A Web site that permits readers to chat about books as they read, may be transforming a lone activity into a communal one.
Chat While Reading: The Future Of Books? : NPR
Jul 3rd, 2009 by RL
How YouTube separates porn from poetry :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Other Views
Jun 20th, 2009 by RL
One of the richest resources on YouTube is an extraordinary channel named SpokenVerse. It offers 466 readings of great poems in English, from Shakespeare to today. Their reader is a pleasure to listen to. He makes no effort to “perform,” but simply and clearly respects the poetry, with understated emotion when necessary.
Recently one of his poems was taken down by YouTube, apparently because of one female breast more than a century old.
How YouTube separates porn from poetry :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Other Views.
Poetic Machinations
May 27th, 2009 by RL
The recent election of the Oxford professor of poetry is the stuff of poetic satire, if only it weren’t so sad and pathetic.
Call for Oxford poet to resign after sex row
May 24th, 2009 by RL
The quagmire over the Oxford University Professor of Poetry keeps on sucking.
Call for Oxford poet to resign after sex row - Times Online .
Where Have All the Muses Gone? - WSJ.com
May 16th, 2009 by RL
The muse was once the female figure — deity, Platonic ideal, mistress, lover, wife
– whom poets and painters called upon for inspiration. That inspiration is harder to come by these days.
Nobel winner quits Oxford poetry race over sex claims | News
May 12th, 2009 by RL
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott has quit the race to become Oxford Professor of Poetry after becoming embroiled in a sex smear campaign.
Nobel winner quits Oxford poetry race over sex claims | News.
As reported at the NYT
After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman
May 1st, 2009 by RL
With the choice of Carol Ann Duffy, the post held by such poets as Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth and Ted Hughes went to a woman for the first time.
Treason / Shiloh Treason by James Tate
Apr 15th, 2009 by RL
A song in your heart, a poem in your pocket
Apr 8th, 2009 by RL
I did what I was supposed to do. I tore one out and carried it around in my pocket. Read it. Then read it again.
Then I went back the next day and tore out another. And another. It was addictive. Like Thin Mints but without calories.
via Deseret News | A song in your heart, a poem in your pocket.
Rules for ePoetry
Mar 30th, 2009 by RL
E-poetry relies on code for its creation, preservation, and display: there is no way to experience a work of e-literature unless a computer is running it—reading it and perhaps also generating it.
This “rule” is important for what it rules out: e-books, digitized versions of print works, and other word-processed documents, on- or offscreen.
Fisher Poets Celebrate an Industry in Decline - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Mar 29th, 2009 by RL
The Times invited readers to submit original verse that addresses the current economic downturn, exploring the relationship of work to a way of life and a geographical place
Fisher, Oregon, Poets Celebrate an Industry in Decline.
Can Poetry Save the Earth?
Apr 4th, 2009 by RL
Blending the pleasure of poetry with biography, history, geography, and current environmental concerns, Stanford Professor John Felstiner reveals the tension between a human-centered viewpoint and nature at large. This tension drives both environmental poetry and politics.
[From Stanford Professor Asks, "Can Poetry Save the Earth?" ]
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