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The Edgar Allan Poe police procedural pilot . . . January 26, 2011: . . . has been picked up by ABC. Thanks for the tip, TV Guide: The crime procedural Poe follows Edgar Allan Poe as the world's first detective. He employs unorthodox methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston. The project will tell how some of Poe's famous stories came to be, but only some episodes will be about a specific Poe [...]
A Meeting with Oneself January 19, 2011: Poetry magazine recently exchanged e-mails with January cover artist Genevieve Simms, about her work. She says, Illustration from its beginnings has always been tied to a text. I find with my personal work I am often interested in finding ways to use illustration in place of text entirely. For example, I may have forgotten the words to a [...]
Merry Christmas! December 24, 2010:
A report from the e-books summit December 18, 2010: Former Poetry Foundation journalism fellow Alizah Salario went to this week's e-book summit in New York to follow up on her article "Breaking the Poetry Code." Here's what she found out: I went to the eBook Summit in New York this week in hopes of becoming a digital publishing expert. The Summit, organized by Mediabistro, was day-long [...]
City Lights Spotlight poets December 15, 2010: As Poetry Foundation permissions coordinator Michael Slosek pointed out in his 2010 best of the year pick, City Lights has done great things with its Spotlight series with new titles by Andrew Joron, Norma Cole, Anselm Berrigan, and "Craft Work" blogger Cedar Sigo. Michael and archive editor James Sitar have added a few poems by these authors to [...]
Blind item from the last century’s literary world December 8, 2010: Half-century-old blind item: An anonymous user asked the MetaFilter offshoot MetaChat to help find the name of the poet her artist aunt had an affair with in 1950s New York. As the aunt is getting up there in years, the user had only a few clues to go on. He is anthologized "in that famous book with all the poems." "The Oxford Book of English [...]
Pessoa as avatar for Portugal’s present woes November 29, 2010: The Guardian looks into how the works of Fernando Pessoa, Portugal's most famous poet, reflect the mood of the financially troubled nation: Pessoa died 75 years ago this week, but the famously glum author of the Book of Disquiet – whose central character exuded an air "born from the indifference of having suffered a great deal" – would [...]
A lament for MIT’s lost poetry program November 9, 2010: The Advanced Poetry Workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was recently cut for financial reasons, according to MIT's student paper The Tech, and at least one student finds the loss part of an alarming trend: MIT has just chosen a road too-often taken by lesser institutions and desperate, penny-pinching schools — one Frost, [...]
Armitage goes for gold in the 2012 Olympics November 3, 2010: Award-winning poet Simon Armitage has launched an initiative to assemble poets from all of the participating Olympic nations for London's 2012 games. Getting 200 poets from around the world (Antarcticans, Armitage is looking for you!) is no easy feat, but if the recent Poetry International 2010 festival is any indication, Armitage can pull it [...]
Scare quotes October 31, 2010: Doesn't your Halloween need some poetry? Or a visit to Edgar Allan Poe's undead wake?