Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
At 5 p.m. on 13 November 2009, Catherine Bowman will be at the Woodberry Poetry Room. She will be both reading from her collection of poems The Plath Cabinet and playing recordings of poems by Plath (and possibly Ted Hughes and Anne Sexton, too). If you are in the area, please come to the informal event, it is free and open to the public. The Woodberry Poetry Reading is in Room 330 of Lamont Library...
Carol Peters (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
[from Jane Kenyon 's Otherwise , Graywolf , 1996] From the Back Steps A bird begins to sing, hesitates, like a carpenter pausing to straighten a nail, then begins again. The cat lolls in the shade under the parked car, his head in the wheel's path. I bury the thing I love. But the cat continues to lie comfortably, right where he is, and no one will move the car. My own violence falls away like paint...
Book of Kells (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Here's an organization and now new literary journal that I really admire. Jay Bates, the found of a River & Sound Review was in my grad program (Rainier Writers Workshop at PLU) and this was his second year "outside project," that has gone on to expand into an incredible show, podcast, and now literary journal. I'm not much for poetry contests that just involve poems, but I like this...
Strong Verse (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
I suppose this list says a lot more about me than poetry. "Blackberrying" by Sylvia Plath "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon, Lord Byron "Red Red Rose" by Robert Burns "Since Feeling is First" by e.e. cummings "Tame Cat" by Ezra Pound "Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay...
Stick Poet Super Hero (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
I read an article about a project to translate a number of poems into Arabic as part of a project to widen the Arabic world's access to foreign literature. Over a thousand titles are being translated for the anthology project including many by American poets. I was intrigued by the selection the and thought others might be as well. Check out these selections: Langston Hughes Charles Simic Sylvia Plath...
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