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By Michael Hickey, July 1, 2009

“O muses, O high genius, aid me now” Did you ever wonder where a poem comes from or how is it born? Many poets believe that their words are not theirs alone, but involve the work of a muse (from the Greek mousa, which literally means song or poem). Originally, the muses were any of the nine sister goddesses in Greek mythology who presided over song, poetry and the arts and sciences.

The nine use goddesses were Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (love poetry and lyric art), Euterpe (music, especially flute), Melpomene (tragedy), Polymnia (hymns), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy) and Urania (astronomy). The muses were seen as, the source of inspiration for writing poetry and it was they who guided the poet and formed his or her words.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1099 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1098 It’s a Mad, Mad Wordle
By Carolyn Foote, July 1, 2009

“Nation. New. Common. Generation. These are among the most frequently used words spoken by President Barack Obama in his January 2009 inauguration speech as seen in a fascinating visual display called a Wordle.

It’s simple, really. Just feed text of your choosing into the free online application Wordle, and with one keystroke you’ll have a graphic representation of your content, sized according to frequency of use. It’s “a picture’s worth a thousand words,” only turned on its head—with the terms themselves forming the visual statement.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1098 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1097 SOMERVILLE POET CELIA GILBERT HAS "Something to Exchange"
By Doug Holder, July 1, 2009

Something to Exchange. Celia Gilbert. (Blaze Vox Books Buffalo, NY.

Celia Gilbert's new book of poetry "Something To Exchange" speaks to those who have been around the block once, twice and thrice. And for younger folks, take note: these poems will be sure to sucker punch you along this roller coaster ride we call "life'

Gilbert is a printmaker and painter as well as a poet and maintains a studio in Somerville, Mass. An accomplished poet, she has published three collections, and is the winner of an Emily Dickinson Award and a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Southwest Review, and many other prestigious journals.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1097 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1096 TS Eliot widow exults in his poetry reading
By Geordie Greig, July 1, 2009

In a rare public appearance, TS Eliot's widow Valerie attended a reading of her husband's poems last night at London University.

"It was marvellous to hear Tom's poems and to have them read so well," she said. It is 86 years since TS Eliot published The Waste Land, revolutionising English poetry and placing him as its greatest 20th century exponent.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1096 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1095 On Poetry: Contemporary American poetry needs a literary revival
By A.S. Maulucci, June 26, 2009

As this column enters its third year, I’d like to pause for a moment and take a look back at where we’ve been. I started in June 2007 with a plan to outline the fundamental elements of writing poetry, and I believe I have fulfilled that promise.

I’ve covered all the major ingredients such as imagery, metrics, symbols, line breaks, similes and metaphors. I moved on from there to the subjects of humor, politics, earning a living as a poet, narrative poetry, urban, nature, visionary and confessional poetry as well as genres such as love sonnets, mythology and using your memories as a source for writing poems.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1095 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1094 The New Haiku
By Irene Sege, June 30, 2009

CAMBRIDGE - The class on writing Asian poetry that Professor David McCann teaches at Harvard includes units on Chinese quatrains, Korean sijo, and Japanese haiku, the last of which is so well-known that McCann’s students had haiku days in middle school. Why, McCann wondered, couldn’t the three-line Korean sijo that he loves enjoy the same widespread recognition as the three-line, 17-syllable haiku?

With that, McCann, a poet and professor of Korean literature, embarked on a mission. He is the founder and chief marketing officer of a campaign to popularize the sijo (pronounced SHEE-jo), a traditional poem of 43 to 45 syllables whose third line contains a twist on the theme developed in the first two.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1094 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1093 Archives
June 30, 2009

If you're a Langston Huges fan or unaware of this great American poet, then this is the archive for you. The New York Times historical archive contains news about Langston Hughes, including commentary and archival articles it has published, as well as outside sources.

For example, here you can listen to an audio file from the Caedmon audio tape "Langston Hughes Reads From His Poetry." (6 minutes) Copyright 1980 HarperCollins Publishers Inc./ 1962 BBC Enterprises, Ltd. There are also numerous reviews of Langston Hughes' books, as well as other lesser known works. ]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1093 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1092 Poetry pamphlet award goes to Elizabeth Burns
By Alison Flood, June 25, 2009

Lancaster writing teacher Elizabeth Burns has won the first 5,000 (British Pounds) Michael Marks award for poetry pamphlets for her collection, The Shortest Days.

It's only 12 pages long, but the power and lyricism of Elizabeth Burns's elegiac The Shortest Days has won her the inaugural Michael Marks award for poetry pamphlets.

Dealing with the deaths of two people, The Shortest Days is "very concentrated", said judge Richard Price, poet and head of modern British collections at the British Library. "Elizabeth uses a limited, light palette, which creates special, lyrical effects, particularly with her use of snow, and the colour white," he went on. "This is gradually layered across the book, and all the judges felt that the play of light over the whole book was really very moving. It combines skill and direct engagement with the reader."]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1092 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1091 Snagged by Bishop—Hook, Line & Sinker
By Chris Justice, June 24, 2009

Check out any high school or college poetry anthology, and you’ll likely find Elizabeth Bishop’s classic “The Fish”. As one of American literature’s most popular poems, “The Fish” is arguably the classic American poem about angling and how the sport can restore our souls. Its popularity in classrooms throughout the country is not only a testament to fishing, but also the lessons we can learn from such venerable fishing tales.

Narrated in the first person, the author weaves a powerful tale about a catch that ultimately helped her resolve an internal struggle popular among anglers (most critics believe Bishop caught the fish in Key West in January 1939, possibly a parrotfish). The poem begins with her catching a “homely” fish that “hadn’t fought at all”. At first, she was awe-struck and frightened by its gills, “coarse white flesh”, and shallow eyes. However, looking into the fish’s eyes was like “the tipping of an object toward the light”.

]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1091 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1090 Interview with Poet Ada Limon
By Alegria Garcia, June 22, 2009

Ada Limon is quickly becoming a rising star in the world of poetry. Her work has been published by the Iowa Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and was recently featured in the The New Yorker.

I recently had the opportunity to ask Ada about inspiration, writing, and how poetry finds her. Her responses -- in true poet fashion -- were lyrical, fascinating, and mesmerizing.

Examiner: Thanks for taking the time to do this interview Ada—first off, congratulations on your poem in the New Yorker.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1090 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1089 Poor. Old. Tired. Horse at the ICA
As a new show at the ICA spells out, typography can be an art in itself.
By Sarah Crompton, June 17, 2009

(Photo of Hamilton Finlay’s Sea Poppy 1 Poem omitted) At first glance, it seems like a random collection of letters and numbers. But if you look at Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Sea Poppy 1 for a little while, various suggestions will begin to wander across your mind.

The typography is not random, but, in fact, names of fishing boats represented by the initials of the port they come from and a number. They float on the surface of a page — or a wall — like a flower on water; the shape they form is also that of a mandala, a design that often represents the universe. Something apparently infinitely simple is revealed as something complex and resonant. ]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1089 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1088 Prague Writers' Festival: Poet paints Arab world, laments fall of poetry in West
By Stephan Delbos, June 17, 2009

The Syrian poet Ali Ahmed Said Esber - known to readers as Adonis - traces the fault line between the Arab and Western worlds with his pen, attempting "to give a new image to what we call the Arab world, and to create a new way of seeing our contemporary world," he says. Born in 1930 in Al Quassabin, Syria, a 17-year-old Adonis recited poems to former Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli, who then agreed to fund his college education. In 1955, Adonis was jailed as a member of the Social Nationalist Party. He later settled in Beirut as a Lebanese citizen. . ."]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1088 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1087 We Art Minnesota: Sidewalk Poetry
By Marianne Combs, June 17, 2009

Malia Cole brings us our latest submission for "We Art Minnesota." Malia writes:

I have a long love affair with public art. As a day-dreamer of a kid, nothing was more amazing than coming upon a piece of magic just sitting there in front of me. No museum doors, entry fees, pretension, just art for me to interpret and adore. Out there for everyone, out there just for me. ]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1087 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1086 T.S. Kerrigan (Poem)
Seamus and Me: Late Birthdays in a Lost World
T.S. Kerrigan, June 18, 2009

Los Angeles, California

"It's true, Seamus, you and I were both born in 1939, that year Hitler was marching into Czechoslovakia and Poland, that forerunner of a decade that introduced the Atomic Age.

Did you, as a Derry schoolboy, fear those mushroom clouds, practice useless exercises designed to protect you from the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in your early classrooms?

Did the idea of the destructive power out there make you want to hide under the house, the way it did me?"

]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1086 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1085 Pasha Malla, Jeramy Dodds among 2009 Trillium Book Award winners
By Mark Medley, June 16, 2009

UPDATED -- 3:34 p.m.

When, early last week, Pasha Malla learned he’d won the 2009 Trillium Book Award for his debut short story collection, The Withdrawal Method, he “panicked” and promptly fled his apartment to see the new movie, Up.

“I was like, I have to get the f**k out of here and go and do something, turn my brain off, because I’m just going to be like ‘Oh my God! Do I deserve it? This is embarrassing. Are people going to hate me?’” he told the Post.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1085 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1084 Exhibition Examines Joan Miro's Close Relationship and Affinity with Jacques Dupin
June 17, 2009

BARCELONA.- The Joan Miro Foundation is presenting Miro – Dupin. Art and Poetry, an exhibition to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Joan Miro that examines the artist’s close relationship and affinity with Jacques Dupin.

The show will also be a tribute to Dupin, a trustee of the Foundation since its beginnings, in recognition of his contributions as poet, biographer and art critic to our understanding of Miro’s art. His biography of Joan Miro (1961) is still essential reading, not only because of the extensive research on which it is based but in particular as a result of the author’s ability to convey Miro’s universe so accurately. Jacques Dupin is also the author of the catalogues raisonnes of Miro’s paintings and prints,]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1084 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1083 Red faces, spin-doctors and rhyming couplets
June 10, 2009

Why Poetry Matters
Looking For John Donne: Simon Schama
Armando Ianucci: Milton’s Heaven And Hell
BBC 2

HOW do you present poetry on television? It’s much easier on the radio, you might think, but the BBC has been determined to have a bash at it by including its digital and terrestrial television channels in its Poetry Season. Kicking off the main gigs on BBC 2 was Griff Rhys Jones as frontman for Why Poetry Matters – a lively effort involving schoolkids, rap artists and our favourite Welsh windbag scampering through a field of daffodils. Someone behind the camera obviously had an electric cattle prod in hand to ginger him up should enthusiasm flag, but he made a pretty good fist of it.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1083 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1082 The Hartford Hosts Dedication Ceremony For Wallace Stevens Walk
Opening Celebration of the Wallace Stevens Walk, the city of Hartford’s newest cultural offering honoring one of the greatest poets of the 20th century and long-time city resident
June 10, 2009

HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., today announced that it will host the dedication ceremony for the Wallace Stevens Walk on Thursday, June 11 at 5:00 p.m. on its Asylum Hill campus. The Wallace Stevens Walk consists of 13 stone markers installed along the 2.4 miles Stevens walked from his home on Westerly Terrace to his office at The Hartford on Asylum Avenue. Each marker contains one stanza from his poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

“Wallace Stevens composed some of his greatest poetry while strolling along this route we are dedicating,” said Connie Weaver, senior vice president of marketing and communications at The Hartford. “The Hartford is honored to join the Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens in celebrating Stevens’ great contributions to the arts.” ]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1082 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1081 RA Crossroads: Ekphrastic Art
By Neal Wyatt, June 3, 2009

A few weeks ago, I was in Chicago on the day the Art Institute unveiled the Modern Wing. As I wandered through the amazing space, I kept thinking of William Carlos Williams and Charles Demuth. Which is not as strange an association as you might think.

Demuth’s The Figure Five in Gold is a modern masterpiece. It was inspired by Williams’s poem "The Great Figure." The painting is an example of ekphrastic art—art created when one medium engages in a conversation with another. While ekphrastic conversations happen among all mediums of artistic expression, from an RA point of view, ekphrastic poetry is particularly interesting because of its suggestions about appeal.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1081 http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1080 George Bilgere, John Carroll University poet, wins a Pushcart Prize
By Karen R. Long, June 9, 2009

A George Bilgere poem, "Graduates of Western Military Academy," has won a Pushcart Prize for best poem of 2008 from a small press.

Bilgere, who directs the creative writing program at John Carroll University, centered his winning verse in a bit of biography: his father and Paul Tibbits, the pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, were classmates together at a military academy in Illinois in the 1930s.]]> no_email@example.com (pete) http://www.twinartspoetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1080