New Plath Poem

Saw the film trailer for Happy Feet this morning. What an enticing few moments of video to perk up my Friday morning.

• Teacher Observation (here) on Crag Hill's poetry scorecard - I say ditto!
• Thanks to Bloggingpoet.com for the plug!
• What a coup for Blackbird -an online Journal of Literature and the Arts! Anna Journey, Contributing Editor of Blackbird made a remarkable discovery concerning a poem Sylia Plath wrote as an undergraduate. The poem had never been published. Blackbird was granted the first serial publication rights to the poem "Enuui" by estate of Sylvia Plath, Frieda Hughes, and Ros Edwards of the Edwards Fuglewicz Literary Agency. The poem and Anna Journey's insightful findings are here.
• At 79, the poet W.S. Merwin shares his craft the elegance that has marked his poems for half a century.
• Denise Low, interim dean of the College of Humanities and Arts at Haskell Indian Nations University to become the next Kansas Poet Laureate.
• Thirteen are nominated for the State Poet Laureate position in Oklahoma.

tags: Sylvia Plath Anna Journey Enuui Blackbird Literary Journal W.S. Merwin Denise Low Poet Laureate Kansas Oklahoma Happy Feet