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Archive for December, 2010
“And always the best of other cultures is poetry” December 14, 2010: The Christian Science Monitor's Tom Howard reports from a hotel basement in Syria where poetry of all types is thriving. Poet, journalist and playwright Luqman Derki began his Beit al-Qasid (house of the poet) in 2006 and has seen his efforts to take poetry out of its comfort zone grow to attract hundreds of attendees and performers every [...]
You know what they say about minimalist poems… December 14, 2010: Curtis Faville, over at his blog The Compass Rose, writes about Mark Truscott’s new book, Nature, in terms of a history “minimalist” poetry. This history, according to Faville, includes but is not limited to poets such as Aram Saroyan, Robert Grenier, Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, and others. The poems seem to be characterized by an attention [...]
Self-Made Men December 14, 2010: Morgan Meis, in an article on the “Hide/Seek” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, argues that gayness, as an identity category, was in invented in America, and invented by poets, at that. He uses Whitman as a first example: It is never clear in Whitman exactly how much he is attracted to men as men, and how much he is simply [...]
It’s delicious, but is it poetry? December 14, 2010: del.icio.us poetry is an on-the-fly assemblage of the most recently favorited links on the site. Not so much "digital poetry" as it is an art project that helps one find the poetry in esoteric internet fragments, del.icio.us poetry echoes the sentiment of its fellow web denizens WordPress in proclaiming, "Code is poetry." Good luck parsing those [...]
It’s 1960 (again!) December 14, 2010: Last week we reported on the “Poetry in 1960” symposium held at the Kelly Writers House at UPenn. Today we're happy to report that the whole thing is (already!) up and streaming at PennSound. Eleven poets each writing about a different work published the year 1960—it’s a unique way to attend to the micro-histories of the poetic [...]
Hope is a thing with bloggers December 14, 2010: Poet Joseph Ross, over on The Basin Blog, has been asking numerous poets to submit short essays on hope. The question is simple: What gives you hope? Of course, such a simple question can only occasion a series of complex responses. Such as from Naomi Ayala: In French, hope is espérance. Do the French or francophone name their children [...]
The Ronald Reagan poetry contest December 13, 2010: Following our up-to-the-second coverage of the LeBron James poetry contest this October, we’re happy to bring you exciting news of a new contest along the same amazing line. WLS 890 AM reports: llinois school students are encouraged to write poems to commemorate the late President Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday. The Reagan Centennial [...]
New docs feature a poetic journalist and a grunge poet laureate December 13, 2010: GreenCine highlights two new writer/performer documentaries in a rather unfortunately titled but still worth reading post, Dead Poets Society. Spalding Gray was of course known for a great deal more than his suicide and the hours of footage that Steven Soderbergh has pieced together to examine his life in And Everything is Going Fine certainly [...]
Best of 2010: Staff Picks December 13, 2010: Flowers, by Paul Killebrew (Canarium Books) “I’m so happy to have a body to fill these terrific pants...” —From “ILOVETHEWHOLEFUCKINWORLD” —Fred Sasaki (Associate Editor, Poetry magazine) * Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder (Copper Canyon Press) Silver Roses by Rachel Wetzsteon (Persea) I love love poems. I [...]
Poetry embedded on the front lines December 13, 2010: In the 1967 documentary Vietnam War: The Battle of Con Thien, Mike Wallace observes that when things started to heat up, there was no longer time for "casual cleaning of weapons." Some Marines like Ned Broderick, who would go on to co-found the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, found alternative ways to channel their feelings on [...]