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September 28, 2001
Robert Pinsky, Slate Magazine's poetry editor among other things, selected four poems in response to the WTC attacks. Unfortunately there is no audio link. There was, however, a link to an article on W.H. Auden's poem September 1, 1939 which I have heard mentioned several times as the poem people turned to after the attacks.
posted by Laurable on 9/28/2001 06:41:41 PM
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Upon logging onto a message board September 11, late Tuesday night, I wanted to let every one know I was o.k., but I was at a complete loss as to what to actually say. I ended up writing, I had a view from my roof. I have no adjectives, and left it at that. Today The Connection (listen) examines are inability to effectively use language in the face of the events of September 11th and where language and rhetoric going since the attacks.
posted by Laurable on 9/28/2001 01:22:07 PM
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Li-Young Lee was on Bookworm (listen) yesterday.
posted by Laurable on 9/28/2001 12:05:52 PM
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September 27, 2001
It's Banned Book week according to the American Library Association. Check out the top 100 most frequently challenged books.
posted by Laurable on 9/27/2001 04:44:36 PM
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NPR's Morning Edition this morning reviews some of the new Words of War (listen).
posted by Laurable on 9/27/2001 02:16:55 PM
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USA Today asks the five most recent poet laureates, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Rita Dove to select a poem of their own which reflects the tragedy after the WTC attacks.
posted by Laurable on 9/27/2001 01:56:04 PM
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The Edna St. Vincent Millay articles haven't stopped coming. The October issue of The Atlantic Monthly reviews the three new Millay biographies.
posted by Laurable on 9/27/2001 01:40:42 PM
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Fresh Air's in-house linguist, Geoff Nunberg, comments (listen) on the naming of military observations, such as the misconceived Operation Infinite Justice.
posted by Laurable on 9/27/2001 11:21:34 AM
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September 26, 2001
Fresh Air: Wednesday - September 26, 2001. (listen) Billy Collins is on Freshair today, but I am not sure yet if this is a repeat of his prior interviews or a new interview, possibly about the WTC attacks.
Note: (9-27) Yes, it is a new interview. Collins and Terri Gross discuss words, metaphors and other things after the WTC attacks. The New York Times Book Review compares Billy Collins to a stand-up comic and features his poem The Apple That Astonished Paris.
posted by Laurable on 9/26/2001 12:16:06 PM
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On NPR's special coverage, Joan Murray, poet-in-residence at the NY State Writers Institute at the SUNY at Albany reads her poem The Greatest Generation, (listen) inspired by firemen heading towards Ground Zero of the WTC disaster area.
posted by Laurable on 9/26/2001 11:39:58 AM
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Last Friday on NPR's Freshair, Robert Pinsky (listen) and Robert Hass (listen), both former poet laureates, read poems and discuss what poems are turned to in the aftermath of national events.
posted by Laurable on 9/26/2001 11:31:16 AM
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I haven't felt like blogging recently, but finally, I am back at it. I will be back logging some of the poetic coverage for post September 11 and the New Normal.
posted by Laurable on 9/26/2001 10:01:02 AM
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September 24, 2001
Studio 360 (listen) on WNYC dot org is joined by Marie Ponsot pondering what music, poetry and art poeple might turn to when dealing with suffering of the WTC attack. I can't get the page, but the audio commentary on a vulnerable city is here (listen).
posted by Laurable on 9/24/2001 05:34:36 PM
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September 7, 2001
Score. Slogging through the Poets dot org Site FAQ I found a page which records the site additions, plus contains an archive.
posted by Laurable on 9/07/2001 07:06:33 PM
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Arrgghh! I found page at Counterbalance Poetry dot org for a reading of J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser reading James Merrill's poems, but none of the media links work. Windows product of course. Hopefully it is just the computer I am working on.
On a funnier note, I just noticed James Merrill's picture on his Academy of American Poets web page and the picture is younger than any I have seen of him. The funny part is that I think the picture looks like Matthew Broderick.
posted by Laurable on 9/07/2001 06:27:44 PM
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September 6, 2001
Everybody loves The F Train (the website, not the subway line) and I love F Train for ideas like these poems assembled from the fist line index of Poetry Daily. The project is a little old by this time, so a word of caution, some links are probably broken because Poetry Daily has a shifting archive going back only two years.
He also muses on the origin of the first poem.
posted by Laurable on 9/06/2001 11:45:02 AM
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Even stock analysts love poetry.
posted by Laurable on 9/06/2001 10:45:54 AM
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Today Salon dot com headlines with a story about Edna St. Vincent Millay called The Siren. To accompany the story their audio section introduces two new poems: Recuerdo and From "Fatal Interview": Sonnet LI, available in real audio and mp3.
posted by Laurable on 9/06/2001 09:16:14 AM
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September 5, 2001
On this day in 1957 Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road was released in bookstores as Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty roared across America. But that was a long time ago and we've all traveled far. Does anyone remember the Gap ad?
Here is a page of Kerouac audio links. Jack is singing, haikuing and loving Allen Ginsberg.
posted by Laurable on 9/05/2001 01:11:36 PM
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I can't say I am recommending it exactly, but I just found Rhyme Zone and I can say even computer generators can't find a rhyme for orange.
posted by Laurable on 9/05/2001 10:52:22 AM
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The guys over at NPR's All Things Considered are poet laureate happy. Monday's show (listen) report on small town poets laureate across the country. On Tuesday's show (listen) they go straight to the top and interview the national incoming poet laureate Billy Collins.
Discovered some info I hadn't encountered before: high school is his focus group and he's calling his project Poetry 180 (for 180 school days in the year). He will pick 180 poems for high schoolers and he hopes the poem will be read with the school announcements (not taught).
posted by Laurable on 9/05/2001 10:02:45 AM
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September 2, 2001
Sex, Sonnets and Substance on MSN/Newsweek site talks about Edna St. Vincent Millay and features a seven minute audio conversation. A few poems are read, but not by Millay.
posted by Laurable on 9/02/2001 02:11:54 PM
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September 1, 2001
This upcoming Monday on The Connection dot org, our outgoing Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz will talk from his Provincetown home about writing, loss and the poetic significance of his shell-pink anemones.
Several of Stanley Kunitz's poems are linked at Laurable dot com including my favorites Halley's Comet (listen) [the man has seen it twice], The Quarrel (listen) [a favorite love poem of mine] and Touch Me (listen). Introductory remarks to Touch Me can be found with the text at The Atlantic Monthly.
posted by Laurable on 9/01/2001 08:24:17 PM
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