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Coal mountain against the grain July 8, 2010: Poet Mark Nowak, who explored the mind-boggling loss and devastation that mining communities face around the globe in his book Coal Mountain Elementary, talks about that project on the latest Against the Grain podcast. Nowak explains how Coal Mountain Elementary is a poetic pastiche that weaves newspaper reports and mining pedagogy together [...]
CD Wright on NPR June 30, 2010: The Kitchen Sisters (aka Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, NPR producers) have put together a multimedia piece on the poetry of CD Wright and her work with the photographer Deborah Luster: When we interviewed CD Wright for our story “Deborah Luster: One Big Self” she read some of her poetry for us from her collaboration with Deborah, One Big [...]
The origin of Afrikaans from poet Antjie Krog June 24, 2010: In The Poetry Channel's new podcast, prominent South African poet Antjie Krog condenses 100 years of South African history and the poetic tradition of Afrikaans to 15 minutes. Using illustrative poems (her own and others) she explores the origins of Afrikaans, from its adoption as the language of slaves through to its use as the ‘language of [...]
Dana Gioa digs new Natalie Merchant album June 11, 2010: Merchant's new album of poetry set to music has the former NEA chief singing the praises: "There have been pop musicians in the past—Joni Mitchell and Loreena McKennitt, for example—who have set poems to music, but no one has ever done anything of this scale or range. What Natalie has done is to create art songs, in the old sense of taking [...]
Angel Island Poetry May 19, 2010: In an audio clip on the Two Words site, Marlon Hom discusses the poetry etched by Chinese immigrants into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. For 30 year the Angel Island Immigration Station processed over 200,000 immigrants, most of them Chinese. Confined to a small cell and awaiting their fate, [...]
Poetics of Memory May 11, 2010: As part of the Poetry Radio Project, Sean Nevin's poetry explores the family dynamics surrounding Alzheimer's: Sean Nevin didn't have any kind of personal connection with Alzheimer's when he first began writing about memory. He and a fellow poet had an idea to go into assisted care facilities and see if they could use poetry to reconnect [...]
Poetry goes public May 6, 2010: Jennifer Karmin makes a three hour walking poem for the city of Chicago over at How2: I wanted to navigate a city using writing as my map. During October 2006, I sent out a call for submissions with the goal of gathering writing about walking in cities. I specified that the writing could be about any city and take any shape or form. In [...]
Aram Saroyan’s Top Ten on Ubuweb May 6, 2010: Poet and essayist Aram Saroyan claims the May 2010 featured resources on ubuweb: 1. Andy Warhol - The Plastic Exploding Inevitable Newspaper 2. John Cage - Memogram Correspondences 3. Vito Acconci - Two Track (1971) 4. Yvonne Rainer - Hand Movie (1966) 5. Ernst Jandl - Sound Poems 6. Carl Fernbach Flarsheim - Visual Poems 7. Morton [...]
“What I Assume You Shall Assume” May 4, 2010: Robert Hass discusses Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" on NPR's Fresh Air. "Can you start here at 'blab of the pave?'" Listen here.
Shout Out: Rachelle Cruz and “The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show April 22, 2010: “Poetry is the blood-jet. There is no stopping it.” --Sylvia Plath I wanted to shout out Rachelle Cruz, whose work I was introduced to a couple of years ago at the San Francisco Litquake's boisterous Litcrawl, where she read for the API arts org, Kearny Street Workshop. I picked up her chapbook, honey may soon run out, because I was [...]