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baithak (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Juba in a jam - Salva Kiir's controversial remark regarding the possibility of secession just shows that the southern Sudanese will not opt for unity at any cost, surmises Gamal Nkrumah Pakistan's terrorist surge - Cutting off the money supply to terrorists and diversifying economic and military aid are key to winning the battle for Pakistan, writes Tariq Osman Hyder . Without adequate multinational...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A new collection showcases young poets whose work soars above the tired editorial clichés In 1962, Penguin published an anthology edited by Al Alvarez, bombastically entitled The New Poetry . Alvarez introduced his selection with a now-famous essay in which he expressed his belief that the postwar English literary scene had become insular and moribund, its poetry calcifying into the "academic-administrative...
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Song of a Reformed Headhunter (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The Poetry Society of America, together with Poets House and The New School Graduate Writing Program, presented last evening's reading, in conjunction with the publication of At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn . The editor Joshua Weiner introduced the evening with a rather formal though heartfelt speech on Gunn's work. He read Gunn's "My Sad Captains" and saluted Gunn as one too....
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Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
I’ve always suspected that Devin Johnston must be one of those poets whom readers either love or hate. He has a very distinct personality & is quite clear about his goals in writing. Either you buy it or you don’t. Somehow, though, I always find myself in the middle, never fully certain just how much I love his work or feel frustrated by it. This I think might be because you can read...
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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...
Explore : Adrienne Rich,
Alice Fulton,
Amy Clampitt,
Anne Carson,
Brad Leithauser,
C.D. Wright,
Campbell McGrath,
Charles Simic,
Derek Walcott,
Fine Arts,
Galway Kinnell,
Ishmael Reed,
John Ashbery,
John Hollander,
Joseph Brodsky,
Mark Strand,
May Swenson,
Richard Howard,
Robert Penn Warren,
Sandra Cisneros
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Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Ergon / Logos : when is a game a poem? § Ursula K. Le Guin on Margaret Atwood § Louise Glück, “stand-up vampire” “keep the stakes … hypothermically low ” The private poetry of Louise Glück Glück on danger & difficulty § David Amrad & Ted Joans § Bezoar, a fine literary mag that ran from 1975 thru 1981 is now online My four appearances...
Explore : Books,
Clark Coolidge,
Facebook,
Fine Arts,
Franz Wright,
Jonathan Lethem,
Lorrie Moore,
Louise Glück,
Margaret Atwood,
Media,
Publishing,
Ursula K. Le Guin,
Wallace Stevens,
Walt Whitman,
William Bronk,
William Wordsworth
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Thom Gunn’s “Selected Poems” shows his development was steadier than often thought.
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Say Something Wonderful (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Shouldn't be thinking about this now--too many other things on my plate--but I've been mulling over some possibilities for my next Parnassus review. From my chats with Herb, I gather that there are a bunch of Collecteds as yet unclaimed: Jack Spicer, Robert Creeley, Barbara Guest, Thom Gunn. A few more that I know of, both Collecteds and new Selecteds: Helen Adam, for example, and Judy Grahn has a...
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