The Poetry Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Submitted by Ted Burke Blog A little guilt mongering is just what you need to deliver several stanzas of applause ready morality. Anthony Hecht loves to bask in the glow of Points Already Made.The idea seems to be that even with the advance of decades since a horrific event, later generations still bear a moral responsibility [...]
TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A little guilt mongering is just what you need to deliver several stanzas of applause ready morality. Anthony Hecht loves to bask in the glow of Points Already Made. The idea seems to be that even with the advance of decades since a horrific event, later generations still bear a moral responsibility for atrocities committed in their country's name; one cannot consider themselves excluded from the fatal...
Carrie Etter (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Thanks to George Ttoouli for his kind remarks on the launch of The Son in Bath last week. And somehow only now have I come across an article published in El Mercurio (according to Tony Frazer it's Chile's equivalent of The Times ) on New Year's Eve in 2004. Tony Frazer translates the passage in which my name is mentioned thus: " As for poetry, the global scene is vast, dynamic, diversified and...
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
We wandered the corn maze (maize maze?) on a pumpkin farm, the narrow paths slippery with gray mud. The effect on a cloud-dim day was claustrophobic. Looked at imaginatively, corn stalks where they meet the ground appear ambulatory, capable of pulling themselves from the soil and, well, stalking human prey. Halloween is number three in importance on the American kid calendar, after Christmas and one’s...
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
“The barbed-wire fences rust As their cedar uprights blacken After a night of rain. Some early, innocent lust Gets me outdoors to smell The teasle, the pelted bracken, The cold, mossed-over well, Rank with its iron chain…” Rain falls after months of near-drought. Dust is mud, grass is green, leaves decoupage sidewalks. In the courtyard of the grade school where I worked Friday, two...
Scattered Light (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Beltway Poetry Quarterly NEW ISSUE NOW ONLINE: US POETS LAUREATE ISSUE, GUEST EDITED BY DAN VERA Vol. 10:4, Fall 2009 An exciting new issue of the journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly features essays, interviews and poems by and about US Poets Laureate, guest edited by Dan Vera. Contributors include: Peter Montgomery, Christy J. Zink, Michael Gushue, Jean Nordhaus, Grace Cavalieri, Alan King, and Danielle...
The Black Telephone (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
The Black Telephone has five fast questions for poet Erica Dawson. BT : I love the title of your book "Big-Eyed Afraid" (winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, 2006); I would have bought the book on the title alone. What made you ultimately stick with that title? ERICA : First, thanks so much for the compliment. There were plenty of naysayers when I initially proposed the title. I stuck...
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