Resources for New Poets

media studies and the typewriter poem: loriemerson.net

2012-01-30T13:31:00.000-05:00

media studies and the typewriter poem

Media studies is commonly associated with the study of digital media structures and related phenomena. But the more media theory I read (and lately I’ve been voraciously reading everything by Marshall McLuhan that’s outside of the well-worn Understanding Media) the more drawn I am to thinking through the defining effects of earlier analogue and digital writing interfaces as instances of media – from paper/pencil to typewriter to command-line... Read More

Black Coffee Poet presents Ojibwe poet David Groulx

2012-01-23T19:08:00.000-05:00

The Telegraph: The mystery of poetry editing: from TS Eliot to John Burnside

2012-01-23T07:30:00.001-05:00

If one poet edits another, whose work is it? In the week that John Burnside won the T S Eliot Prize, Sameer Rahim investigates the unseen hands behind that most personal and mysterious of literary forms.

Audio: A Poet at the Window

2012-01-23T07:22:00.000-05:00

A Poet at the Window: Conversation with Donald Hall

This week in the magazine, Donald Hall writes about growing old in the New Hampshire farmhouse where his family has lived since the end of the Civil War. Here he talks with Blake Eskin about how this place inspires his writing, why he’s stopped writing poetry, and what it’s like living among so many memories and stories.
Listen to the mp3 on the player above, or right-click here to download.

"Meeln" by bpNichol (audio poem)

2012-01-23T07:15:00.001-05:00

"Meeln" by bpNichol

Album: Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980
Track: 9
Genre: Poetry
Year: 1973
Length: 0:24 minutes (560.66 KB)
Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

This poem is from the 60-minute cassette Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980, published in 1982 by Membrane Press New Fire Tapes (Milwaukee).

Poem Talk: Loss in Reverse: A Discussion of Susan Schultz’s Dementia Blog

2012-01-04T14:56:00.002-05:00

Loss in Reverse: A Discussion of Susan Schultz’s Dementia Blog
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Michelle Taransky, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, and Leonard Schwartz.

Apropos Appropriation by Randy Kennedy

2011-12-29T13:21:00.003-05:00

Apropos Appropriation by Randy Kennedy

ONE recent afternoon in the offices of the Midtown law firm run by David Boies and his powerful litigation partners, a large black clamshell box sat on a conference table. Inside were raucous, sometimes wildly funny collages of photographs and magazine pages handmade by the artist Richard Prince, works of art that have become the ur-texts of one of the most closely watched copyright cases ever to rattle the world of fine art.

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Reading Traffic Reports to Obama by Brian Joseph Davis

2011-12-14T12:04:00.003-05:00

Huffington Post: Reading Traffic Reports to Obama by Brian Joseph Davis

If writing and the avant-garde have a node point in 2011, it's poet and critic Kenneth Goldsmith. Over the last two decades he has popularized techniques of appropriation through his books Traffic (culled from traffic reports) and Day (one entire issue of the New York Times retyped)...Continue Reading

Georges Bataille : Literature And Evil

2011-12-12T20:53:00.001-05:00

Gregory Betts: Poets Against Authorship

2011-12-11T21:39:00.001-05:00

Fact or Fiction -- A conversation With David Albahari (from Geist 2010)

2011-12-04T14:11:00.001-05:00

Sunday Service: HTML GIANT

2011-11-27T11:35:00.001-05:00

Sunday Service: Bookstore by Kathryn Mockler

Bookstore

The bookstore was on top of another store
at the corner of a busy street. I walked up the stairs
and was met by God, a middle-aged women
with blonde hair and glasses. God told me to take

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Robert Hass (former poet laureate of the United States) gets beaten at Occupy Berkeley!

2011-11-20T13:59:00.001-05:00

Poet-Bashing Police

By ROBERT HASS

"LIFE, I found myself thinking as a line of Alameda County deputy sheriffs in Darth Vader riot gear formed a cordon in front of me on a recent night on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is full of strange contingencies." Continue reading...

“What Was That Poem?” by David McGimpsey | The Walrus | November 2011

2011-11-11T01:36:00.000-05:00

“What Was That Poem?” by David McGimpsey | The Walrus | November 2011

"Hard Rain" by Tony Hoagland

2011-11-07T17:54:00.001-05:00

Tony Hoagland "Hard Rain"

ONION MAN'S Toronto Book Launch November 17, 2011 @ 7:00pm

2011-11-05T14:24:00.002-04:00

Tightrope's Triple Fall Launch!

Tightrope proudly invites you to the launch of three exciting books: PRICK by Ashley Little, ONION MAN by Kathryn Mockler and HOW TO GET A GIRL PREGNANT by Karleen Pendleton Jimenez
Triple Launch Facebook Event Page

When: Thursday, November 17th at 6pm

Where: Slack's Restaurant

562 Church St

Toronto, ON

Readings will begin at 7pm. There will be free snacks and door prizes. Singer/Songwriter entertainment at 8:30pm.

TABLE MUSIC: Ted Kooser on Too Many Poets

2011-10-29T15:30:00.000-04:00

TABLE MUSIC: Ted Kooser on Too Many Poets: "A noted contemporary poet and critic has said we ought to keep poetry a secret from the masses. Another, the editor of a prestigious anthol...

UbuWeb: Kathy Acker Audio Archive

2011-10-23T23:40:00.002-04:00

Kathy Acker (1947-1997): Audio Archive

A Long Story Short: I have tried in various moments to imagine how di...

2011-10-15T12:40:00.000-04:00

A Long Story Short:
I have tried in various moments to imagine how di...: I have tried in various moments to imagine how difficult it would be for a child to learn that a parent is dying. Most of us would wish tha...

Elementary processes in poetry / redefining the field: Vlado Martek & Croatian conceptual poetry 1970s to now | Jacket2

2011-10-15T12:38:00.000-04:00

Elementary processes in poetry / redefining the field: Vlado Martek & Croatian conceptual poetry 1970s to now | Jacket2

Penn faculty in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street | Jacket2

2011-10-15T12:35:00.000-04:00

Penn faculty in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street | Jacket2

Best American Poetry 2010 (9) Dara Wier / Terence Winch / Matthew Yeager

2011-10-15T12:17:00.005-04:00

The Capilano Review Web Folio 1 - Summer 2011

2011-10-13T04:00:00.002-04:00

Web Folio 1 - Summer 2011

Selected Poems: George Stanley

CIRCLEJERK by Mark Yakich

2011-10-01T18:39:00.005-04:00

CIRCLEJERK by Mark Yakich from Paperbag Journal

Gertrude Stein home movie, circa 1927

2011-09-29T07:57:00.001-04:00

Brick Books: Podcasts and YouTube Channel

2011-09-26T14:23:00.002-04:00

Brick Books YouTube Channel

Brick Books on Audioboo

Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview. BY Robert Lanham

2011-09-22T01:07:00.004-04:00

Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview. BY Robert Lanham

Toronto Review of Books

2011-09-20T12:23:00.001-04:00

From The Toronto Review of Books

An online quarterly, The Toronto Review of Books covers print and e-books, but also anything else that intrigues our writers. We’ll review websites, art, policy, cloud formations, and everything in between. Books are our inspiration, not our limit.

Our blog, Chirograph, will post updates on Toronto’s exploits. From closet dramas in community centres to outdoor film screenings, from literary festivals to illustration shows, from street parties to opera, Chirograph will be a hub for quick reports on culture of all kinds. Hosted by CBC Radio’s David Michael Lamb, our podcast will bring listeners Toronto talks and panels, our authors reading their TRB articles, and our own speakers series, City WIDEN (Workshops for Interest, Discussion, Exchange, & Novelty).
The TRB aims to combine the miscellany of blogging with the editorial rigour of traditional print media, while embracing both books on paper and new media. We’ve built the website to be a platform for ideas, and perspectives. We’re looking to collaborate, so let us know what you’d like to read about, and what you’d like to write, draw, film, design, or generally articulate.

How to be a good creative writing student: Guest Post by Kevin Chong

2011-09-19T17:10:00.005-04:00

If you’re in a creative writing class, you will likely find yourself in a conversation with someone who insists that “writing cannot be taught.” Don’t argue with that person. Don’t talk about Gertrude Stein tutoring Hemingway in Paris, or name the many writers who come from these programs who don’t fit any set mould.

The best thing to do would be to nod agreeably. This person can’t be helped; they live in another reality. In 2011, “Can creative writing can be taught?” is a question that’s about as relevant as “Is nuclear proliferation the best way to peaceably resolve the Cold War?” or “Should I own a refrigerator?” It would be harder for anyone seeking to publish literary writing to avoid a writing workshop than to attend a class run by a university, college, or arts centre.
With this in mind, the question should be “how can I be the best creative writing student I can be?” Well, it depends. Here is some contradictory advice:

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A Long Story Short: "Highway" a poem by Laura Lush

2011-09-17T10:27:00.000-04:00

A Long Story Short: "Highway" a poem by Laura Lush: A long time ago, when I was going through a particularly difficult time, someone told me, “You need to be one with the road.” When she sai...

It’s writers v. professors in the latest war of words

2011-09-07T09:55:00.002-04:00

An interesting Globe and Mail article about the copyright debate: It’s writers v. professors in the latest war of words by KATE TAYLOR

From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Sep. 02, 2011 5:10PM EDT

Lunch Poems: Michael Palmer

2011-09-04T20:54:00.000-04:00

In Eden by David Ferry

2011-09-03T23:50:00.000-04:00

From Of no country I know: new and selected poems and translations By David Ferry

Ubu Web's Visual Poetry Edited by derek beaulieu

2011-08-30T17:35:00.003-04:00

Christian Bok Is Writing Poetry That Eats Jet Fuel and Will Last Until the Sun Dies

2011-08-20T16:05:00.002-04:00

Elocution solution: App helps you sound like Ian McKellen

2011-08-20T10:15:00.004-04:00

Why MFA Programs Matter by Brian Joseph Davis

2011-08-20T08:51:00.003-04:00

Creative writing courses: cash cows of the humanities By Darryl Whetter

2011-08-20T08:50:00.003-04:00

"Nothing that's quite your own": Vanessa Place Interviewed

2011-08-19T19:21:00.000-04:00

Literary Journals Thrive, on Paper and Otherwise By REYHAN HARMANCI

2011-08-08T19:33:00.000-04:00

The Shared Patio by Miranda July

2011-08-07T12:37:00.003-04:00

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing [Paperback] Craig Dworkin (Editor), Kenneth Goldsmith (Editor)

2011-08-02T18:11:00.001-04:00

Read the Introductory Essays

Excerpt from Northwestern University Press:

In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments. Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as “poetry pregnant with thought.” Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Dworkin and Goldsmith, two of the leading spokespersons and practitioners of conceptual writing, chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors including Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp to the most prominent of today’s writers. Nearly all of the major avant-garde groups of the past century are represented here, including Dada, OuLiPo, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and Flarf to name just a few, but all the writers are united in their imaginative appropriation of found and generated texts and their exploration of nonexpressive language. Against Expression is a timely collection and an invaluable resource for readers and writers alike.

Authors include: Monica AASPRONG, Walter ABISH, Vito ACCONCI, Kathy ACKER, Sally ALATALO, Paal Bjelke ANDERSEN, David ANTIN, Louis ARAGON, Nathan AUSTIN, J. G. BALLARD, Fiona BANNER, Derek BEAULIEU, Samuel BECKETT, Caroline BERGVALL, Charles BERNSTEIN, Ted BERRIGAN, Jen BERVIN, Gregory BETTS, Christian BÖK, Marie BUCK, William S. BURROUGHS, David BUUCK, John CAGE, Blaise CENDRARS, Thomas CLABURN, Elisabeth CLARK, Claude CLOSKY, Clark COOLIDGE, Hart CRANE, Brian Joseph DAVIS, Katie DEGENTESH, Mónica DE LA TORRE, Denis DIDEROT, Marcel DUCHAMP, Craig DWORKIN, Laura ELRICK, Dan FARRELL, Gerald FERGUSON, Robert FITTERMAN, Lawrence GIFFIN, Peter GIZZI, Judith GOLDMAN, Kenneth GOLDSMITH, Nada GORDON, Noah Eli GORDON, Michael GOTTLIEB, Dan GRAHAM, Michelle GRANGAUD, Brion GYSIN, Michael HARVEY, H. L HIX, Yunte HUANG, Douglas HUEBLER, Peter JAEGER, Emma KAY, Bill KENNEDY and Darren WERSHLER, Michael KLAUKE, Christopher KNOWLES, Joseph KOSUTH, Leevi LEHTO, Tan LIN, Dana Teen LOMAX, Trisha LOW, Rory MACBETH, Jackson MAC LOW, Stéphane MALLARMÉ, Donato MANCINI, Peter MANSON, Shigeru MATSUI, Bernadette MAYER, Steve MCCAFFERY, Stephen MCLAUGHLIN and Jim CARPENTER, David MELNICK, Richard MELTZER, Christof MIGONE, Tomoko MINAMI, K. Silem MOHAMMAD, Simon MORRIS, Yedda MORRISON, Harryette MULLEN, Alexandra NEMEROV, C. K. OGDEN, Tom ORANGE, PARASITIC VENTURES, George PEREC, M. NourbeSe PHILIP, Vanessa PLACE, Bern PORTER, Raymond QUENEAU, Claudia RANKINE, Ariana REINES, Charles REZNIKOFF, Deborah RICHARDS, Kim ROSENFIELD, Raymond ROUSSEL, Aram SAROYAN, Ara SHIRINYAN, Ron SILLIMAN, Juliana SPAHR, Brin Kim STEFANS, Gary SULLIVAN, Nick THURSTON, Rodrigo TOSCANO, Tristan TZARA, Andy WARHOL, Darren WERSHLER, Christine WERTHEIM, WIENER GRUPPE William Butler YEATS, Steven ZULTANSKI, Vladimir ZYKOV

So You Want to Write Short Stories

2011-07-15T11:02:00.002-04:00

Project Rebuild

2011-07-08T00:28:00.002-04:00

This is a neat collaborative poetry project!

Can you teach creative writing?

2011-06-29T16:14:00.001-04:00

Wallace Stegner, Francine Prose, John Kenneth Galbraith, and others offer advice to aspiring wordsmiths By SHAN WANG

2011-06-29T16:13:00.000-04:00

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories by Virginia Woolf

2011-06-25T17:02:00.002-04:00

Canadian writer Robert Kroetsch killed in car accident

2011-06-22T18:07:00.002-04:00

from concrete poetry to the poetics of obsolescence: an interview with Derek Beaulieu

2011-06-19T23:14:00.002-04:00

Authors Aloud

2011-06-14T22:02:00.000-04:00

This is a great Canadian Literary site run by Trevor Cole.

DIY: How to Make and Bind Chapbooks

2011-06-11T14:04:00.000-04:00

Craig Santos Perez on Bearing Gifts of Poetry and SPAM

2011-06-07T10:02:00.002-04:00

Rattle #35: Tribute to Canadian Poets

2011-06-05T16:28:00.000-04:00

Feeling stuck creatively? - Eric Maisel

2011-06-05T12:28:00.002-04:00

Shakespeare: the metaphorical terrorist When US agents analyse the world's languages for their 'Metaphor Program', they may draw frightening conclusions

2011-06-01T09:26:00.002-04:00

Vonnegut Advice: Short Stories

2011-05-29T16:51:00.000-04:00

Multiplatform Resources

2011-05-28T09:24:00.012-04:00

On May 27, 2011, I was a panelist at Writers' Union of Canada OnWords Conference. I've included a description of the panel below and links to resources on this topic.

Next Generation Genres: Writing at the Edge - Panel Description

New platforms change how narratives are written. No longer the lone artist struggling in solitude, the literary creator becomes a collaborator working with other creators in different media, or a co-creator with readers who are invited to change the narrative. The panel will address who creates, who curates, funds and supports and who disseminates these narratives. Moderated by author and first-vice chair Greg Hollingshead. Panelists are Alex Jansen from Pop Sandbox, a producer of innovative storytelling across platforms; Kathryn Mockler who writes poetry, fiction, and screenplays, and collaborates with artist, David Poolman, on experimental film and videos; and Caitlin Fisher who holds the Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture at York University. Sponsored by Cormorant Books and the University of Guelph's Creative Writing MFA.

The Multiplatform Environment: Resources

Further Reading

SXSW Showcases Rise of Multiplatform Storytelling and Collaborative Filmmaking

The Digital Flood: You'd Better Start Swimming' or You'll Sink Like a Stone by Kenneth Goldsmith, American poet and founding editor of Ubu.com On the Poetry Foundation's blog, Harriet, Goldsmith responds to Stephen Burt's post on drowning on digital deluge by arguing that we will never write the same way again.

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy By Lawrence Lessig (Penguin Press HC) The author of Free Culture shows how we harm our children--and almost anyone who creates, enjoys, or sells any art form--with a restrictive copyright system driven by corporate interests. Lessig reveals the solutions to this impasse offered by a collaborative yet profitable "hybrid economy".

Stacked Podcast The Art of Immersion by Frank Rose: A discussion on how technology is changing storytelling (and in particular publishing).

The Tiny Book of Stories This first-edition of The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories is a 64-page hardback tiny book. Featuring 31 favorite tiny stories and illustrations by 45 writers and artists from the 2,312 contributions to wirrow's endlessly popular Tiny Stories collaboration; plus a special introductory interview by RegularJOE & wirrow.

From crossmedia to transmedia: thoughts on the future of entertainment

Seven Myths About Transmedia Storytelling Debunked

Interactive Design Encyclopedia

Emily Pinkerton's Warholian Dystopia

How Writers Build The Brand

Transmedia Across Disciplines at National Association of Broadcasters Leaders in the field of transmedia storytelling converged at the National Association of Broadcasters Show to discuss its potential for engaging audiences as well as best practices for the creation process. Moderated by USC’s Henry Jenkins, the academic who initially popularized the term, the panel featured experienced producers in the film, television and videogaming industries.

Artist Projects

Darren Wershler and Bill Kennedy's Status Update Project

Christine Leclerc's Enpipe Line collaborative protest poem

Madeleine Thien's website for Dogs at the Perimeter

Vanessa Place's Statement of Facts

Connecting with Other Writers

Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors.

American Zoetrope In March of 1998 Francis Coppola launched a website where writers could submit their short stories to his magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story. A community of writers quickly formed around the website. It became so popular so quickly that a few months later he created sites for novellas and screenplays. The Virtual Studio, which launched in June 2000, brings together the original sites as departments, plus includes new departments for other creative endeavors. Members can workshop a wide-range of film arts, including music, graphics, design, and film and video, as well as access some of the best e-collaboration tools. This site is the culmination of more than four years of work.

Connecting with Other Readers

Goodreads allows you to get recommendations of books and authors from people you know.

Library Thing is a book sharing site.

Shelfari

http://neovella.com/

Online Archive Sites

UbuWeb the online avant-garde archive founded in 1996 by Kenneth Goldsmith.

Internet Archive offers permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Creative Commons provide individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work — a “some rights reserved” approach to copyright — which makes their creative, educational, and scientific content instantly more compatible with the full potential of the internet.

Flickr Creative Commons

Contemporary Literary Journals (Online or Multiplatform)

At Length is a venue for ambitious, in-depth writing, music, photography, and art that are open to possibilities shorter forms preclude.

CellStories is mobile-only storytelling.

DIAGRAM is an electronic journal of text and art.

Electric Literature's mission is to use new media and innovative distribution to return the short story to a place of prominence in popular culture. EL is quarterly anthology of five top-notch short stories, delivered in every viable medium.

La Petite Zine is an online journal, founded in 1999, that publishes poetry and short prose 1000 words or less.

The Adavist is a boutique publishing house producing original nonfiction stories for digital, mobile reading devices.

Thought Catalog A digital mag for culture. A catalog of thought.

See left panel for a list of more journals on this blog.

Publishing Platforms

Lulu allows users to publish, design, and promote their own books.

Simple Note allows users to keep their notes and writing on their computer, mobile device, and the Web and to share or publish.

Muumuu House (est. 2008) is a publisher of poetry, fiction, Twitter selections, Gmail chats online and in print. Content is published online every 2 to 30 days. Books are published every .2 to 6 years and made available in the store.

Collaborative Creative Platforms

Neovella allows users to write stories with multiple authors.

Hitrecord.org allows users to collaborate in a variety of mediums (audio, text, video, image)

Massify filmmakers platform

JuntoBox Films filming and funding platform
Kickstarter film funding platform
IndieGoGo film funding platform

Amazon Sales Rank Tracking Sites

Novelrank (no account required)

TitleZ

Rankforest

Inside the Amazon Sales Rank

Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons] by Jenny Boully

2011-05-24T14:52:00.001-04:00

Guardian Poetry Corner

2011-05-20T13:36:00.002-04:00

Christopher Higgs: What is Experimental Literature?

2011-05-20T12:23:00.005-04:00

Volume 1: Christopher Higgs: What is Experimental Literature?

A Rejection Is a Rejection

2011-05-19T21:26:00.000-04:00

The MFA Octopus: Four Questions About Creative Writing by Mark McGurl

2011-05-15T22:18:00.000-04:00

Noam Chomsky speaks at UTSC on Academic Freedom and the Corporatization ...

2011-05-09T22:54:00.001-04:00

Curb Dance by Harmony Korine

2011-05-09T14:38:00.001-04:00

Going West

2011-05-07T11:02:00.001-04:00

BIBLIO-FILE UPDATE BY BILL KENNEDEY AND DARREN WERSHLER

2011-05-06T23:06:00.003-04:00

Collecters Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler have constructed a book of poetry by creating a web-surfing robot that explores the net and pilfers facebook status updates which it then attributes to the accounts of dead poets. Update merges computer geekdom with poetry specialization. Bibliophile Priscila Uppal is in to share her thoughts on the collection.

bpnichol.ca

2011-05-05T14:51:00.000-04:00

bpNichol.ca is an online public archive of the works of bpNichol and his collaborators. Here you will find audio, digitized print materials, photographs, links and eventually video, critical articles and curated exhibitions. The site was developed by the Artmob project in collaboration with Ellie Nichol, and is designed as a not-for-profit community initiative.

Small Fry by Anton Chekhov

2011-05-01T15:51:00.002-04:00

Small Fry by Anton Chekhov

Poets and Twin Brothers Give Free Reading

2011-04-30T22:46:00.001-04:00

Some Short Quotes from A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality.

2011-04-30T21:13:00.000-04:00

Rick Mercer: Rick's Rant: Vote!

2011-04-28T23:40:00.000-04:00

Ira Glass on Storytelling, part 3 of 4

2011-04-26T15:18:00.000-04:00

UbuWeb Vu: Kenneth Goldsmith | Features | Archinect

2011-04-24T18:42:00.000-04:00

UbuWeb Vu: Kenneth Goldsmith | Features | Archinect

Status Update

2011-04-24T18:19:00.001-04:00

Will books vanish along with bookshops?

2011-04-22T14:42:00.002-04:00

Brian Eno Readies New Collaborative Album

2011-04-19T16:39:00.001-04:00

Archiving Is The New Folk Art : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

2011-04-19T16:31:00.001-04:00

Archiving Is The New Folk Art : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

NewPages Blog: Podcasts :: Reading the World

2011-04-12T23:36:00.000-04:00

NewPages Blog: Podcasts :: Reading the World: "Reading the World is an ongoing series of podcast discussions about the world of international literature, hosted by Chad W. Post (director ..."

Numéro Cinq

2011-04-12T23:31:00.002-04:00

Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Basics of Creative Writing

2011-04-12T23:30:00.002-04:00

Rumpus: How Do You Get Unblocked?

2011-04-11T13:02:00.000-04:00

PAUL VERMEERSCH: Introducing NewPoetry.ca

2011-04-11T12:47:00.000-04:00

PAUL VERMEERSCH: Introducing NewPoetry.ca: "George Murray, the driving force behind the popular book blog Bookninja.ca, is back with a new project: NewPoetry.ca. Right now it's just ..."

Death of a Kingmaker : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

2011-04-08T12:54:00.001-04:00

Death of a Kingmaker : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

Stories by Email

2011-04-07T21:25:00.000-04:00

Stories by Email

Confessionalography: A GNAT (Grossly Non-Academic Talk) on "I" in Poetry by Rachel Zucker

2011-04-06T13:24:00.002-04:00

University Magazines

2011-04-04T22:11:00.002-04:00

R.I.P. Silliman’s Blog, 2002-2011?

2011-04-04T21:49:00.000-04:00

R.I.P. Silliman’s Blog, 2002-2011?

Poetry Everywhere: PBS, Poetry Foundation

2011-04-04T16:27:00.000-04:00

WGBH and David Grubin Productions, in association with the Poetry Foundation, undertook this project in order to expose a diverse audience to a broad spectrum of poetic voices, build an appreciation and an audience for poetry, and increase the presence of poets and poetry within the two most ubiquitous media in American popular culture–the Web and TV. In addition to presentation on this Web site, the videos will appear on local public television stations at unexpected moments during their broadcast schedules. The partners hope that poetry will become a permanent part of the PBS landscape, offering moments of meditation and even revelation throughout the day.

The poetry films of Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, and Charles Simic were created by Leita Luchetti.

Independent of the videos created for PBS, 34 animated films were created by students working with docUWM, a documentary media center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the university’s creative writing program, in association with the Poetry Foundation. Aiming to focus a new generation of filmmakers on poetry as subject matter, the project encouraged film students to read widely from the canon of contemporary poetry and, working closely with poets and scholars, effectively translate poetry to the screen using an array of film and animation techniques. The student-produced films were supervised by Liam Callanan, a creative writing professor at the UW-Milwaukee School of Letters and Science, and Brad Lichtenstein, a Peck School of the Arts film instructor.

Inmates seek justice for Philip Larkin poem that won second place

2011-04-04T15:51:00.000-04:00

A prisoner who copied a poem by Philip Larkin in a bid to win a poetry competition was caught out after fellow inmates spotted the plagiarism.

The Smart Set: This Is Your Brain on Art - March 16, 2011

2011-04-03T22:18:00.001-04:00

The Smart Set: This Is Your Brain on Art - March 16, 2011

International Writing Program will launch Writers in Motion

2011-04-03T17:53:00.000-04:00

Stacked Podcast

2011-04-01T20:57:00.003-04:00

Episode 1 – The Art of Immersion by Frank Rose: A discussion on how technology is changing storytelling (and in particular publishing)

Yay Poetry Month!

2011-03-31T19:56:00.000-04:00

History of National Poetry Month
Established in Canada in April 1999 by the League, National Poetry Month brings together schools, publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, and poets across the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in Canada's culture. Communities and businesses participate through readings, festivals, book displays, and other events.

Julie Berry and Evelyn Lau - Poetry London Reading: Wednesday April 6 @ 7:30pm

2011-03-28T13:13:00.001-04:00

Join us for the last event in the 2010-2011 Poetry London season with readings by JULIE BERRY and EVELYN LAU on April 6 at 7:30pm.

	Location Landon Branch Library 167 Wortley Road London, ON

Prior to the readings, Poetry London's Michelle Doege will be facilitating a writing workshop and discussion of poetry by the evening's featured poets and two workshop participants. Our readings and workshops are free and open to all members of the public, and offer encouragemen...t to developing writers, as well as provi...ding an opportunity for writers in the group to exchange work and discuss poems by that night’s visiting poets. Those interested are encouraged to arrive at 6:30 pm. No registration required.

About the poets:

JULIE BERRY is the author of two collections of poetry: worn thresholds (Brick Books, 1995) and the walnut cracking machine (Buschek Books, 2010). Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies including Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009). She lives outside of St. Thomas, Ontario, with her partner, Jonathan and their dog, Guinness. Her four sons have grown and flown.

EVELYN LAU, a Vancouver writer, has published ten books, including five volumes of poetry. Her poetry has won the Milton Acorn Award, been nominated for the Governor-General's Award, and appears in Best American Poetry and Best Canadian Poetry. Her most recent collection of poems is Living Under Plastic (Oolichan, 2010). Her prose books have been translated into a dozen languages, and Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid (Harper Collins, 1989), was made into a CBC TV movie.

Books will be available for sale following the reading.

***Poetry London's Poetry Contest Winners will also be announced this evening***

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