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Archive for February, 2011
The most popular love poem on our site right now? February 14, 2011: "Everything Good between Men and Women" by CD Wright. (Thanks to Jessica Grose over at Slate).
Go directly to jail. Do not write a poem. Do not collect $200. February 14, 2011: In 2009, an Eygptian civil servant, Moneer Said Hanna was locked up for three years for writing a satirical poem about Hosni Mubarak. He revisits his jail-time in a short piece for the Daily Kos, which includes large citations from older news reports on the matter, and some well-deserved pissed-off gloating about the end of the regime. Here’s [...]
A Valentine’s Day toast from J.J. Walker February 14, 2011: May your own attempts at love poetry never fall victim to a laugh track, and may your Valentine's Day be full of Good Times.
15th-Century concrete poetry and carbon dating February 14, 2011: The Voynich Manuscript is a strange book of ciphers that researchers previously thought dated from the 16th century. But now, thanks to improved radiocarbon dating, it’s been discovered to originate from the 15th century, disproving many previous guesses as to its history. An article on Physorg.com gives a useful layman’s version of the [...]
Markson’s Marks February 14, 2011: When the novelist and poet David Markson died, he donated his sizable book collection to The Strand, which was, apparently, his favorite bookstore. Because he routinely mark(son)ed-up his books, a small fanbase has taken to browsing the stacks and collecting his old collection. And now, there’s a blog collecting the collections of marginalia. [...]
Further inquiries into race, poetry, and community via Rankine and Hoagland February 14, 2011: In the wake of Claudia Rankine's response to Tony Hoagland's poem "The Change" at this year's AWP, the social networks and parlor rooms of poetry have been aflutter. Rankine has posted an "open letter" on her site with hopes of furthering the conversation with a call for community discussion: If you have time in the next month please [...]
Presidential love poetry for Valentine’s Day February 11, 2011: The Christian Science Monitor has a primer on the love poetry of US presidents, or rather the love letters that could be construed as poetry. A lovely dovey POTUS top ten, including: 6. John Tyler. Though his decision to annex Texas led to the Mexican-American War, Tyler had a poet's sensibilities. After his first wife died early in his [...]
Where are all the baseball stats poets? February 11, 2011: FanGraphs, a website dedicated to baseball statistics and analysis, bemoans the lack of poetry dedicated to modern infielders (when you're this deeply into the details of statistics, simple, generalized baseball poetry just doesn't cut it). Jonah Keri points to Franklin Pierce Adams' poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon as having such outsize influence [...]
Hear Linebreak‘s Johnathon Williams talks about the Two Weeks anthology February 11, 2011: The Linebreak folks have put together an e-book anthology of a fortnight's poems. Williams talks about it on NPR here.
Emory gets rare Keats February 11, 2011: In addition the famed Danowski collection, Emory university in Atlanta now has a new, million dollar set of rare books: The 22-title collection includes 1 of the first books ever printed in English, "Polychronicon," a 15th century volume of universal history. It also includes a first edition of "Poems," the first book ever published by poet [...]