Poetry Hut Blog

Poetry News:

1. — Brigit Pegeen Kelly was named recipient of the Academy Fellowship, which provides a $25,000 stipend —
2. — The grassroots movement to preserve the Ameliasburgh, Ontario, home of poet Al Purdy is gaining momentum —
3. — The Poet Who Invented Himself —
4. — First published in the L.A. Free Press on May 19, 1972, this piece is excerpted from Portions From a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 by Charles Bukowski and edited by David Calonne —
5. — Prizes awarded for 6 emerging female writers —
6. — Within these limits, though, he has written an excellent book — in essence, a series of case histories of anonymous or pseudonymous publication —
7. — The Woman in White from The New York Review of Books by Joyce Carol Oates —

Poetry News:

1. — Emily Dickinson’s ‘White Heat’ from NPR Programs: Fresh Air from WHYY —
2. — How Keats’s most popular rival rescued him from the critics —
3. — Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky wins the 11th Triennial Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize —
4. — Williams turns 125 years old —
5. — Lucille Clifton’s poem “brothers” shines a bright new light on Lucifer, who answers God in a whirlwind of verse. —
6. — “This is a broad request. I’m compiling a list of contemporary poets from the South or poets that have moved to the South and adopted it as a home.” —

Poetry News:

1. — Time to rediscover the glory of chapbooks —
2. — The notebooks of W.S. Merwin, one of the most eminent poets in the world, are anything but beautiful —
3. — Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who returned to India from Sweden early in August, on Monday, said she has no plans of leaving the country —
4. — Fall Preview: Poet John Ashbery Makes His Elliptical Way into Library of America —
5. — Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize —
6. — “Isn’t it amazing,” he said, ” to have 1,000 people show up and waiting in line to hear a poet?” —

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Poetry News:

1. — A poet’s Yorkshire retreat —
2. — I’m sorry to sound a philistine note, but I find it hard to cheer the current bizarre revival in verse drama —
3. — Wick Poetry Center looks to the past during 25th anniversary celebration —
4. — Dr Andy’s Poetry & Technology Hour w. Joe Biden and Laura Cherry [MP3] —
5. — Wordplay w. Glenis Redmon [MP3] —
6. — A wandering mind can do important work, scientists are learning - and may even be essential —

oh for pete’s sake.

Poetry News:

1. — Jazz Age poet’s NY home, grounds are being restored —
2. — But the plight of being an old man in a country that values youth is just one of the many strands of this complex, sentimental yet transcendant poem —
3. — Missouri’s poet laureate highlights area writers —
4. — Q&A: Twichell Passes Ausable Torch —
5. — This week we capture the sensitive, romantic and ultimately tragic talent of early 20th-century poet and prose writer Charlotte Mew —
6. — College maintenance worker honored for his poetry —
7. — The unique library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, buried beneath lava by Vesuvius’s eruption in AD79, is slowly revealing its long-held secrets —
8. — Poets and critics have been around for a long time, and some writers have been both poets and critics, but the “poet-critic” was invented in the 20th century —
9. — Leontia Flynn emerged fully-formed in 2004 with a first collection, These Days, that placed her at the centre of a new wave of Belfast poets —
10. — In prosperous America, the poet’s economic reality usually involves working a crap job while scribbling nightly in a cheap apartment —

I’m stealing your word tree. xoxox
Jilly

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