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Archive for June, 2010
Accommodationist, J’accuse! June 16, 2010: K. Silem Mohammad rethinks Columbia University's Rethinking Poetry Conference: At one point during the conference, Marjorie Perloff admonished the organizers for not involving other representatives of poetry within the academy: namely, the creative writing community, for instance the Columbia MFA program, which, as she pointed out, was "right [...]
Poetry festival as cultural resistance June 16, 2010: The Guardian explores the International Poetry Festival of Medellín in Colombia: The festival is now the largest of its kind in the world. Over eight days, free poetry recitals are held in public parks, university theatres, high-security prisons, and schools and libraries in poor, marginalised suburbs. To date, Medellín has hosted 820 poets [...]
Poetry for corporate re-education June 16, 2010: The New York Times looks back at a time when Bell Telephone Systems sent its corporate managers to study with Ezra Pound: Perhaps the most exciting component of the curriculum was the series of guest lecturers the institute brought to campus. “One hundred and sixty of America’s leading intellectuals,” according to Baltzell, spoke to the [...]
Poems that changed my world June 16, 2010: After Susan Orlean started a meme on Twitter--#booksthatchangedmyworld--there's been a mutant strain appearing under #poemsthatchangedmyworld. The hits include "The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator" and "Harlem" (aka "A dream deferred").
Mystical and Maternal June 16, 2010: Stephen Burt reviews Karen Weiser's new book in The Believer: William Blake took dictation from “devils” and Jack Spicer compared the source of poetry to an otherworldly radio. Karen Weiser, too, seeks a “knowledge beyond conscious experience,” a poetic language so singular that it sounds nothing like the language of expository prose. [...]
Forbes says, “Bill Murray is Leading a Poetry Revolution” June 16, 2010: The Caddyshack star joined a host of poets in the annual Poets Walk across Brooklyn Bridge. Forbes Magazine's Hannah Elliot was impressed: Last night was the Poets House's annual poetry reading across Brooklyn Bridge, and what a night it was. As expected, Bill Murray stole the show as the consummate professional poetry-reader, not to mention [...]
Celebrating the ladies of Fox News with poetry June 16, 2010: The Huffington Post reports that the new issue of Allure magazine features profiles of the women of Fox News--and some poems written in praise: Their hair, it's clear, would hardly budge, Nor would their makeup even smudge If they were set upon a luge-- They'd laugh and cry: "We're going rouge!" Sure, Rachel Maddow has the smarts But [...]
One fell swoop June 15, 2010: William Logan critiques C. K. Williams, Tony Hoagland, Keith Douglas, Don Paterson, Derek Walcott, and Anne Carson in the New Criterion: With too much experimental poetry, where there’s smoke, there’s … well, just more smoke.
Rethinking rethinking June 15, 2010: You have to be signed in to Facebook to read the whole thing, but here is a taste of Joshua Clover taking issue with a few issues at the Rethinking Poetics Conference at Columbia University : I was invited here literally to complain — “what do you want to complain about in poetry” — and what I want to complain about, I mean rethink, [...]
“A cultural record of Chicano/Latino literature in the new millennium” June 15, 2010: La Bloga asks Rigoberto González about the Camino Del Sol anthology and the current state of Latina and Latino writing: I think readers will be pleasantly surprised to recognize how aesthetically, politically and culturally diverse Chicano/Latino literature is. There is no “one way” to shape identity or express it, no “one way” to [...]