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Adrienne Rich

                   

The Venus Flytrap: Piracy, Privacy, Popularity and Poetry

sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com
22 hrs ago
        

It’s not every day that one finds oneself as a subject of a social experiment. At the risk of being frozen out of polite poetic society, I have to admit: I felt just a mite gleeful at having my identity misappropriated for...

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Ig-Nobel Thoughts

insidehighered.com
Oct 8, 2008 36 related
        

By Scott McLemee Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, recently told the Associated Press that the literary culture of the United States is too mass-media oriented and cut off from the rest of the...

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UCSC to host community celebration of environmental poet Robinson Jeffers

presszoom.com
Oct 3, 2008
        

The event is part of the National Endowment for the Arts' The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers—a commemoration of the late poet and of Tor House, Jeffers' family home in Carmel. It is the result of an NEA partnership...

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Charlotte Kohler, Literary Journal Editor, Is Dead at 99

newsvine.com
Sep 27, 2008
        

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:17 AM EDT Charlotte Kohler, who as a longtime editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review was a quiet influence on the course of 20th-century American writing, died on Sept. 15...

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PSU Book Launch and Birthday Party for Donald Hall September 18

plymouth.edu
Sep 5, 2008
        

Happy 80th Birthday Mr. Poet Laureate Donald Hall turns 80 this month, and the public is invited to help him commemorate the anniversary. The Plymouth State University Eagle Pond Authors’ Series (EAPS) will honor Hall...

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Five Books that Made Me a Feminist

scoop.co.nz
Sep 5, 2008
        

Friday, 5 September 2008, 7:58 pm Article: Scoop Review of Books Wellington writer, librarian and feminist MARIA McMILLAN contributes the latest installment of the Freedom Train: The story of Harriet Tubman By Dorothy...

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The Roofwalkers by Adrienne Rich

correntewire.com
Sep 4, 2008
        

…Was it worth while to lay— with infinite exertion— a roof I can’t live under? —All those blueprints, closings of gaps 20 measurings, calculations? A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for...

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Former US poet laureate receives $100,000 prize

iht.com
Sep 3, 2008 7 related
        

Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry," the Academy of American Poets announced Tuesday. Glueck, who...

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"The heavy-footed hoped to silence us"

first-draft.com
Aug 13, 2008
        

Once, years ago, on a sunny afternoon, I almost died. It was a boating accident, three teenagers miles offshore in a 16-foot Kestrel, a speedy British-built centerboard racing boat. It was an exhilaratingly windy day. The tall...

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UI Writers' Workshop graduates win prestigious poetry awards

presszoom.com
Aug 7, 2008
        

Recent graduates of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop have captured two of the poetry world's most prestigious first-book awards. Jonathan Thirkield's collection "The Waker's Corridor" was selected for the Walt Whitman...

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