Over at the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia is at it again – helping the Bush Administration with one more overspending scandal. And you thought poetry was exempt from the excesses of capitalism!
And on the lighter side of verse, mzbarbielicious – no, seriously, that’s Mz. Barbielicious (and her uno el friendo) – tells [...]
Now, this is just sad. Never mind that the poetry this soldier writes is hackneyed dribble. But his comment about why he writes is just plain silly. In his own words:
“I think it is important to remember why we are here,”
The implication here is that the war in Iraq is somehow to defend the nation. [...]
Some interesting reading online this week:
Silliman’s back (unlike AC/DC) in black and white.
Enjoy The Second Coming. It’s been Finnished.
And yet, another Amazon boycott.
The Jewish geniuses a la Andy Warhol.
Meet President Iambic Dimeter with a pyrrhic dangler.
Capitalist poetry. Solicitation anyone?
Time to prepare a submission. Later.
I said I would offer some words on the appointment of Kay Ryan to the poet laureate position. I must say that it is rather surprising given that she isn’t all that well known. I mean, there are other poets far more well known who could have been selected, which begs the question, why Ryan?
If [...]
Meet the anticommunist antimodernists.
Meet the fake Frank O’Hara.
Meet Ron Silliman’s clone (but don’t laugh).
Meet the new declinists.
Meet Kay Ryan’s travel agenda.
What’s going on at the National Mall in September.
The accountability of the artist.
Poetry tagged.
That’s all for now. Goodbye.
Try some politically engaged poetry.
R.I.P. Tom Disch.
Writing poetry on Otto.
This is the 300th post for the World Class Poetry Blog and to commemorate this historic event I’ve made a few administrative changes that I hope will be welcome improvements. For starters, I’ve changed my tag line. You’ll notice that the header of this blog now says, under the blog title, “Intelligent Commentary On 21st [...]
I was struck a little bit lopsided by this post over at Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog. Usually, I find some pretty interesting commentary on this blog, but this one struck me as a bit shallow. The blogger, Lucia Perillo, asked “Why do poets tend to be liberal?” On the surface it seems like a [...]
Meet Delaware’s 16th poet laureate.
Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore has been published.
R.I.P. James B. Hall.
A new poetry forum.
Now this (read below) is pure poetry:
If you want to believe that America is a governable country of informed citizens and not a nation of ignorant, Fox News-watching sheep, the single most depressing fact to come out of the [...]
Ron Silliman posted an interesting diatribe on his blog on Saturday. I usually don’t agree with a lot of what he says (who does?), but I’m always appreciative of the thought that he puts into it. Saturday’s post was about the sentimentalist ways in which Robert Creeley’s poetry is being used today.
Rather than say I [...]