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Archive for June, 2010
CD Wright on NPR June 30, 2010: The Kitchen Sisters (aka Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, NPR producers) have put together a multimedia piece on the poetry of CD Wright and her work with the photographer Deborah Luster: When we interviewed CD Wright for our story “Deborah Luster: One Big Self” she read some of her poetry for us from her collaboration with Deborah, One Big [...]
Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn June 30, 2010: Zach Layton, Brooklyn composer and Whitman fan, has gathered together a boatload of artists, musicians, and writers for "I Do Not Doubt I Am Limitless: Walt Whitman's Brooklyn," a celebration of the poet's life and work at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Thursday: "It's going to be a Whitman freak-out jam by the waterfront," Zach Layton said. The Wall [...]
Wild nights for Emily, randy afternoons for Austin June 30, 2010: Austin Dickinson Over at Slate, Adam Kirsch digs into the "new" secrets about the Dickinsons revealed in Lives Like Loaded Guns: At 2:30 in the afternoon, the poet's brother, Austin—a married father of three, a pillar of Amherst society, and the treasurer of Amherst College—would leave his house next door, ostensibly to pay a call on Emily [...]
Robert Frost, Vampires, Werewolves and TWILIGHT HOTNESS!!!!OMG!!!!! June 30, 2010: Eclipse, the new installment of the Twilight Saga, opens with the heavy-breathing Bella reciting Robert Frost to vampire beau Edward. From the NYT review: The day is just sunny enough to bring out the frosty sparkle in Edward’s skin, but not bright enough to kill either him or the brooding, minor-key mood. Bella is reciting Robert [...]
Remembering Reginald Shepherd June 30, 2010: The Pensacola News Journal looks back at the life and work of Reginald Shepherd, who died in September of 2008 and whose book of essays, A Martian Muse, was just published by University of Michigan Press: Considered one of the greatest poets of this generation, Shepherd authored five poetry books, two poetry anthologies and a book of essays. [...]
“Walt Whitman remains a fine riposte to all the ‘best writer under 40′ lists” June 30, 2010: The Guardian reminds us that not everyone is Jonathan Safran Foer: The mystery of Walt Whitman, explored in the latest New York Review of Books, goes deeper still. Until Leaves of Grass (1855), Whitman was heroically unpromising – a carpenter, a schoolteacher, a printer and journalist, and the author of a "temperance" novel. In the words of [...]
Can a poet be an outlaw? June 30, 2010: Louisville poets Ron Whitehead and Frederick Smock get into an online tussle over leather vests and handlebar moustaches: "Given the number of poets and writers around the world who are imprisoned by their governments ... how is it given his considerable freedoms, that he considers himself an 'outlaw poet?'" Smock asked. "It's not an attack. [...]
CA Conrad wants you to watch this witch dance and do these somatic poetry exercies June 29, 2010: CA Conrad offers this somatic poetry exercise, inspired by Mina Loy, Mary Wigman and Maria Raha. DAY ONE: As a preliminary, read the Loy quote aloud, then immediately watch Mary Wigman's 1914 dance HEXENTANZ on You Tube, and watch Wigman with the volume as LOUD as possible. Then read the first of the twelve sections you've created in [...]
Preserving folk poetry in Vietnam June 29, 2010: Doctor Nguyen Xuan Kinh works to preserve ca dao, or folk poetry, which has been passed down orally from generation to generation. Ca dao dates back hundreds of years but it was only in the 18th century that scholars began to write it down. Now, about 13,000 original lines of poetry have been recorded. The term ca dao can be loosely [...]
Canadian poets bear witness to the war in Afghanistan June 29, 2010: Suzanne M. Steele, the first poet to be embedded with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan says: "There's people swinging swords all through poetry." She spoke recently with the Vancouver Sun. While not many poets get a long look inside the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Steele has discovered there are already poets in the [...]