] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
I've been way for far too long with this kind of post. Some recent links about gay poets! Richard Howard's WRITING LIFE Bruce Snider interviewed on Brian Brodeur's "How a Poem Happens" Do you remember who you were reading when you wrote this poem? Any influences you’d care to disclose? I’d been reading the New York School poets, especially Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch....
Wild Rose Reader (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong have a few extra copies of Dear One , the special "festschrift" book of poetry that they compiled in honor of Lee Bennett Hopkins , the 2009 recipient of the NCTE Excellence in Poetry Award. They have proposed a mini-competition for giving away the last dozen copies. Here’s the challenge: You have to list the name of a past NCTE Poetry Award winner whose...
49 Writers (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Two weeks ago, in my first post , I mentioned that in 1996 I attended a conference where I met John Crawford, of West End Press, which started a process that led him four years later to publish my first full-length collection, Nome Poems . I also mentioned that prior to that meeting, I'd self-published a chapbook that included some of the poems which later appeared in that book. Though I'd taken the...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Poets House News & Events Poets House's debut season in Battery Park City continues into November with a diverse and exciting array of programs for children and adults. Please join us in celebrating our first year in residence at our new home on the banks of the Hudson River! All events take place at Poets House at 10 River Terrace (at Murray Street) unless otherwise indicated. We also welcome...
Encountering William Stafford (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
"Every War Has Two Losers" tells the story of how one man, William Stafford (1914-1993), choose to answer the call to war. It is a story of confronting beliefs that swirl around war - Isn't war inevitable? Even necessary? What about the enemy? Stafford refused to fight in World War Two and served four years in camps for conscientious objectors. --from the film's website . On the same day...
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