Super Sad News: Goodnight, Supermachine October 25, 2011: Will the Brooklyn poetry series ever stop shuttering? Another bummer, following this summer's closing of Poetry Time and Crowd (the latter's archive is worth a look for the incredible posters alone), is today's announcement that "Supermachine is ending." That means both the reading series and the journal?! According to founder and editor Ben [...] by Harriet Staff

Wilfred Owen’s forest hideout becomes a memorial October 24, 2011: In early November, 1918, English poet and soldier Wilfred Owen wrote his last letter home from the cellar of a tiny house outside of Ors, where he and his division had taken shelter: It is a great life. I am more oblivious than alas! yourself, dear Mother, of the ghastly glimmering of the guns outside, and the hollow crashing of the shells... I [...] by Harriet Staff

Revolver reviewed on The Rumpus October 24, 2011: Want to know something about the history of pre-fabricated steel? The marriage of Elizabeth Colt? Singer sewing machines? The origin of the Volkswagen? Then perhaps you should pick up a copy of Revolver by poet/master of arcana Robyn Schiff. The collection is reviewed in The Rumpus' latest installment of TLPBIL ("The Last Poetry Book I Loved") [...] by Harriet Staff

We’ll take Thurston Moore’s Flowers & Cream, please October 24, 2011: How about some good news coming from Thurston Moore? (We're super sad, too.) New dawn: Moore has teamed up with poet and songwriter Elaine Kahn to make our wildest poetry publishing dreams come true! Called Flowers & Cream, the new press's first baby--already out--is The Strings of Walnetto Arrangements, by poet and The Song Cave co-editor [...] by Harriet Staff

D.A. Powell’s Papers to be Archived at Emory October 24, 2011: According to this press release from Emory University, "Award-winning poet D.A. Powell is placing his papers with the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University." From the release: "We are delighted that D.A. Powell has honored us by placing his papers with MARBL," says Ginger Smith, interim director. "Not [...] by Harriet Staff

If Anthropology Isn’t Useful to College Students in Florida, Is Poetry? October 24, 2011: This article from the Miami Herald highlights Florida governor Rick Scott's "results" forward approach to course prioritization in his home state. It also makes its author, and a few of the poets teaching at these universities wonder what Scott might think a poetry course has to offer students. From the article: If anthropology fails [...] by Harriet Staff

More on MFA Programs, from Director of Iowa Writers’ Workshop October 24, 2011: Over at Salon,Lan Samantha Chang took part in this interview, which focused on her own writing before transitioning to the omnipresent topic of THE MFA. Let's jump right to that, shall we? Now that you are the director, can you explain how your time is divided? People probably imagine the director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop reads [...] by Harriet Staff

Willie Nelson and His Wife Read a Poem for the Occupy Wall Street Protestors October 24, 2011: Ah, The Red Headed Stranger. They don't come much cooler. Thanks to Boing Boing for alerting us to this video of Willie Nelson and his wife reading a poem they wrote for the Occupy movement. Awesome. by Harriet Staff

On Sylvia Plath’s Drawings October 24, 2011: Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, wrote this appreciation of her mother's visual art (and its relation to her poetry) for The Guardian. The piece comes in anticipation of an exhibit of Plath's pen- and-ink drawings that opens at the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street in London on November 2nd. From the piece: Although my [...] by Harriet Staff

The Poem as Single? October 24, 2011: Remember that Biz Markie cassette single? Remember your Beatles 45s? Shouldn't poems, too, come in single form? The folks at Architrave Press, LLC believe so. Check it: Why can't we buy individual poems like we do songs? It's an idea that's long overdue. Architrave represents a new kind of periodical literature: poems printed as [...] by Harriet Staff