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Deaths 1
William Jay Smith, who wrote poetry with classical precision and childlike whimsy and who was a globe-trotting poetry consultant to the Library of Congress for two years, died Aug. 18 at a hospital in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 97. (…) He did not like… Continue Reading „Deaths 1“
Prize for Charles Bernstein and Giuseppe Conte
The 2015 Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry has been awarded to Charles Bernstein and Giuseppe Conte. The prize was founded in 2012 by the Hungarian PEN Club (an affiliate of International PEN). In 2014, Yves Bonnefois (France) and Adonis (Syria) won the prize, which is modelled on the Nobel… Continue Reading „Prize for Charles Bernstein and Giuseppe Conte“
E-Books Turn Poet-Friendly
When John Ashbery, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, first learned that the digital editions of his poetry looked nothing like the print version, he was stunned. There were no line breaks, and the stanzas had been jammed together into a block of text that looked… Continue Reading „E-Books Turn Poet-Friendly“
Marktcoup oder literarisches Phänomen?
Über die Gedichte der 23-jährigen amerikanischen Lyrikerin Mira Gonzalez, die soeben bei Hanser auf Deutsch erschienen, wird seit Tagen in sozialen Netzwerken kontrovers diskutiert. Knallhart kalkulierter Marktcoup oder herausragender Band und eine der wichtigsten jungen Stimmen ihrer Generation? Jetzt erscheinen erste Besprechungen. Fast ungeteilte Zustimmung im… Continue Reading „Marktcoup oder literarisches Phänomen?“
Im Auftrag
Richard Blanco, who was President Obama’s inaugural poet in 2013, has written a poem to honor the reopening of the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba on Friday, Aug. 14. The son of Cuban exiles, Blanco was commissioned to write “Matters of the Sea/Cosas del Mar,”… Continue Reading „Im Auftrag“
Heaney’s Grave
Seamus Heaney’s famous line to „walk on air against your better judgement“ has been inscribed as an epitaph on his gravestone. The quote from his 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech was placed over the Irish poet’s grave in Northern Ireland earlier this… Continue Reading „Heaney’s Grave“
A close reading
“No sweeter music can come to my ears,” Robert Frost once wrote a friend, “than the clash of arms over my dead body when I am down.” Frost’s ghost, then, can be grateful to New York Times poetry columnist and Cornell University prof David Orr for… Continue Reading „A close reading“
American Life in Poetry: Column 533
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I once knew an artist who seemed to live on those little envelopes of free sugar that one can find on tables in restaurants. And he took the little “watercolor pans” of jelly, too, stuffing his pockets. Here’s… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 533“
American Life in Poetry: Column 532
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE How’s this poem for its ability to collapse all the years from childhood to middle age in a matter of fifteen short lines? George Bilgere is one of this column’s favorite poets. He lives and teaches in Ohio.… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 532“
American Life in Poetry: Column 531
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Many of the poems that have survived the longest are very short. Some of them are a couple of thousand years old. They have somehow managed to perfectly catch life in just a few words and we can… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 531“
Spiky words
My first hours with the spiky words of T.S. Eliot’s ‘‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’’ are fixed in a precise location: the cluttered space of my teenage bedroom floor. It’s 1982. The light is low. The parquet tiles are coming unglued. Album… Continue Reading „Spiky words“
American Life in Poetry: Column 530
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Poets often do their best work when they’re telling us about something they’ve seen without stepping into the poem and talking about themselves. Here’s a lovely poem of observation by Terri Kirby Erickson, who lives in North Carolina.… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 530“
In Michigan
Ein Buchhändler in den USA kann die Begeisterung über das neue Buch von Harper Lee nicht nachvollziehen. Peter Makin, Inhaber der Buchhandlung Brillant Books in Traverse City, Michigan, erstattet deshalb allen, die bei ihm den Roman „Gehe hin, stelle einen Wächter“ gekauft haben, den… Continue Reading „In Michigan“
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