reading and interacting with poetry
by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec
Saturday, June 7, 2008
James Scully on poetry & politics
"...much of what is called political poetry, or poetry that deals with politics, is hackwork. From this comes the generalization that politics destroys poetry. Yet . . . most of any kind of poetry is hackwork, is slipshod, undemanding of itself. . . . When you come upon an inept love poem you aren't likely to conclude that love and poetry don't mix."
anticucho, n.
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OED Word of the Day: anticucho, n. In Peruvian and Bolivian cookery: a
marinated piece of meat (typically beef heart), grilled on a skewer; a dish
of this.
A real sense of purpose: Life of the Day
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Today's biography from the Oxford DNB: *T'Serclaes, Baroness Elizabeth
Blackall de* [*née *Elizabeth Blackall Shapter; *other married name *Elizabeth
Blac...
Poetry workshop: Skin
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Rachael Boast discovers some ingenious responses to this month's exercise,
and offers some radical feedback
The six poems I settled on for a detailed respo...
Poem of the week: Sea Rose by HD
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An austere song of praise to a flower that withstands the battering of
nature is also an intense response to classical Greek literature
*Sea Rose*
Rose,...
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Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no
other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that
unit of...
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Notes From an Ill-Kept Journal
12.9.19 Winter Depression
It doesn’t take long to get grumpy when the days shorten, and the dark
skies gather early in t...
JOI web cam Dominatrix
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This cam Goddess is certainly a JOI cam Goddess and she can provide you any
online jerk off instructions you desire. No joke this webcam Dominatrix is
on...
Fidel Castro - Eulegise or Otherwise
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It is the duty of poets, from their point of view, to chronicle the times
from their standpoint.
For all his faults, I am a fan of Castro. His persecution ...
An 'ethical' response to 11/9 and 9/11
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This post is written from Paris on November 13, one year after the brutal
killing and wounding of (mainly) young (mainly) French people sitting at
cafés, w...
If You Put Out Your Hand: new CD
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If You Put Out Your Hand, my new CD/booklet in collaboration with singer
and musician Sharron Kraus, is now available to pre-order from Wounded Wolf
Press....
David Troupes on Poetry, Comics and Time
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In her article ‘Miremur Stellam: Poetry and Comics’ (*Poetry Wales*, vol.
50 no. 1), Chrissy Williams remarks, ‘trying to unpack the language of
comics, th...
Live Poetry This Week
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A few live poetry events for this week, across the UK:Thursday: In Bath, at
the BRLSI, Rebecca Goss and Jackie Wills, 8pm start.... Thursday: London's
Bang...
PhD Boot Camp 2 Hours ($59)
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If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be behind a real lecture
podium and instruct a room full of undergrads with flair and panache, this
is your ...
Gay Male Poetry Post Identity Politics, Part Five
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I am now posting the last of the presentations from my AWP panel on gay
male poetry post politics. Like Aaron Smith, Brian Teare questions the idea
and the...
Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec teaches English at the University of Caen in Normandy. She is co-editor of "La poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la modernité" (L'Harmattan, 2007), "Selected Poems from Modernism to Now" (CSP, 2012), "Poetry & Religion: Figures of the Sacred" (Peter Lang, 2013), "European Voices in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Geoffrey Hill" (Peter Lang, 2015).
Her research interests include Contemporary Poetry, British and American Literature, especially Literature in conjunction with Memory, History, Religion, and War.
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