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November 30, 2003
Fernando Pessoa died on this day in 1935. On October 6, 2001, Studio 360 on WNYC dot ORG (listen) aired a story about Fernando Pessoa.
posted by Laurable on 11/30/2003 12:01:49 AM
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November 28, 2003
Today is the birthday of William Blake (1757).
posted by Laurable on 11/28/2003 12:01:25 AM
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November 27, 2003
Horace died on this day in 8 BC.
posted by Laurable on 11/27/2003 12:01:29 AM
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November 26, 2003
WNYC dot ORG (listen) Poet in Residence Philip Levine read Song (On seeing dead bodies floating off the Cape) by Alun Lewis today.
posted by Laurable on 11/26/2003 09:58:57 AM
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OpenPoetryProject dot COM is a collaborative [work in progress] to collect information about poetry, poems, and poets using Wiki where the only gatekeeper is apathy.
posted by Laurable on 11/26/2003 09:34:11 AM
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November 24, 2003
On August 29, 2003, Here-Now dot ORG (listen) from WBUR announced Louise Gluck was named the new United States Poet Laureate. She reads The Red Poppy.
posted by Laurable on 11/24/2003 04:40:04 PM
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Poetic License in Wisconsin from WPT dot ORG (Wisconsin Public Television) features many, many high school students reading their poems.
posted by Laurable on 11/24/2003 03:48:09 PM
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On October 30, 2003, WNYC dot ORG (listen) Poet In Residence Philip Levine talks about and reads a poem by the mysterious poet Weldon Kees. The June 2002 issue of JacketMagzine [dot COM] features Ern Malley.
posted by Laurable on 11/24/2003 01:26:36 PM
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On WNYC dot ORG today, Peter Carey, talks about his new book, My Life As a Fake, the Australia literary hoax Ern Malley.
posted by Laurable on 11/24/2003 01:24:01 PM
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This week's Poet's Choice column by Edward Hirsch in the WashingtonPost dot COM is about George Oppen.
posted by Laurable on 11/24/2003 10:22:34 AM
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November 17, 2003, the New York Times looks at Poetry Magazine a year after $100 million Ruth Lilly gift.
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November 23, 2003
Today is the birthday of Paul Celan (1920).
posted by Laurable on 11/23/2003 12:01:38 AM
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November 21, 2003
BookTV dot org, a subsite of CSpan dot org, will broadcast the 2003 National Book Awards ceremony this coming Sunday evening. Last year, RealVideo was provided and I am assuming it will be this year as well. The program archive is only available for two months past the original posting.
posted by Laurable on 11/21/2003 09:14:42 AM
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November 20, 2003
Rosanna Warren discussed the use of pronouns in modern poetry on Boston University World of Ideas, BUWI dot ORG (listen), September 14, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2003 12:35:38 PM
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Michael Everson, typographer, alphabetician, and Unicode expert, discusses his mission to encode for computers every single language ever spoken, on today's TheConnection dot ORG (listen). The Unicode Consortium website is located at Unicode dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2003 12:03:04 PM
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Susan Wheeler wins the Sixth Annual BostonReview dot NET Poetry Contest, including an introduction Richard Howard.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2003 11:37:12 AM
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After Language Poetry: 10 Statements (from Christian Bök, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Karen Mac Cormack, Jennifer Moxley, Jena Osman, Juliana Spahr, Brian Kim Stefans, and Chet Wiener) at UBU dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 11/20/2003 11:19:15 AM
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November 19, 2003
Minnesota Public Radio at MPR dot ORG (listen) reports on the new anthology, Visiting Walt, 100 contemporary poets respond to Walt Whitman.
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 04:29:06 PM
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The Academy of American Poets (Poets dot ORG) has a Yahoo! Store for their Poetry Audio Archive, which, notably, is now available in CD format.
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 01:36:38 PM
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Stephen Yenser reviews Robert Lowell's Collected Poems in The Yale Review, hosted at PoetryDaily dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 12:32:31 PM
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deictic: adj. 1. Logic. Directly proving by argument.
2. Linguistics. Of or relating to a word, the determination of whose referent is dependent on the context in which it is said or written. In the sentence I want him to come here now, the words I, here, him, and now are deictic because the determination of their referents depends on who says that sentence, and where, when, and of whom it is said.
n.
A deictic word, such as I or there.
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[Greek deiktikos, from deiktos, able to show directly, from deiknunai, to show. See deik- in Indo-European Roots.]
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deicti·cal·ly adv.
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 11:41:00 AM
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PoetryMagazine [dot ORG] and its $100 million Ruth Lily gift were in Monday's New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 09:45:00 AM
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On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Actor Sam Waterston reads Lincoln's Gettysburg Address for Morning Edition at NPR dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 09:31:36 AM
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From Yahoo! News (AP): Experts are ogling the bones of Francesco Petrarch, the inventor of Romanatic love, in Rome.
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 09:10:54 AM
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Today is the birthday of Sharon Olds (1942).
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 09:03:27 AM
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Today is the birthday of Allen Tate (1899). Tate reads The Mediterranean at the Academy of American Poets, Poets dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 12:01:48 AM
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On this day in 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson became the British poet laureate. The BBC dot CO dot UK (listen) hosts RealAudio of a Thomas Edison wax cylinder recording of Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade from 1890.
posted by Laurable on 11/19/2003 12:01:42 AM
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November 15, 2003
Today is the birthday of Marianne Moore (1887).
posted by Laurable on 11/15/2003 12:01:59 PM
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Today is the birthday of William Cowper (1731).
posted by Laurable on 11/15/2003 12:01:02 AM
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November 14, 2003
November 9th New York Times editorial: What World War I's Greatest Poet [Wilfred Owen] Would Say About Hiding Our War Dead
posted by Laurable on 11/14/2003 09:55:11 PM
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Dana Gioia was on KCRW dot ORG's (listen) Politics of Culture, August 26, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 11/14/2003 06:05:13 PM
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Kevin Young was on KCRW dot ORG's (listen) Bookworm, October 30, 2003. Young was one of five finalists for the NationalBook [dot ORG] Award for poetry.
posted by Laurable on 11/14/2003 05:46:56 PM
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A review of John Clare: A Biography at Slate dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 11/14/2003 10:28:47 AM
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A review of I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud in the NewYorker dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 11/14/2003 09:50:21 AM
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From NarrowHouseRecordings dot COM, mp3s of Anselm Berrigan reading my babysitters, to a broken surface, my poem, and not all there from his new album Pictures for Private Devotion.
posted by Laurable on 11/14/2003 09:31:57 AM
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On this day in 1851, the American edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick was published. The good folks at Slought dot NET (listen) host RealAudio of Charles Olson delivering a lecture on Melville at Goddard College, 1962.
posted by Laurable on 11/14/2003 09:01:20 AM
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November 13, 2003
A review by Stephen Burt of The Poems of Marianne Moore at Slate dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 11/13/2003 01:03:35 PM
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The table of contents of The New Poetry: An Anthology (1917) edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson at Bartleby dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 11/13/2003 11:28:59 AM
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Poetry's Lioness: Defending Sylvia Plath from Her Detractors by Meghan O'Rourke in Slate dot COM, October 28, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 11/13/2003 10:29:34 AM
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Ron Silliman contemplated when bad people happen to write good poetry and Ezra Pound yesterday at RonSilliman dot BlogSpot dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 11/13/2003 09:38:51 AM
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November 12, 2003
On today's Fresh Air from NPR dot ORG (listen) Linguist Geoff Nunberg talks about idiomatic expressions like on the up and up and what does it means when people interpret these sayings differently.
posted by Laurable on 11/12/2003 04:17:38 PM
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On today's Fresh Air from NPR dot ORG
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My David Bromige by Gary Sullivan from the David Bromige feature in JacketMagazine dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 11/12/2003 01:01:51 PM
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The Museum of American Poetics at PoetsPath dot COM has posted RealVideo lectures from the Anne Waldman Symposium which include: Waldman's Early Years: the New York School and the St. Mark's Poetry Project, Publishing and the Small Press Scene, Buddhist Influences, Naropa University, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Politics and Feminism in the Work of Anne Waldman, Anne Waldman as Performer and Collaborator, and Critical Overview: Anne Waldman's Role in 20th Century American Poetics.
posted by Laurable on 11/12/2003 12:47:52 PM
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Robert Browning died on this day in 1889.
posted by Laurable on 11/12/2003 12:17:06 PM
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This week's Poets Choice by Edward Hirsch in the WashingtonPost [dot com] is about the simile.
posted by Laurable on 11/12/2003 10:09:57 AM
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William Matthews died on this day in 1997. Old Dominion University (listen, part 1) hosts RealVideo of Matthews from 1978 at their Annual Literary Festival.
posted by Laurable on 11/12/2003 12:01:50 AM
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November 10, 2003
Arthur Rimbaud died on this day in 1891.
posted by Laurable on 11/10/2003 12:01:26 PM
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Dylan Thomas died on this day in 1953. The BBC dot CO dot UK (listen) has excepts from radio interviews with Thomas.
posted by Laurable on 11/10/2003 12:01:17 PM
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Today is the birthday of Vachel Lindsay (1879).
posted by Laurable on 11/10/2003 12:01:17 AM
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November 9, 2003
Today is the birthday of James Schuyler (1923). If anyone knows of any available poetry audio of Schuyler, it would be greatly appriciated.
posted by Laurable on 11/09/2003 12:01:40 AM
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Today is the birthday of Anne Sexton (1928). ThePoetryForum dot ORG (listen) hosts an m3u stream of a fifty minute Sexton reading.
posted by Laurable on 11/09/2003 12:01:37 AM
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November 8, 2003
John Milton died on this day in Buckinghamshire, England, 1674.
posted by Laurable on 11/08/2003 12:01:02 AM
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November 7, 2003
The Essential Dylan Thomas, with snippets on several Dylan Thomas poems, in Wednesday's Guardian dot CO dot UK
posted by Laurable on 11/07/2003 10:17:05 AM
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A Delhi-based poet [Mustafa Arif] is writing a poem a day on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and hopes to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for his feat from Sify dot COM today.
posted by Laurable on 11/07/2003 10:14:39 AM
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Last Wednesday, Taylor Mali was featured on Day to Day from NPR [dot ORG] News (listen).
posted by Laurable on 11/07/2003 10:06:48 AM
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Yesterday's Leonard Lopate Show at WNYC dot ORG (listen) discussed Dylan Thomas’s enduring legacy.
posted by Laurable on 11/07/2003 09:59:01 AM
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This morning WNYC dot ORG (listen) Poet In Residence Philip Levine read In My Craft or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas.
From WNYC dot ORG's (listen) local news department, Poetry's Rock Star: Dylan Thomas. WNYC (listen) also includes audio of Dylan Thomas reading On The Marriage of a Virgin.
posted by Laurable on 11/07/2003 09:52:35 AM
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Today is the birthday of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, born in the Ukraine (1879). Trotsky’s Hand is one of three poems (third and last poem on the page) from The Next Ancient World by Jennifer Michael Hecht at JenniferMichaelHecht dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 11/07/2003 09:35:44 AM
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November 6, 2003
Anyone have suggestions for reading French poets when one does not know French?
posted by Laurable on 11/06/2003 10:34:25 AM
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McSweeneys dot NET's sestina project.
posted by Laurable on 11/06/2003 10:30:21 AM
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A Sestina Generator from TYZ dot NET.
posted by Laurable on 11/06/2003 10:29:21 AM
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Try the quiz What Poetry Form Am I? RavenBlack dot NET.
posted by Laurable on 11/06/2003 10:18:15 AM
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Triolet: n. A poem or stanza of eight lines with a rhyme scheme abaaabab, in which the fourth and seventh lines are the same as the first, and the eighth line is the same as the second.
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[French, diminutive of trio, trio. See trio.]
posted by Laurable on 11/06/2003 10:11:05 AM
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On this day in 1463, Francois Villon (the villanelle is named after him) was banned from Paris.
posted by Laurable on 11/06/2003 10:10:28 AM
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On this day in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States and became the first Republican president. Robert Pinsky reads My Childhood-Home I See Again by Abraham Lincoln at TheAtlantic dot COM (listen).
posted by Laurable on 11/06/2003 09:03:58 AM
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November 5, 2003
Obverse: adj. Facing or turned toward the observer: the obverse side of a statue. Serving as a counterpart or complement.
n. The side of a coin, medal, or badge that bears the principal stamp or design. The more conspicuous of two possible alternatives, cases, or sides: the obverse of this issue. Logic. The counterpart of a proposition obtained by exchanging the affirmative for the negative quality of the whole proposition and then negating the predicate: The obverse of “Every act is predictable” is “No act is unpredictable.”
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[Latin obversus, past participle of obvertere, to turn toward. See obvert.]
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ob·versely adv.
posted by Laurable on 11/05/2003 12:46:29 PM
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Here Ye! Here Ye! Listen to almost twenty minutes of Jim Behrle interviewed by Christopher Lydon (listen mp3) about Robert Lowell at Lydon's Harvard blog.
posted by Laurable on 11/05/2003 12:42:35 PM
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Poet Laureate: Louise Glück and the Public Face of a Private Artist
from the New York Times Editorial Section, November 4, 2003.
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All I want for Christmas is the O E D [dot COM]. Yeh! The OED is now taking monthly subscriptions and have cut thier yearly rate almost in half!
posted by Laurable on 11/05/2003 10:48:12 AM
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On this day in 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel [dot SE] Prize for Literature, for his novel Main Street.
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Lionel Trilling died on this day in 1975.
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November 4, 2003
On this day in 1948, T.S. Eliot won the Nobel [dot SE] Prize for Literature, for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry. Salon dot ORG (listen) provides a recording of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in both RealAudio and mp3 formats.
posted by Laurable on 11/04/2003 12:01:38 AM
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Today is the birthday of C K Williams (1936). Rattle dot COM (listen) conducted an interview with Williams in the spring of 2001.
posted by Laurable on 11/04/2003 12:01:13 AM
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Wilfred Owen was killed in action in France on this day in 1918. Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive contains WWI photographs, video clips, audio interviews with veterans, and Owen's war poems and manuscript facsmiles.
posted by Laurable on 11/04/2003 12:01:01 AM
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November 3, 2003
Today is the birthday of William Cullen Bryant (1794).
posted by Laurable on 11/03/2003 12:01:42 AM
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November 2, 2003
On this day in 1920, the first scheduled radio broadcast in the United States came from KDKA in Pittsburgh, which announced the results of the presidential election in which Warren G. Harding defeated James M. Cox.
posted by Laurable on 11/02/2003 12:01:49 AM
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November 1, 2003
Ezra Pound died on this day in Venice, Italy, 1972.
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