January 2008 Archives
Richard Newman has spent the past thirteen years working to keep St. Louis' oldest literary magazine alive. It has not been an easy task.
A recently published compendium of Robert Frost's personal notebooks is coming under attack from two critics who say that the editor of the volume mistranscribed hundreds, if not thousands, of Frost’s words.
[From Editing of Frost Notebooks in Dispute]
For more than 50 years, Geoffrey Hill has written a pinch-mouthed, grave-digger’s poetry. His rich and allusive books are normally greeted by praise from critics and bewilderment from readers.
[From Living With Ghosts]
Along with his colleague Charles Simic, the current poet laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky was taking part in a program billed as “Words and Music.”
[From MUSIC REVIEW; A Breezy Exchange Between Old Friends (Jazz and Poetry)]
Mr. O’Gallagher was an avant-garde sound artist, painter and teacher whose San Francisco studio became an early gathering place for Beat writers and poets in the 1950s. [From Liam O’Gallagher, 90, a Beat Avant-Gardist and Teacher, Dies]
