November 27, 2011
Cool-looking authors No. 16
Kurt Vonnegut, literary legend, author of "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "Breakfast of Champions"
Vonnegut on the Shape of Stories:
Quick video lesson on YouTube
November 25, 2011
Now that's poetic
A list,
is that what
desire makes,
finally?
- An essay by poet Mark Doty linking Walt Whitman, Bram Stoker, meth, sex addiction and vampirism. In Granta's Horror issue, Autumn 2011.
is that what
desire makes,
finally?
- An essay by poet Mark Doty linking Walt Whitman, Bram Stoker, meth, sex addiction and vampirism. In Granta's Horror issue, Autumn 2011.
November 23, 2011
Shh
It all happened
in silence,
yet within
the silence
voices were
endlessly busy.
- Tomas Transtromer, 2011 Nobel laureate,
from memoir
in silence,
yet within
the silence
voices were
endlessly busy.
- Tomas Transtromer, 2011 Nobel laureate,
from memoir
November 14, 2011
Local star
Creative Loafing's Best of ATL pick for Best Local Poet 2011:
Kevin Young, author of the books "Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels," "Dear Darkness: Poems," "For the Confederate Dead" and "Jelly Roll: A Blues." And curator of Literary Collections and Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University.
Kevin Young, author of the books "Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels," "Dear Darkness: Poems," "For the Confederate Dead" and "Jelly Roll: A Blues." And curator of Literary Collections and Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University.
Solopoetics
Every invitation came
with a stern reminder:
“Please don’t bring a guest.”
— From New York Times article about the Wilde Boys poetry readings/literary salon created by poet Alex Dimitrov (pictured)
November 9, 2011
Georgia's poet laureate 2000-2011
Profile of David Bottoms in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“I don’t write unless I have a notion of what I want to say.”
November 8, 2011
Critic
This reader's response to a prize-winning poem certainly goes for the poetic style too:
This poem smells like the sawdust
rising from a puddle of extinguished upchuck.
— Bonnie (reaction to "Likenesses")
This poem smells like the sawdust
rising from a puddle of extinguished upchuck.
— Bonnie (reaction to "Likenesses")
Labels:
Boston Review,
critic,
like,
likenesses,
Reader,
sawdust,
upchuck
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