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December 31, 2003
Stephen Burt reviews Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright in the New York Times, December 21, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 12/31/2003 04:34:42 PM
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December 30, 2003
Today is the birthday of Rudyard Kipling (1865).
posted by Laurable on 12/30/2003 09:03:12 AM
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December 29, 2003
Christina Rossetti died on this day in 1894.
posted by Laurable on 12/29/2003 09:03:28 AM
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Rainer Maria Rilke died on this day in 1926.
posted by Laurable on 12/29/2003 12:01:02 AM
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December 27, 2003
Today is the birthday of Charles Olson (1910). Slought dot NET (listen) hosts audio of Olson reading at Goddard College, October 1962.
posted by Laurable on 12/27/2003 09:03:49 AM
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December 26, 2003
Today is the birthday of Thomas Gray (1716) author of Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Bowl of Gold Fishes.
posted by Laurable on 12/26/2003 12:01:22 AM
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December 25, 2003
Tristan Tzara, a founder of Dada, died on this day in 1963. The fine folks at UBU dot COM host two audio poems by Tzara.
posted by Laurable on 12/25/2003 09:03:08 AM
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December 24, 2003
Today is the birthday of Dana Gioia (1950). A talk with Gioia was featured on UCTV dot TV (listen) (University of California Television).
posted by Laurable on 12/24/2003 09:03:06 AM
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Today is the birthday of Matthew Arnold (1822).
posted by Laurable on 12/24/2003 12:01:58 AM
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December 23, 2003
It is also the birthday of Harriet Monroe (1860), founder of PoetryMagazine dot org.
posted by Laurable on 12/23/2003 12:01:58 AM
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Today is the birthday of Robert Bly (1926).
posted by Laurable on 12/23/2003 12:01:35 AM
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December 22, 2003
The poems index page at the new version of Harpers dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 12/22/2003 10:53:45 AM
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Today is the birthday of Kenneth Rexroth (1905).
posted by Laurable on 12/22/2003 12:01:46 AM
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December 20, 2003
Denise Levertov died on this day in 1997.
posted by Laurable on 12/20/2003 12:01:04 AM
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December 19, 2003
A new Sound Poetry index from EPC dot Buffalo dot EDU.
posted by Laurable on 12/19/2003 12:20:39 PM
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December 18, 2003
Dial-A-Poem Poets, Sugar, Meat, & Alcohol, 1980 brought to you by the good folks at UBU dot COM. Mp3s include Peter Gordon, John Giorno, John Cage, Tom Carey, Andrei Vosnesensky, Miguel Pinero, Miguel Algarin, Mitchell Kreigman, William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Jr., Charlie Morrow, Ted Berrigan, Charlotte Carter, Patti Smith, Cliff Fyman, Robin Messing, Paul Violi, Bob Holman, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, John Ashbery, Beth Anderson, Rene Ricard, Barbara Barg, Ned Sublette, Kathy Acker, Eileen Myles, Barbara Barg, Didi Susan Dubelyew, Rochelle Kraut, Gary Snyder, Daiela Gioseffi, Regina Beck, Bernard Heidsieck, Charles Bernstein, Steve McCaffery and Ron Padgett.
posted by Laurable on 12/18/2003 02:11:06 PM
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Christian Bök reviewed in the VillageVoice dot COM. Listen to lots of Bök (mp3s) at UBU dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 12/18/2003 02:04:53 PM
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Nope.
posted by Laurable on 12/18/2003 01:59:44 PM
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December 17, 2003
A minor note: I saw the Library of America (LOC dot ORG) advertised at the top of RonSilliman dot BlogSpot dot COM under the URL AmericanPoetsProject dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 12/17/2003 09:20:04 AM
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Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi died on this day in 1273. Coleman Barks, translator, discussed Rumi on KCRW's (listen) Bookworm, December 20, 2001.
posted by Laurable on 12/17/2003 12:01:45 AM
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Today is the birthday of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807).
posted by Laurable on 12/17/2003 12:01:07 AM
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December 15, 2003
Muriel Rukeyser was born on this day in 1913.
posted by Laurable on 12/15/2003 12:01:54 AM
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December 14, 2003
Paul Eluard died on this day in 1952.
posted by Laurable on 12/14/2003 12:01:03 AM
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December 13, 2003
Today is the birthday of James Wright (1927). Wright reads Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio at Poets dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2003 09:03:28 AM
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Today in the birthday of Kenneth Patchen (1911).
posted by Laurable on 12/13/2003 12:01:14 AM
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December 12, 2003
For Moonshine:
Ruth Stone m3u and mp3 selections from her Poetry Alive! CD at ParisPress dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 12/12/2003 02:15:36 PM
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Finding the Phenomenal Oppen by Forrest Gander at PoetryDaily dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 12/12/2003 02:10:09 PM
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PoetryMagazine [dot ORG] experiences complications around the Ruth Lilly $100 million gift, from WSJ dot COM (Wall Street Journal), December 8, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 12/12/2003 09:39:13 AM
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From yesterday's Chicago SunTimes dot COM: Kevin Stein is appointed the Illinois Poet Laureate.
Yesterday Stein was on interviewed on Eight Forty-Eight at ChicagoPublicRadio dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/12/2003 09:17:04 AM
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December 11, 2003
R.F. Foster, author of W. B. Yeats, a Life: II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939, is interviewed on today's Leonard Lopate Show from WNYC dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/11/2003 01:15:44 PM
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A Car Talk poetry reading hosted by Cars dot COM (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/11/2003 09:50:50 AM
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Perfidy n.
1. Deliberate breach of faith; calculated violation of trust; treachery: “the fink, whose perfidy was equaled only by his gall” (Gilbert Millstein).
2. The act or an instance of treachery.
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[Latin perfidia, from perfidus, treacherous : per-, to destruction; see per- + fids, faith; see bheidh- in Indo-European Roots.]
posted by Laurable on 12/11/2003 09:18:39 AM
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Today is the birthday Jerome Rothenberg (1931). Salon dot COM (listen mp3) hosts Rothenberg reading Prologomena to a Poetics.
posted by Laurable on 12/11/2003 09:06:17 AM
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December 10, 2003
Geoff Nunberg discusses taboo words on yesterday's FreshAir dot NPR dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2003 02:58:43 PM
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PBS Documentary Looks at Emily Dickinson (AP) in the NYTimes dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2003 02:51:18 PM
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Jim Behrle and Molly Saccardo kick off Shopping Poetry, the current Poetry Challenge on Here-Now dot ORG (listen). Jim reads a poem by James Schuyler.
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2003 09:55:19 AM
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Today is the birthday of Carolyn Kizer (1925). Kizer reads Parent's Pantoum at Poets dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2003 09:03:41 AM
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Today is the birthday of Emily Dickinson (1830). At WiredForBooks dot ORG (listen, I. Success), Laura Lee Parrotti read all of Dickinson's poems.
posted by Laurable on 12/10/2003 12:01:01 AM
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December 9, 2003
Persian poet Shaikh Sa’di Shirazi, originally named Muslih-uddin, died on this day in 1292.
posted by Laurable on 12/09/2003 12:01:59 AM
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Today is the birthday of John Milton (1608).
posted by Laurable on 12/09/2003 12:01:13 AM
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December 8, 2003
Today is the birthday of Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (65 BC).
posted by Laurable on 12/08/2003 12:01:26 AM
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December 7, 2003
Robert Graves died on this day in 1985. Graves reads To Juan at the Summer Solstice at Poets dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 12/07/2003 12:01:23 AM
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December 5, 2003
Today is the birthday of Christina Rossetti (1830).
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2003 12:01:37 AM
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Phillis Wheatley died on this day in (1784).
posted by Laurable on 12/05/2003 12:01:30 AM
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December 4, 2003
Today is the birthday of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875).
posted by Laurable on 12/04/2003 12:01:48 AM
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December 3, 2003
Saul Williams on Day to Day from NPR dot ORG (listen), November 26, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 12/03/2003 02:38:13 PM
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Paul Muldoon reads Symposium at PoetryCenter dot ORG (listen mp3), the Poetry Center of Chicago.
Paul Carroll reads Father (listen mp3) and Czeslaw Milosz reads Song at the End of the World (listen mp3).
posted by Laurable on 12/03/2003 12:37:44 PM
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On December 1, 2003 TheConnection dot ORG (listen) discussed Shakespeare's sonnets during the first broadcast in a two part series on love poetry.
On December 2, 2002, TheConnection dot ORG (listen) discussed Philip Larkin in the second broadcast of their two part series on love poetry discussing . Yeah, I know.
posted by Laurable on 12/03/2003 11:04:58 AM
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Gwendolyn Brooks died on this day in 2000. NPR dot ORG (listen) aired a report the next day.
posted by Laurable on 12/03/2003 09:03:53 AM
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December 2, 2003
Philip Larkin died on this day in 1985. A New Yorker cartoon at CartoonBank dot COM features Larkin.
posted by Laurable on 12/02/2003 09:03:46 AM
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December 1, 2003
On this day in 1821, Adonais, Percy Shelley's elegy to John
Keats, was published. The full elegy provided by the University of Toronto Libraries.
posted by Laurable on 12/01/2003 09:03:30 AM
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On this day in 1589 The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser was registered for publication.
posted by Laurable on 12/01/2003 09:03:20 AM
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