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March 31, 2004
Today is the birthday of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). Linda Gregerson, J.D. McClatchy, and Heather McHugh read To His Coy Mistress for TheAtlantic dot COM (listen), February 26, 2001.
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Today is the birthday of Octavio Paz (1914-1998).
posted by Laurable on 3/31/2004 09:03:26 AM
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Today is the birthday of Marge Piercy (1936).
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March 30, 2004
Today is the birthday of Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), one of the founders of the Decadent school of writing.
posted by Laurable on 3/30/2004 09:03:19 AM
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March 27, 2004
Today is the birthday of Louis Simpson (1923). Simpson read three poems in the CortlandReview dot COM (listen).
posted by Laurable on 3/27/2004 09:03:49 AM
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March 26, 2004
Unflowered Aloes: Why literary success is a product of chance, not destiny, from the BostonReview dot NET, April/May 2000.
posted by Laurable on 3/26/2004 02:15:34 PM
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Today is the birthday of Gregory Corso (1930-2001). PoetsPath COM (listen) has an audio link of Corso reading at Naropa in 1987.
posted by Laurable on 3/26/2004 09:03:39 AM
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Walt Whitman died on this day in 1892. The Chronicle dot COM (listen) has realaudio of what may be a wax cycylinder recording of Whitman reading America.
posted by Laurable on 3/26/2004 09:03:26 AM
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Today is the birthday of Robert Frost (1874-1963).
Berkeley dot EDU (listen) has two very lenghty Frost readings from 1953 and 1958.
From CartoonBank dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 3/26/2004 09:03:10 AM
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Today is the birthday of A.E. Housman (1859-1936).
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March 25, 2004
From Salon dot COM; on the grounds of obscenity, U.S. Customs agents seized 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl on this day in 1957. WiredForBooks dot ORG (listen) hosts 45 minute interview from 1985.
posted by Laurable on 3/25/2004 09:03:47 AM
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146 garment workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire on this day in 1911. Robert Pinksy reads his poem The Shirt at ibiblio dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 3/25/2004 09:03:31 AM
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From TheStar dot COM (Toronto Star) and CTV dot CA; the Canadian federal government is seeking a new poet laureate to replace George Bowering at the end of his two year term.
posted by Laurable on 3/25/2004 09:00:36 AM
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March 24, 2004
Today is the birthday of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919). October 15, 2003, Ferlinghetti gave a reading and participated in a discussion at Lannon dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 3/24/2004 09:03:27 AM
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March 23, 2004
Tristan Tzara's Dada Manifesto was issued on this day in 1918. 391 dot ORG provides and uncredited English translation of the manifesto.
posted by Laurable on 3/23/2004 09:03:37 AM
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March 22, 2004
A Letter to the Editor suggests to drop the English requirement for the Queens Poet Laureate position in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2004 03:28:56 PM
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Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers profanity on Freshair dot NPR dot COM (listen), March 17, 2004.
posted by Laurable on 3/22/2004 12:43:41 PM
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March 20, 2004
Ovid was born on this day, 43 BC.
posted by Laurable on 3/20/2004 09:03:56 AM
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March 18, 2004
Thursday March 18, 2004, from the Guardian dot CO dot UK; Thief robs literary festival of star poet.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2004 12:58:50 PM
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Kenneth Koch was interview and read some of his poems for AnnOnline dot COM (listen), April 22, 1999.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2004 11:51:18 AM
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Yesterday on WNYC dot ORG (listen), Philip Levine read The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2004 09:17:20 AM
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Today is the birthday of Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). The BBC dot CO dot UK (listen) has a recording of an unknown person reading The Sentry and a letter by Owens to his mother.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2004 09:03:15 AM
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Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), a French poet and leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry. UBU dot COM has a translation by Christopher Mulrooney of One Toss of the Dice by Mallarmé.
posted by Laurable on 3/18/2004 09:03:11 AM
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March 17, 2004
Reviews of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, The Sappho History by Margaret Reynolds, and Sappho's Leap by Erica Jong at Guardian dot CO dot UK, February 2, 2004.
posted by Laurable on 3/17/2004 03:46:49 PM
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From today's New York Times: Queens is looking for a new poet laureate. Candidates must be
someone who has lived in Queens for at least five years and has written, in English, "poetry inspired by the borough."
Apparently Queens is having a hard time finding the replacement for Hal Sirowitz.
posted by Laurable on 3/17/2004 01:57:06 PM
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Cid Corman's obituary from the New York Times. Corman read at the Kelly Writers House at UPenn dot EDU (listen), November 19, 2001.
posted by Laurable on 3/17/2004 10:39:32 AM
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Sam Kashner, author of the memior When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School, was interviewed Monday on Freshair dot NPR dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 3/17/2004 09:53:53 AM
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March 15, 2004
Nick Flynn on the Poet and the Poem series from the Library of Congress, LOC dot GOV (listen).
posted by Laurable on 3/15/2004 02:12:36 PM
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Fred Hersch, Setting Whitman to Music on today's Morning Edition from NPR dot ORG (listen).
posted by Laurable on 3/15/2004 10:28:48 AM
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pe·num·bra: (p -n m br )
n. pl. pe·num·brae (-br ) or pe·num·bras
1. A partial shadow, as in an eclipse, between regions of complete shadow and complete illumination.
2. The grayish outer part of a sunspot.
3. An area in which something exists to a lesser or uncertain degree: “The First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion” (Joseph A. Califano, Jr.).
4. An outlying surrounding region; a periphery: “Downtown Chicago and its penumbra also stand rejuvenated” (John McCormick).
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[New Latin pnumbra : Latin paene, almost + Latin umbra, shadow.]
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pe·numbral or pe·numbrous adj.
posted by Laurable on 3/15/2004 09:01:58 AM
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beware
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March 13, 2004
ris·i·ble: (rz-bl) adj. 1. Relating to laughter or used in eliciting laughter.
2. Eliciting laughter; ludicrous.
3.Capable of laughing or inclined to laugh.
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[Late Latin r sibilis, from Latin rsus, past participle of rdre, to laugh.]
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risi·bly adv.
posted by Laurable on 3/13/2004 09:00:29 PM
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Today is the birthday of George Seferis, Nobel [dot SE] prize-winning poet (1900).
posted by Laurable on 3/13/2004 09:03:41 AM
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Behrle reporting from the offices of Laurable dot COM.
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March 12, 2004
On All Things Considered from NPR dot ORG (listen), Andrei Codrescu comments on spam poetry, March 11, 2004.
At first I had thoughts that Avant-gardists had targeted me personally for their gorilla poetry and “Jigsaw roams catch romano cortex” would make Wallace Steven’s day, not to mention your average Language poet working in the cellers of aggressive non reference.
He said it, I didn't.
posted by Laurable on 3/12/2004 08:23:29 PM
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The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, Set to Music on today's Morning Edition from NPR dot ORG (listen). Not to be confused with poetry for Donald Rumsfeld at RonSilliman dot BlogSpot dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 3/12/2004 08:18:21 PM
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On this day in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the first Fireside Chat and his first address to the nation as President of the United States. AmericanPresidents dot ORG (listen), part of CSpan dot ORG, provides audio of this Fireside Chat about banking.
posted by Laurable on 3/12/2004 09:04:36 AM
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Today is the birthday of Irving Layton (1912), a Canadian poet, socialist and activist. Help me out Canadians. Do they still teach, or every taught him in school? Never heard of him? What poem(s) should one begin with? Who did he sleep with? Anyone? Bueller?
posted by Laurable on 3/12/2004 09:03:37 AM
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Today is the birthday of Jack Kerouac (1922). The Kerouac Speaks website has dot AU files Kerouac reading ten of his haikus.
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March 11, 2004
The Calgary Writershouse media archive at UCalgary dot CA includes several readings, interviews and a symposium in RealAudio including, but not limited to: Roy Miki, Fred Wah, Steve McCaffery, Catriona Strang, Louis Cabri, Karen Solie, Rajinderpal S. Pal, Larissa Lai, Aaron Levy, Ian Samuels, Dennis Cooley, Barry McKinnon, Basil Bunting, Christian Bok, , Robert Kroetsch, and Adrienne Kertzer.
posted by Laurable on 3/11/2004 10:28:22 AM
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From TheStar dot COM (Toronto), March 9, 2004; next month, the new Canadia 100 dollar bill will include text from Jacques Cartier In Toronto by Miriam Waddington.
posted by Laurable on 3/11/2004 10:19:07 AM
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The almanac staff at Laurable dot COM neglected to post that Charles Bukowski died on March 9. The following post contains the Bukowski related link reblogged here for the daily readers who would not be reading back to March 9.
ReBlog:
In his honor, Obscure dot ORG hosts The Charles Bukowski Memorial Center for Classical Latin Studies which seeks to drag obscenity out of those dusty tomes and stick it right where it belongs. They also host the Prurient Latin Vocabulary List: Tired Latin texts written by prim religious scholars do not give the discerning cinaedus enough vocabulary to read the racier texts properly. The Prurient Latin Vocabulary List seeks to remedy this omission.
posted by Laurable on 3/11/2004 09:46:45 AM
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March 10, 2004
An article on Stephen Todd Booker, a poet on death row, in the New York Times, March 9, 2004.
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An opinionated column from William Safire on Dana Gioia and the N.E.A. in the New York Times, March 8, 2004.
posted by Laurable on 3/10/2004 12:27:11 PM
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ReBlog:
This past Monday, RonSilliman dot BlogSpot dot COM mentioned Ern Malley as one example, among others, of a poet with a dubious identity. The laudable JacketMagazine dot COM (listen) hosts a realaudio, one hour radio documentary made by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1959. If you only investigate one source on Ern Malley, I recommend this one. Transcript also available.
posted by Laurable on 3/10/2004 10:04:19 AM
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Today is the birthday of Edmund Waller (1687). Waller is credited with the refinement of the heroic couplet.
posted by Laurable on 3/10/2004 09:03:40 AM
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March 9, 2004
I have no particular reason for not posting today.
posted by Laurable on 3/09/2004 04:48:37 PM
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Charles Bukowski died on this day in 1994. In his honor, Obscure dot ORG hosts The Charles Bukowski Memorial Center for Classical Latin Studies which seeks to drag obscenity out of those dusty tomes and stick it right where it belongs. They also hosts Prurient Latin Vocabulary List: Tired Latin texts written by prim religious scholars do not give the discerning cinaedus enough vocabulary to read the racier texts properly. The Prurient Latin Vocabulary List seeks to remedy this omission.
posted by Laurable on 3/09/2004 09:03:41 AM
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March 8, 2004
Sometimes, you just gotta have some Wieners.
posted by Laurable on 3/08/2004 10:18:12 PM
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Miguel Algarin and Tracie Morris discuss hip-hop, avant garde, and sound poetry and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on All Things Considered at NPR dot ORG (listen), November 17, 1997.
posted by Laurable on 3/08/2004 08:25:40 AM
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A Pedro Pietri memorial segment on Morning Edition at NPR dot ORG (listen), March 7, 2004.
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March 6, 2004
Today is the birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1861).
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Today is the birthday of Cyrano de Bergerac, (1655).
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March 5, 2004
Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer perform their Haiku Challenge on Jonbenet's Book Club with Bronwyn from WFMU dot ORG (listen), September 18, 2002.
posted by Laurable on 3/05/2004 09:11:51 PM
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Peter Pereira reads poems regarding his experience as a family practice physician on The Beat from KUOW dot ORG (listen), October 6, 2003.
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No Limericks: Political Poetry and Humor with Les Barker, Susan Butler, and Gregory Hischak on Weekday from KUOW dot ORG (listen), November 7, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 3/05/2004 07:50:55 PM
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Sam Hamill and Bill Ransom talk about and read poems from PoetsAgainstTheWar dot ORG on The Beat from KUOW dot ORG (listen), December 1, 2003.
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Robert Wrigley reads some of his poems on The Beat from KUOW dot ORG (listen), December 15, 2003.
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J. W. Marshall reads poems regarding his experience in hospitals and in recovery after being hit by a car in 1972 on The Beat from KUOW dot ORG (listen), January 5, 2004.
posted by Laurable on 3/05/2004 07:31:08 PM
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Billy Collins was on The Beat from KUOW dot ORG (listen), January 13, 2004.
posted by Laurable on 3/05/2004 07:28:53 PM
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DemocracyNow dot ORG (listen) host a RealVideo memorial story on Pedro Pietri, who died this last Wednesday.
posted by Laurable on 3/05/2004 05:43:31 PM
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Controversy over the exhumation of Federico Garcia Lorca in the BBC dot CO dot UK yesterday.
posted by Laurable on 3/05/2004 09:28:51 AM
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Anna Akhmatova died on this day in 1966. The Sentence recites and discusses The Sentence by Akhmatova at FavoritePoem dot ORG.
posted by Laurable on 3/05/2004 09:03:09 AM
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From NYDailyNews dot COM and the NYPost dot COM; Pedro Pietri, author of Puerto Rican Obituary, died Wednesday of stomach cancer.
posted by Laurable on 3/05/2004 09:00:18 AM
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March 4, 2004
Non Poetry:
CSPAN dot ORG
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Darwinian Poetry at CodeAsArt dot COM.
posted by Laurable on 3/04/2004 09:59:03 AM
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This morning I am opening RealPlayer and rewinding by pressing play for Xing by Ron Silliman at EPC dot Buffalo dot EDU (listen mp2).
posted by Laurable on 3/04/2004 09:04:08 AM
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March 3, 2004
March is SmallPress [dot ORG] Month.
posted by Laurable on 3/03/2004 11:36:26 AM
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oeu·vre: ( vr) n. pl. oeu·vres (vr)
1. A work of art.
2. The sum of the lifework of an artist, writer, or composer.
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[French uvre, from Old French uevre, work, from Latin opera, from pl. of opus,
work. See opus.]
posted by Laurable on 3/03/2004 09:56:50 AM
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Sebastian Matthews on William Matthews at Poets & Writers, PW dot ORG, March 2004.
posted by Laurable on 3/03/2004 09:45:40 AM
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Today is the birthday of James Merrill (1926). April 13, 2001, TheConnection dot ORG (listen) talked with J. D. McClatchy about Merrill and the publication of Collected Poems: James Merrill.
posted by Laurable on 3/03/2004 09:03:12 AM
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March 2, 2004
Behrle, Jim Behrle, you're a jerk. A complete knee biter.
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March 1, 2004
Today is the birthday of Howard Nemerov (1920). ThePoetryForum dot ORG (listen) hosts m3u audio (streaming mp3) of a Nemerov reading. Hillary Rodham Clinton read The Makers by Howard Nemerov for the FavoritePoem dot ORG (listen) and the Library of Congress (LOC dot GOV).
posted by Laurable on 3/01/2004 09:03:31 AM
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Today is the birthday of Richard Wilbur (1921). The Internet Poetry Archive at ibiblio dot org has audio of several Wilbur poems.
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Today is the birthday of Robert Lowell (1917). ThePoetryForum dot ORG (listen) hosts m3u audio (streaming mp3) of a Lowell reading.
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