reading and interacting with poetry
by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
T.S. Eliot's smile according to Ted Hughes
"His smile is like that of a person recovering from some serious operation," wrote Ted Hughes about T.S. Eliot in a letter. Richard Eder reviewed the Letters of Ted Hughes, edited by Christopher Reid (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) in the New York Times (October 2, 2008). New England Review 29.3 (2008) also published some of the letters.
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: Renacuajos by Michael Schmidt
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An oblique elegy for the poet’s brother is addressed to his great-niece
with some friendly information about the life of tadpoles
*Renacuajos *
*For Mia...
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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.