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Friday, October 13, 2006

Friday the 13th ~

On the heels of my Wednesday Poet feature on Peter Conners comes this item: Poetry: "A Urinal I Invite You To Hang On Your Wall."

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Nice to read of Ivy's exploits with her chapbooks. [here]

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Check out Christine Hamm's - Transparent Dinner / Mayapple Press. [here]

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Then chew in this morsel.............. The head of the British army has said that our troops in Iraq are merely exacerbating the problems there and leading to difficulties for British forces worldwide.


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Thursday, October 12, 2006

And The Winner Is....

The announcement for the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature is out and Turkey's Orhan Pamuk has won for works bridging the east-west divide .

Not surprisingly, President Bush has rejected the findings of the Johns Hopkins Study on Iraqi deaths since the invasion. But the best arguments on the subject I have seen was made here and here. The study provides a significant point at which to judge the impact this decision has had and continues to have on the people of Iraq. Like some many other things, the president is simply in a state of denial.

A Canadian-born, Pulitzer Prize­winning poet survives the tests of time- Mark Strand. Read this article about his new book, Man and Camel.

Always amused by what brings people to this site. Two recent search engine keyword strings used...
  • how would I make a Super Hero out of phosphorous
  • killing a frog dream



Wednesday, October 11, 2006

The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Verse Academics Dominate Poetry Finalists for National Book Awards

The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Verse Academics Dominate Poetry Finalists for National Book Awards

Four poets with academic ties are finalists for the National Book Awards. Ther are: Louise Glück , H.L. Hix, Nathaniel Mackey, and James McMichael

Bush predicts victory at polls next month

President Bush Continues in a State of Denial

654,000 deaths tied to Iraq war

Wednesday Poet Series - No. 4

This week's poet is Peter Conners. He is both a poet and fiction writer who's work has been featured in Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, Beloit Fiction Journal, Luna, Sentence, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Paragraph, and, Quick Fiction, among other publications. Books include, The Names of Winter, While In The World , and he edited PP/FF: An Anthology

What work of Conners I have read seems intricate as to detail. Bite The Pomegranate would be a great example as to his predisposal to catching all that is about and pulling it into his images as he writes.

The Poet Washes Dishes is a favorite of mine. Here he gets a lot of mileage out of his detail.

"The soft downturn of the ladle handle soared and fell like the epic point guard's final jump shot..."
" Water turned from periods to semi-colons and, finally, ellipses."
Here are a few other poems by Peter Conners:

Snowbirds Made of Clay Endurance Poets with alarm clocks in their foreheads

Peter Conners official website - click here

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