Edgar Allan Poe Lights Up The Ransom Center August 13, 2009

Break out a cask of amontillado and let the pale sherry flow. Fans of Edgar Allan Poe are in for a treat this year, the bicentennial of the American poet, critic and inventor of the detective story’s birth. The Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, is commemorating the two-hundreth birthday of Poe with the exhibition From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar…

Wall Street Bank For Poets Proposed. Never Too Big To Fail? August 5, 2009

There are many contenders for Top Dog status in the bone yard of bonehead ideas. [Provide favorite to Comments]. In the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries, the highest honors for magnificently cockeyed excogitations belonged to one known only as the Idiot. The Idiot, the creation of Harpers humor editor, John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922), whose Idiot confections were collected into six volumes*, was a boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pegagog’s High-Class Home for Single Gentlemen. I’m always…

Golden Handcuffs Review. A Talk with Lou Rowan May 16, 2009

The 2009 Spring/Summer issue of Golden Handcuffs Reviewis now out. The issue features sections on ‘Nathaniel Tarn at 80′ and Luisa Valenzuela at 70’ along with contributions from more than forty artists and writers, among them Rebecca Brown, Pedro Calderon, Gwendolyn Diaz, Alice Notley, Pat Nolan, Toby Olson, Brian Strang, Rosemarie Waldrop and Raul Zurita. I had a chance to check in with Lou Rowan, the editor and guiding light of GH, to find out…

More Political Poetry – Denise Levertov and Vietnam September 8, 2008

nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. Denise Levertov, Life at War The latest podcast in the alt.NPR Poetry Off the Shelf series, Battle of the Bards, focuses on Denise Levertov’s poem Life at War and how her relationship with fellow poet and mentor Robert Duncan was severely strained by Levertov’s anti-war activism and her related poetry. Ange Mlinko has a related piece,”Craft Vs. Conscience How…

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