New U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall gives a tour of his New Hampshire farm where he has written poetry for over 30 years. He also reads poems on nature, love and loss, suggests that poetry is becoming more popular and explores the art of saying the unsayable. [From Poet Laureate Donald Hall Reflects on Age and Nature]
2River is now at number 5 in the Google PageRank order of poetry magazines and e-zines.
[From Google Directory - Arts > Literature > Poetry > Magazines and E-zines ]
Trepidatious as I was to scoure a purely online zine after getting off work, I was suprisingly pleased by 2River View.
[From creative writing 2310: After Midnight Reviews Presents: 2River View]
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]
Poems from four decades by an author who was uprooted in the struggle against apartheid. [From Needing No Weatherman]
