anne in the sentence Anne asked Edward to pass her the salt.
posted by Laurable on 2/06/2003 03:45:57 PM
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Yesterday the New York Times (AP) ran an article about the current Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, and past poet laureates protesting military action in Iraq.
The Sam Hamill protest site is located at PoetsAgainstTheWar dot org.
ChicagoPoetry dot com has a story focusing on Sam Hamill and the upcoming protest on February 12th. They will be broadcasting a live web broadcast of the Poets Against The War reading from 8p to 11p EST. I don't have a link for it yet.
posted by Laurable on 2/06/2003 10:51:44 AM
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An article about how Google is changing the way people find out information about each other. It also provides tips for staying out of Google's grasp, explains how Google works and Google's early history.
FTrain dot com has a few Google narratives including one about a visit from the enterprising Google Bot.
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Today's New York Times has an article about poets and protesting.
Another New York Times article today is starts with Sam Hamill and then goes on to other forms of protest regarding military action in Iraq.
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February 5, 2003
I heard a rumor at MediaMinded dot blogspot etc. that March issues of The Atlantic contains an article on weblogs. Back during the last few olden days of the twentieth century, TheAtlantic dot com has this article on weblog and webloggers.
posted by Laurable on 2/05/2003 12:59:54 PM
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Just when I break my T.V., PBS dot org (listen) and WNET dot org (& Thirteen dot org) have a show on weblogs called Blogosphere as part of their MediaMatters Series.
posted by Laurable on 2/05/2003 12:03:52 PM
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On yesterday's All Things Considered (listen), the California Supreme Court has excepted the case of a student was expelled and prosecuted for writing threatening poetry.
posted by Laurable on 2/05/2003 11:31:02 AM
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On NPR's The Todd Mundt Show (listen, start 34:40), psychologist James Pennebaker examines the word usage between poets who are suicidal, and those who aren't. Enjoy.
...especially poets were prone to bipolar disorder. And in fact, reported that the rates of suicide are remarkably high among poets. In fact, I think if you compare the death rates of poets versus almost any other profession, it's probably the most dangerous profession a person can be in.
~ James Pennebaker
Note: The real audio archive is temporary.
posted by Laurable on 2/05/2003 11:23:12 AM
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A letter to the editor in today's New York Times criticizes First Lady Laura Bush's decision to postpone the White House poetry symposium.
posted by Laurable on 2/05/2003 09:01:05 AM
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February 3, 2003
Brenda Coultas, Deborah Richards, and Kathy Lou Schultz read at the Kelly Writers House (listen) at the University of Pennsylvania.
posted by Laurable on 2/03/2003 01:22:16 PM
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Ron Padgett will be interviewed on KCRW dot org's Bookworm on February 20, 2003. Note: On the right, Zero Star Hotel by Anselm Berrigan is included in the January Bookworm Library.
posted by Laurable on 2/03/2003 12:57:30 PM
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NPR dot org links:
February 1, 2003, Weekend Edition - Saturday (listen): Dana Gioia confirmed by the Senate as head of the National Endowments for the Arts.
January 31, 2003, Morning Edition (listen): First Lady Laura Bush cancels upcoming White House poetry symposium after the invited poets threaten to use the event for protesting American military involvement in Iraq.
posted by Laurable on 2/03/2003 12:12:48 PM
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WGBH [dot org] Forum Lecture Series (audio and video):
Billy Collins at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (listen).
Mark Doty on the Cambridge Forum (listen).
Michael Harper at Wheaton College (listen).
German Expressionist Poetry, Identity and Clothing (listen) at Boston College.
Emerson: The Mind on Fire at The Cambridge Forum (listen).
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson at the Cambridge Forum (listen).
Walter Cuenin, pastor, reads Canto XVIII (text via Bartleby dot com) of Dante's Divine Comedy (listen).
posted by Laurable on 2/03/2003 10:12:26 AM
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Some news to catch up with:
February 2, 2003, The Washington Post: Poet's Choice by Edward Hirsch on Robert Frost on Edward Thomas.
January 31, 2003, New York Times: First Lady Laura Bush postpones a White House poetry symposium on Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman after participating poets express that they would use the event as a platform for protest against American military action in Iraq. A similar article from The Washington Post (AP) which mentions a national protest lead by Sam Hamill.
January 31, 2003, Press of Atlantic City [dot com]: The marginalization of poetry (as opposed to poets) citing Stephen Dunn, the Baraka brouhaha and the canceling of the White House symposium.
January 30, 2003, New York Times: Twenty-eight teens compete for the chance to win scholarship money on Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry for HBO.
January 30, 2003, UC Davis News Service: A grant will make Gary Snyder's papers available online at the Online Archive of California Web site by November.
January 30, 2003, The Washington Post: Dana Gioia is unanimously confirmed as the head of the National Endowment for the Arts.
January 26, 2003, The Washington Post: Poet's Choice by Edward Hirsch on Stevie Smith.
posted by Laurable on 2/03/2003 09:24:45 AM
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Today is the birthday of Gertrude Stein (1874).
posted by Laurable on 2/03/2003 09:05:15 AM
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