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Miss me? I expect I’ll be caught up from this move by sometime in mid-July, 2013.
Bentham Science Publishers has a credibility problem. I think I saw that movie, almost 20 years ago.
Sunspot simulation–the image is, if possible, even cooler than it sounds.
...moreBarbara Jane Reyes has a good response to the New Yorker article on MFA programs I posted earlier.
At Harriet, Don Share takes on poetry reviews, even though he’s tired of the whole story. I took his post as an opportunity to expound on my own reviewing policies, both as reviewer and editor.
...moreThe New Haven Review has an interview with David Orr, including Orr’s take on the spitting match between him and Dana Goodyear a couple of years ago.
Poetry is on the radio again, thanks to WSUM. You can also listen to Word Salad online if you prefer.
...moreWhen I get more coffee in me, you’ll get more witticisms out of me. No disrespect.
A clash of the titans occurred at Book Expo America–Slog The Stranger’s Paul Constant met up with our own Stephen Elliott.
DRM programs can turn us all into pirates, even when we’re engaged in fair use.
...moreA movie about poets? I’m amazed that it got made in the first place.
We linked to it earlier this week, but I think it bears relinking–Martin Earl’s observation on how women seem to be the real groundbreakers in contemporary poetry.
...moreHow y’all are? I don’t know why I’m channeling Justin Wilson this morning, but bear with me and we’ll get through this.
Verizon has some local cops in Ohio upset after refusing to turn on a 62 year old man’s cellphone service back on so they could track him.
...moreBlogging in the poetry world tends to slow in the summer months in my experience, but we’re not quite there yet, so there’s plenty of bloggy goodness from this week. Here’s a taste.
Charles Bernstein asks if art criticism is fifty years behind poetry.
...moreNot enough sleep? Echoes of a faint hangover? Then it’s time for Saturday Morning Links.
Dahlia Lithwick and Doug Kendall point out that conservative politicians who are upset about empathetic judges probably ought to stick a sock in it.
Whether you’re an academic or a free-lance writer, you might want to take a look at this piece on the inside of an essay mill.
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It’s a somber weekend, for obvious reasons, but there’s a lot going on in the poetry world, and I’m here to give it to you.
Derek Wolcott’s past rears its ugly head in the race for the Oxford professorship of poetry, as well as to the offices of Cherwell, a student newspaper.
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Has it been this way since the invention of the portrait? Does every generation look back at family pictures and wonder what the hell they were thinking?
Overthinking It has some suggestions for doing prequels–not that Hollywood will listen. To their list of backstory done well, I’ll add the new Star Trek.
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Congratulations to Carole Ann Duffy, Britain’s new Poet Laureate, and both the first woman and the first openly gay person to hold the position.
Mayday Magazine hosts a roundtable on the need for the negative review in poetry.
Joshua Corey wins the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press.
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Welcome to Saturday morning, home of the screaming hangover. Perhaps I’ll try to get my hands on some watercress.
This Day in Tech gives us a short, but interesting, look at the history of skyscrapers.
Some absolutely gorgeous photos of Saturn thanks to the continuing Cassini mission.
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Poetry is good for your face, but you need to make sure you rub it all the way in.
Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog, is having some problems with commenters. I wonder why we don’t?
Steven Fama has a few choice words for the Pulitzer Committee.
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The poet Deborah Digges died April 10, and there’s been a number of remembrances posted online, along with stories and selections from from her work.
Ron Silliman notes the passing of Franklin Rosemont, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Henri Meschonnic.
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I’m coming up on the end of a semester, so forgive me if this morning’s links seem a little obsessive about alcohol. For starters, what does the US have in common with Fiji, Palau and Micronesia? We’re the only non-Muslim countries with an across-the-board drinking age of 21.
Just a reminder that we here at The Rumpus are posting a poem a day for National Poetry Month, so enjoy some never before published work by some up-and-coming poets.
Another practice that’s grown out of National Poetry Month is the proliferation of poem-a-day challenges for poets.
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It’s still morning somewhere right? Late night equals late start.
More goodness from The TED Conference–this time, it’s an interface that allows you to put a screen wherever you need one. You need to see the video to truly appreciate it.
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Congratulations to Juan Felipe Herrera and August Kleinzahler on their shared National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 2008. Barbara Jane Reyes has more on Herrera.
Ron Silliman on on anthologies: “It is all but impossible to even characterize the map of poetry today.
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Interesting conversation going on about a piece in the latest Poetry. Start here at Samizdat, then find further discussion at A Compulsive Reader, Exoskeleton (multiple posts–click around), and back to Samizdat.
And since it started over an article written by Jason Guriel, I’ll link him too— only for something different— the curse of the duty-write.
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I guess it just took a little time for the poetry blogs to realize that David Orr had been in the NYTBR smack-talking about the lack of greatness in poetry today, because this week, there were lots of responses, from suggestions for Orr to add to his reading list to negations of the importance of greatness to spit-takes.
Whoever wrote this poem lo those many years ago ought to be forced to wear those shorts.
I’m really surprised there hasn’t been more of a response to David Orr’s piece in the NY Times Book Review last week. Are we poets not petty enough to be insulted anymore?
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Mark Scroggins of Culture Industry spent last weekend Zukofsky-ing in Sussex, and has both a rundown and photos. Jeff Hilson provides further photographic commentary.
Odali$qued provides some notes toward a provisional avant-garde. I especially like the part about genitalia being frequently hilarious, although I think it’s always hilarious.
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The inaugural poem is sucking up a lot of the oxygen in the poetry world for now, and with good reason. An inaugural poem is even rarer than the Olympics, and gives poets the chance to really get their gripe on.