Poetry app round-up July 13, 2011: We've already written about the POETRY, Kerouac, and Poetry Everywhere apps, and Brian Spears reviewed said POETRY app (while listing a host of others) a while back, so what's a few more? This one, mentioned in Spears' review, recalls a story we reported a few months back. Behold iPhrase, "the game for creating random, hilarious or emotional [...] by Harriet Staff

French women’s soccer coach uses poetry to get players amped up July 13, 2011: According to a New York Times article, Bruno Bini, the coach of the French women’s soccer team, reads poetry and sings self-penned ditties to his players instead of the usual old rah-rah-rah. From the article: Each day, the 56-year-old Bini posts on a board his thoughts, words of encouragement and inspiration. Sometimes, he shows [...] by Harriet Staff

how uncreative July 13, 2011: The Academy of American Poets blog features an interview with Kenneth Goldsmith, spokesperson for the conceptual poetry movement. Don't know what that is? Then this conversation is for you. It starts off: Poets.org: How would you explain conceptual poetry to a younger audience unfamiliar with the tenets of conceptual art? Kenneth [...] by Harriet Staff

This slab of mahogany belonged to E.E. Cummings July 12, 2011: In a piece for The New York Times’ Art & Design section, Eve Kahn comments on E.E. Cummings, who was famously reclusive when it came time to write. In his Greenwich Village studio and New Hampshire farm, "[h]ardly anyone was allowed in, and he cared little about the rumpled décor." We're allowed in now: One relic of the poet’s [...] by Harriet Staff

Mastering metaphor a sign of genius? July 12, 2011: "To be a master of metaphor," Aristotle wrote in his Poetics, "is the greatest thing by far. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others, and it is also a sign of genius." Well we'll be! However, writes Carlin Romano in The Chronicle Review, "Mastery of the subject of metaphor...is an entirely different matter. Nobody back in ancient [...] by Harriet Staff

Tao Lin is going straight to H-E-L-L for being a film-making hipster July 12, 2011: Cool Tom Kimbo (somehow, that is his name), over at the ever-insightful christwire.org, lambastes poet Tao Lin—no stranger to Harriet, as this and this attest—and his film Mumblecore. A bit from the endlessly quotable review: Bras and sinful mouth sex acts are all over the film. The protagonists openly talk about sex they have had [...] by Harriet Staff

“Every story has its victims”: Lynne Tillman in Guernica July 12, 2011: Guernica’s Elizabeth Koch interviewed writer Lynne Tillman about her upcoming book, Someday This Will Be Funny (April 2011), and their conversation is of much use to poets, for Tillman is considering language at every turn. In the book, Koch writes, "every story has its victims, but exactly who is predator, and who is being preyed upon, [...] by Harriet Staff

New audio of Robert Creeley discussing Black Mountain College July 11, 2011: Audio recordings of phone logs between Robert Creeley and Bobbie Louise Hawkins were recently unearthed and made public at PennSound, as we mentioned, and on Jacket2 today you'll find more treasure. Once again available individually or as a complete mp3, audio of Creeley answering questions about Black Mountain College, apparently from the [...] by Harriet Staff

Summer poetry festivals will fulfill all your needs, if your needs include popsicles, BBQ, paper-making, poets theater, music, small presses, beer, and ferry rides July 11, 2011: The bespectacled are gearing up for a summer of poetry! That's right, it's festival season. If you're in New York, Boston, or Chicago, you're in for a treat...or five. In order of appearance: 1. POPSICKLE: A Festival of Literary Arts Now in its second year, POPSICKLE is a Brooklyn-based curatorial ferris wheel (yeah!), representing many [...] by Harriet Staff

A look into Thurston Moore’s Naropa poetry workshop July 11, 2011: Thorin Klosowski wrote a report for the Denver Westword blog detailing his experience of Thurston Moore's three-day poetry workshop at Naropa University. (To quote ourselves: "Most famous for his 30 years as a singer and guitarist in the art-rock band Sonic Youth, Moore is also a poet, writer, avid collector and archivist.") The article comes with [...] by Harriet Staff