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Archive for September, 2010
Poetry best sellers, September 12-19 September 24, 2010: Mary Oliver has taken over the top spot on this week's contemporary best seller list, surging past Seamus Heaney, W.S. Merwin, Paul Muldoon, and Billy Collins with her latest, Swan. It's her twentieth full length collection, this one made up of prose poems and regular old poems. Also a mix of poems and prose is Sarah—Lines and Fragments, the [...]
Literary fruits from the “Sunshine State” September 24, 2010: English professor Patrick Hicks can sit back and bask in the rays of South Dakota's brightest poets. Hicks and the Center for Western Studies have produced A Harvest of Words, a bountiful anthology featuring the poetry of South Dakota. Hicks reaped the work of S.D.'s best poets; the anthology is the first of its kind. From the Augustana [...]
More Beat nostalgia September 24, 2010: Pop quiz: Who ushered in San Francisco's "new society rooted in spontaneity, experimentation and social revolution? Answer: It was Ginsberg and the Beats—with "Howl" at the helm—who navigated a generation toward flower power, revolution, and all things psychedelic, declares Ken Garcia in the San Francisco Examiner. Here's how the Beats [...]
Heaney on Heaney September 23, 2010: Seamus Heaney is not writing his own obituary. The revered poet's latest collection has garnered a plethora of press, much of which depicts Heaney's poems as meditations on death and dying. Now, both the BBC News and the Economist have latched onto Human Chain, but the poet doesn't want to talk about the theme of death. Rather than focus on the [...]
The public eye on a private poet September 23, 2010: Write Obama's inaugural poem? No pressure...really. When poet Elizabeth Alexander was tapped for the task, she asked herself a simple question before entering action mode: How can a poet, someone who makes a career of talking to herself, write one of the most public poems in history? In a profile in Publishers Weekly, Alexander describes her [...]
Words that heal September 23, 2010: When tensions between Asian-American and African-American students at South Philly High erupted in violence last year, professor and spoken word poet Michelle Myers initiated dialogue the best way she knew how: through poetry. Myers, half of the Asian-American spoken-word troupe Yellow Rage, drew attention to the issues through her poems: When [...]
Notes on rote September 23, 2010: Well do we remember agèd Mrs. Houlihan, lioness of the third grade, who demanded we learn poems by heart and recite them for her pleasure. Now it turns out such exercises had more purpose than we suspected. In the New York Times, Virginia Heffernan cites the longstanding prejudice against drilling: “In educational circles, sometimes the phrase [...]
Poetry regained? September 23, 2010: A dishy ditty by John Milton has appeared in the archives at Oxford University. "An Extempore Upon a Faggot" "appears to have been signed by Milton but is written in a style utterly unlike his own, and does not tally with his status as an epic poet, polemicist and scholarly man of letters," asserts the Independent. We always found Paradise [...]
Poetry in the flesh September 23, 2010: Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversations with America's Poets, edited by Alexander Neubauer, was noted as a Chicago Tribune editor's pick. Here's why the collection of interviews is Tribune editor Elizabeth Taylor's cup of tea: Over the course of 25 years, great poets such as Amy Clampitt, Lucille Clifton, Seamus Heaney and Derek [...]
All the nominated ladies September 23, 2010: The Dylan Thomas prize is awarded annually to a writer under 30 in honor of the Welsh poet of the same name. This year, five out of six slots on the shortlist have gone to women, reports the Guardian. Among the six, two poets were nominated for their collections: Caroline Bird for Watering Can and Elyse Fenton for Clamor. Read more at the [...]