Great Poetry 59 - Matthew Dickman (USA)
Great Poetry 59 - Meg Kearney (USA,
This is the fifty-nineth in a series, Great Poetry.
Great Poetry 58 - Bhamu Kapil (UK/ethnic Indian)
Writing on Writing 21: Klik or Kleek... um, WOW!
Lucille Clifton (USA, born 1936) died 13 February 2010
The story related to her death is from The Baltimore Sun: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-clifton0213,0,1919734.story
Writing on Writing 20: Copyright in the USA
Writing on Writing 19: Copyright: Hugo can you Berne this?
Robert Dana - Former Poet Leureate of Iowa dies Saturday, 6 February, 2010
Robert Dana (1929 - 2010), age 80 has died. Dana taught writing and English literature at Cornel College and other schools. He was Cornel’s Poet in Residence. During his life he obtained many honours for his poetry. For a biograph, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dana
Writing on Writing 18: Saying the unmentionable – Apophasis, WOW!
William Franke, in his article, A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Apophasis and the Experience of Truth and Totality, commenting upon, among other things, poetry, wrote:
Writing on Writing 17: Poetry, Sex, Autobiography and Death - WOW!
Writing on Writing 16 - Ssssshh…… Sex and love in poetry... WOW!
Olya says that everything is about sex. I don’t agree but that is hardly the point since there is enough truth in Olya’s perspective that it justifies opening this blog with the statement. (In the background Olya is talking: “You know you agree.
Great Poetry 57 - Kim Minkus (Canada)
Bingo Gazingo/ Murray Wachs (USA,1924-2010) Struck by a cab on New Year's Day.
For his poem, You’re out of the computer, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR9wby3ti48&feature=related
Stephen Morse dead at 65, 16 January 2010
From Wikipedia:
CBC Radio interview with Lenard Cohen 29 January 2010, 10:00 AM
Tomorrow, 29 January 2010, at 10:00 AM there will be a feature conversation on Q, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi with music and literary icon
