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October 31, 2003
Heteronyms: n.
One of two or more words that have identical spellings but different meanings and pronunciations, such as row (a series of objects arranged in a line), pronounced (r), and row (a fight), pronounced (rou).
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[Back-formation from heteronymous.]
posted by Laurable on 10/31/2003 11:14:26 AM
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The Book of Hugh by Peter Culley (MossesFromAnOldManse dot BlogSpot dot com) at SpeakEasy dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 10/31/2003 11:07:58 AM
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Today is the birthday of John Keats (1795). Walter Rufus Eagles reads a selection of Keats poems at EaglesWeb dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 10/31/2003 12:01:07 AM
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October 30, 2003
From Web del Sol dot COM, the Martin Earl critiques the critics in The State of Criticism - a look at the Contemporary Poetry Review.
posted by Laurable on 10/30/2003 12:43:56 PM
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ThirdFactory dot NET (Steve Evans) provides a very useful and much needed summary (for those of use with blog fatigue) of activity in poetry blogland.
posted by Laurable on 10/30/2003 10:25:15 AM
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Today is the anniversary of Orson Welles's broadcast of The War of the Worlds in 1938. FactorySchool dot NET (listen) hosts a recording of the broadcast, however I am not able to get it to work at this time.
posted by Laurable on 10/30/2003 12:01:36 AM
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Today is the birthday of Ezra Pound (1885). Poets dot ORG (listen) hosts a RealAudio recording of Canto I.
posted by Laurable on 10/30/2003 12:01:17 AM
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October 29, 2003
Via RonSilliman dot BlogSpot dot COM: the George Stanley reading and discussion (with Ron Silliman) at the Kelly Writers House, English dot UPenn dot EDU.
[Updated 10/30 9:03a: Steve Evans (also ThirdFactory dot NET) has kindly posted the titles and times of the reading's poems. Thank you.]
posted by Laurable on 10/29/2003 12:47:10 PM
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October 28, 2003
Today is the birthday of John Hollander (1929).
posted by Laurable on 10/28/2003 12:01:50 AM
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October 27, 2003
Today is the birthday of Dylan Thomas (1914). On December 5, 2002, NPR dot ORG's (listen) Morning Edition retold the story of Caedmon, Harper Collins' spoken word label, the first of its kind. Dylan Thomas was featured on the first album.
posted by Laurable on 10/27/2003 12:01:14 AM
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Today is the birthday of Sylvia Plath (1932). On December 15th, 2000, TheConnection dot ORG broadcast a show on the publication of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
posted by Laurable on 10/27/2003 12:01:02 AM
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October 26, 2003
Dick Higgins died in Quebec City, Canada on this day in 1998.
posted by Laurable on 10/26/2003 12:01:26 AM
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October 25, 2003
Geoffrey Chaucer died on this day in 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey in London.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2003 12:01:41 AM
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On this day in 1854, the battle at Balaklava in the Crimea occured, about which, five weeks later, Alfred, Lord Tennyson would wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade. The BBC dot CO dot UK (listen) hosts a RealAudio/Thomas Edison wax cylinder recording of Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade from 1890.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2003 12:01:39 AM
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Today is the birthday of John Berryman (1914). The fine folks at FactorySchool dot ORG (listen) host a lenghty reading of Berryman reading in New York, 1983.
posted by Laurable on 10/25/2003 12:01:29 AM
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October 24, 2003
Today is the birthday of Robert Pinsky (1940).
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2003 02:48:32 PM
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The Struggle Between Plenty and Thankfulness by Keith Ratzlaff at PoetryDaily dot ORG, reprinted from the ColoradoReview dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2003 12:31:45 PM
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The Illusion by Dean Young at OldPoetry dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2003 12:26:51 PM
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FreshAir dot NPR dot ORG (listen) house linguist Geoff Nunberg discusses the term fascist.
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2003 12:14:03 PM
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Some new mp3s from Christopher Lydon at Harvard dot EDU, including interviews with Der Hovanessian (listen mp3) and Peter Davidson on Robert Lowell (listen part 1, listen part 2, mp3), AND Jim Behrle (listen)!
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2003 12:05:18 PM
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If I had been keeping up with RonSilliman dot BlogSpot dot COM, I would have known about the George Stanley poetry reading broadcast live from the Kelly Writers House at UPenn dot EDU. Hope the reading will be put on their Webcast Archive page.
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2003 11:59:56 AM
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From Wednesday's New York Times, Stanley Kunitz's poems were set to music at the Guggenheim Museum.
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2003 09:17:38 AM
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A review of the movie Sylvia [Plath] from today's WashingtonPost dot COM.
The New York Times review from October 19th.
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2003 09:14:46 AM
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Today is the birthday of Denise Levertov (1923). The good folks at Slought dot NET (listen) host realaudio of Levertov reading in Albuquerque, 1964.
posted by Laurable on 10/24/2003 12:01:49 AM
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October 23, 2003
October 16, 2003, WNYC dot ORG (listen) Poet In Residence Philip Levine read the poem Yankees by Anne Marie Macari.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2003 11:13:55 AM
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On October 17th, NPR dot ORG's (listen) All Things Considered reported on the enduring interest in Sylvia Plath.
April 23, 1998, NPR dot ORG's (listen) Talk of the Nation featured Sylvia Plath's Ariel, with commentary by Eavan Boland, as their book of the month.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2003 10:54:42 AM
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HarperCollins dot COM's has revised the page of their poetry audio. I am not certain if anything is new, but I do notice some poets missing.
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2003 09:50:32 AM
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You are reading the weblog of a responsible citizen who has just finished her term of jury duty to the State of New York, County of New York (Manhattan).
posted by Laurable on 10/23/2003 09:03:34 AM
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October 22, 2003
Today in 1885, at the age of 20, Arthur Rimbaud decided to give up poetry to become a gun runner for King Menelik of Shoa.
posted by Laurable on 10/22/2003 12:01:11 AM
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October 21, 2003
Today is the birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772).
posted by Laurable on 10/21/2003 12:01:26 AM
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Jack Kerouac died on this day in 1969. You can hear Kerouac read several of his haiku (.au files) at Kerouac Speaks.
posted by Laurable on 10/21/2003 12:01:17 AM
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October 20, 2003
Today is the birthday of Arthur Rimbaud (1854).
posted by Laurable on 10/20/2003 12:01:53 AM
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Today is the birthday of Michael McClure (1932).
posted by Laurable on 10/20/2003 12:01:39 AM
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Today is the birthday of Philip Whalen (1923).
posted by Laurable on 10/20/2003 12:01:30 AM
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October 19, 2003
Edna St. Vincent Millay died on this day in 1950 at the age of 58.
posted by Laurable on 10/19/2003 12:01:02 AM
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October 18, 2003
Today in 1913, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) married Richard Aldington who was introduced to her by Ezra Pound.
posted by Laurable on 10/18/2003 12:01:12 AM
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October 17, 2003
Today is the birthday of Yvor Winter (1900).
posted by Laurable on 10/17/2003 12:01:49 AM
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October 16, 2003
New (at least to me) from UPenn dot EDU: PENNsound featuring Charles Bernstein reading at Kelly Writers House on September 25th. They even have a manifesto.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2003 10:49:12 AM
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From CSpan dot ORG (listen) James Billington, Librarian of Congress, talks about the upcoming National Book Festival on the Washington Mall.
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2003 10:25:49 AM
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Today is the birthday of Oscar Wilde (1854).
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
~from [where?]
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2003 09:55:28 AM
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Finalists for the NationalBook [dot ORG] Award for poetry:
Carol Muske-Dukes
Sparrow
Charles Simic
The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
Louis Simpson
The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001
C.K. Williams
The Singing
Kevin Young
Jelly Roll: A Blues
posted by Laurable on 10/16/2003 09:10:11 AM
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October 15, 2003
Taylor Mali talks to Backstage dot COM about Spoken Word and the theatre, via About dot Poetry dot COM
posted by Laurable on 10/15/2003 09:53:39 AM
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Robert Lowell is featured on The Jim Side.
posted by Laurable on 10/15/2003 09:24:01 AM
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Today is the birthday of Virgil (70 B.C.).
posted by Laurable on 10/15/2003 12:01:14 AM
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October 14, 2003
Today is the birthday of for E. E. Cummings (1894). The fine folks at UBU dot COM provide mp3s of That Melancholy Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong.
posted by Laurable on 10/14/2003 12:01:35 AM
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October 13, 2003
Jorie Graham discusses a recent interdisciplinary conference on consciousness with Talk of the Nation from NPR dot ORG (listen), October 10, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 10/13/2003 11:33:19 AM
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Newly posted readings from Live From Prairie Lights at WSUI dot UIowa dot EDU:
October 7, 2003 (listen), Rachel Zuker reading from Eating in the Underworld
October 6, 2003 (listen), Thom Tammaro reading selections from the anthology, Visiting Walt:Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman and with Walt Whitman scholar Ed Folsom and Marvin Bell
September 10, 2003 (listen), Stephen Corey reading selections from There is No Finished World
September 8, 2003 (listen), Lee Ann Brown reading from The Sleep That Changed Everything and Monica Youn reading from Barter
August 29, 2003 (listen), Mary Swander reading from The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles
July 24, 2003 (listen), Marilyn Chin reading from Rhapsody in Plain Yellow
July 22, 2003 (listen), Michael Dennis Browne reading from new and selected work
July 17, 2003 (listen), Michael Carey reading from The Holy Ground
July 15, 2003 (listen), Marvin Bell reading from Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000
June 26, 2003 (listen), Jordan Miller reading from Poets, Martys and Satyrs: New and Selected Poems 1959-2001
June 19, 2003 (listen), Melody Lacina reading from Private Hunger
June 18, 2003 (listen), Richard Jackson reading from Heartwall
posted by Laurable on 10/13/2003 11:03:14 AM
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From Sky News: Poetic Unreason, an upcoming film about Robert Graves, is set to be released next year.
posted by Laurable on 10/13/2003 09:16:10 AM
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A review of the new Sylvia Plath movie (with Gwyneth Paltrow) in the NewYorker dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 10/13/2003 09:11:32 AM
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Robert Lowell went to jail for draft evasion on this day in 1943. The experience is featured in Memories of West Street and Lepke of Life Studies .
posted by Laurable on 10/13/2003 12:01:59 AM
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Today is the birthday of Arna Bontemps (1902).
posted by Laurable on 10/13/2003 12:01:55 AM
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On this day in 1943, Robert Lowell was sentenced to a prison term of one year and a day for draft evasion.
posted by Laurable on 10/13/2003 12:01:43 AM
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October 12, 2003
Matsuo Basho died on this day in 1649.
posted by Laurable on 10/12/2003 12:01:12 AM
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October 10, 2003
Coleman Barks, translator, discussed and read Rumi with the GraceCathedral dot ORG (listen), September 30, 2001.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2003 07:49:21 PM
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From WBUR dot ORG (listen): Memorial to Poet Alan Dugan.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2003 03:34:59 PM
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Dear Bill,
Love Dee
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2003 01:16:17 PM
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Yesterday, TheConnection dot ORG (listen) was about Pablo Neruda.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2003 10:01:41 AM
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This morning WNYC [dot ORG] Poet In Residence Philip Levine dedicated a reading of One Art by Elizabeth Bishop to the Boston Red Sox. Note: Audio link to be supplied later today or tomorrow.
posted by Laurable on 10/10/2003 09:26:56 AM
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October 9, 2003
There are a batch of new MLA [dot ORG] Radio segments (2002) posted, including The Avant-Garde: Avant-garde poetry, the French avant-garde novel, avant-garde drama (with Marjorie Perloff on poetry), The Battle for the Vernacular: Dante, Rabelais, and William Tyndale, Chinese Women's Poetry: Poets in the classical tradition and contemporary Chinese women poets, How Writers Use the Bible: Dante, Milton, and Melville, and Writers and Painters: Surrealism, the painting and poetry of William Blake, Michelangelo's poetry.
posted by Laurable on 10/09/2003 01:24:52 PM
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Old Dominion University's 25th Annual Literary Festival from October of 2002 is now online with Real Video of Debra Bruce, Wanda Coleman, R. H. W. Dillard, Mark Doty, Stephen Dunn, David Fenza, M. Evelina Galang, George Garrett, Philip Gerard, Lenore Hart, Barbara Hurd, Luisa Igloria, Allison Joseph, Steve Kelley, Frederick A.Lubich, Marilyn Marloff, Linda McGreevy, Pablo Medina, Valerie Miner, Agnes Mobley Wynne, Michael Pearson, Janet Peery, Sheri Reynolds, Robert D. Richardson, Tom Robotham, Marjorie Sandor, Peter Schulman, Tim Seibles, Peggy Shumaker, Brian Silberman, W. D. Snodgrass, Susan Sontag, Henry Taylor, Lee Teply, Wayne Ude, Universes, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Gregory H. Williams, Donald Roller Wilson, and Mark Winegardner.
[Note: No they are not yet up and running. Links to the files are on the site my not the destination pages themselves. An about note says that the RealVideo is in progress.]
posted by Laurable on 10/09/2003 09:09:36 AM
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Today is the birthday of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892).
posted by Laurable on 10/09/2003 12:01:08 AM
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October 8, 2003
Emerson and the Examined Life with Robert Pinsky, Richard Geldard, and David M. Robinson at WGBH dot ORG (listen) Forum Network.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 04:05:39 PM
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Non poetry link for Jordan from the WashingtonTimes dot COM and from PoliticalHumor dot About dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 02:05:43 PM
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KUMN dot ORG (listen) interviewed Simon Ortiz on May 10, 2002.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 11:17:42 AM
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KUNM dot ORG (listen) has a short story about Gary Mex Glazner's trip around the world to meet poets, from November 12, 2002. He reads his poem Spooning at the end of the segment.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 11:15:33 AM
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Four September poems by Deborah Garrison in the New Yorker dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 10:49:02 AM
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The story of a Victorian famously bad poetry book review in the NewYorker dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 10:47:30 AM
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New at WiredForBooks dot ORG: a reading and lecture by Stephen Dunn.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 10:32:30 AM
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NEA chairman Dana Gioia was interviewed on FreshAir [dot NPR dot ORG] listen) yesterday.
Fresh from the New to Me category: the Department of Defense is funding the NEA (Arts dot GOV) Shakespeare in American Communities program.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 09:33:10 AM
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On this day in 1955, Allen Ginsberg read Howl for the first time at a poetry reading at Six Gallery in San Francisco. Lawrence Ferlinghetti recalled the reading for the San Francisco Chronicle in October of 2000.
EZone dot ORG quotes the Howl reading advertisment:
6 poets at 6 Gallery. Philip Lamantia reading mss. of late John Hoffman -- Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder & Phil Whalen -- all sharp new straightforward writing -- remarkable collection of angels on one stage reading their poetry. No charge, small collection for wine and postcards. Charming event. Kenneth Rexroth, M.C.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 09:07:12 AM
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Derek Walcott was given the Nobel Prize for literature on this day in 1992. Lannan dot ORG (listen) hosts a reading and conversation with Walcott from 2002.
posted by Laurable on 10/08/2003 12:01:44 AM
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October 7, 2003
Today in 1955, Allen Ginsberg read Howl publicly for the first time at Six Gallery in San Francisco, California. Lawrence Ferlinghetti spoke to the ACLU [dot ORG] (listen) about the banning of Howl in 1957. WiredForBooks dot ORG (listen) hosts an audio interview with Ginsberg from 1985.
posted by Laurable on 10/07/2003 09:03:21 AM
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Edgar Allan Poe died on this day in 1849.
posted by Laurable on 10/07/2003 12:01:33 AM
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Today is the birthday of Amiri Baraka (1934), formerly LeRoi Jones.
posted by Laurable on 10/07/2003 12:01:31 AM
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Today is the birthday of James Whitcomb Riley (1849).
posted by Laurable on 10/07/2003 12:01:16 AM
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October 6, 2003
On today Fresh Air from NPR dot ORG (listen), Geoff Nunberg explains terms used in racial classification, like Caucasian.
posted by Laurable on 10/06/2003 09:53:53 AM
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From the Texas State Library, the Texas Poets Laureate page.
posted by Laurable on 10/06/2003 09:41:16 AM
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Elizabeth Bishop died on this day in 1979.
posted by Laurable on 10/06/2003 12:01:43 AM
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson died on this day in 1892. The BBC dot CO dot UK (listen) hosts a RealAudio/Thomas Edison wax cylinder recording of Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade from 1890.
posted by Laurable on 10/06/2003 12:01:08 AM
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October 4, 2003
Anne Sexton died on this day in 1974.
posted by Laurable on 10/04/2003 12:01:33 AM
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October 2, 2003
The Anchorage Daily News interviews Olena Kalytiak Davis.
posted by Laurable on 10/02/2003 12:15:05 PM
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From the Telegraph dot CO dot UK: Andrew Motion has received his payment of 110 gallons of Spanish sherry, for his term as British Poet Laureate.
posted by Laurable on 10/02/2003 09:02:14 AM
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Today is the birthday of Wallace Stevens (1879). Listen to Jim Behrle read Stevens' Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and his own poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at Someone Else's Girlfriend on Here-Now dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 10/02/2003 12:01:55 AM
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October 1, 2003
Scott Woods reads his poem Elevator Dreams on NPR dot ORG (listen) news.
posted by Laurable on 10/01/2003 01:10:32 PM
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Maxine Kumin read The Apparition, her contribution to the anthology Dog is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship, on today's Morning Edition from NPR dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 10/01/2003 12:59:43 PM
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Today is the birthday of Louis Untermeyer (1885), the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1961 to 1963.
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse…. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.
~via Bartleby dot com
posted by Laurable on 10/01/2003 09:03:34 AM
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