TwinArts Poetry Fair Winds and Following Seas By Paul D.Q. Haddock, Esq., October 18, 2009 After twenty-two months, TwinArts Poetry (TAP) will cease web presentation in its current form. That is not to say that at some point in the future a blog or some other web format may be developed for the general public. However, the decision to suspend TAP as it is today will permit its few administrators and membership to pursue other related activities in their personal capacities. TwinArts Poetry ... Read Full Story

Star Tribune The Poet Comes Home Reckless youth. War protester. Translator. Men's-movement guru. Through it all, Robert Bly's enduring passion has been for his poetry. By Laurie Hertzel, September 30, 2009 Outside the bus, bare fields. A barn, a silo. A cloudy sky, the early-morning sun trying to push through. Inside the bus, poets. They take turns at the microphone, standing up and facing the other passengers, reciting poems, telling stories, passing out snacks. When the bus rounds a cur... Read Full Story

Cape Cod Today Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver to speak at Cape Cod Community College September 29, 2009 One of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America, named by the Boston Globe as one of the “Seven Wonders of Massachusetts,” Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author Mary Oliver will read from her works at the Tilden Arts Center on Cape Cod Community College’s West Barnstable campus, Wednesday October 14th at 7 p.m. Read Full Story

The Jarkarta Post Kahlil Gibran and Indonesia By Eka Budianta, September 30, 2009 For so many years, the Kahlil Gibran International Conferences were frequently held in the United States, but now for the first time it will be held in Lebanon, later this year. Why? Does the world feel Gibran belongs to Lebanon more than to America? Now, the works of Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) have become favorites in Indonesia since the 1920s. They appeared in Dutch translations as a fresh voice from the eas... Read Full Story

Belief dot net Dharma Poetry: Jane Hirshfield September 25, 2009 A few weeks ago I blogged about Tyler Doherty, a fine contemporary Buddhist poet, and Gary Gach of Tricycle Magazine posted a comment. I looked Gary up and found out that he hosts a lively Haiku Corner blog at Tricycle's website. I also discovered that Gary edited a very cool book of Buddhist poetry called What Book!?: Buddha Poems From Beat To Hip-hop. This link is to a preview of nearly half of the book on Google Books. I... Read Full Story

The Los Angeles Times Amy Gerstler's message: Be not afraid The poet wishes more people would realize that her medium doesn't hurt. At all. By Dinah Lenney, September 27, 2009 It's not unusual for Amy Gerstler to trip down the street from her house to mine bearing gifts: a ripe avocado, a jar of martini olives, an article of interest, a plastic Cupid the length of my thumbnail. Today, she meets me outside with a book she wants me to see -- John D'Agata's eclectic "The Lost Origins of the Ess... Read Full Story

1010 Wins dot com National Poetry Library Reopens in Lower Manhattan September 24, 2009 NEW YORK (AP/ 1010 WINS) -- The first reading at Manhattan's independent national poetry library was given by a man better known for delivering punch lines than verse. Actor Bill Murray's poetry reading to construction workers finishing work on Poets House in May included an Emily Dickinson work: "I dwell in possibility,/A fairer House than Prose.'' Read Full Story

The Online Newshour Profile of 'Genius Award' Winner Heather McHugh By Jim Lehrer, September 23, 2009 Funded by a grant from The Poetry Foundation. A profile of Seattle poet Heather McHugh, who was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship on Tuesday. JIM LEHRER: And finally, another in our ongoing series on poets and poetry. Tonight, Heather McHugh. She was just today awarded a MacArthur fellowship, popularly known as the genius award. McHugh is author of more than a dozen books of poetry, transla... Read Full Story

The Daily Iowan Award-winning UI alumni share nature-inspired works By Rebecca Koons, September 24, 2009 The simplest and most complex things can inspire poetry. A distinctive talent is necessary to craft a work that not only makes sense but has greater meaning. Two graduates of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop have turned this talent into a satisfying career. Jared Stanley and Jessica Savitz will share their works at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., at 7 p.m. today. Both Stanley and Sav... Read Full Story

Black Voice News African poetry By Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D., September 23, 2009 The core of what African poetry is about is the primacy of beauty. Whereas poetic emphasis for the ancient Greeks and much of the Western world has always been the “significance of the Form,” the artistic essence of Poetry for Africans has always been its Subjective aspects (related to God). This basic focus of Africans originated in Nature. Before Primitive (the first) Africans created the first words of the ... Read Full Story