dumbfoundry: March 2010

Cordite's Zombie 2.0

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

...is fresh.

Plus, Zombie Haikunaut Renga.

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NaPoWriMo 2010

NaPoWriMo 2010 is ~~almost~~ here!

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Australian Poets at Work: Tricia Dearborn

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Why is poetry important to you?

Tricia Dearborn: As a reader, poetry shows me the world in ways I wouldn't have seen it otherwise; plays with language in ways that give me pure pleasure; tickles my funnybone; delights my mind. It's a very pure, particular, concentrated medium, and I like concentrated.

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'Gavin Highly'

Monday, March 29, 2010

Janet Frame:

Did it happen this way? The land lay like stone, and one night, all night long, rain pelted down on it the way people, they say, hammer hard on a stone to find blood. And in the morning the land was cut in two by a deep flow of creek, clotted with red weed—Gavin Highly’s creek.

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Launch: What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo

Pascale Petit: "The London launch of my fifth collection, What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren), will be on Thursday 17 June, 6.30 – 8.30pm, at The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury."

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Apoca-lit Now

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Will the technological revolution destroy literature, or save it?

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Free Poetry Books for National Poetry Month!

Friday, March 26, 2010

"There are some incredible books of poems being given away in the next month." [USA]

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John Siddique & Cerys Matthews on Ted Hughes & Shamanic Poetry

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Poet Plans to Inscribe His Works into the DNA of a Bacterium

Poet Christian Bök plans to alter the DNA of a particular species of bacteria so that it reflects an encoded version of his poetry

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Octopus Magazine

Thursday, March 25, 2010

...is fresh.

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Blue Fifth Review

...is fresh.

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Saudi woman poet lashes out at clerics in 'Arabic Idol'

Abu Dhabi judges praise courage of writer who dared to criticise hardliners:

Tonight, Hissa Hilal, a mother-of-four from Saudi Arabia, takes to the stage in the last round of a competition that she has taken by storm with a scathing critique of the conservative clerics who hold sway in her country. Her poetry has earned her the praise of the judges, the acclaim of the viewing public – and more than a few death threats.

[via Retort]

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Rest in Peace, Ai

Sunday, March 21, 2010

(1947-2010)

Ai's bio by the Poetry Foundation

Mark Doty remembers.

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Call for Sylvia Plath poems

Friday, March 19, 2010

Christine Hamm writes:

I am collecting an anthology of poems and more that celebrate Sylvia Plath's life and work, but do not fetishize her suicide and death.

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Trout

Thursday, March 18, 2010

...is fresh.

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You Shouldn’t Let Other People Get Your Kicks for You

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Chris O. Cook writes:

"Cal Bedient once said that a poem should always be pleasurable but that it should never be the first duty of a poem to entertain. I not only agree, but consider the distinction to be one of the most valuable things I have ever heard anyone say about poetry. But a poetry reading is not a poem. To say that a reading should be genuinely engaging on the level of a musical performance, and that poets should work to make this so, is not to say that poetry should be composed with an eye towards wowing a crowd.

This, of course, is the error of Slam."

[via Lorcaloca]

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