Friday, January 22, 2010

Winter Poetry: 'Tis the season for pathetic fallacy

News from PoetryFoundation.org

ARTICLES: January 22, 2010

The Poetry of Deep Winter

The Poetry of Deep Winter

BY ANNIE FINCH
A selection of poems to help you get through the rest of the chill, frost, and darkness.
Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense

Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense

BY ROSS SIMONINI
The Chicago poet’s overlooked adventures in linguistic anarchy.

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2000-2009: The Decade in Poetry

BY THE EDITORS
How has poetry changed in the past ten years?
The Robert Burns Zombie Cottage of Hotlanta

The Robert Burns Zombie Cottage of Hotlanta

BY NICK MARINO
The Scottish poet at home in another time and place.
Washington, DC, Poetry Tour

Washington, DC, Poetry Tour

Our nation’s capital through the eyes of its great poets.
Poet Philip Levine Recalls Life at the Factory

Poet Philip Levine Recalls Life at the Factory

A profile of Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

BEST SELLERS LIST

Contemporary Best Sellers for the week of January 3, 2010

1 Leavings
BY WENDELL BERRY (Counterpoint)

2 Evidence
BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press)

3 Red Bird (paperback)
BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press)

4 Why I Wake Early
BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press)

5 The Shadow of Sirius (paperback)
BY W.S. MERWIN (Copper Canyon Press)

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HARRIET: THE BLOG
Thom Donovan asks, do we need negative criticism?

Bhanu Kapil hunts for red worms.

Sina Queyras wonders what blurbs are good for.

Craig Santos Perez asks the laughers to stand up.

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RECENT PODCASTS
Poetry Written with an Eraser
Ron Silliman discusses two erasure poems created by eliminating parts of an existing text.

James Schuyler: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of poet James Schuyler, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at the Chelsea Hotel in New York in 1986, and at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989.

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