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August 31, 2001
On June 27, 2001 NPR commentator David Budbill reads (listen) Sympathy for Paul Laurence Dunbar's (1872-1906) birthday.
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2001 10:06:48 PM
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...and of course my favorite McSweeney's of all time: Plath or Gabrielle? Can you tell the difference between Ted Hughes The Birthday Letters to Sylvia Plath and Fan Fiction addressed to Xena's compatriot Gabrielle? Try it. It's tougher than you might think. Don't cheat.
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2001 09:18:36 PM
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From McSweeney's dot net: Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates. Many include poetry subjects.
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2001 09:11:13 PM
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Found a low tech, but wonder list of poems about poems.
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2001 09:08:19 PM
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Listen to Kim Stafford (son of William Stafford) talk about the lack of an Oregon poet laureate since his father's death on April 7, 2000, Oregon Public Broadcasting (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2001 08:43:01 PM
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Wow. William Kloefkorn talks a lot.
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2001 08:17:45 PM
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I found another Public Radio Station with poetry audio on it. This time the honor goes to South Dakota Public Radio and their show House Blend with Bob Swinson. The program showcases the talents of local writers, story tellers, songwriters, musicians and most importantly...poets. Their performances are recorded live, when possible, in smaller venues across the state. My only frustration is when I tried to search the site, the search feature wasn't working.
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2001 07:58:45 PM
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Someone had a problem with Mr. Heaney's Op-ed piece a few days ago. He also took a tone with David Lehman's A Poetry-free Presidency article in Salon dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2001 10:55:01 AM
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All you kids out there, go ask your teacher what this poem is about. Or your mother.
posted by Laurable on 8/31/2001 09:55:37 AM
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August 30, 2001
Looks like a lot of Fall issues are out. The Atlantic Monthly's new audio poems are online.
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2001 12:33:50 PM
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Ploughshares new fall issue, edited by Donald Hall is online and cock-full of poetry. Eighty-five poems, by my count, with the majority online.
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2001 12:22:58 PM
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Oxford cybersquatter/poet looses www.university-of-oxford.com case before the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2001 10:38:00 AM
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A Utah newspaper columnist ponders the cheering/or the lack thereof for poets in this day and age of ours.
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2001 10:16:33 AM
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For those in middle America, The Modern Poetry Association, the good folks behind Poetry magazine, is presenting their forty-seventh annual Poetry Day on September 13, 2001. The tradition started in 1955 with Robert Frost and this year Charles Wright will be doing the honors. The PBS Online Newshour interviewed (listen) Wright after he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. December of last year, Wright read at the Dia Center (NYC) and his half-hour reading is available on their site (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2001 10:00:42 AM
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Washington poet Mary E. Barnard died last Saturday. She initiated and sustained a literary friendship with Ezra Pound, won Poetry magazine's distinguished Levinson Award and wrote Sappho: A New Translation.
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2001 09:57:04 AM
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The torture of my commute this morning was eased by a large article on the front of the Arts Section about Edna St. Vincent Millay, who has two new biographies coming out next month.
posted by Laurable on 8/30/2001 09:22:29 AM
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August 29, 2001
...and now a messasge brought to you by the Profession Organization of English Majors (listen) (and Prairie Home Companion).
posted by Laurable on 8/29/2001 11:59:12 AM
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So you don't get enough of William Safire from the New York Times Magazine? Try some Fresh Air. On June 4, 2001 Linguist Geoff Nunberg thinks there could be fewer adverbs (listen) 6:56. On May 23, 2001, he defends his commentary on the word gay (listen) 6:04. May 15, 2001 he talks about the word literally (listen). May 8, 2001, he talks about linguistic anachronysms (listen). Several more include the words apology (listen), lucubrate (listen), like (listen), literacy (listen), advice to Bush and Gore before their third and final debate (listen), community (listen), tall tales about word origins (listen) and punctuation (listen). Search through the Fresh Air archives for more.
posted by Laurable on 8/29/2001 11:11:15 AM
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I have not been able to find any audio of John Ciardi reading his poems, but he used to be a commentator explaining words and their origins for Morning Edition. Here are a few I have scraped up:
Cereal (listen)
Gerrymander (listen)
A selection of folk ethymologist words (listen)
Political slogans (listen)
Great Scott! (listen)
Jimmies (listen)
glitch and snafu (listen)
posted by Laurable on 8/29/2001 10:12:38 AM
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This morning I stumbled onto Radiant Readings under Anthology Magazine dot com's Audio webcasts. Every month, Sharon Skinner reads the work of contemporary and classic writers, providing live stories and examples of their work. Some of the poets she has archived which I took note of are: Mark Strand, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anna Akhmatova, Mary Oliver, Stephen Crane, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, Robert Creeley, Muriel Rukeyser, Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes.
The program lasts about an hour, although sometimes the Real audio is broken up into sections.
posted by Laurable on 8/29/2001 09:52:12 AM
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August 28, 2001
A favorite cartoon of mine from Brunching dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/28/2001 07:08:14 PM
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Here and Now dot org's has a new poetry challenge (the challenge is over) called Polar poems (listen). A polar poem is a poem which starts with a last line that is polar to its opening line.
posted by Laurable on 8/28/2001 04:53:13 PM
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According to this article The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt is now available in paperback. When budgeting my poetry dollars I love paper back collected's, the only disadvantage is it doesn't have the normal size of a poetry paperback which is very carry-able.
posted by Laurable on 8/28/2001 04:40:21 PM
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The folks over at the Zuzu's Petals website have put up a nice A.R. Ammons tribute page page. Among many things, I noticed David Lehman wrote a profile page for Ammons at the Academy of American Poets website which I will read when I feel more studious.
posted by Laurable on 8/28/2001 04:32:34 PM
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August 25, 2001
from The Todd Mundt Show (NPR) August 24, 2001. no audio archive.
Many poets end up feeling so low that they commit suicide. Psychologist James Pennebaker has studied this phenomenon, and talks about the differences in word usage between poets who are suicidal, and those who aren't.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2001 07:24:51 PM
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August 24, 2001
It's only an underconstruction page from a newly discovered International Poetry Forum (located in Pittsburgh, PA), but hopefully this will prove fruitful. There is a demo (listen) with not just audio, but video. There is no info on the RealAudio and I am at a loss as to who this poet is. Some older man rhyming and talking about Jupiter (the Roman God) flittering around his wife. Anyone know?
posted by Laurable on 8/24/2001 09:03:49 PM
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An old All Things Considered, April 15, 1998 (listen). George Bradley talks about the Yale Younger Poets Award and Anthology, of which he is the editor.
posted by Laurable on 8/24/2001 08:33:47 PM
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Knopf Poetry Center at Randomhouse has put up a beautiful exhibit for James Merrill. Besides audio in Quicktime and RealAudio downloads, there is a guided tour of his home, a photo gallery, critical works on Merrill and readers' memories of Merrill.
posted by Laurable on 8/24/2001 06:53:03 PM
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How does this stuff get in the news?
posted by Laurable on 8/24/2001 11:46:32 AM
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August 23, 2001
I recently rediscoverd Stephen Dunn (thourgh his audio of course). His new, Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Different Hours was recently reviewed in the New York Times.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2001 08:46:28 PM
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The May 20, 2001 edition of Weekend All Things Considered (listen) reports that a portrait of William Shakespeare has surfaced in Canada. Further discussion with Lisa Simeone and Erin Blake, Curator of Art at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., continues here (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2001 08:40:23 PM
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Monday, August 20, 2001, All Things Considered (listen) has a segment with Desiree Cooper musing about what is black about black poetry. Also with featuring Nelson Demery, Treasure Williams and Sonia Sanchez (reading Haiku #9).
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2001 07:38:05 PM
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The Dallas Team wins the 12th annual National Poetry Slam. Sorry that this is old. I have been offline a lot lately.
It looks as if the National Poetry Slam web site will have clips of audio and video in the future.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2001 02:40:15 PM
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Just found some new dirt for you Plath-heads out there. From a collection of previously unpublished letter of Ted Hughes come a note blaming Sylvia Plath's suicide on adverse reaction to antidepressant prescription drugs. But don't worry, the conspiracy still lives as close friends dispute Ted Hughes claims.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2001 02:31:14 PM
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Found a new search engine, in fact, a multimedia search engine called Singingfish dot com. Searching for poems in general looks rather daunting, but I will definately search for individual authors on this engine.
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2001 02:13:16 PM
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Garrison Keillor reads James Wright's The Blessing (listen) on Prairie Home Companion. Then he goes on to ask the audience if they have any poems memorized and allows a few recitations. Surprisingly, he had to solicite a Shakespeare sonnet towards the end. Other poems were by Robert Louis Stevens, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Shel Silverstein and one poem out of Mad Magazine.
James Wright was Keillor's teacher at the University of Minnesota and he speaks of Wright fondly. One of my favorite James Wright poems, which I often have memorized, is Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/23/2001 01:12:09 PM
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August 17, 2001
Split infinitive? (listen) Copulative verbs? (listen) Who and whom? (listen) Know the rules? Know the polite way to correct someone? (listen). The Connection dot org and Barbara Wallraff, senior editor, The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court discuss the grammar in everyday speech.
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2001 04:37:21 PM
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The Connection dot org also recently did a show (listen) on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Gregory Peck is the voice of Captain Ahab.
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2001 03:43:06 PM
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I'm just getting around to checking out The Connections program (listen) on The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder. Is he a moron or secretly a genius who is trying to rule the world? Here are a few Bushisms and you decide:
There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.
~speaking of Social Security
That woman who knew I was dyslexic, I didn't interview her.
~refering to the Gail Sheehey Interview in Vanity Fair
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2001 03:25:58 PM
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Today, poet and writer W.S. Di Piero talks about his new book, a collection of poems titled Skirts and Slacks on Morning Edition (listen)
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2001 01:56:22 PM
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Brush up on your Heraclitus with Brooks Haxton on Weekend All Things Considered (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2001 11:23:33 AM
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Joyce Johnson talks of her tumultuous two year love affair with Jack Kerouac on Fresh Air (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2001 11:06:08 AM
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Jimmy Santiago Baca was on the PBS News Hour August 9th. He talks about his new memior and learning to read and then write poetry while in a maximum security prision.
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2001 10:40:28 AM
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...venture capitalist Jim Clarke who, like a Beat poet...
The article itself is just eh, but that sentence is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2001 10:09:36 AM
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...meanwhile, back at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering...
posted by Laurable on 8/17/2001 09:35:28 AM
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August 15, 2001
Audio/video (listen) [start 8:25]of Rita Dove during 22nd Annual Literary Festival at Old Dominion University, October 11-15, 1999. Lots of poets have come through this festival and some of them have audio/video. It will take me some time to get through them all.
posted by Laurable on 8/15/2001 04:36:16 PM
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A New York Times article on the new director of the 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center.
posted by Laurable on 8/15/2001 03:21:51 PM
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August 3, 2001
During another Internet stumble I discovered that Contentville's First Chapters section includes books of poetry and therefore several poems depending on the lenght of the poems. Unfortunately there is no section just for poetry and I therefore have to wade through all the fiction titles. Some of the titles I found are:
Virginia Hamilton Adair's Living on Fire
Ai's Vice: New and Selected
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
John Ashbery's Your Name Here, Girls on the Run, Hotel Lautréamont, and The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry
Mary Jo Bang's Louise in Love
Marvin Bell's Nightworks: Poems 1962-200
Joseph Brodsy's Collected Poems in English
Charles Bukowski's Open All Night: New Poems, what matters most is how well you walk through the fire,
Paul Celan's Selected Poems and Prose
Lucille Clifton's Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
Jane Cooper's The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed
and that is just the ABC's
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 03:47:55 PM
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What good fortune I am having on the net today. I just found three new Dean Young poems.
Chest Pains of the Romantic Poets
Roller Coaster
Tulipomania
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 01:37:22 PM
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How Iowa got its name (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 01:28:32 PM
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So why are you tired?
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 01:02:05 PM
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I also found a poet, Gary Gildner, I had forgotten for a very long time now. Here are some of his poems online.
Around the Corral
Fingers
First Practice
Statistics
String
The Trial
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 01:01:50 PM
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Sigh. Something can always be redeemed. Keith Ratzlaff, my former poetry professor is going to be featured on the fourth of this month for his poem Group Portrait with Ukuleles. You may listen to Keith himself read the poem Mennonite Life Magazine (listen wav) (listen mp3).
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 12:49:05 PM
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Yes, yes, yes! Struck gold! I just found an archive for Voices from the Prairie a weekly reading of a poem by an Iowa poet for Saturday's Morning Edition. ***** Oh tragedy! Michael Carey is reading other people's poems. Damn! Damn! Damn!
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 12:21:57 PM
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Today and yesterday I am (was?) listening to a Prairie Lights reading (http://128.255.60.46:8080/ramgen/wsuiarc/LPL_bell.rm) by Marvin Bell. I can never find a Marvin Bell poem when I want it so I am going to set some down here (text links, no audio):
8287
161286
About the Dead Man's Deathstyle (and More About the Dead Man's Deathstyle)
The Dead Man's Roulette and SpinAbout the Dead Man and Government (and More About the Dead Man and Government)
About the Dead Man and His Masks (and More About the Dead Man and His Masks)
About the Dead Man and Sap (and More About the Dead Man and Sap)
About the Dead man and the Dead Man"s Beloved
Birds Who Nest in the Garage
Broken Egg
Heat at the Center
Like Words, Like Music
Little Story
Jane Was With Me
A Man May Change
Obsessive
A Primer about the Flag
Teaching Shriek
To Dorothy
Two Pictures Of A Leaf
White Clover w/ Iowa Poet Laureate speech
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 11:49:11 AM
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Yeah! I found a clip (listen to wav) of the quote on the front page of my newsfeed.
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 11:00:45 AM
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Mulimedia of American Poetry from Encarta
posted by Laurable on 8/03/2001 10:31:08 AM
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I'm raking through the dredges of local public radio and somehow I got from a Jersey station to a program out of the University of Houston called The Engines of Our Ingenuity. I haven't found an actual poet speaking yet, and I don't think I will since the program seems to be 3-4 minute audible essays by the programs host, but he does nice essays such as Poets and the Industrial Revolution another about Poets and the Industrial Revolution, Charles Babbage and Alfred Lord Tennyson, Two Huygens and John Donne, Rodin and Rilke, Whitman and the Camera and Whitman's Butterfly.
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August 2, 2001
Although the links are not available yet, the National Poetry Slam webpage seems to have a future spot for video and audio links. I must check back later.
posted by Laurable on 8/02/2001 01:48:03 PM
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August 1, 2001
Reports from the National Poetry Slam in Seattle. And another.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2001 06:27:02 PM
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Apocalypse Now Redux opens August 15 and I recently watched the original and Hearts of Darkness (Eleanor Coppola's documentary on the making of the film) in preperation. If I get off my duff I will read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. A friend of mine read aloud the Hollow Men complete with a Marlon Brando accent.
July 25th The Connection dot org talked about the new film, the old film and how far we've come baby. My favorite off-topic fact revealed was that Sylvester Stalone spent the Vietnam War years teaching at a Swiss girls school.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2001 05:41:49 PM
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Last Friday, The Connection dot org broadcasted a program on lyrics from the Great American Songbook. The intro compares some of these lyrics to Shakespeare, at least in regards to following a formula, as strict as a Shakespearean sonnet.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2001 12:18:24 PM
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Stephenson on Vendler on Fenton on Frost. Well, there is a good story on Frost's inaugural reading in the first part of the article.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2001 11:48:51 AM
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Salon dot com reviews The Sappho Companion, by British critic Margaret Reynolds.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2001 11:15:02 AM
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I was initially excited when I discovered the Poetry Portal, but it didn't take long to become frustrated with site. You would think that a poetry portal would have a search feature, at least of its own links, but no, it doesn't. Also, I found the categories and structure of the site confusing. For instance, there was no method which I could find links related to audio poetry.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2001 10:59:24 AM
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