Unconcern
Erasing.org (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Conrad Aiken, “The Divine Pilgrim”... [ CONTINUE READING » ] tags: Conrad Aiken , The Divine Pilgrim , poetry
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Reader’s Almanac: 3/12
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
B orn today: John Aubrey, antiquarian, biographer, Easton Piercy, Wiltshire, 1626; William Lyon MacKenzie, journalist, insurgent, Dundee, Scotland, 1795; Charles Cunningham Boycott, estate manager, 1832; Adolph Ochs, newspaper publisher, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1858; Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, author, playwright, journalist, Francavilla al Mare, Pescara, 1863; Jack Kerouac, novelist, poet, Lowell, Mass.,...
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Reader’s Almanac: 3/1
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
B orn today: Marcus Valerius Martialis, poet, empigrammist, Bilbilis, Spain, between 38-41; William Dean Howells, memoirist, biographer, essayist, playwright, Martin Ferry, Ohio, 1837; Lytton Strachey, biographer, critic, London, 1880; Ralph Ellison, novelist, essayist, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1914; Robert Lowell Jr., poet, essayist, translator, Boston, 1917; Howard Nemerov, novelist, poet, essayist,...
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Dispatch from NBCC Good Reads at Canio's Books in Sag Harbor
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, the former whaling village on the East End of Long Island, has a wall of poetry books,readings every week, and lots of "local authors" on the shelves, beginning with James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut,Jean Stafford, and E.L. Doctorow. Canio's was chockablock Saturday night for the NBCC Good Reads discussion. Canio's co owners Maryann Calendrille...
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Snow
What's New at the Internet Archive (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
While it's snow season in much of the country, we are enjoying sun (between rain storms) here in San Francisco. Today's blog is for those dreaming of snow, whether or not they have the joy (or curse) of experiencing it. Skaters in Central Park (1902) The remarkable thing about this short clip is the year it was [...]
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Huntington library director helped expand literary, science holdings
LA Times (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
Daniel Woodward, a former director of the library at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino who was instrumental in acquiring the papers of several prominent authors, along with rare books and manuscripts in the fields of history and science, has died. He was 76.
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Stuff Etc...
Jessica Schneider (Free subscription) | 10/07/2007
I'm up already probably because I went to sleep early last night. My allergies are irritating me and so now I have the sniffles and I thought I'd post before finally changing out of my PJs into my running clothes. It's still too dark to run and the street lamps are on. Dan read through my long book which is told in 2 parts and he suggested I leave the first part alone as is, but rewrite a couple of...
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Happy Birthday, Conrad
The Greenbelt (Free subscription) | 08/05/2007
Today in 1889 in Savannah, Georgia, Conrad Aiken was born. His poems won a Pulitzer, but he was never wildly popular, which is a shame. Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain Beloved, let us once more praise the rain. Let us discover some new alphabet, For this, the often praised; and be ourselves, The rain, the chickweed, and the burdock leaf, The green-white privet flower, the spotted stone, And...
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USA Poetry Map
hi spirits (Free subscription) | 06/10/2007
A USA poetry map is available at http://www.poets.org Interesting! Here's just a sample of some States: TOP STATES ON POETRY MAP Georgia: Homestate of Sidney Lanier, Conrad Aiken & James Dickey. California: Root of both the Beat Movement and Language poetry. New York: A tremendous generator of inspiration. It's a capital of inspiration. Ohio: Birthplace of Hart Crane,
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National Poetry Map: Georgia
Poets.org (Free subscription) | 06/07/2007
Homestate of Sidney Lanier, Conrad Aiken and James Dickey.
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