Deadline
Extended: The deadline for this year's Walt
Whitman Award has been extended. Submissions will now be
accepted through November 30.
Listen
Up: Poetcast Tony Hoagland reads from What
Narcissism Means to Me; Sarah Manguso reads "The
Movement of a Caravan over the Landscape" & Charles
Simic reads from Hotel Insomnia.
Life
Lines: On Henry Taylor: This poem is
particularly meaningful to me as older parent of a young
child, when I am confronted with the countless times
when our own vulnerability is put to test in trying to
protect him from harm.
Greatly anticipated, this is Donald Hall's
first selected volume in fifteen years, and also the
first to include poems from his seminal bestseller,
Without. The collection also includes a bound-in
audio CD specially recorded by the Poet Laureate. Go to the store >
WEEKLY FEATURE
Dickinson:
My Favorite Poet by Michael Ryan She is a
model of devotion to the practice of poetry. Writing
poems for her was life-sustaining, even life-creating.
It created the place in which she fully experienced her
experience.
Spotlight Poet Martín
Espada Martín Espada has chosen the larger
task: to go outside the self-absorbed terrain of most
contemporary poets into a landscape where others—bus
drivers, revolutionaries, the executed of El
Salvador—sit, walk, or lie dead 'without
heads.'
Spotlight Poem Evening by
Gail Mazur Sometimes she's Confucian— / resolute
in privation.... // Each day, more immobile, / hip
not mending, legs swollen...
Spotlight Essay Gimmicks by
Ron Padgett There are intelligent people who attack
the use of gimmicks or devices in teaching imaginative
writing.... Were there a School of Gimmicks, its members
might retort that the Defenders of Meaningfulness tend
to be boring creeps who confuse self-expression with
value....
NOTED BOOK OF THE WEEK
Hoops W. W. Norton &
Company, 2006 by Major Jackson
The range of styles in Major Jackson's Hoops
is evidence of a poet who is flexible and adept at
invigorating more traditional techniques with an urban
twist. Most impressive is the authority of Jackson's
voice as one of experience and tempered observation,
separate enough to be individaual but with an acute
awareness of humanity as a whole. Buy the book >
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