Another One By Ron Padgett When you’re a child you learn there are three dimensions: height, width, and depth. Like a shoebox. Then later you hear there’s a fourth dimension: time. Hmm. Then some say there can be five, six, seven… I knock off work, have a beer at the bar. I look down at … Continue reading For the film ‘Paterson,’ poet Ron Padgett wrote four original poems (via PBS)
Spitshine Poetry, the only poetry club on campus, hosted an open mic night Wednesday where students were free to come and share their own work to an audience of students and other poets. “I’ve never done it before,” music composition senior Jocelyn Chambers said. “I’m freaking out.” Those who attended ranged from first-timers to experienced poets, … Continue reading Spitshine Poetry hosts poetry open mic night for students (via Daily Texan)
“Paterson” is set in Paterson, N.J., and concerns a bus driver, played by Adam Driver, who is also named Paterson. Already you may be getting a sense of the resonant circular prayer wheel that is Jim Jarmusch’s new film. Paterson the man is a poet — although most people don’t know it — and he … Continue reading ‘Paterson’ is poetry in motion (via Boston Globe)
Jacob Polley has won the 2016 TS Eliot prize with Jackself, a collection described by the judges as “a firework of a book”. The loosely autobiographical poems use the “Jack” of nursery rhyme and local legend to tell the story of a childhood in rural Cumbria, from the “cartilage stew and spreadable carrots” of school … Continue reading 2016 TS Eliot prize won by Jacob Polley’s ‘firecracker of a book’ (via Guardian)
Poets and publishers from around the world converge upon Bridgewater College Jan. 12-15 for a conference to celebrate poetry, creativity and the global exchange of ideas. The command performance, which is free and open to the public at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 15, will feature readings from 12 to 15 selected poets, reprising works representative of … Continue reading Bridgewater College to host International Poetry Festival (via News Leader)
Most of 2016 was merely sickening, before the year ended up as painful as a boot kick to the exposed duodenum. Nor am I in the mood to affirm the permanence or enduring power of much of anything: I’m too busy gaining weight, erupting at my children, and losing touch with my friends. These days, … Continue reading The Best Books of Poetry in 2016 (via The New Yorker)
Poetry isn’t only found in old books, it’s also broadcasted on the radio. A course offered by the Ohio State Department of English looks at alternative rock lyrics as poetry. Alternative Rock Lyrics as Poems will be offered in Spring 2017 as an upper-division level course for English majors, English 4560, and as a Cultures … Continue reading English course compares rock music to poetry (via The Lantern)
When Matt Foley started organizing poetry slams and performances with local poetry group The Unspoken Word a few years ago, it was tough to fill seats. You need at least five people in the audience (who aren't performers) to serve as judges, Foley says, and there were times when they had to cancel a slam … Continue reading Local poet Matt Foley talks about the power of words (via Charleston City Paper)
Erin Adair-Hodges, a poet, essayist and blogger, is the winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, “Let’s All Die Happy,” will be published next fall by the prize’s sponsor, the University of Pittsburgh Press. The award is given to a writer’s first full-length book of poems and named after the first … Continue reading Author Erin Adair-Hodges wins Starrett Poetry Prize (via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
There is a contrast between honing an individual poem and the process of assembling a collection, assistant professor of English Ishion Hutchinson believes. “A book is a different kind of experience,” he said, drawing a parallel to the artist Joseph Cornell, and “those magical boxes. Many poets are attracted to him, for good reason. You … Continue reading Jamaica and music infuse Ishion Hutchinson’s poetry (via Cornell Chronicle)
