Poetry & Poets in Rags
We are loaded with great poetry in Great Regulars. Be sure to click into that area. One part of this is a new addition there, NPR, which is putting up poetry galore for the occasion, just as Sarah Crown is. But, The Brooklyn Rail, The Kansas City Star, and The New Yorker each have multiple poems as well. Linda Sue Grimes takes a look at eight poems as Garrison Keillor presents his usual seven. Poems also come from Great Regulars Frieda Hughes, Ted Kooser, Robert Pinsky, B.T. Shaw, The American Muslim, The Guardian, Lawrence Journal-World, The Scotsman, Slate, and The Times Literary Supplement.
In News at Eleven, poems and poetry news comes from all over the world, and the web. In Poetic Obituaries, there are deaths to end eras, deaths to break your heart, and deaths for commemoration. I leave all this news to your discovery.
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Yours,
Rus
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2 comments :
And all the usual suspects are feted and commemorated. Yes, I am a contrarian, but have you ever studied how bad Robert Creeley really is? Or how overrated Philip Levine is in his dotage? Or how far Mark Strand has fallen (a fav of mine) in his dotage as well?
Celebrity, though unavoidable, ruins art. But that's the real world and I ask for no other. Leonard Nimoy, Jimmy Carter, Jewel and Jimmy Stewart each published a volume of poetry that likely had more sales than most name poets will ever have in a lifetime.
Also, when there has to be a "poetry month"--like a "black history month"--you know the subject seeking attention has long since become desperate. There is no "chocolate" or "beer month."
;-)
Hi CE,
I am so thrilled to find Jimi Hendrix doing "Red House" at Woodstock on the web tonight. If there was ever will be a greatest ever song of rock 'n rock, it would have to have been done already at Woodstock, and of all the songs at Woodstock, this is the one. This is the one.
I'm reading Mark Doty's Dog Years and wondering if any poet alive can work sound, sense, love and mortality into a poem like poets are suppose to do, as good as he does. Is he our Jimi Hendrix? Yes he is.
Or do we need to go all the way back to the Tang Dynasty to Du Fu, or maybe a little Li Bai. Look how many opeople are trying to translate his work: Li Bai drinking alone (with the moon, his shadow, & 32 translators). He's a dead rock star. Or do you prefer Rumi?
I'm just keeping the radio on.
Love that you stopped by. I know what you mean.
Yours,
Rus
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