] 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....
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...
autopoiesis (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
“But whatever the importance of this process of analogy in art, art does not find its profoundest formula here. As long as we discover a sign’s meaning in something else, matter still subsists, refractory to spirit. On the contrary, art gives us the true unity: unity of an immaterial sign and of an entirely spiritual meaning. The essence is precisely this unity of sign and meaning as it...
Mark Doty (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
When I left off on the Hart Crane post below I was in a hotel room in Cleveland, and running off to lead a workshop for grad students there. Now that I've been back a few days, I've found myself turning to the materials on Crane that my good hosts in Garrettsville provided: some of his letters, and some interesting essays on the poet's life and work in a back issue of THE HIRAM POETRY REVIEW, which...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Poets House News & Events After a festive Grand Opening in September—thank you, dear friends, for coming out to celebrate our new home for poetry in Battery Park City!—Poets House presents a host of wide-ranging and dynamic events throughout the month of October. All events listed here take place at Poets House at 10 River Terrace (at Murray Street) unless otherwise indicated. We also...
Carol Peters (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
[my thanks to Emily Lloyd for this list] Despite my raging joy that Heather McHugh has won half a million dollars, I deplore prize giving of all kinds because of the implied value judgments, politics, social bias, cultural pressure, category exclusions, etc. Below is a chronological list of poets who have won the MacArthur. How many of these poets have you heard of? How many have you read? How many...
Blue Positive (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Thanks to Rob Ryan for doing my dirty work while I stayed close to home today grading 55 diagnostic essays about food, and also making homemade mac & cheese for the monthly preschool potluck. Rob tracked down Richard Howard's shoe s; they can be yours for only $42.00 (zappos.com). It just kills me I can't share with you a visual of Howard in these wonders, along with the matching socks and the...
Blue Positive (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Left to right: Tina Kelley, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Molly Peacock, moi So I'm back from New York and trying like heck to catch up with everything I left behind for 72 hours, including but not limited to my rosters, my course plans, my marking pens, the textbooks I assigned, and the time and attention my kids are used to getting from me. When I saw the flying Budweiser eagle over Newark, I got emotional....
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
The Best American Poetry 2009 gala launch reading on Thursday, September 24 featured prize-winning poets (such as John Ashbery, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, and Richard Howard), but it will also be remembered for the record-breaking number of readers, twenty-one poets...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Richard Howard reading at the gala launch reading for The Best American Poetry 2009 at the New School's Tishman Auditorium in NYC September 24, 2009 photo credit: Bill Hayward.
Ana Verse (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Of all the authors in the library, it was a wife from Maryland who called out from her marriage dormer I was not to read her. It might have been 2005. She shouted: “Some people should not be allowed to read books!” I intuited from Minnesota that the shout was for me, though we hadn’t spoken of or to each other since graduate school, nor even then. On the cover of her book is a girl...
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...
Keeper of the Snails (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
This very interesting book was sent to me by One World Classics . It is translated from the French by Richard Howard. Alain Robbe-Grillet was born in 1922 and died last year. According to the note at the back of the book he was best known as the pioneering spokesman of the 'Noveau Roman' - a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction. Vladimir Nabokov says that 'Jealousy' is the finest...
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