BODcasts "The Bodleian Library launches its first series of BODcasts with readings by celebrated poets including Seamus Heaney, Bernard O’Donoghue and Mick Imlah." MP3s of talks and readings given on an evening in celebration of the publication of the journal
Archipelago.
[Via]
posted by Abiezer
on Oct 30, 2007 -
4 comments
Asemic is a magazine of asemic writing, which is writing without semantic content. The editor is Australian Tim Gaze, who's made the asemic books
Aussie Runes and The Oxygen of Truth, volumes
1 and
2. "Only words lie; asemic texts cannot lie."
[more inside]
posted by Kattullus
on Oct 13, 2007 -
74 comments
Too Hot To Hear.
Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's Beat-era poem "Howl" was not obscene. Yet today, a New York public broadcasting station decided not to air the poem, fearing that the Federal Communications Commission will find it indecent and crush the network with crippling fines. More on Allen Ginsberg
here.
Via.
posted by amyms
on Oct 5, 2007 -
69 comments
Witness trees
teach us about presettlement landscapes,
surveying methods and
Native American art forms. Witness trees
inspire us,
hide in plain sight, have
free parking,
become forgotten and sometimes
become tables. Witness trees are protected
by law and sometimes
by signs, but not protected
from stupidity. Photos:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5
posted by jessamyn
on Sep 3, 2007 -
19 comments
Sean Bonney's translations of Baudelaire are unconventional. Instead of following the form of the French originals they are semi-concrete typewriter poetry. In a
review of the book,
everyone's cup of tea, onedit magazine says that they are "certainly the best translations of Baudelaire in English ever written." Which might explain why they published 35 of them in their latest issue. You can listen to Bonney read his translations
here [mp3]
posted by Kattullus
on Jul 18, 2007 -
61 comments
Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-45) was an Icelandic Romantic poet and natural scientist. Dick Ringler, a professor at The University of Wisconsin, has a site that contains
50 poems and prose texts by Jónas in parallel English/Icelandic versions. Also on the site,
a guide to traditional Icelandic verse,
a biographical sketch of the poet and a
map of Iceland with places Jónas wrote about marked. Here's his short
Above the Ford:
The cliffs on life's swift current/are cleft by shallow valleys./Masses have queued to cross there ---/crowds of billy-goat milkers./We'll go upstream, God willing,/to walk the hawk-high ridges/and pitch ourselves --- impetuous ---/plumb in the roaring torrent! [Today is Iceland's Independence Day]
posted by Kattullus
on Jun 17, 2007 -
13 comments
Google poetry generator. From "Metafilter Villanelle":
clean! It communicates with wireless/
Some strangers have written my entire/
whose purpose is to share links and discuss//
finding old obscure links, but today I guess/
- one link axegrindfilter - there/
and succumbed today to the "loss// (Make sure to check out the
patterns feature.)
posted by flotson
on May 8, 2007 -
13 comments
"Pray for the Hartzler family. Their youngest has left the church and no longer believes that Christ died for her sins. She buys clothes at the mall. Tongue pierced, nose as well. Her shirt shows her belly where a ring of gold sprouts. We pray she will remember that her Lord's side was pierced, that His crown held no gold, only the dried blood of His brow."
Shamash thinks the prayer request in this
poem might be written for her. Despite her start in a Mennonite family, she is now an "international traveller living and teaching in Asia."
posted by The Light Fantastic
on Mar 14, 2007 -
21 comments
"Another useful analogy might be with a clearing in the jungle. The web is certainly a jungle, and without a few clearings it is hard to see how the innocent can stay sane in there, and it might soon be hard to see anything at all." The words of poet and essayist
Clive James, whose eponymous site is an online galley/anthology of breathtaking writing, art, and video interviews. My favorites include Ophelia Redpath's
paintings titled after Shakespeare quotes, Laura Noble's
photos of rusty things, and, of course, a collection James's
outstanding poetry.
posted by eustacescrubb
on Mar 3, 2007 -
8 comments
Asininity? Not just for poets, asininepoetry.com, just in time for St. Valentine's Day. A great place to waste a lot of time. You may want to wax poetic yourownself.
posted by longsleeves
on Feb 6, 2007 -
2 comments
