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Brodsky Museum Update
February 2, 2012: The museum slated to open in Joseph Brodsky's family flat faced financial troubles, but it looks like it may still happen with help from the good ol' U S of A, according to this article from The St. Petersburg Times.
Now hear this:
The apartment-museum of Russian-born Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Joseph Brodsky may open in the [...]
by Harriet Staff
The Suburban Poet is Going to the Super Bowl
February 2, 2012: Ross Ventrone, the barely New England Patriot Safety, while not not playing in NFL games, finds plenty of time to write poems. There's this from NFL.com:
The safety has been either added or released from New England’s roster, or placed on the practice squad, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 times since August, the Boston Herald [...]
by Harriet Staff
Remembering Wisława Szymborksa
February 2, 2012: All over the interwebs, fans of Wisława Szymborska are mourning her death at the age of 88. We've rounded up a collection of some of the recent obituaries and tributes in her honor:
The Guardian provides a nice biography and links to an interview with Szymborska from 2000, in which she confessed to not knowing anything, with her [...]
by Harriet Staff
New at Triple Canopy: Lucy Ives Interviews Renee Gladman + An OWS Call and Response
February 2, 2012: Fresh off their Stein-a-thon (which, we can attest, was a serious, spirited, and well-attended event), Triple Canopy has posted some great great reads to cure these mid-week doldrums.
First up, poet and TC editor Lucy Ives interviews one of our favorite poetic narrativistes, Renee Gladman, about "essays, ditties, half words, partial masks, and [...]
by Harriet Staff
Timothy Donnelly and Katharine Larson Win the 2012 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards
February 2, 2012: This just in: Timothy Donnelly, author of The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books), has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, one of the largest awards for poetry in the U.S. And Katherine Larson, author of Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press), has won the 2012 Kate Tufts Poetry Award, which will grant her $10,000, still not shabby. More from [...]
by Harriet Staff
Once Again, the Great MFA Debate
February 2, 2012: Ah, the "Great MFA Debate." It's back! A worthy discussion, if you're actually considering the degree and aren't easily overwhelmed. See Eric Weinstein writing at Ploughshares:
A lot of people have written extensively on this topic, and one need only Google “should I get an MFA?” to see what they have to say; I won’t expend effort [...]
by Harriet Staff
Dorothea Tanning, 1910-2012
February 1, 2012:
She made it to 101 years old; we are stunned. Gallerist NY tells us that Dorothea Tanning, surrealist painter and poet, has died. "According to her publisher, Graywolf Press, she passed away of natural causes while sleeping." Graywolf Senior Editor Jeffrey Shotts wrote today:
We are honored to have published her two poetry books, the [...]
by Harriet Staff
Wisława Szymborska, 1923-2012
February 1, 2012:
The Associated Press and The Polish Cultural Institute have both just reported that poet Wislawa Szymborska died today. More:
Her personal secretary says that Poland's 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska has died. She was 88.
Michal Rusinek said Wednesday that Szymborska died "quietly, in her sleep." She resided in the [...]
by Harriet Staff
Double murders & Pound in pidgin
February 1, 2012: If you've taken a peek at the January issue of Poetry, you might have noticed something new on the last page. In honor of Poetry's centennial, each month the magazine will be reprinting an artifact from the magazine's history at the back of the issue.
Paul Durica has been combing through Poetry's archives month-by-month and he surfaces each [...]
by Lindsay Garbutt
Poetry Beef, Duffy & Hill Edition
February 1, 2012: Geoffrey Hill says "You are wrong" about poetry as a form of texting, and also you are not a good poet, to Carol Ann Duffy, according to this piece in the Guardian.
A bit on the texting:
"When the laureate speaks to the Guardian columnist to the tremendous potential for a vital new poetry to be drawn from the practice of texting she is [...]
by Harriet Staff
MoMA’s Print/Out Meets Andrew Beccone’s Amazing Reanimation Library
January 31, 2012:
The West Coast is excited about the East Coast! And rightly so: The LA Times alerts us to MoMA's new exhibition, where art meets the print world, in a big way. New Yorkers, we should all go spend our free time at Print/Out, an exhibition of more than 200 works of printed materials such as artists' books from MOMA's collection, including pieces [...]
by Harriet Staff
FSG’s Jonathan Galassi Profiled at The New York Times
January 31, 2012: Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, gets a lot of room in this weekend's New York Times; he's just published a book of poems entitled Left-Handed. The poems, however, have a very direct narrative to them and are "about me," Galassi says. "He added: 'I’ve always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These [...]
by Harriet Staff
The Ongoing Evolution of Marginalia
January 31, 2012: The New Yorker's Book Bench satisfies all of us marginalia enthusiasts with a lovely piece on the subject. It covers Edgar Allan Poe, Kerouac, David Foster Wallace, and Beckett's Watt manuscript that was recently exhibited at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. As for readers' interest in the "ample margin":
Such readers feel [...]
by Harriet Staff
Beckman’s Library at The Believer
January 30, 2012: Oh, we are very into this, and can't wait to see what's on deck. The Believer has started a new series of posts on their Tumblr documenting the home library of a poet; and the first for us voyeurs is Joshua Beckman. These photos are beautiful -- take a look.
by Harriet Staff
At BOMBLOG: Arda Collins on Light, Time, Guns, Childhood…
January 30, 2012:
In "Dusk: An interview," Courtney B. Maum at BOMBLOG gets at "the claustrophobic aspect" of the poetry of Arda Collins, whose work has "illuminated the pages of The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, and jubilat, among others. Currently, she’s a Doctoral candidate at the University of Denver where she’s working on a new manuscript of [...]
by Harriet Staff
The Week That This Affected You
January 27, 2012: Here’s everything from this week’s poetry news that you really need to know, in handy, clip ‘n’ save, actionable listicle format.
1. Christopher Walken does a mean cover of The Raven.
Because Walken is the OG of internet meme generators, and his kiddie-scaring shtick makes almost anything seem badass. Also, “The Raven” is a cinch [...]
by Harriet Staff
Give a Listen: Newest PoemTalk Features P. Inman !
January 26, 2012:
A bit biased (an admittal of co-production over here), but we'd really like to point you to the newest PoemTalk at Jacket2; episode number 49 is focused on Peter Inman and features Sarah Dowling, Danny Snelson, and Michael Golston discussing two short poems from Inman's book at.least. (Krupskaya, 1999). "The poems are 'lac[e]y.' — dedicated [...]
by Harriet Staff
Putin’s Canon
January 26, 2012: Vladimir Putin is compiling a 100-Book canon that all students must read, according to The Guardian.
From the article:
Putin, who is running for a third term as president in March, says that Russia has "always been described as a 'reading nation'", and proposes taking a survey of the country's "most influential cultural figures" and [...]
by Harriet Staff
