2012 AWP Schedule Announced! August 19, 2011: Psych! Ah, AWP jokes. They are the bread that sustain so many inter-university-office-we-have-absolutely-nothing-else-in-common-whatsoever relationships. And now the folks at full stop have brought it to a whole new level: The Internet. Follow this link for a fake AWP schedule. Don't worry, all genres are represented. If you work at a [...] by Harriet Staff

Lost Dr. Seuss Stories To Be Published August 19, 2011: According to this article in the LA Times, seven lost stories by Theodor Geisel, AKA beloved poet-teller of Whos and whimsy, Dr. Seuss, will be published by Random House in September. The collection is titled "The Bippolo Seed". According to this article (referenced in the LA Times article) in Publishers Weekly, the collection came about [...] by Harriet Staff

More On Poets And Postcards August 19, 2011: A few weeks back, we reported on Charlie Simic's stance on the lost art of postcard writing. This sentiment isn't lost on the folks over at The Academy of American Poets who offer an archive of postcards called "Poets Via Post" that "provides a glimpse into the Academy of American Poets mailbag at 75 Maiden Lane. Browse postcards and ephemera sent [...] by Harriet Staff

2012 MFA Power Rankings Are In! August 19, 2011: It's been a "Fifty Best" kind of week, so let's heap another list on the ol' brush pile, eh? This time, from Poets and Writers, we have the annual MFA program rankings where Iowa is #1, Michigan #2, Wisconsin #3 . . .Go Big Ten!! This should be an interesting bowl season, with the Badgers, Wolverines, and Hawkeyes all eying Pasedena . . . Oh, [...] by Harriet Staff

UK Poetry Society Director to Resume Post August 18, 2011: In a supposed end to the UK Poetry Society kerfuffle, former director Judith Palmer has been reinstated. Reports the Guardian: Speaking to the Guardian after a petition launched by [George] Szirtes and signed by over 1,000 poets and poetry lovers forced her reinstatement, Palmer explained that she had "no faith in the decisions the board were [...] by Harriet Staff

Edmund Hardy Interviews Vanessa Place August 18, 2011: Intercapillary Space, a "continually unrolling poetry magazine and press," curated mostly by UK poet Edmund Hardy, has rolled out a new interview with Vanessa Place, who talks in this moment about the triology ("[t]he three or triology is a typology common to multiple forms of rhetoric, not the least of which are evidenced in Christianity, [...] by Harriet Staff

Triple Canopy in the New York Times August 18, 2011: The New York Times has spotted the online art and culture journal Triple Canopy, and attended a recent party for the 13th issue (revelry included the 1986 Robert Redford-Debra Winger "art world romance" Legal Eagles, "projected against a wall and annotated, live, by David Levine, an artist with a family connection to Mark Rothko, whose death [...] by Harriet Staff

The worst poem in Houston August 18, 2011: It’s August 18 and time to get your tautology-shot epithalamion on. The folks at Houston Press are doing their worst? best? to celebrate cringe-worthy verse in honor of National Bad Poetry Day. In collaboration with local poet Richard Levy, a team of would-be poetasters have set out to pen the most gawdawful train-wreck doggerel this side of the [...] by Harriet Staff

Grubstake for the Banana Slugs August 18, 2011: Good news this morning for UCSC and all those ghazal-writing gastropods in southern California: The University of California at Santa Cruz received a gift of $500,000 to establish a poetry fund, school officials announced. The George P. Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund will provide support for a broad range of modern and contemporary poetry [...] by Harriet Staff

Nada Gordon on Dana Ward’s The Squeakquel August 17, 2011: Nada Gordon writes admiringly of Dana Ward's Song Cave chap duo The Squeakquel on her blog this week, and in relation to her recent traveling: ... I have been wanting for weeks to write about: Dana Ward's twin chapbooks, The Squeakquel, pts. 1 and 2, recently out from The Song Cave. He writes in part 1 that ...I never had [...] by Harriet Staff