http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Sat, 17 May 2008 06:10:17 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.14/content/springwidget/poetry.xml http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17475632 in which a walking away sans footsteps or embodiment Let us blues onto the brick fist of another online bass lyric that last long Egg she's too blood orange to admire what's old crust under hiss my fingernails well, Lord morning into nausea tiled anon mosaic As/Is Fri, 16 May 2008 21:14:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17475632 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17462812 "I find myself larger than I am and floating in oxygen and light I a drinker and lover of the dark" "how quick I am despite my heavy conscience" he writes much later in the poem. It's been a long time since I've read and liked a poem, or anything, where the PhillySound: new poetry Fri, 16 May 2008 15:38:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17462812 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17454992 My first book of poetry, Trouble And Honey, is available for purchase at Lulu.com for a special recession-rate of $7.77. *I loathe the current po-biz contest system, in which poets pay $ for the minuscule chance of publishing a first book, in a possibly Poetry Hut Blog Fri, 16 May 2008 09:45:31 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17454992 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17440718 Our National Poetry Month project of sending out sonnets and other daily poems prompted me to dig around in the traditional poetic forms, and I’ve been playing with a new one that is short and quite lovely, but very difficult: the triolet. Like the pantoum, a About.com: Poetry Thu, 15 May 2008 17:15:57 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17440718 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17434995 I missed the Gennady Aygi reading at SFSU, a year before he died. I have since read his poetry with a deep sense of respect for his spirit, original way of seeing the world, and fresh approach to poetics. Strange to realize that Aygi was born in the same year as Ted Berrigan, Diane DiPrima, and Paul Hoover's Poetry Blog Thu, 15 May 2008 19:07:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17434995 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17303713 CITY SLICKER'S HARVEST (TO DATE) Seven strawberries (sigh) PUBLICATIONS DISAPPOINTED PSALMS, poems by Brian Clements (B)ITS, poems (manuscript) by Joel Chace THE BOOK OF FUNNELS, poems by Christian Hawkey COLLECTIVE INSTANT, poems by William Allegrezza THIS The Blind Chatelaine's Poker Poetics Mon, 12 May 2008 02:34:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17303713 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17342778 Sometimes while watching it I had urges to stop the movie or to look away from the screen because it was making me feel like I was experiencing the things happening in the movie which made me feel "awkward" or like "errr." Sometimes in a K-mart Realism short story the story ends at the bottom of a reader of depressing books Tue, 13 May 2008 05:49:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17342778 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17364057 Michael Rossman, photo by Marc Franklin Berkeley Free Speech Movement activist, poet, writer, scientist, thinker, teacher, archivist, musician, father, rock hound, human being extraordinaire, Michael Rossman has left the dimension and ventured forth into Lorna De Cervantes Tue, 13 May 2008 19:44:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17364057 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17471836 As one of SIX CHARACTERS in search of Authorities’ stone wing’d popsicles of Pop art jet plane cartoons I DIED in a fracas Bluer than Windex At Sears the idea Own washable seat Cushions Portable fusion I wake To the rain * An EDGE quickly & at dusk A voice: “ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG!” in the temple of As/Is Fri, 16 May 2008 19:11:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17471836 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17201680 "Kleinzahler is one of those writers, like Fitzgerald or Kafka, who describe a certain recurrent landscape so well that real-life situations can then feel Kleinzahleresque." John Cotter • Open Letters Monthly The Page aims to gather links to some of the Web's most interesting writing. Reader The Page Thu, 08 May 2008 10:47:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17201680 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17450237 Poetry News: — State names new poet laureate — — Readers Not Wanted: Student Writers Fight to Keep Their Work Off the Web — — New book by former NEA chairman gives vision for arts in America; Bill Ivey of Vanderbilt’s Curb Center is author of Arts, Inc. Writer and poet Firas Saad was sentenced to Poetry Hut Blog Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:41 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17450237 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17388125 Participating artists and writers include: Yvonne Jacquette, Suzan Frecon, Pamela Lawton, Emilie Clark, Etel Adnan, Susan Bee, Star Black, Rackstraw Downes, Simone Fattal, Vincent Katz, Vivien Bittencourt, Beka Goedde, Brenda Iijima, George Schneeman, Anne PhillySound: new poetry Wed, 14 May 2008 14:15:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17388125 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/16919923 The poem is “June,” here in its English translation by Chip Rolley of the Sydney Pen Centre: June My whole life Will never get past “June” June, when my heart died When my poetry died When my lover Died in romance’s pool of blood June, the scorching sun burns About.com: Poetry Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:47:13 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/16919923 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17278193 has managed to "harvest" from this season's vegetable and fruit garden.... She knows what Poetry's Dark Angels are telling her....because this week, she had a manuscript accepted for publication by a publisher, then was solicited for what will become a "Selected Prose Poems" book by another The Blind Chatelaine's Poker Poetics Sat, 10 May 2008 15:59:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17278193 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17159085 Poetry News: — The day Thoreau died — — Sexually explicit poetry forces educator out — — Dylan’s mystery girl tells it like it was — — Poetry readers tend to lead active lives, listen to music, read a lot, use the Internet and volunteer at significantly higher rates than non-poetry readers, Poetry Hut Blog Wed, 07 May 2008 05:46:55 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17159085 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17304175 whoever emails binky.tabby [at] gmail.com all of the following songs in mp3 or m4a i will mail a free 'cognitive-behavioral therapy' or 'you are a little bit happier than i am' '85' and the song with the cat noises and no guitar or drums just keyboard with lyrics about her parents getting divorced reader of depressing books Mon, 12 May 2008 02:49:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17304175 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17198087 She selected these four poems as winners (none of them from our Poetry Forum), and if you follow her lead and read them out loud, you will hear the reasons for her choices: In first place, “A Second Look at Creation,” by Sergio Lima Facchini, which impressed About.com: Poetry Wed, 07 May 2008 22:30:26 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17198087 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17298198 Dear Barbara Bush, I've only recently seen footage of the destruction caused to your home on the beach in Kennebunkport when it was battered and flooded by the storm of 1991. Much of your husband's memorabilia for his presidential library was washed away or forever ruined. Instead of thinking about PhillySound: new poetry Sun, 11 May 2008 19:49:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17298198 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17413691 programs last month, you really should: they veered quickly and entertainingly toward gang warfare, with the Crips arguing against such programs and the Bloods arguing for them — — Mary Oliver’s ‘work is loving the world’ — Strip — — A sheaf of post-April poetry and poets — — If poets were cowboys, Poetry Hut Blog Thu, 15 May 2008 05:00:40 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17413691 http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17353714 If this is Ophelia of Hamlet's Ophelia, she has new songs, new life. The voices, especially of Ophelia and Ophelio are sometimes different genders of the same body, but maybe that's me seeing what's not there. What's marvelous is that Sakkis's sublime, sensual minimalism gives the reader a lot of PhillySound: new poetry Tue, 13 May 2008 15:36:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/poetry/item/17353714