Kategorie: USA

85. Hannah Weiner

Craig Dworkin just posted six Hannah Weiner books on Eclipse. All free digital versions. In appreciation of the new typographically correct edition of Hannah Weiner’s Clairvoyant Journal by Bat-editions (France), the editorial and archival work of Patrick Durgin, and the dedicated stewardship of Charles Bernstein, Weiner’s literary executor, Eclipse is proud to… Continue Reading „85. Hannah Weiner“

84. David Orr’s Top Ten 2014

Louise Glück, “Faithful and Virtuous Night.” The recent winner of the National Book Award, Glück’s 14th collection is wry, dreamlike and snow-covered: a testament to her late career resurgence, and to her increasing ability to inhabit personas like, but not identical to, her own (in this… Continue Reading „84. David Orr’s Top Ten 2014“

78. American Life in Poetry: Column 508

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE It seems we’re born with a need for stories, for hearing them and telling them. Here’s an account of just one story, made remarkable in part by the teller’s aversion to telling it. Poet Mary Avidano lives in… Continue Reading „78. American Life in Poetry: Column 508“

45. American Life in Poetry: Column 507

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE For every one of those faces pictured on the obituary page, thousands of memories have been swept out of the world, never to be recovered. I encourage everyone to write down their memories before it’s too late. Here’s… Continue Reading „45. American Life in Poetry: Column 507“

32. American Life in Poetry: Column 506

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I flunked college physics, and anything smaller than a BB is too small for me to understand. But here’s James Crews, whose home is in St. Louis, “relatively” at ease with the smallest things we’ve been told are… Continue Reading „32. American Life in Poetry: Column 506“

31. Whitman poem discovered

An associate professor of art history at University of Nebraska-Lincoln has discovered a new poem by Walt Whitman. Wendy Katz was working as a Smithsonian senior fellow in Washington, D.C., researching art criticism in the penny newspapers, when she found a poem in the… Continue Reading „31. Whitman poem discovered“

21. Best Poetry Books 2014

By Jonathon Sturgeon, Flavorwire on Dec 5, 2014 12:45pm If you fell asleep on poetry in 2014, you might not actually be asleep: you might be dead. Poetry this year not only proved itself the liveliest and healthiest genre of writing, it also showed itself to… Continue Reading „21. Best Poetry Books 2014“

20. List of poets

A List of Things to Ask Yourself When You’re Making a List of Poets By Kima Jones, Flavorwire Aug 8, 2013 1. Am I including poets who do not live in Brooklyn? 5. Have I looked at poets who write about poetry? 7. Have I looked at recent… Continue Reading „20. List of poets“

16. Weihnachtsengeler

Frisch ab Presse: roughbook 031: Christian Prigent, herausgegeben und übersetzt von Christian Filips und Aurélie Maurin http://roughbooks.ch/roughbook031/christian_prigent/die_seele.html Obsessiv entwirft Prigent die Autorschaft eines ôteur, also eines Autors, der sich selbst ebenso wie die Stereotype der ihn umgebenden sprachlichen Gegenwart durchlöchert. In der Auseinandersetzung mit… Continue Reading „16. Weihnachtsengeler“

8. Trans poetry

Trace Peterson writes: Excited to announce the new issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly issue 1:4, on Trans Cultural Production, magnificently edited by Trish Salah and co. My article in this issue, „Becoming a Trans Poet: Samuel Ace, Max Wolf Valerio, and kari edwards“… Continue Reading „8. Trans poetry“

7. Mit Sappho

Sapphofortsätze Von Christiane Kiesow Vor etwa einem dreiviertel Jahr ging ein Aufruf durch das Internet: Sendet Sapphogedichte! Sofort setzte das Grübeln ein: welche Art Text eignet sich für eine solche Anthologie? Ich bin des Altgriechischen nicht mächtig, also fallen Übersetzungen schon einmal weg. Es… Continue Reading „7. Mit Sappho“

2. American Life in Poetry: Column 505

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Stuart Kestenbaum is a Maine poet with a new book, Only Now, from Deerbrook Editions. In it are a number of thoughtful poems posed as prayers, and here’s an example: Prayer for Joy What was it we wanted… Continue Reading „2. American Life in Poetry: Column 505“

113. Mark Strand (1934-2014)

Mark Strand, whose spare, deceptively simple investigations of rootlessness, alienation and the ineffable strangeness of life made him one of America’s most hauntingly meditative poets, died on Saturday at his daughter’s home in Brooklyn. He was 80. His daughter, Jessica Strand, said the cause… Continue Reading „113. Mark Strand (1934-2014)“

99. American Life in Poetry: Column 504

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I love poems with sudden surprises, and here’s one by Jennifer Gray, a Nebraskan. Will you ever see depressions puddled with rain without thinking of the image at her conclusion? Horses The neighbor’s horses idle under the roof… Continue Reading „99. American Life in Poetry: Column 504“

94. Not an elegy

“Not An Elegy For Mike Brown”: Two Poems For Ferguson Poet Danez Smith’s “Not An Elegy For Mike Brown” and “Alternate Names for Black Boys.” / Buzzfeed.com