Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Song Cave publishes single poems in single volumes.


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Check out Emerging Writers Network for book reviews.

Poetry & The Creative Mind

Special guest readers for 2010 include Meryl Streep, Sting, Ted Sorensen, Julian Schnabel, Jhumpa Lahiri, Matt Dillon, Alan Cumming, Rosanne Cash, Gabriel Byrne, Frank Bidart & others to be announced.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices

The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices
Six-Word Memoirs of Love and Heartbreak
Tina Chang, Brooklyn's new poet laureate,
breaks down her creative process.

Three Tales by Jessica Bozek

Three Tales

Cormac McCarthy on James Joyce and Punctuation

Cormac McCarthy discusses his style of punctuation. Modeled on the sparse style of James Joyce, Cormac's books are free of quotation marks, semicolons and most other grammatical marks.

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SERIES: EEPS

Initiated in 2003, the Eastern European Poets Series is dedicated to publishing the work of contemporary Eastern European poets in translation (often in bilingual editions), emigré authors who write in English, and influential poets of the Eastern European avant garde whose work is not widely available in English translation. Series Editor: Matvei Yankelevich.

The Drug of Art: Selected Poems

On-Time Delivery: Poem-A-Day

Take a break with poetry this spring by subscribing to a free email poem every day. Beginning on April 1, you'll receive poems each day from new poetry titles featured on the Poets.org Spring Books List. This year's Poem-A-Day emails will feature work from new collections by John Ashbery, Theresa Hak Cha, and Philip Levine, just to name a few.

On the web at: www.poets.org/poemaday

New Spring Poetry Titles

The first place to look for new books of poetry, the Spring Books List of the Academy of American Poets features 140 new and recently published titles from independent and commercial presses. Highlights include NOX, Anne Carson; The Apple Trees at Olema, Robert Hass; The Living Fire, Edward Hirsch; Where I Live, Maxine Kumin; Other Flowers, James Schuyler; White Egrets, Derek Walcott; new books by Ai, Charles Bernstein, Terrance Hayes, Alex Lemon, Richard O. Moore, C. K. Williams, and others. www.poets.org/npmbooks

National Poetry Month

Thursday, March 4, 2010

WALLACE STEVENS, NEW YORK, AND MODERNISM CONFERENCE



In Honor of John N. Serio
March 4 - 6, 2010
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
1 Washington Place, New York, NY

Wallace Stevens, New York and Modernism is proudly co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America, the Humanities Initiative of NYU, the English department, the Comparative Literature department and Creative Writing Program of NYU.