A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"A lot of modern art is very autistic. There is this arbitrary law that you're not supposed to be sentimental or have any feelings. What the bloody hell is that but autism, pretending to be some kind of automaton? I came across a wonderful phrase recently. Some fellow writing against the Conservative Party of Canada, parodying their attitudes, described the conservative image of Harvard as 'the great ice-palace of the modern elite'—where it's all intellect and no feelings allowed." A Conversation with Les Murray
Poetry Out Loud: 2010 Competition!
Special Feature: A POL interview with Elizabeth Seydel Morgan: What's it like to judge a POL competition? In Part II of our three-part series following the competition in Virginia, PD asked the poet and teacher Elizabeth Seydel Morgan to share her experience judging a school competition this year:
"I was kind of nervous about doing my job... Can you imagine yourself as a teenager trying out?"
Read the complete interview, along with Part I of the series ( "I tell you, the entire experience is full of miracles:" A Poetry Out Loud Interview with Ron Smith), make plans to attend your state finals, and then follow your champion all the way to the National Finals, April 27, 2010, in Washington, DC., as Poetry Daily tracks events...
MI: Onaca Bennett to compete in state finals:
Mackinac Island Public School freshman is off to Lansing on March 6. (The St. Ignace News)
MS: State finals set for March 11:
Nine finalists to square off at 1 p.m. at the Auditorium at Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson. (Clarion-Ledger)
IL: State finalists announced:
Sixteen regional winners advance to finals on March 18 in Springfield. (Illinois Government News Network)
MORE....
2009 Poetry Out Loud Finalists
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"... into another, freer life ... "
Craig Morgan Teicher reviews Pierce the Skin, by Henri Cole. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• Two poems from Poetry Daily's archive.
"I'm just writing about my experiences of the world, and that includes my sexuality:"
Julian Guthrie talks to D. A. Powell. (San Francisco Chronicle)
"... inspiration and muse ..."
Elaine Showalter reviews Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, by Lyndall Gordon. (The Guardian)
"... Shenandoah will shift from print to web:
After its 60's anniversary issue, a tribute to Flannery O'Connor, the journal will go online only. (today@W & L)
Two from Canada:
George Elliott Clarke reviews Botero’s Beautiful Horses by Jan Conn, and Wanton, by Angela Hibbs. (The Halifax Herald)
"... angels coming and going ..."
Djelloul Marbrook reviews Hyacinth for the Soul, by Joan I. Siegel. (News Blaze)
Guardian Poem of the Week:
Carol Rumens introduces William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow." (The Guardian)
"There ought to be a way of bringing words and music together..."
Alice Oswald forms "a group to explore the effects of poetry, music and drama on each other." (Audio from The Times)
"... words of adult wisdom as appealing as the folly they displace..."
Kay Ryan's The Best of It: New and Selected Poems reviewed by Stephen Burt. (San Francisco Chronicle)
"... aimed, straight as an arrow, at the blue bounds of eternity."
Derek Walcott's White Egrets reviewed by Theo Dorgan. (The Irish Times)
Clare through the eyes of his wife:
Judith Allnatt's novel The Poet’s Wife reviewed by Brian Lynch. (The Irish Times)
Lorin Stein is new editor of The Paris Review:
Succeeds Philip Gourevitch. (The Paris Review)
"... their moral and intellectual bite blindsides you. "
Kay Ryan's The Best of It: New and Selected Poems reviewed by Dwight Garner. (The New York Times)
"... the drifty moment, where not much can happen, and does. "
Joshua Clover on John Ashbery and Planisphere. (The Nation)
"We Irish, born into that ancient sect"
Michael Silk on Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus:
Manuscript materials by W. B. Yeats, edited by Jared Curtis, and Yeats's "quest for an idiom to convey the essence of Greek tragedy." (The Times Literary Supplement)
TLS Poem of the Week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces "A Late Lunch," by Alan Jenkins. (The Times Literary Supplement)
Poet's Choice:
Nick Lantz introduces his poem, "Will There Be More Than One 'Questioner'" (The Washington Post)
"... you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last."
An interview with Edward Hirsch. (Video from Big Think)
David Clewell appointed Missouri Poet Laureate:
Succeeds Missouri's first poet laureate, Walter Bargen. (Office of Missouri Governor, Jay Nixon)
• More (St. Louis News)
• And (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'entrate"? Not?
Will Dante's Inferno, the video game, lead players back to the real thing? (The Atlantic)
Chinese poet, writer, and critic Liao Yiwu stopped from leaving the country:
Failed attempt to attend a literary festival in Germany is the 13th time Liao has been barred from leaving. (The New York Times)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser introduces "Old Man Throwing a Ball," by David Baker. (American Life in Poetry)
"I think all good poems are always both lyric and narrative..."
Paul Holler talks with David Baker. (Bookslut)
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.
- Words for Empty and Words for Full, Bob Hicok (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Noose and Hook, Lynn Emanuel (University of Pittsburgh 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.
