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September 30, 2003
Today is the birthday of W.S. Merwin (1927). The Lannan [dot ORG] Foundation hosts a reading (listen) and discussion (listen) with Naomi Shihab Nye from October 18 , 2000.
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On this day in 1914, Ezra Pound wrote Harriet Monroe, publisher of Poetry Magazine, declaring [Eliot] has sent in the best poem I have yet had or seen from an American. referring to The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
posted by Laurable on 9/30/2003 12:01:29 AM
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September 29, 2003
Today is the birthday of Miguel Cervantes (1605).
posted by Laurable on 9/29/2003 04:18:59 PM
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National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia was interviewed on NPR dot ORG's (listen) The Motley Fool audio today.
posted by Laurable on 9/29/2003 02:57:09 PM
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A selection of poems from The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, Volume 2 (by Hart Seely) at Slate dot com.
posted by Laurable on 9/29/2003 12:07:58 PM
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A Jack Foley review of Kenneth Rexroth's Unassimilable: Complete Poems at AlsopReview dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 9/29/2003 09:37:29 AM
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Salam Pax, the Bagdad Blogger, will be on the WNYC dot ORG (listen) Brian Lehrer Show at 10 AM this morning.
posted by Laurable on 9/29/2003 09:10:48 AM
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On this day in 1973, W. H. Auden died in Vienna at the age of 66.
posted by Laurable on 9/29/2003 12:01:18 AM
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September 28, 2003
Today in the birthday of Stephen Spender (1909).
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September 26, 2003
Pierian: A region of ancient Macedonia. It included Mount Olympus and Mount Pierus, seat of the worship of Orpheus and the Muses.
Pi·eri·an adj.
posted by Laurable on 9/26/2003 10:17:44 AM
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Today is the birthday of T.S. Eliot (1888).
posted by Laurable on 9/26/2003 09:03:53 AM
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Harriet Monroe, founding editor of Poetry Magazine, died on this day in 1936.
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September 25, 2003
Fake Dreams by Bob Perelman, delivered at the Conference on Contemporary Poetry at Rutgers University, April 1997.
posted by Laurable on 9/25/2003 12:56:09 PM
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September 24, 2003
Dr. Seuss died on this day in 1991.
posted by Laurable on 9/24/2003 12:01:38 AM
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September 23, 2003
Pablo Neruda, 1971 Nobel Laureate in Literature, died on this day in 1973.
posted by Laurable on 9/23/2003 12:01:50 PM
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September 22, 2003
On this day in 1914, Ezra Pound met T. S. Eliot at Pound's flat in Holland.
posted by Laurable on 9/22/2003 09:05:42 PM
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On this day in 1598, Ben Jonson was indicted for manslaughter after killing another actor in a duel.
posted by Laurable on 9/22/2003 12:01:07 AM
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September 21, 2003
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) died on this day in 1961.
posted by Laurable on 9/21/2003 12:01:22 AM
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September 19, 2003
On this day in 1819, John Keats wrote his Ode To Autumn. Sven Birkerts, Emily Hiestand, Stanley Plumly and C. K. Williams read To Autumn at TheAtlantic dot com.
posted by Laurable on 9/19/2003 12:01:38 AM
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September 17, 2003
Victoria Kingham has created a site featuring The Dial, July - December 1922. The site includes pictures, scans of the magazine, selected fiction reviews, poet bibliographies and links, notes on the editors and editorial policy, and details on many aspects of the magazine and its contributors.
posted by Laurable on 9/17/2003 12:31:40 PM
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T.S. Eliot's London Letter, an essay for The Dial (May 1922), is hosted by Rickard Parker and Peg Whelley. They also have his London Letter for The Dial's December 1992 issue.
posted by Laurable on 9/17/2003 12:06:49 PM
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~Steve.Evans hosts The Dial, The Little Review and Modernist Canonicity, a paper delivered by Alan Golding at the Modernist Studies Association conference in the fall of 2000.
posted by Laurable on 9/17/2003 10:26:28 AM
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Today is the birthday of William Carlos Williams (1883). Also, Paterson V was published on this day in 1958.
posted by Laurable on 9/17/2003 09:08:48 AM
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September 16, 2003
Anne Bradstreet died on this day in 1672.
On this day in 1972 John Berryman committed suicide. Berryman wrote Homage to Mistress Bradstreet.
posted by Laurable on 9/16/2003 09:12:15 AM
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September 15, 2003
This week's Poets Choice by Edward Hirsch in the WashingtonPost [dot com] is about the new Poet Laureate, Louise Glück.
posted by Laurable on 9/15/2003 09:14:23 AM
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September 12, 2003
SELF PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ON THE JIM SIDE:
posted by Laurable on 9/12/2003 08:47:34 PM
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Garrison Keillor leads a tribute to James Wright on The NextBigThing dot org (listen), November 26, 2000.
posted by Laurable on 9/12/2003 10:54:42 AM
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J.D. McClatchy reads from his poetry sequence Motets on The NextBigThing dot org (listen), November 26, 2000.
posted by Laurable on 9/12/2003 10:51:20 AM
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Poetry and competition from around the world and through the ages (with a Bob Holman cameo) on The NextBigThing dot org (listen), July 1, 2001.
posted by Laurable on 9/12/2003 09:45:02 AM
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There are parodies galore in poetry blogland. GarySullivan dot BlogSpot dot com posted this Laurable parody (or not not parody per se ...); IF LAURABLE WROTE MY BLOG.
posted by Laurable on 9/12/2003 09:28:35 AM
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New by Jim Behrle: The Jim Side: "Ways to Make Language Poets More Loveable"
posted by Laurable on 9/12/2003 09:16:45 AM
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September 10, 2003
I could spend all day reading the fall-out from Hooliahn's anti-avant attack and still not pick through most of it.
posted by Laurable on 9/10/2003 11:08:20 AM
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Elsewhere at GarySullivan dot BlogSpot dot com is featuring IF [blank] WROTE MY BLOG posts. So far; IF BRIAN KIM STEFANS WROTE MY BLOG, IF RON SILLIMAN WROTE MY BLOG, IF JIM BEHRLE WROTE MY BLOG, IF JORDAN DAVIS WROTE MY BLOG, and IF KATIE DEGENTESH WROTE MY BLOG.
posted by Laurable on 9/10/2003 10:49:04 AM
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ex·em·plum n. pl. ex·em·pla
1. An example.
2. A brief story used to make a point in an argument or to illustrate a moral truth.
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[Latin. See example.]
posted by Laurable on 9/10/2003 10:06:45 AM
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The Quicktime trailer for the new Plath movie, Sylvia, is available via MovieFone dot com.
posted by Laurable on 9/10/2003 09:22:44 AM
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Today is the birthday of H.D. (Hilda Dolittle, 1886). A RealAudio clip of H.D. reading from Helen in Egypt: Eidolon, Book 3: #4 is available at The Academy of American Poets, Poets dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 9/10/2003 09:11:23 AM
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September 8, 2003
Tomorrow is the birthday of Sonia Sanchez (1934). March 20th of this year, Sanchez gave a lecture for the WGBH [dot org] Forum Series (listen).
posted by Laurable on 9/08/2003 09:23:14 AM
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Today is the first day of school for New York City public schoolchildren. The First Grade (listen) by William Stafford.
posted by Laurable on 9/08/2003 09:19:19 AM
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September 5, 2003
Poets on the Air at Kean dot EDU has RealAudio segments of a 9/11 Memorial (originally aired September 11, 2002 on WKNJ 90.3 FM) featuring D. Nurkse, Charlotte Mandel, Charles Bihler, Alicia Ostriker, Stephen Dunn, Susanna Rich, Ed Romond, Carole Stone, and Billy Collins.
posted by Laurable on 9/05/2003 12:08:27 PM
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Today's entry at RonSilliman dot BlogSpot dot com is on The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan. The FactorySchool dot org has six lengthy RealAudio recordings of Ducan delivering a lecture on H.D.
posted by Laurable on 9/05/2003 11:53:51 AM
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A New York Times obituary; Alan Dugan died Wednesday. After Dugan won the National Book Award in 2001, NPR dot org created a page featuring Dugan with audio of an interview (listen) and Dugan reading Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli (listen).
posted by Laurable on 9/05/2003 11:37:40 AM
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Jim Behrle's Top Ten Poetic Crushes Illustrated. I dropped one to #7. Yes, I am responsible for THE JIM SIDE: "LAME PICK-UP LINES FOR THE NEW POET LAUREATE", a parody I created when guest blogging for the Jimster. I though the T-Shirt was a give away, but apparently not. It didn't take two days. Finding and moving all the letters was tedious though.
posted by Laurable on 9/05/2003 09:58:25 AM
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Today is the birthday John Cage (1912). The fine folks at UBU dot com has twelve John Cage mp3s available for your listening pleasure.
posted by Laurable on 9/05/2003 09:42:57 AM
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On the Road, by Jack Kerouac was published on this day in 1957.
PrairieHome dot org (listen) (A Prairie Home Companion) performed a sketch in honor of On the Road's fortieth anniversary. Kerouac Speaks has several dot AU files of Kerouac reading haiku.
posted by Laurable on 9/05/2003 09:35:15 AM
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September 4, 2003
TheConnection dot org (listen) talks with font designer Matthew Carter today.
posted by Laurable on 9/04/2003 10:39:46 AM
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Sara Fishko examines how disconcerting it can be to hear the words you're used to only seeing on the page on Studio 360 at WNYC dot org (listen), July 12, 2003. The segment includes comments by Ann Lauterbach and Charles Bernstein.
posted by Laurable on 9/04/2003 10:30:13 AM
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The Webcasts page at the Kelly Writers House (of UPenn dot edu) has a new look and structure. The new page is more clear, but I would love an option to view the list by date.
posted by Laurable on 9/04/2003 10:27:55 AM
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How Contemporary American Poets Are Denaturing the Poem, Part VII: Post-Post Dementia by Joan Houlihan at WebDelSol dot com takes on Fence Magazine and Slope dot org.
posted by Laurable on 9/04/2003 10:13:14 AM
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The story behind ILovePoetry dot com from today's ChicagoTribune dot com.
posted by Laurable on 9/04/2003 09:52:35 AM
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Last night I dreamed that many, many LangPo, PoLangPo, Post Avant magazines were submitted to PoetryDaily dot org. PoetryDaily featured progressive poems and poets all over the world were happy like an old Coca-Cola commercial.
posted by Laurable on 9/04/2003 09:10:59 AM
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Jacki Lyden talks to Jahan Ramazani about how he selected the poems for The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry on NPR dot org's (listen) All Things Considered, August 31, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 9/04/2003 09:02:43 AM
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September 3, 2003
Update on the progress in creating the database version of the Poetry Audio Links:
Poet: H Last Names
Link #: 1,501
SQL: abysmal
posted by Laurable on 9/03/2003 12:24:06 PM
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The Library of Congress press release on Louise Glück's appointment as Poet Laureate.
posted by Laurable on 9/03/2003 09:08:11 AM
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