Kategorie: Nordamerika

Finalists Announced for the 24th Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Neustadt Prize is known as “America’s Nobel” for literature; finalists are selected by an international jury of their peers with the winner to receive $50,000 cash prize NORMAN, Okla. (May 27, 2015) – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature… Continue Reading „Finalists Announced for the 24th Neustadt International Prize for Literature“

Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins

As a poet interested in the social material of writing, I found a deep connection with the early paintings of Shusaku Arakawa and with Arakawa and Madeline Gins’s paradigmatic The Mechanism of Meaning (1971), as well as various early writings by Gins, particularly her essay on multidimensional architecture, which… Continue Reading „Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins“

2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Winners

The PEN/America Translation Fund, now celebrating its twelfth year, is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s competition. The Fund received a record number of applications this year—226 total—spanning a wide array of languages of origin, genres, and eras. From this vast field… Continue Reading „2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Winners“

Yennecott

Yennecott ist eine frühere Bezeichnung für die Insel [Long Island], die jetzt drei Flughäfen trägt für Gegenden zur Naherholung sehr vermögender New Yorker. Und in Yangs Text wird eine Verzichtserklärung zitiert, die die Insel ins Eigentum der europäischen Siedler übergehen lässt. Damit verbunden aber auch… Continue Reading „Yennecott“

American Life in Poetry: Column 521

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Amanda Strand is a poet living in Maryland. I like this poem for its simplicity, clarity and directness. No frills to decorate it, just the kind of straightforward accounting of an experience that Henry David Thoreau said he… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 521“

American Life in Poetry: Column 520

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE With this column American Life in Poetry celebrates its tenth anniversary. Thanks to all of you for supporting us, week in and week out! When I was a boy, I was advised that if a wasp landed on… Continue Reading „American Life in Poetry: Column 520“

How Great Poems Transform the World

Some people feel intimidated by poetry and they look away when what they should look for is poet Jane Hirshfield’s “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World” (Knopf). In 10 essays, Hirshfield discusses the meanings of dozens of poems — by Matsuo Basho and Emily… Continue Reading „How Great Poems Transform the World“

Alice Notley Wins $100,000 Poetry Prize

Alice Notley, a poet who has worked in a wide variety of forms and styles in more than 25 books, has been awarded the lucrative and prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to to a living American… Continue Reading „Alice Notley Wins $100,000 Poetry Prize“

Poetry and its audience

I remember when the Carter administration invited several hundred poets to the White House for a celebration of American poetry. There was a reception, handshakes with the president, the pop of flashbulbs. Concurrent poetry readings in various White House rooms capped off the festivities.… Continue Reading „Poetry and its audience“

Dead

Franz Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, died at 62 years old on Thursday at his home in Waltham, Massachusetts. His publishing house Alfred A. Knopf confirmed the news. „Franz gave us so much,“ Deborah Garrison, his longtime editor at Knopf, said in an email… Continue Reading „Dead“

Do they have trees in Korea?

“Do they have trees in Korea? Do the children eat out of garbage/ cans?/ We had a dalmation/ We rode the train on weekends from Seoul to So-Sah where we/ grew grapes” In provocative poems such as “Into Such Assembly,” Myung Mi Kim makes… Continue Reading „Do they have trees in Korea?“

Alle Dichter sind Amerikaner

Ausverkauft in Münster.Die Westfälischen Nachrichten berichten: Lyriker Thomas Kunst (Leipzig) begeistert mit trockenem Humor, unprätentiöser Erscheinung im orangen Kapuzenshirt und Coolness. Sein Text von der Suche eines Mannes, der so lange am Strand neben einer Frau herläuft, „bis wir uns lieben“, bleibt im Kopf,… Continue Reading „Alle Dichter sind Amerikaner“

Verantwortungslos

Bernstein und zwei Übersetzungsteams wurden am Sonntag mit dem Preis für Internationale Poesie der Stadt Münster geehrt. Jurymitglied Urs Allemann brauchte viele Fremdwörter, um in der Feierstunde im Erbdrostenhof das Werk des 1950 in New York geborenen Bernstein zu beschreiben. Der Poet ist eben… Continue Reading „Verantwortungslos“

Schwierige Gedichte?

Charles Bernstein (Jahrgang 1950) ist Dichter, Theoretiker, Herausgeber und Literaturwissenschaftler. Der Harvard-Absolvent und Professor für Englisch und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der University of Pennsylvania gilt als einflussreicher Mitbegründer und herausragender Vertreter der „language poetry“. Diese avantgardistische Strömung bildete sich aus der von Bernstein Ende… Continue Reading „Schwierige Gedichte?“

Preiswürdige Sprachexperimente – Stadt Münster ehrt Charles Bernstein

Poesiepreis an den US-Amerikaner und zwei Übersetzergruppen / Öffentlicher Festakt am 10. Mai im Erbdrostenhof Münster (SMS) Nach Ben Lerner 2011 ist es erneut ein US-Amerikaner, den die Stadt Münster mit ihrem Preis für Internationale Poesie ehrt: Charles Bernstein, führender Kopf der „language poets“,… Continue Reading „Preiswürdige Sprachexperimente – Stadt Münster ehrt Charles Bernstein“