July 27th Poetic Ticker Clicking
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Sunday was the 7th anniversary of Poetry & Poets in Rags. I searched through the news, to see what was out there that week, if Google searching for news in poetry would yield usable, informative results. It worked. I posted links to the articles onto Melic's RoundTable and the Atlantic Monthly's Writers' Workshop, both great and former IBPC forums, and both now defunct. After a few weeks, Gina Bryson, then managing editor of the InterBoard Poetry Community, asked if she could publish the column in the Newswire section of the IBPC web pages at Web Del Sol. I hesitated on the commitment, got a similar offer from CE Chaffin of The Melic Review, and said "yes" to Gina.
He started with no money and is instead staging nightly poetry readings in halls, houses and pubs en route in return for donations, accommodation and food.
about jazz in a paper such as the Telegraph, during the glory days of saxophonist John Coltrane and the musically and socially radical "new thing" movement of which he was the standard bearer, is explained by his tastes, which he wore emblazoned on both sleeves. Like the more or less contemporaneous French critic Hugues Pannassie, Larkin's interest in jazz stopped abruptly with bop, which he hated, along with everything that came after it, with a vengeance.
where she would train aristocratic young women to sing religious hymns or songs to Aphrodite; other people think it was kind of like a finishing school; other people think she just had a load of hot chicks with her who fancied having a sing and doing other things together."
father, Vinnie or brother Austin--understood the "Loaded Gun" of Emily's arrhythmic life and lines: her fierce privacy and the heartbreaking ellipses of her poems. Her father had likened Austin's college compositions to Shakespeare and wanted to have them published, but he didn't have a clue that his minuscule daughter in her velvet snood was one of the great "singers" of the 19th century. In fact, none of the men in her life had the least idea of what her poetry was about.
went through some incredible mutation, as though--a little science fiction, why not?--aliens had transported him up to their spaceship and put him down again with a new mind, a new poetry apparatus," [C.K.] Williams writes. "It is really that crazy."
of the writing groups in far-flung areas of Wyoming, and their publishing successes. She also notes how relatively well-funded Wyoming's Art Council is, "to the tune of $2 million a year."
and Professor of Philosophy. Here we publish his poem 'Remembered Summer'. His next full-length collection, At Lake Scugog, will be published in 2011 in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets.
I think gardening is one of the oldest, maybe the oldest art," he [W.S. Merwin] tells me. "In my lifetime at least I watched something completely reverse itself." The garden used to be "a little enclave", keeping wilderness at bay. "The moment human beings became able to destroy life anywhere on earth, it absolutely at that moment changes around," says Merwin. "The garden becomes a place where you keep out human enterprise and you try to preserve something resembling the natural world. And that's a complete turnaround, and it happened immediately." One consequence is that "every conservationist, every environmentalist, is really a gardener".
since 1980, her work appearing in the Long Prairie Leader, the Morrison County Record, and the St. Cloud Times, and in a collection called Rural Routes: Essays on Living in Rural Minnesota. Rylander lives with her husband in Grey Eagle, Minnesota.
herself is acutely aware--and she's in no doubt about its origins. In May 2003, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent the "full gamut" of treatment (her oncology team are named in Of Mutability's acknowledgments). The process took almost a year, and was deemed, in the cautious terms of cancer medicine, to have been a success. But the remedy left its own scars. During the course of her treatment, Shapcott found herself facing "not only physical changes, which were quite profound, but mental and emotional ones".
[Elsa] Barker's simple sonnet is as accessible as prayer, though there are startling sensual undertones here--'the breath and glamour of the rose' is lovely. The word "guerdon' in line eight means 'reward' and sits nicely in the scale of the phrase with 'quest'."
Minerva seeks to solve her problem by visiting the doctor in order the kill her unborn child, "He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers"--her fate with Doctor Meyers left her dead. She describes her death as a growing numbness from her "feet up/Like one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice."
Fortunately, most online dating companies that require a small fee to use their services weed those people out, but from what I understand--and admittedly this knowledge is garnered from hearsay--those free dating sites are quite good (I know two couples who have met through OKcupid.com, and they are all very normal, healthy, unweird people). It is highly unlikely that you'll meet a woman like the one described in Anne Sexton's "Her Kind":
by Eleanor Lerman
whose work I have admired for almost as long as I have been writing. Here he beautifully captures a quiet moment of reflection.
because their love will garner each one her equal share of Lear's vast kingdom. In birth order, Goneril and Regan strive to speak the words Lear wants to hear, regardless of their sincerity. Their speeches please him, and he turns finally to Cordelia, who replies with honesty that she has nothing to say, her heart being full of the true love she bears her father.
of the work exists--the owners of the manuscript also find themselves in possession of its literature. Yet the two things ought not to be conflated. We can easily envisage an owner owning a manuscript while we collectively own and know the piece of literature it contains. But in the case of the works of Kafka that are lying in those safes, we're not allowed to do that. Both the manuscripts and the literature are in the possession of the owners.
is a study in paradox. It's a love poem that deconstructs love, a pastoral that has seen not only death but bio-diversity. Conversational, daringly sexual, it remains a soliloquy. There may be two in this campagna but two are not one, and the poet has no hesitation in admitting it.
in the trajectory of the manuscript that became "Threshold." What motivated you to keep trying over nine years and 25 near misses?
was 16 years old living on the family farm. The family didn't have a radio. His uncle was the sheriff, and drove out to their house that Sunday afternoon to tell them that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor. Stanley said, "I didn't know who she was."
by Barbara LaMorticella
July 25, 2010
they invite us to consider how "we are tenants in our own context." The unspoken realization, however, is that we are also often alone. Even the closest are "two humans together, growing alone." As funny and deadpan as [Ken] Chen's personas can be, it is their sobriety that stands out.
second collection Territory, is about the small mining village of Leadhills; galena is a natural form of lead, found in the area. It asks us to think about what is really valuable and precious about home, and what we're prepared to do for it.
write poetry and wrote an autobiography. She also enjoyed reading, doing crossword puzzles and other games, and putting together jigsaw puzzles. She did cross-country taxi driving for the Amish.
"but I always believed David was first a poet. Of my various acquaintances in more than 30 years in journalism, I have met precious few historical figures. David Dick was one.
I carried with me a manuscript of 31 Poems by G.F. Dutton, which I published under the Old Fire Station Poets imprint. Geoffrey followed this up with his first collection, Camp One, published in 1978. In 1983, he retired from university research--a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with three honorary degrees.
experimental contributions to such seminal breakthroughs as the antiproton and the J/psi subatomic particles, and the mysterious dark energy that accelerates the expansion of the universe. He was also an accomplished artist who illustrated two books of poems written by his wife, Judith, Sonnets from Aesop and Sarah Laughed: Sonnets from Genesis.
was published in 1974 while her last completed book, House of Shadows, was published earlier this year.
he [Erroll Wall] said, of his cousin [Howard Hall]'s desire to relocate. "But somewhere something went south on it," he said. "Looking through his stuff here I found poetry he wrote back in the 70s and 80s. He was pretty tortured. He had a lot of issues of depression his whole life. He was just a lost soul looking for himself and looking for a reason to be."
during WWII in the Philippines, the Air Force Reserve during the Korean War and retired from Keyport Torpedo Station. Harry enjoyed talking with people, bowling, playing the harmonica, yodeling, farming, writing poetry, being a volunteer fireman and eating.Read more: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/jul/21/harry-edward-lesoing-89/#ixzz0uey26ORy
the invasion of Iraq, perhaps taking pride in early condemning it, Bob [Potter] was on State Street every Saturday, marching. Among other activities, he was a great friend of the profound Arlington West Memorial, offering both physical support and words in a moving poem about ". . . the crosses and the grizzled veterans/Who tend them like a flowered garden of regret."
Fellow by the American Nuclear Society in 2001, Dr. [George J.] Rotariu was also a member of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Sigma Xi, Alpha Chi Sigma, Alpha Tau Omega and the American Institute of Chemists, and a founding member of the OSIMA Poets Society International. He was named one of the 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century.
and literary and historical studies. Among his published material is "Kana Li Qalb" [I Had a Heart] in 1962, "Tha'er Bila Hawiya" [Revolutionary without an Identity] in 1966, "Al Nar Wal Tin" [Fire and Clay] in 1966, "Amtar Al Huzn Wal Dam" [Rains of Sorrow and Blood] in 1978, "Riyah Al Sineen" [Winds of the Years] published in Rome in 1994, in addition to many others.
making crafts, writing poems and short stories. She very much loved spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and she volunteered to work with blind children.
her whole life and loved to be around her children.
crocheted and sewed and had a wonderful singing voice, which she loved to use while entertaining her many grandchildren. Dola enjoyed writing poetry, and she was considered the family historian.