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Zukunftsbibliothek
Die kanadische Schriftstellerin Margaret Atwood hat am Dienstag in den Wäldern von Oslo ein bisher unveröffentlichtes Buchmanuskript aus der Hand gegeben, das erst in 99 Jahren gedruckt werden soll. Dahinter steckt ein Projekt der schottischen Künstlerin Katie Paterson, bei dem unter dem Titel „Future… Continue Reading „Zukunftsbibliothek“
Wilde & Whitman
„I come as a poet to call upon a poet,” Wilde said, when Whitman opened his door. Whitman, who adored being adored as few others ever have, was delighted to hear this. He went to the cupboard and removed a bottle of his sister-in-law… Continue Reading „Wilde & Whitman“
Is poetry marginal?
After all, contemporary poetry is endlessly accused, even by many poets themselves, as a “marginal” activity, a cultic endeavor that puts it on a par with people who attend Star Trek conventions or engage in Civil War reenactments. David Wojahn, in: Blackbird. Via Poetry Daily
Die Spatzen
Aus einem letzten Gespräch, das Theo Breuer mit Hans Bender führte (Poetenladen): H. Bender: Ach ja, die Spatzen. Nie höre ich ein Bedauern, daß es in Köln seit einigen Jahren keine Spatzen mehr gibt. Eine Seuche hat sie ausgerottet; Pflanzengift wahrscheinlich. Ich allein scheine sie… Continue Reading „Die Spatzen“
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?“
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