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"Moxibustion"? Ah, romance...
Alice Baumgartner talks with Alice Fulton about word choice, the difference between prose and poetry, and the musicality of language.
(The Book Bench)
"It hurt me to realize that even though I was from this place I wasn’t quite of it anymore."
Danielle Blau talks with Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey about her visit to post-Katrina North Gulfport, Mississippi, her hometown, as part of a multimedia collaboration between Virginia Quarterly Review and Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen called "In Verse."
(The Book Bench)
"This is our mean of transportation, a bicycle, and as luggage, we have a poem..."
Bologna's second annual "Poetandem" festival sends poetry-lovers cycling into streets and piazzas, reciting to residents and tourists. (Audio from The Strand and BBC World Service)
"Only the toughest talents surface here."
Eileen Battersby on Dublin's writers, as the city is designated a Unesco City of Literature. (The Irish Times)
Do we need a "cultural EPA?"
Former NEA chairman Bill Ivey proposes "a federal agency that would make sure no one gained too much control over the nation’s cultural assets." (The Boston Globe)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Mary Meriam's "The Romance of Middle Age." (American Life in Poetry)
"Beyond our borders:"
Robert Burlingame's Some Recognition of the Joshua Lizard: New and Selected Poems reviewed by Roberto Bonazzi. (San Antonio Express-News)
... beautiful, unsettling, gutsy..."
Sasha Pimentel Chacón's Insides She Swallowed reviewed by Marion Rohrleitner. (El Paso Times)
"Identity repair" poetry:
Craig Morgan Teicher chats with Thomas Sayers Ellis about his new collection Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems. (Publishers Weekly)
On the road with Simon Armitage:
The poet reads for his supper as he walks the 264-mile Pennine Way. (BBC)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumen's introduces Robert Browning's "Two in the Campagna." (The Guardian)
"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley."
The Burns Monument Centre makes the shortlist for the 2010 Carbuncle Cup, honoring Britain's "worst new architectural monstrosity." (The Scotsman)
University of East Anglia (and UK) Creative Writing turns 40:
As the first-ever UK course celebrates its anniversary, Mark Lawson talks with Ian McEwan, Fay Weldon, Richard Ford, and others about the teaching of creative writing. (Audio from Front Row and BBC Radio 4.)
"A fabulous detective story:"
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds,
by Lyndall Gordon, reviewed by Jerome Charyn. (The Washington Post)
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Carrie Fountain:
New collections reviewed by Anis Shivani. (Austin American-Statesman)
Who owns literature?
The recent discovery of some of Kafka's papers has Michael Rosen recalling the case of a lost poem by Shelley. (The Guardian)
Recently Arrived Titles
These just in... Highlighted titles may be purchased from Poetry Daily / Amazon.com. A complete
list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- The Squanicook Eclogues, Melissa Green (The Pen & Anvil Press )
- Vanishing Points, Valerio Magrelli, tr. Jamie McKendrick (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Ache of Appetite, Rachel Hadas (Copper Beech Press)
- House, Janet McCann (Plan B Press)
- St. Cecilia's Daze, Katrin Talbot (Parallel Press)
- Each Crumbling House, Melody S. Gee (Perugia Press)
- Poems, Ben Mazer (The Pen & Anvil Press)
- Gaze, Marthe Reed (Black Radish Books)
- Church of the Backyard Fire, Vladimir Swirynsky (Bottom Dog Press)
- Outcasts: The Penikese Island Leper Hospital 1905-1921, Eve Rifkah (Little Pear Press)
- Heart Turned Back, Bertha Rogers (Salmon Poetry)
- I Should Have Given Them Water, Eileen Malone (Ragged Sky Press)
Recent Anthologies, etc.
- The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, Ilya Kaminsky, Susan Harris of Words Without Borders, ed.s (Ecco)
- Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Camille T. Dungy, ed. (University of Georgia Press)
- Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen, Steve Shoemaker, ed. (University Alabama Press)
- The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009, Molly Peacock, A.F. Moritz, ed.s (Tightrope Books)
- The Best American Poetry 2009, David Lehman, David Wagoner, ed.s (Scribner)
- The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck, ed.s; Robert Hass, intro. (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, Stephen Burt (Graywolf Press)
- Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, Dennis O'Driscoll (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry, ed. Dennis O'Driscoll (Copper Canyon Press)
Past Features:
Original
articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more are available in the Archives.
