We mourn the death of poet Leslie Scalapino. Our condolences to her family and friends, and to all who were moved by her work. PEN American announced the release of Burmese poet Saw Wei, imprisoned for “inducing crime against public tranquility” for one of his poems. That's one of the highest compliments you can pay … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
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Via HTMLGIANT, Poets for Living Waters has put out a call for submissions. They're calling it a "poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made ecological catastrophes in history." I rarely link to the same place twice in the same column, but this was … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
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Austin Kleon's Newspaper Blackout site (along the same lines as his book) is worth checking out. He's also a more than fair Twitterer. Via Harriet, Andrea Lingenfelter talks about "teaching Bay Area children to translate from Chinese and do concrete poetry—at the same time!" I've just recently (like, hours ago) seen some very similar work, … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
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Tara Betts found herself attacked by a particularly ignorant political blogger named Debbie Schlussel over her class at UrbanWordNYC. Betts's response is elegant, measured, and powerful, everything the attack was not. Oscar Bermeo takes on the changes at Harriet and talks about the need for an actual exchange of ideas about poetry. Kaya Oakes wants … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
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So, did you like our National Poetry Month project? If you missed any of the poems, check them out here. Barbara Jane Reyes has some interesting thoughts on poetic tradition. Virginia Heffernan discusses the way self-publication has lost some of its stigma, and introduces me to a new term: microniche publishing. If you missed seeing … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
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Most of the excitement this week is in Denver at the AWP Conference, but there's still plenty to talk about in poetry. For instance, have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? We're only a third of a way through April, so there's plenty of time to catch up on your reading. … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Day 5
Today's prompt is for a TMI poem, and I just didn't feel that. Not that I'm shy about sharing--in fact, if you follow my twitter feed or become a Facebook friend of mine, you'll discover that I'm often guilty of overshare. My problem was more that I just don't like to write grossout poems, and … Continue reading Day 5
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Have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? The list is updated every morning with new poemy goodness. Along with National Poetry Month, the big discussion this week seems to be the AWP Convention. WILLA has three days planned for you, if you need suggestions. I won't be at the AWP this … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
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The poet Ai Ogawa died last week, and her official obituary is available here. Oliver de la Paz, who knew her briefly while he was in graduate school, had a story to share as well. Janisse Ray on Wendell Berry. The Poetry Foundation has just posted part 2 of The Muslim-American Poet as Self and … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
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You've probably heard of erasure as a poetic mode--how about redaction? Arthur Lubow looks at Adam Zagajewski, calls him "the last of his kind." Lily Hoang at HTMLGIANT wonders about the discussion surrounding Tao Lin: "I do, however, care about the evident boredom people display in their comments about him. Why do you care? Furthermore, … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Another Poem to Love 