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Poetry & Popular Culture (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
In his essay "Business and Poetry," Dana Gioia wonders why "[t]here have been many important American poets who supported themselves—either by necessity or choice—by working in business, but none of them has seen it as an experience fit to write about." T.S. Eliot didn't write about Lloyd's Bank of London. Wallace Stevens didn't write much about insurance. A.R. Ammons...
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jellybean weirdo with electric snake fang (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
And bold, Turner to a tabulum the visceront or runt fishing in dread gives out three blunt nickel weddings already set the charges. cryoform subterranean rivers Ells An Any Quarry no Dana Gioia oil not drink the pet Snarly Yarn hard-cased bi-cuspid cubans wrapped slapped bent or broken the split-lipped bronzes fall in for free-fuck Rally to heidegger cabinet facing no junk Re Squall Nary synchronous...
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The Poetry Blog (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Submitted by Poets Who Blog T.S. Eliot was a big fan of footnotes. Just read “The Waste Land”. I think the notes take up more space than the poem – and it’s a long poem. I don’t think the New Formalist poets have that problem. From X.J. Kennedy to Dana Gioia, the New Formalist’s have their own [...]
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Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Recently Received Books (Poetry) Lynn Behrendt, Luminous Flux, Lines Chapbooks, Red Hook, NY 2009 Lynn Behrendt, This My Vertical Body, Lines Chapbooks, Red Hook, NY 2009 Charles Bernstein, All the Whiskey in Heaven:Selected Poems, Farrar, Straus & Giroux , New York 2010 Kate Durbin, The Ravenous Audience , Black Goat, Los Angeles 2009 Ernest Farrés, Edward Hopper, translated by Lawrence...
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URBAN DIRECTION (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
By Ariel In a recent article in the New York Times the new head of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman, discussed his vision for the agency. Insisting that “Art Works” this former mutual fund manager and theatre producer will pursue an agenda that not only invests in high quality art, but the arts economic development potential. This is a commendable approach. As the NYTimes...
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
With the arrival of Richard Wilbur, our day has been full at the WCU Poetry conference. Wilbur has already provided participants with multiple critical seminars and a special workshop moderated by Dana Gioia on the poetic process. Our staff is working diligently to prepare for our closing event, a dramatic performance of Wilbur's translations of Moliere and Corneille directed by David Yezzi. Dramatic...
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