A poem a day from Knopf
A poem a day from GottaBook
Poems Out Loud (not to be confused with Poetry Out Loud) from Norton
Poets spotlight their faves for April
The New Yorker’s Rebecca Mead on the Dickman twins (registration required)
Abraham Lincoln knew a little something about poetry
The Poets & Writers poetry challenge
Wynton Marsalis, Joan Baez, Maggie Gyllenhaal, poetry, and the creative mind
American Hybrid: “no camp and all camps at once”
Is there too much money in poetry?
John Giorno: “Unheralded visionary of the New York Scene”
(get all the news here)
For a little Canadian content check out Seen Reading, in which Julie Wilson will feature a Canadian poet every day this month.
Yours truly up today as it happens.
http://www.seenreading.com/30in30/
Posted By: Lemon Hound on April 2, 2009 at 1:00 pmReport this comment
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Harold Clurman Arts Series
The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents Martha Rhodes and Aaron Fagan
Martha Rhodes and Aaron Fagan
Monday, April 6, 2009 at 7pm
@ The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
31 West 27th Street
This event is free and open to the public
http://www.stellaadler.com/poetry.html
http://www.stellaadler.com/pressroom/rhodes.html
Posted By: Aaron Fagan on April 2, 2009 at 1:48 pmReport this comment
Travis,
I’m glad Lincoln (happy 200th) is mentioned. Lincoln was a reader of Edgar Poe (happy 200th)
http://lincolnbuff2.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-200th-edgar-allan-poe.html
Thomas
Posted By: thomas brady on April 2, 2009 at 1:51 pmReport this comment
I guess this might fall under the Poetic Justice category:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/politics/02web-baker.html?hp
Posted By: Aaron Fagan on April 2, 2009 at 2:37 pmReport this comment
Aaron,
“Redefinition Accomplished” is kind of scary.
Maybe this is why Plato didn’t trust poets.
If ‘how we say it’ is the essence of poetry, and ‘how we say it’ distorts the truth, was Socrates not on to something when he said, “whoa, let’s examine this a little bit”?
The poets’ knee-jerk reaction is usually, “politicians are not poets!! We are the poets, and we are good, if not harmless.”
Well, not quite…
Politics is about persuasion…and so is poetry…
Thomas
Posted By: thomas brady on April 6, 2009 at 10:23 amReport this comment