Gary Snyder through the years.
Canadian poets have not died out (yet).
Midweek Staff Meeting – A Poet’s History
Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde
Thanks for The Picture of Dorian Gray, my third favorite work of 19th century Decadent literature (and my second favorite in English).
Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets
R. B. Kitaj (1932–2007), Color screenprint, 1969
The National Potrait Gallery has a new exhibit – Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets.
The show’s title is, I hope, self-explanatory. If it is not, I suspect you are just on this blog in the hopes of finding dirty pictures (there aren’t any, so quit looking; the entire rest of the internet exists solely to store pornography, so you’ll live if you encounter a single freaking page without any nudity).
But a nice way to honor great American poets while providing a different way to look them and (hopefully) an opportunity to encounter their work.
Happy Birthday, Virgil
The poet who brought us The Flea and Georgics would have been 2082 today.
Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Future Books
Beards
Your Monthly Dose Of Seth Abramson’s Quiveringly Praiseful & Profoundly, Verbosely, & Gushingly Erudited Reviews Of Recent Books Of Poetry Published By Various Doughty Vanguards Of Our Stupendous Poetical Culture
Yes, he’s irritating. But not many reviews of poetry are being published these days in, you know, places people can see them.
So here you are – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/september-2012-contempora_b_1923827.html
For something a little more fun to read (though still a bit overdone), check out these reviews (also in the HuffPo) of books by San Francisco poets.
Indie Thursday
Apparently (at least, according to someone I don’t know on twitter), it’s Indie Thursday, when we’re all supposed to go shopping at local, independently owned bookstores. I don’t actually have time today, but here are some recommendations of where to go in various locales:
the coffee philosopher 