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The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
An online exhibition created by The National Library of Ireland. When you enter the tour, you can scan through 200 artifacts & manuscripts and “attend” three in-depth tutorials exploring the evolution of three major poems (‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Leda and the Swan’ and ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’). You can also listen to Yeats, one of Ireland’s towering poets, reciting his famous poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree.’
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remix my lit
Not many books begin with a word of warning. Through the Clock’s Workings does. This anthology of literature is not some textual tome, frozen in time and space. It is alive, evolving organically in a constant state of flux. This is a world first: a remixed and remixable short fiction anthology. (remix my lit)
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Who you are as a poet
Guthrie Martin agrees. “So many poets I know are so concerned with MFAs and prizes and getting published, making their mark,” she said. “For me, having who you are as a poet live on isn’t about any particular poem you write or your body of work. It’s about how you inspire other people to be [...]
patti smith | dream of life
Dream of Life is a plunge into the philosophy and artistry of cult rocker Patti Smith.This portrait of the legendary singer, artist and poet explores themes of spirituality, history and self expression.
Poetry Animations
Poetry Animations via YouTube
Synchronistic Linguistics in the Matrix
As I write this on the night of April 25th, 1999, a film called The Matrix is number one at the box office. Though by no means a perfect science fiction movie, it still manages to pack one hell of a wallop. I'd hardly put it on the same scale as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Brazil, or even Blade Runner, but at the same time I don't believe the flaws in the film represent a weakness on the part of the Wachowski Brothers' writing talents. I believe the film is designed to disseminate a subversive message through the filter of popular culture. As Marshall McLuhan said, "Anything that's popular is a rear-view image."
The Matrix is not about the future, it's about the past.
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Why Poetry Matters
In "Education by Poetry," one of his finest essays, Frost argued that an understanding of how poetry works is essential to the developing intellect. He went so far as to suggest that unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.
Brion Gysin: Calligraffiti of Fire
Brion Gysin at October Gallery 11 December 2008 - 7 February 2009
I’d rather write bad
I wrote bad because writing good definitely did me no good. (Dorothy Porter, Australian Humanities Review)
Australian poet Dorothy Porter dies in Melbourne
Australian poet Dorothy Porter died in Melbourne this morning from complications due to cancer. She was 54.
Since when do words belong to anybody?
“The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don’t own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? ‘Your very own words,’ indeed! And who are you?” (‘Cut-Ups [...]
Final Cut: The Selection Process for Break, Blow, Burn
For decades, poetry has been a way of losing money for trade publishers. Then Camille Paglia’s Break, Blow, Burn became a hit. Why? via Arion | Arts & Letters Daily
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Poetry Brothel Seducing Many New Yorkers
With dimmed lights, lace, and masks, the Poetry Brothel is anything but a conventional poetry reading, and maybe that’s why it seducing so many New Yorkers. NY1′s Stephanie Simon filed the following report on a new kind of poetry party that is downright risqué. via NY1
Robert Burns Poetry to be Twittered
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 2 (UPI) — The works of Robert Burns are being Twittered as part of the celebration of the Scottish poet’s 250th birthday. Users can pick up short excerpts from Burns‘ works, along with factoids about the Ayrshire poet, The Scotsman reported. The National Trust for Scotland is behind the project. “We like [...]
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List of Unsolved Codes and Ciphers
This is an unofficial list of well-known unsolved codes and ciphers. A couple of the better-known unsolved ancient historical scripts are also thrown in, since they tend to come up during any discussion of unsolved codes. There has also been an attempt to sort this list by “fame”, as defined by a loose formula involving [...]
Poems for Times of Turmoil
What does poetry have to do with the serious financial havoc the world has been enduring? Does anyone have time to consider a confection of art — spun from the imagination — while we face the chilling reality of lost homes, tattered businesses, or a compromised future? “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” We [...]
Poems on the Credit Crunch
To celebrate National Poetry Day, BBC News website readers have been sending in their poems on the credit crunch. via BBC
Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers
Last night at a poetry reading marking the release of the 2008 Best American Poetry anthology the distinguished poet and Finding Forrester star Charles Bernstein delivered a stirring plea for swift intervention to stave off the subprime poetry crisis:
Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massive poetry buyout: leveraged and unsecured poems, poetry derivatives, delinquent poems, and subprime poems will be removed from circulation in the biggest poetry bailout since the Victorian era. We believe the plan is a comprehensive approach to relieving the stresses on our literary institutions and markets.
Let there be no mistake: the fundamentals of our poetry are sound. The problem is not poetry but poems. The crisis has been precipitated by the escalation of poetry debt—poems that circulate in the market at an economic loss due to their difficulty, incompetence, or irrelevance.
Most novels make most poets cringe
It is ironic that Laird, also a novelist, has set up the strawman of television (and, oddly radio, that most literate of mediums) to pose as the enemy of poetry in our age, when, in fact, it is clear that is is the novel that has done the most damage to poetry’s reputation. It is [...]
More Proof Poetry is Thriving Online?
“The British-based Poetry Archive has released statistics that visitors to its website are now viewing a total of more than one million pages a month. More than 125,000 individuals – or ‘unique visitors’ in web jargon – have visited the site, which hosts poems and audio readings by the poets themselves.” via The Telegraph (UK)
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Life Forces the Arts
Have you ever felt drawn to a particular painting, sculpture, or handmade thing but you weren’t quite sure why? It could be that the item was made by an artist who infused his or her chi into the work. The spirit energy per say of the artist; focused emotional energy implanted in the piece while [...]
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James Dickey on Poetry
“Poetry is, I think, the highest medium that mankind has ever come up with,” he asserted in a 1981 interview. “It’s language itself, which is a miraculous medium which makes everything else that man has ever done possible.” James Dickey | Poets.org
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American Revolutionaries on Ovation
The end of July closes out Ovation TV's terrific American Revolutionaries event.
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Naropa Poetics Audio Archive
The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the university’s Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. [...]
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One Day Poem Pavilion
Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem.
Plathophilia
Eye Rhymes purports to be the first book to examine Plath’s visual art and to “gauge that art in relation to her heralded literary career,” and it does feature artworks of hers that have never been published before. But mostly, it’s another look at Sylvia Plath’s development as a poet. via Bookslut’s Plathophilia: Rereading Sylvia
Walt Whitman at Eye Level
In Bartlett’s depiction one of Whitman’s eyes appears larger than the other, as if he has given you an all-knowing wink. That feeling—as if he has just let you in on the biggest secret in the world—is exactly how I feel each time I revisit his poetry and find something new about the poet, the [...]
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Gary Snyder Awarded 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Poet Gary Snyder is the winner of the 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 and presented annually by the Poetry Foundation, the award is one of the most prestigious given to American poets.
The brand of Oscar Wilde
"Like Shakespeare and Coca-Cola, Oscar Wilde is now a brand, one with brand values we respond to: fabulous and at the same time real..."
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