Reinventing the Life of a Poet in the Modern World

Month: March 2016

News Roundup for March

PortorefordWe're starting off with Port Orford because my mother is from there. Port Orford hosts 10th annual Poet's Roundup (Bandon Western World

The life of world-famous poet Dylan Thomas on stage (West Briton)

Poet Nikky Finney tries to make sense of Strom Thurmond, Dylann Roof, and the South's legacy of oppression   (Charleston City Paper)

Tantrums of an aristocrat poet: Lord Alfred Douglas (Independent.ie)

Placitas poet consolidates four years of explorations on topics both cosmic and common (my local! Albuquerque Journal)

14 Brilliant Women Poets To Read On World Poetry Day (Huffington Post)  

Good Syrian Poet News: Google dedicates doodle to Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (The National)

And Bad Syrian Poet News: IS executes respected Syrian poet and son for 'apostasy'
Mohammed Bashir al-Aani, an opponent of President Assad, was known for his lyrical poetic style (Middle East Eye)

My Cousin, The Cowboy Poet (The New Yorker)

6 Historic Haunts to Visit in NYC (Guest of a Guest)

Ridiculous Reviews: Edgar Allan Poe and Ezra Pound

PoeWe haven't done these fun things in a while!

Edgar Allan Poe, 1893

“A verbal poet merely; empty of thought, empty of sympathy, empty of love for any real thing…he was not human and manly.”

John Burroughs, The Dial

Ezra Pound, 1978

“A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”

Gertrude Stein (she was probably biased a bit)

  

from Rotten Reviews compiled by Bill Henderson

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