Can Poetry Change Your Life? by Louis Menand (The New Yorker) “Poetry has never been more vital nor diverse”: BBC announces four-day spoken-word extravaganza by Simon O'Hagan (Radio Times) Reading a Dysfunctional World: Why Merwin’s The Lice is needed now more than ever by Adrienne Raphel (Poetry Foundation) The Asians Dying by W. S. Merwin …
Month: July 2017
7/22/2017
Marking the Death of John Coltrane, Through the Poetry of Amiri Baraka (WBGO.org) Druidic Difference: Savoring the rich poetic gifts of summer. By Annie Finch (Poetry Foundation) Bleecker Street, Summer By Derek Walcott (Poetry Foundation) A Collection of Poetry Interviews Is a Work of Poetry Itself (Hyperallergic) A Voice for the Voiceless, reviews by Charles …
7/21/2017
Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg (Empty Mirror Books) 2000+ audio cassettes from Allen Ginsberg collection now streaming from SearchWorks (Stanford Library)
7/20/2017
Under Armour Tells Its Women Athletes’ Stories Through Poetry in Artful New Ads (Adweek) Can Political Poetry Matter? (The Weekly Standard) Bay Area this weekend: 20th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival St. Louis Youth Poetry Slam Team Is Competing in an International Competition (Riverfront Times) Poetry Set to Music program to …
Tracy K Smith as government poet
She's been publishing for little more than ten years and has only produced three books. How is that laureate material? http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/14/531784281/tracy-k-smith-new-u-s-poet-laureate-calls-poems-her-anchor?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
Jedediah Smith 