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| rus bowden
Intermediate Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 386 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dear Poetry Aficionados, Poetry & Poets in Rags (the blog) It is a week of headlining news, and connections. Last week, the poetry world was stunned by the bombing on Mutanabi Street. This week the mourning settles in. Our second story covers the aftermath. Robert Pinsky in Great Regulars, in his Poet's Choice column in The Washington Post, covers this through poetry. Nicely done. And Poetic Obituaries links to news of just one of the deaths: Mohammed Hayawi, a bookseller, himself with a Post connection. Another headliner could be the opening tomorrow of the StAnza Poetry Festival in Scotland surely. I selected the story on George Szirtes from The Scotsman for News at Eleven, but they have more if you click around their online articles. In fact, their Poem of the Week, linked from Great Regulars, is by Jenny Joseph who will be there. Mark Doty has a new book out, and reporters are giving it big thumbs up. The quotes are stunning. The reading is obviously of an author with great heart and perspective, not to mention an extraordinary command of language. Doty may be taking his place as the premier poet in the USA, a deserved laureate. But our headliner is the story just out from Time Magazine, a pointed Q&A with our "princess" of poetry. She is a Great Regular of ours, Frieda Hughes. What could also have been our headliner, is the story in the New York Times, by one of our Great Regulars, David Orr, who pointedly answers the recent New Yorker article by Dana Goodyear we headlined with a couple weeks back. This, as the New Yorker enters their first week as a Great Regular themselves: I found their poetry online. They're in. A couple more connections made within Great Regulars. Our friend David Kirby writes for the New York Times about Brad Leithauser, himself a Great Regular of ours. And, one more to add, Garrison Keillor brings us a Ted Kooser poem, who also has a link this week out of that section. Thanks for clicking in and being a big part. It's a small and fragile world, poetry. Yours, Rus Our links: IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags Poetry & Poets in Rags Blog IBPC Home IBPC Newswire ~~~~~~~~~~~ |
