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Archive for July, 2010
The fighter and the poet July 21, 2010: Poet, filmmaker, and novelist Jean Cocteau was a fighting member of the avant-garde, sure, but music magazine Arthur doesn’t want us to forget that M. Cocteau was involved in a few non-literary K.O.s as well. Citing an old Sports Illustrated article, Arthur digs up the old Beauty and the Beast story : “The fighter was Alphonse Theo Brown, [...]
Charles Simic explains soccer losers July 21, 2010: Former poet laureate Charles Simic thinks the losers of a soccer game - players, fans, and coaches - see themselves as actors in a much larger drama beyond the one that plays out on the field at New York Review of Books: I speak from experience. The first World Cup I followed closely was held in Brazil in 1950 where Yugoslavia, the country I [...]
The afterlife of romance July 21, 2010: Is romance dead? Not according to biographer Daisy Hay. When she set about researching her new book, Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation, she wanted to to infuse her process with the magic and romance embodied by Shelley, Keats, and Byron, the writers she adored. But how does one embark on a poetic pilgrimage [...]
The Collected Bad Twitter July 21, 2010: Deadspin writer Drew Magary enjoys himself some Roger Ebert tweets. But he does not enjoy himself some Roger Ebert "poetry" re-tweets. And so Magary has put together a compendium of poetry from Twitter accounts far and wide (including Night Court star John Larroquette). Turns out that some people write poorly. Who knew? Enjoy: There are [...]
The Fugs sing for Tuli Kupferberg July 21, 2010: (via Silliman)
Unacceptance at the Paris Review Part Deux July 21, 2010: Since the recent snafu at The Paris Review - in which the recently installed poetry editor Robyn Creswell de-accepted previously accepted poems - the blogosphere has been abuzz with commentary. First, Daniel Nester of the culture blog We Who Are About to Die scathingly wrote that he’d never seen anything like it. Then The Equalizer, a new [...]
The Forward shortlist July 21, 2010: The UK's prestigious Forward poetry prize announced its shortlist yesterday, with Seamus Heaney leading a group that, according to the Guardian, is notably Walcott-less: An expected clash between Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott
Is tenure dead? July 20, 2010: The Chronicle of Higher Education has posted a story this month about the soon-to-be released Department of Education report that "documents the death of tenure": Over just three decades, the proportion of college instructors who are tenured or on the tenure track plummeted: from 57 percent in 1975 to 31 percent in 2007. The new report is [...]
There once was a man named Pinsky July 20, 2010: Children’s poems need not be sugarcoated with silliness. Rather, they should embody the “dual ideals of musicality and truthfulness,” according to Slate poetry editor Robert Pinsky. He selected three poets - Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Walter de la Mare - who don’t pander to stereotypes of childhood simplicity, but instead [...]
There will be poetry July 20, 2010: Whether it's a painter making a cartoon of the Statue of Liberty from globs of oil or poets reinterpreting BP’s language through subversive verse, artist of all sorts are voicing concern and expressing outrage over the gulf oil spill. When writers Amy King and Heidi Lynn Staples wanted to raise awareness about the environmental catastrophe, [...]