tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46212635533048774182011-11-22T07:01:46.721+01:00reading and interacting with poetry by Jennifer Kilgore-CaradecJKChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990069498983330643noreply@blogger.comBlogger1761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4621263553304877418.post-79449432153021677462011-11-22T06:59:00.001+01:002011-11-22T07:01:46.736+01:00

Robert Hass went to University of California Berkeley campus to observe police action to end the Occupy Movement there, and was beaten with billy clubs.  This is a must-read: Robert Hass, "Poet-Bashing Police," New York Times (November 19, 2011).

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Philip Levine will give an Inaugural Reading as U.S. Poet Laureate, Monday, October 17th, at 7p.m. in Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. Links Library of Congress News Page (www.loc.gov).

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W.S. Merwin will read on Poetry Day, October 6th, at 6 p.m. at Harold Washington Library, 400 South State Street, Chicago. Links Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org).

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Javier Sicilia, Mexican poet, stopped writing after his son and six of his friends were tortured and assassinated by a drug cartel.  In May, he made a public declaration, "Estamos Hasta la Madre!" asking for people to resist so that the violence could be stopped. In June, he organized a tour for peace (June 4-11), ranging from Cuernavaca to Ciudad Juarez.  This resulted in a national dialogue

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Philip Levine has become the new Poet Laureat of the United States for 2011-12, as announced by the Library of Congress librarian James H. Billington.  Congratulations to the poet, a perfect choice. Links: Being Named as Poet Laureate Jon Michaud, "Philip Levine, Laureate," New Yorker (August 11, 2011). Edward Byrne, "Philip Levine New U.S. Poet Laureate," One Poet's Notes (August 10, 2011).

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For friends and fans of Carcanet Press, the good news is that they now have a blog called "New Poetries".  Keeping up with what they are up to will now be easier and more fun. http://newpoetries.blogspot.com

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Heythrop College will host "The Power of the Word: Poetry, Theology and Life" on June 17-18, 2011 at the Institute of English Studies at University College London. Keynote speakers include Gianni Vattimo, Michael Paul Gallagher, Helen Wilcox, and Jay Parini.Description (www.heythrop.ac.uk).Program (www.heythrop.ac.uk).

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From June 9 to June 11, 2011 Paris-Diderot University will be hosting the conference "Legacies of Modernism: The State of British Poetry Today" organized by David Nowell-Smith and Abigail Lang. This conference has a blog, featuring a map to the conference location, the abstracts of papers to be given, and a program of the conference. LinksLegacies of Modernism (blogspot.com).CFP "Legacies of

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The Long List for the 2011 Wales Book of the Year includes the work of three poets: Pascale Petit, What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo (Seren Books, 2010).Patrick McGuinness, Jilted City (Carcanet, 2010).Alan Wall, Doctor Placebo (Shearsman, 2010).LinksLiterature Wales, "The Long List" (www.literaturewales.org).Literature Wales, "Eligible Books" (www.literaturewales.org).Patrick

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Institut Catholique de Paris, 21 rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris Poetry & Religion: Figures of the Sacred Friday, April 1, 2011Amphi Paul Ricoeur (B18)8:15 WELCOME Coffee 8:30 Greetings from the Dean of the Faculté des Lettres, Olivier Soutet, the Assistant Dean Pauline Piettre, and the head of the English Department, Ineke Bockting.9:00Philip Crispin (University of Hull) “Mysteries of Faith: The

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What happens when Mozart does Haendel and the work is taken up again today with a philosophical and contemporary bent? It's been too short a run, but last week was what I'd like to call "Star Trek Messiah," or "Der Messias" at the Theatre du Châtelet. The libretto, a collage of Biblical texts, was sung in German, with meditative texts written and read by Michel Serres. This performance was

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It's one of those Paris traditions: the annual poetry market. For the past three decades the small publishers and the larger ones have gathered together to present their wares. This takes place with poetry readings and discussions, music and other creative events. The big change this year will be the dates: May 27-30. To preserve the location, the 29th "Marché de la poésie" will occur three

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Is some child you love complaining about being bored? Please direct them to this excellent web ressource for children: The Children's Poetry Archive (http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do). They will be able to take a guided "tour" of poetry (provided by a poet), read poems and hear the poets read them, as well as explore various poetic forms. To date, forty poets are included

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"Poetry prances," says Clare A. Lees in the introduction to this reading by Mimi Khalvati and Fiona Sampson, event held jointly by the Royal Society of Literature and King's College London, February 7. The recorded version is now available for your ears.http://www.rslit.org/content/pastevents/1114

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The opera Nixon in China (1987, music by John Adams, libretto by Alice Goodman) will be performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, February 1 to 19, 2011. This will be concurrent to performances at the Canadian Opera Company, February 5 to 26.The opera covers Nixon's visit of five days (February 21-25, 1972) in three acts, with the key players: Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon,

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Stephen Burt, will be reading from his own poetry at Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle Street, in Cambridge, Monday, February 7, 2011, at 8 p.m. Burt's recent book of critical essays about poetry, Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf Press, 2009) was cited for its "sunny generosity" by Graeme Richardson in a TLS review which also noted his contrast in style with William Logan: "...the criticism is

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Did you sing "Auld Lang Syne" this year? If you did, you owe something to Robert Burns. Find out just what debt that is, by reading "Poems for the New Year" on the Academy of American Poets website (www.poets.org).Orthodox Christians will soon be celebrating Christmas, so it's not yet too late to enjoy the season's poetic offerings. The Poetry Foundation based in Chicago offers Christmas poems

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Speaking at Poets House in Manhattan (http://www.poetshouse.org) on October 21, 2010, W.S. Merwin spoke on the life of the imagination, "Compassion and the arts are connected."

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The first issue of the new on-line periodical Thinking in Verse (edited by Ruth Abbott and David Nowell-Smith) features articles by Isobel Armstrong, Simon Jarvis, Henri Meschonnic, David Nowell-Smith, Clive Scott, and Ross Wilson.A call for papers is now circulating for a conference to be held at Université Paris Didérot, "Legacies of Modernism: The State of British Poetry Today" (June 9-11,

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Native of Leeds, poet Tony Harrison has won the 2010 European Literature Prize.www.prixeuropeendelitterature.eu

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A number of papers will discuss poetry and peace at the upcoming "Can Literature and the Arts be Irenic?" at the University of Caen, November 18-19, 2010.Links: ERIBIA (www.unicaen.fr)CFP (upenn.edu)Program (www.fabula.org)

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The International Conference, "Poets and Publishers: Circulating Avant-Garde Poetry (1945-2010)" will be held at Université du Maine (Le Mans) October 14-15. The following program was recently made public:International Conference Poets and Publishers: Circulating Avant-Garde Poetry (1945-2010)Location : Université du Maine (Le Mans) : Bibliothèque universitaire Vercors, salle Pierre

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Sillages Critique 10 (2010) has just appeared, and features articles concerning poetry:Daniel Jean, "Le vers comme indice d'artificialité dans le théâtre de T.S. Eliot: The Confidential Clerk,"Pascal Aquien, "De l'artifice au vacillement: "A Singing Lesson" (A Century of Roundels, 1883) d'A. C. Swinburne,"Guillaume Fourcade, "Fausse extase et vrai fou: l'artifice revendiqué dans quelques poèmes

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For those who speak French, this film about Charles Péguy is a good introduction and includes footage of the poet playing with his children. Charles Péguy, un lieu, un destin - Hauts de seineLinksRoger Kimball, "Charles Péguy," New Criterion (November 2001).Centre Charles Péguy (Orléans).

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New poems by Geoffrey Hill have been published in the September issue of Poetry.Geoffrey Hill, "From 'Odi Barbare' (www.poetryfoundation.org).

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This video is from Faber and Faber. Heaney was reading on his 70th birthday, for Faber's 80th.

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September 15-18, Pembroke College, Cambridge: "Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to 'Collected'" (www.pem.cam.ac.uk).September 15-17, The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University Belfast: "British and Irish Poetry 1960-2010" (www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SeamusHeaneyCentreforPoetry).September 16-18, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, PRISMES, "T.S. Eliot et la mémoire des œuvres" (

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Graat issue #8, "Poets & Theory" has just been published (August 2010).

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Edwin Morgan's death on August 19, aged 90, has inspired many tributes.LinksEdwin Morgan website, www.edwinmorgan.com.Scottish Poetry Library (August 19, 2010).Carcanet Press www.carcanet.co.uk.

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He lived 90 years, and graced lovers of literature with criticism of poetry, theatre, and fiction. The Sense of an Ending (OUP, 1967)Modern Essays (Collins, 1971)Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Renaissance Essays (Routledge, 1971)Lawrence (Fontana, 1973)The Classic (Faber, 1975)The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction (Harvard UP, 1983)Forms of Attention (U Chicago P, 1985)An Appetite for Poetry (

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(Dziekuje to the St. Vincent de Paul Sisters of St. Casimir)The Polish romantic poet Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883), whose final residence in Paris beginning in 1877 was at St Casimir center, 119 rue du Chevaleret (which was then in Ivry), is still remembered with numerous markers. He was inspired by a tree growing under his window at that address. Unfortunately, the Polish community was forced to

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Maxine Kunin's Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 (Norton, April 1, 2010) was published this spring, along with The Roots of Things: Essays (Northwestern UP, April 15, 2010). Her third book of the season is for children, What Color is Caesar? (Candlewick, February 9, 2010).Linkswww.maxinekumin.comDavid Kirby, "Afraid of the Dark," New York Times (July 9, 2010).

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Peter Porter's death in April has left a gap in the London and British poetry scene. Anthony Thwaite, who first met him in 1957, has described Porter as "One of the finest poets of our time." Porter was born in 1929 in Australia, and was unable to attend University for financial reasons. He came to London in 1951, and first worked at odd jobs. When hired by an advertising agency he came into

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Yesterday's presentation of the conference volume Voi(es)xde l'autre: Poètes femmes XIXe-XXIe siècles (Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2010) at the Librairie Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris) was a joyful event. Patricia Godi-Tkatchouk, the editor, gave a synopsis of the book and the conference in Clermont-Ferrand that preceded it. This was followed by brief poetry readings from many of the poets

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Some people have felt that Geoffrey Hill and Barack Obama shared something special... and now we know what it is: both are NUMBER 44. Relieved that Barack Obama has not been named to the 44th Oxford Poetry Professorship, the Boston Globe chose to make the announcement about Hill's victory in an article entitled "In Ted's Honor" which speaks first of a commemorative breakfast for Ted Kennedy.

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Jane Campion's film about Keats, Bright Star (2009), is now available on DVD. Campion has put poetry and the life of young John Keats at the heart of her film, which takes place in 1818. Keats was in love with Fanny Brawne, knowing that it was a hopeless romance, and that for financial reasons, as well as social class, she could never become his wife.The Guardian offers readers the trailer of

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A useful tool for gleaning information related to early African American Poetry will be the Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal (http://slavery.yale.edu). A search today for Phillis Wheatley turned up no results, but as the portal grows, there should be some material about her...

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T.S. Eliot had "a Southern drawl" says Vincent Sherry, in this video about T.S. Eliot in St. Louis.Links:"Living St. Louis Video — T.S. Eliot," Living St. Louis (October 2008).T.S. Eliot Society (www.luc.edu/eliot).

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If you are in NYC on May 6, you will not want to miss the special tribute to Daniel Halpern, with poetry readings by John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. 7 pm, Rosenthal Pavillion, Kimmel Center, NYU."A Tribute to Daniel Halpern" (www.poets.org).

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All the Whiskey in Heaven may not satisfy the potential alcoholic you know yourself to be, but it may appeal to your aesthetic cravings. Charles Bernstein's Selected Poems has just been published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.Daisy Fried, "Poet and Anti-Poet," New York Times (April 7, 2010).

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On pages provided by the American Government concerning books and culture, one can now listen to a clear sharp reading of Walt Whitman by Allen Ginsberg, recorded at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, on June 25, 1987. (www.america.gov/publications/books.html#arts)

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"A sad and angry consolation" may be needed for the very notion of electing an Oxford Professor of Poetry. After last year's election of Ruth Padel and her retraction, one could have hoped for a more normal election process. But that is apparently not to be. Facing a living ur-poet of the English language is an un-poet. The person who will occupy the position must first redeem it. A certain

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The masterful poet Lucille Clifton has died, and it seems to me that one great thing to praise about her work is the series of poems, "September Song," that she wrote about September 11, 2001 (see link to PBS below).John Harvey, "Lucille Clifton Obituary" Guardian (April 4, 2010). Margalit Fox, "Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Intricacies of Black Lives, Dies at 73," New York Times (February

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Lyndall Gordon's new book on Emily Dickinson, Lives Like Loaded Guns (2010) suggests that her epilepsy is something that scholars have yet to reckon with.Links:Lyndall Gordon, "A bomb in her bosom: Emily Dickinson's secret life," Guardian (February 13, 2010).

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Clint Eastwood's film Invictus(2009) honors a poem by William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) that was controversial when first published in 1875, due to its closing affirmation "I am the mater of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul." Apparently the poem helped Nelson Mandela to keep his head up through the long prison years. This must be Eastwood's response to the question, "Can Poetry Make

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"LORDS DON'T LEAP. / They Sleep." That is the extent of Day 10 in Carol Ann Duffy's "The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009." But Barack Obama is also named in the poem, and presumably it's not exactly a negative reference.... Should comparisons be made to Whitman and Lincoln? Well, probably not just yet.LinksCarol Ann Duffy, "The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009," Radio Times (December 2009).Lyndsay

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Lisa E-Journal (lisa.revues.org) has changed formats, and it is now easier to find a poet or a poem, as well as other works of literary criticism.

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Emily Dickinson is enjoying Paris this autumn. At least figuratively speaking, the "Recluse" is alive and well and living in Paris. French students are reading her work in preparation for the competitive teacher's examination, the agrégation, and her complete poems have just been translated as Poésies complètes by Françoise Delphy (published by Flammarion, November 12, 2009). Delphy follows

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"The St. Gauden's memorial was installed at the edge of Boston Common and dedicated amidst a large public ceremony on Memorial Day, 1897," wrote Denise Von Glahn Cooney in "New Sources for 'The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common (Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and His Colored Regiment)'" (Musical Quarterly 81.1, 1997). In that article, Von Glahn traces the poetic sources behind the musical composition of

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Stephen Yenser has written a letter to the editor in the November issue of Poetry that deserves attention for saying something essential about book reviewing: reading a book in good faith is a pre-requisite for any review. Thanks for reminding us!Stephen Yenser, "Letter to the Editor," Poetry (November 2009).

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You may have first read T.S. Eliot in the classroom or as an assignment. You may not even remember where you first read the poet. You probably have not wondered about where the poet did his composition work, although you may have made the pilgrimage to Russel Square. In today's Guardian (November 9, 2009), Stephen Moss shares his visit to the Margate shelter where T.S.E. wrote the third part

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Making the life and work of Phillis Wheatley more available to the public has been one of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s recent preoccupations. His The Trials of Phillis Wheatley (2003), based on the Jefferson Lectures in Humanities that he delivered at the Library of Congress in 2002, will come out in paperback in 2010. The cover flap of the first edition of the book states: "The slave Phillis

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ENS Lyon will hold a two day conference on this topic, November 13-14, 2009, with keynote speaker Derek Attridge (http://rythme.ens-lsh.fr).

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Thursday October 29, at 7:30 p.m., Susan Howe will give a reading at the Centre Georges Pompidou.Friday October 30, beginning at 9:30 a.m., a series of talks about Howe's work ending with a reading from Howe, will be given at University Paris VII, Institut Charles V, room A 50, 10, rue Charles V, 75004 Paris. Organized by Abigail Lang and Antoine Cazé.Hélène Aji (Université du Maine), “I [will

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Three days of poetry readings and critical discussion sponsored by the Academy of American Poets begin tomorrow in New York City. Rita Dove talks about James Brown at the first Poets Forum:Program (www.poets.org)

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Thanks to the MIT Comparative Media Studies graduate class of 2010 and Nick Montfort, it is now possible to read Ezra Pound's anthology Des Imagistes (1912) on-line. Enjoy!http://www.desimagistes.com/about.htmlOther links:Ezra Pound, "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste," Poetry (March 1913).Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro," Poetry (April 1913).

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Thank you Carol Rumens for an excellent synopsis of Paul Laurence Dunbar, in your "Poem of the Week" column for the Guardian (September 28, 2009). Dunbar's talent is, as you put it, "bilingual," and both of his languages should be appreciated by readers. It seems to me that today we should be particularly grateful for the dialect poems, because they give testimony to the that era when reading

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"The goal of the place is to make everyone feel that poetry belongs to them," said executive director of Poets House. Poets House was founded twenty five years ago by Stanley Kunitz and Elizabeth Kray. First located in Chelsea, then SoHo, now it will have a contemporary glass front in Battery Park City at 10 River Terrace, at the corner of Murray Street, near the Hudson River (with a view of

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"Politics" is Carol Ann Duffy's first official poem as laureate, published in the Guardian (June 13, 2009).See also:Mark Brown, "Carol Ann Duffy leaps into expenses row with first official poem as laureate," Guardian (June 13, 2009).

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The controversy about the election process for the Oxford Professor of Poetry has not been quelled, on the contrary, Ruth Padel felt compelled to resign from the position yesterday, when the news broke at the Hay festival.Ruth Padel, who had denied leaking any information about Walcott,  admitted this weekend that she had informed the press of information that was already available in the public

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Ruth Padel was elected as Oxford Professor of Poetry yesterday with 69% of the vote, making her the first woman to hold the position.  (That makes two women elected to previously all male poetry positions in two weeks).  Links:David Harrison, "Ruth Padel's win 'poisoned' by smear campaign," Telegraph (May 17, 2009).Sarah Crown, "A Life in Poetry: Ruth Padel," Guardian (May 16, 2009).BBC, "Padel

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Who will replace Christopher Ricks as Oxford Professor of Poetry, said to be second in prestige to poet laureate?  Elections will be held on May 16, in spite of protests from those who are still reeling from the shock of Derek Walcott's withdrawal, due to a smear campaign.  Peter McDonald feels that the remaining choice, between Ruth Padel and Arvind Mehrotra is too limited for the vote.James

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Congratulations to Carol Ann Duffy who has just been named Poet Laureate of Britain.  This is an honor of a particular kind for Duffy who is a woman (first ever for this position) and a Scot, residing in Manchester. I think this may mean that she does not necessarily speak with Received Pronunciation.One Duffy poem that haunted me was "Salome" which begins (from memory, so probably with error), "

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If you're in London, why miss an opportunity to hear Rita Dove (U.S. Poet Laureate 1993-95) read at the London Review Bookshop? It's easy enough to find at 14 Bury Place (that's in Bloomsbury, yes, near the British Museum).  She'll be reading Tuesday evening, May 19th, at 7 p.m.  (Advice: reserve your ticket in advance, see LRB Bookshop page below).Her publications include The Yellow House on the

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Jorie Graham read at the international poetry festival "Poetries of the Stranger" during the evening devoted to "Strange Image," along with Henri Cole and Mark Strand (April 18, 2009).   The festival, created by Richard Kearney and held at Boston College, treats the theme of hospitality to the stranger.  This has been quite an eventful month for Graham.  On April 13, 2009 she was voted into the

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Lucille Clifton will be giving a (free) reading at the first Princeton Poetry Festival, organized by Paul Muldoon, on April 27th. Links:Mary Jo Patterson, "A Celebrated Princeton Poet Organizes a Festival of Peers," New York Times (April 17, 2009).Princeton Poetry Festival (www.princeton.edu).Biography for Lucille Clifton from Princeton Poetry Festival (www.princeton.edu).

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To celebrate the U.S. publication of Darwin: A Life in Poems by Knopf, Ruth Padel made a trip to New York, where she was photographed with some apes at the American Museum of Natural History.  Links:Charles McGrath, "Darwin's Descendant, on Origin of Poetry," New York Times (April 17, 2009).Richard Holmes, "Giving to a blind man eyes," Guardian (March 14, 2009).Ruth Padel, "My Other Life,"

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A new website has been launched by Norton publishers, Poems Out Loud (www.poemsoutloud.net).  During the month of April, and in honor of National Poetry Month, Robert Pinsky has been invited to be the host.  

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A concert of First World War Poetry organized by the Wilfred Owen Association is to be held at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, London, on Saturday April 25, 2009. The program includes musical settings by George Butterworth, John Ireland, Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas, Benjamin Britten, and others.Program and booking form from the War Poets Association (www.warpoets.org).

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Read all about it in Stephen Romer's poem "Strasbourg" published in Tower Poetry (April 2009).

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According Jim Holt, Clive James wrote in Cultural Amnesia (2007), "the future of the humanities as a common possession depends on the restoration of a simple, single ideal: getting poetry by heart." Holt's essay on memorizing poetry, "Got Poetry?" was published in the New York Times (April 5, 2009).Reviews of Cultural Amnesia:Slate (April 12, 2007).Tom on Literararty.com (January 13, 2008).Clive

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April is coming, and National Poetry Month in the U.S.A will begin as it has for the past six years, with a gala benefit called "Poetry & the Creative Mind" on April first.  This year at Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center there will be readings from Jorie Graham, Wynton Marsalis, Zadie Smith, Mark Strand, and others.  The Academy of American Poets is also sponsering a photo contest with

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Edward Byrne celebrates the birthday of Robert Lowell as well as the 50th anniversary of Life Studies on his blog One Poet's Notes with "Robert Lowell and the 'Great' Debate" (March 1, 2009).

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Of course you've always wanted to read Yeats in French, but hesitated, not knowing which translation to choose.  Well, you can get some advice about this matter straight away, and decide if you'd rather read Yeats translated by A. Minkowski, J-Y Masson, or Y. Bonnefoy, thanks to Patrick Hersant, "Les poèmes de W.B. Yeats: sur quelques traductions en français," Le Texte Etranger #6 (2009).Yeats

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Edited by James Persoon and Robert R. Watson, The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present (2009) presents 450 entries, introducing students to poets, themes, topics, movements, and individual poems.    The editors state,  "We felt as editors and teachers that part of our duty was to expand the horizons of our readers—and perhaps expand the usefulness of this

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What do you think about this:  "Poetry is beautiful, but science is what really matters"? Professor Peter Atkins and Dr. Peter McDonald fight it out on-line at Oxford's Hilary 2009, moderated by Professor Sally SHuttleworth.See:  http://www.ox.ac.uk/oxford_debates.

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The latest issue of Sillages Critiques (8, 2006) features several articles on poetry including Pascal Acquien's "Psychanalyse du spectre" (on Ted Hughes), Antoine Cazé's "Lyrismes : La voix spectrale (on music in Gertrude Stein, Pascal Dusapin, Rae Armantrout, and Emily Dickinson)," and Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet's "La lettre et l'archive" (on Jerome Rothenberg and Arie Galles).

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Ruth Padel will be reading from Darwin: A Life in Poems (2009) on Wednesday February 18, 2009 at 7:45 p.m.Tickets from South Bank Centre (www.southbankcentre.co.uk).Meanwhile, there is a Facebook group "Can we find 200,000 by Feb 12 to wish Darwin a happy 200th birthday?" and Peter McDonald is involved in a debate at Oxford:  "Poetry is beautiful, but science is what really matters," (Hilary 2009

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The University of Bolton will be celebrating her servant Jon Glover next Thursday.  He will be reading from his new collection Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Carcanet, 2008).  Those attending will need tickets (see University of Bolton's Facebook page for further details).Jon Glover, who was educated at Leeds and involved with the periodical Stand as an undergraduate, is currently its Managing

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Elizabeth Alexander, "Praise Song for the Day":Transcription of the Inaugural Poem from the New York Times (January 20, 2009) and a translation of the poem into French from Le Nouvel Observateur (January 21, 2009).Publication of the poem by the Academy of American Poets (www.poets.org).Other highlights from the Inauguration (January 22, 2009).

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Bill Morgan's books, The Letters of Allen Ginsberg and The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder are reviewed in this week's Sunday Book Review:  James Campbell, "Howls," New York Times (January 9, 2009).

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Rosanna Warren's Departure (2003) takes its title from the triptych painted by Max Beckmann, and the title poem of the volume “splices quotations” from Max Beckmann and the 13th Century Italian poet Guido Guinizelli. Beyond subject matter, a brushstroke is felt in the use of words that suggest visual perceptions, as in the imagist “until dawn flushed away clots of night” (“Cyprian”, Departure

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Or so you would think, reading this week's New York Times -- but you will find a free poem or two:Tina Kelley, "Region's Poets Convey a Sense of Place," New York Times (January 1, 2009).

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As proof, see Poets.org for a New Year's special:  Carpe Diem poems OR Acts 9:5.  It's your choice... and by the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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It's official, and it's on his blog "One Poet's Notes"... Mark Doty is Edward Byrne's "Poet of the Year" (December 13, 2008).

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Elizabeth Alexander has been chosen to recite a poem at Barack Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009.  She follows in the footsteps of Robert Frost (John F. Kennedy inauguration in 1961), James Dickey (Jimmy Carter inaugural gala in 1977), Maya Angelou (Bill Clinton inauguration in 1993), and Miller Williams (Bill Clinton inauguration in 1997).Listen to Elizabeth Alexander speak about who she

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Paul Mariani's Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Life (Viking, 2008) was reviewed by Blake Bailey in the New York Times (December 12, 2008).

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The Guardian has published "Magpie, pomegranate" by Liz Lochhead in today's paper (December 13, 2008), and the poem can also be read in Robert Crawford (ed.), New Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Polygon, 2008). 

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R.S. Thomas reading "Welsh Landscape"R.S. Thomas reads "I was Vicar of Large Things"Landscapes in Wales, with some lines by R.S. ThomasEntry for R.S. Thomas from the Poetry Archive (2005).R.S. Thomas Study Center at the University of Bangor in Wales (2004).

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Today is the day John Milton was born in Cheapside in 1608.  If you haven't done anything yet to honor the poet, you can read a bit of Milton yourself, listen to a reading of Milton by someone else, or click on some of the links below.Links & Things:Podcast of Geoffrey Hill's Lady Margaret Lecture featuring his reading of Milton and his own works at Christ's College, Cambridge (October 29, 2008).

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After Gwendolyn Brooks died in 2000, Chicago Public Radio Broadcast a show (December 4, 2000) lasting over an hour about her life, and including a rebroadcast of her 1961 interview with Studs Terkel.  You can find a podcast of the show here.

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Peter Sacks will be speaking on "The Quest of Poetry" at the University of Caen on Thursday, December 4th at 2 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Please feel welcome to join the English Department in the Letters Building in the "salle du conseil."Peter Sacks is a poet, painter, and literary critic as well as John P. Marquand Professor of Literature at Harvard. He has published five

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1909F.T. Marinetti, "The Manifesto of Surrealism" from the Guardian (November 13, 2008).1910E.M. Forster, Howard's End.1911Rupert Brooke, Poems.Ford Maddox Ford, The Critical Attitude, a series of articles published in The English Review in 1908-9, issued as book.1912Ezra Pound, Ripostes.Poetry, a magazine of Verse founded by Harriet Monroe in Chicago.1913Ezra Pound, "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste,

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A 13 minute broadcast from Chicago's own Poetry Foundation considers how poetry and poets can provide advice to President-Elect Obama (November 6, 2008).  Charles Bernstein, Patricia Smith and Forrest Gander were asked what poems Obama should read during this transition period.

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The Guardian has released a series of photo portraits called "Poets of the First World War" (November 10, 2008) and invites readers to take a look at The First World War Poetry Digital Archive.  Carol Rumens's poem of the week is "In the Trenches" by Isaac Rosenberg (November 10, 2008).  The Telegraph ran an article on Vera Brittain:  "Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and

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"Forty Acres" was written by Derek Walcott to honor President-Elect Barack Obama, and was printed in the Times (November 5, 2008).  Links:Edward Byrne, "Barack Obama and Derek Walcott," One Poet's Notes Blog (November 9, 2008).Catherine Elsworth, "Barack Obama still has time for a little poetry," Telegraph (November 7, 2008) where we learn that Obama may currently be reading Derek Walcott.

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In this video from FORA.tv, Billy Collins reads from his work in San Francisco (April 7, 2008)

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Dennis O'Driscoll interviewed Seamus Heaney in the Guardian (November 8, 2008), in a section from Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll (2008). Excerpts:  "... a poem saves as well as shows.""... environmental issues have to a large extent changed the mind of poetry. . . . at this stage nobody can have an uncomplicated Hopkinsian trust in the self-refreshing powers

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Closet poet or not, my guess is that Barack Obama will do more to promote poetry than has been seen during the past eight years.  As we have already noted during the campaign, his command of rhetoric is impressive.  Steven Barrie Anthony at the Huffington Post reported on Obama's youthful  poetry (March 2007), reproducing copies of the poems.   In Rebecca Mead's "Obama, Poet" in The New Yorker (

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