GottaBook (Free subscription) | yesterday
I finally had some time this week to dive into the stacks, such as they are, at the second "branch" of the school library I've been supervising the last four plus (!!!!) years. When you stock a library from donations, you always end up with some fascinating contributions - sure, we might not have much from the last two years, but we have Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Sexton's children's book...
Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
This blog will continue to be semi-hibernating for the next month. Have a happy, healthy, safe, holiday and new year. — Legend has it that in the same room, Robert Lowell taught aspiring poets Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and George Starbuck, all of whom went on to become pivotal figures in modern American poetry. — *** — Mexican writer [...]
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Dear Poetry Aficionados, IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags We begin in the Robert Lowell Seminar Room, where he had Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and George Starbuck as pupils. We then go to The Enchanted Garden, which was described by Edgar Allan Poe when it did not exist. These are our first items in News at Eleven this week. In our Great Regulars section, Robert Pinsky, who teaches in the aforementioned...
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Two articles to bring to your attention today. The first is " Icons Among Us " by Caleb Daniloff in BU Today (or, yesterday, or 30th November 2009, depending on when you view). This is about Room 222 at Boston University, where Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, among others, attended Robert Lowell's poetry courses. Thanks to Amanda Golden for sending the link. Please note, I've found the link...
Avoiding the Muse (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
"Dear Conflict: Just because a guy enjoys poetry and songwriting does not make him gay."(via the Sault Star)***************************"In honor of style and fashion colliding in the White House, below we've spotlighted 11 Pulitzer Prize winners who found a personal fashion to complimented their literary talents."(via Black Book)I was not the least bit surprised to find Anne Sexton...
Joe Brainard's Pyjamas (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Once, I gave up my guilt It was really such a mealy-mouthed quilt "They say he like to fucks with your elbowing potentiality..." Well, fuck him and the bipolar goose he rode in on then. Acting like my fucking brother and mother at once. This poem had a morning. I had you. Twas nice. "Erato, poetry pulse There's nothing to that e.r. A doctor will be a cunt and just tell you There's nothing...
dbqp: visualizing poetics (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
First capital of New York. Meal: sheep fetus cooked in amniotic sac. Whistled poetry, words of Morse code. The best smelling art exhibit ever. Beechip cookies, not brownies. Better (or even different) to document or experience? Anne Sexton and reading contests. Armenian-American singer-songwriter-poet. Albanian dog at a reading. Reading series has a birthday. Maybe she has known me for too long. Timing...
Culture Industry (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
It's that time of year again – well, it's actually rather past that time of year, but I'm finally getting around to ordering books for this spring's classes, among them a grad seminar on postwar American poetry. Man, this one was tough. In the end, even tho I'm normally pretty allergic to using anthologies rather than actual books of poetry, I've decided to teach primarily out of 4 anthologies:...
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Lois Ames: Confidante to Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.”Interview by Doug Holder (2005)Recently I was privileged to hear Lois Ames speak at the “Wilderness House Literary Retreat,” in Littleton, Mass. Lois Ames is a poet, biographer and psychotherapist. She was a confidante of the poet Anne Sexton, and has published many essays on both Sexton and Sylvia Plath including: “A Biographical...
Intagliod Up in Blue (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Bells Today the circus poster is scabbing off the concrete wall and the children have forgotten if they knew at all. Father, do you remember? Only the sound remains, the distant thump of the good elephants, the voice of the ancient lions and how the bells trembled for the flying man. I, laughing, lifted to your high shoulder or small at the rough legs of strangers, was not afraid. You held my hand...
litwindowpane (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Ambition BirdSo it has come to thisinsomnia at 3:15 A.M.,the clock tolling its enginelike a frog followinga sundial yet having an electricseizure at the quarter hour.The business of words keeps me awake.I am drinking cocoa,that warm brown mama.I would like a simple lifeyet all night I am layingpoems away in a long box.It is my immortality box,my lay-away plan,my coffin.All night dark
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
At 5 p.m. on 13 November 2009, Catherine Bowman will be at the Woodberry Poetry Room. She will be both reading from her collection of poems The Plath Cabinet and playing recordings of poems by Plath (and possibly Ted Hughes and Anne Sexton, too). If you are in the area, please come to the informal event, it is free and open to the public. The Woodberry Poetry Reading is in Room 330 of Lamont Library...
One Poet's Notes (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I live the wrong life for the person I am. —Anne Sexton Anne Sexton was born on this date (November 9) in 1928; therefore, I thought today a good time to offer for viewing the rare film above of Sexton reading poems, responding to questions, and engaging with family members. In a letter Sexton wrote to Jon Stallworthy on September 24th of 1965, she described her life and the importance of poetry...
Stick Poet Super Hero (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A few lines from recent journal entries: the legacy that lives / in us all is the blue veins of fear / that rise up from the soles of our feet. the blue taste of fear- this they will remember / because they know how it feels / to the touch, they know / how it tastes and they know / how it smells. Reading Anne Sexton today- her poems “In the Beach House” and “ Song for a Lady"...
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Recently published is Jane Hedley's I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2009). In this work is an essay titled, "Sylvia Plath's Ekphrastic Impulse" (pgs 71-102). Other poets examined in I Made You to Find Me are Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich and Gwendolyn Brooks. The chapter on Plath appears...
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