Tony Lopez reading and interview below
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nick-e melville: Editorial
New e-book by nick-e melville published by Very Small Kitchen.
Available at the LINK
Andrea Brady, Videos From February’s The Other Room
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Tim Allen, Videos From February’s The Other Room
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Poem Talk 50: Tom Raworth
The 50th episode of PoemTalk, a discussion of Tom Raworth’s “Errory” with Marjorie Perloff, Charles Bernstein, and Michael Hennessey:
Ira Lightman on The Verb
Friday 24th February, 10:00 PM on BBC Radio 3.
The Sonnet in Modern Times
The Sonnet in Modern Times
Tutor: James Davies
Location: Manchester
Venue: Friends’ Meeting House
Day / Time: Thursdays 7 – 9pm
Duration: 5 weeks
Start Date: 26 April
Price: £63, £50, £38
Level: intermediate
The Sonnet has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-first century has seen the form reinvented time and time again in staggering ways which suggests there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer. On this course we will explore the form’s malleability and range. By reading the key sonnets of modern and contemporary times, whilst considering the sonnet’s heritage, you will imagine new ways of writing your own 14 liners.
This and other courses are available in the Poetry School’s Summer 2012 programme.
Maintenant #85 – Gonca Özmen
Contemporary Turkish poetry looks confidently back upon the iconoclastic individuals who have constituted its genuinely remarkable tradition, and the current cohort of poets emerging from the 21st century possess the unique sensibility in language that marks them from their predecessors and stamps their entire generation with the influence of their work. As the light of poets like Ilhan Berk and Nazim Hikmet begins to fade from view, it is poets like Gonca Özmen who have come into their own. After just two collections and a variety of prizes, Gonca has become one of the most direct, concise and eloquent voices in Turkish poetry and one who has begun to grow a reputation far beyond the borders of her home nation, thanks to last year’s publication of the Sea Within, a collection of translated poems from Shearsman press. In our 85th edition, we are pleased to welcome, our second Turkish respondent, Gonca Özmen.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-85-gonca-ozmen/
Accompanying the interview are five of Gonca’s poems, translated by George Messo, Ruth Christie, Mel Kenne, Saliha Paker respectively.
PENN sound radio
PennSound Radio, a 24-hour stream of readings and conversations from the PennSound poetry archive. Our daily schedule includes rebroadcasts of such series as Live at the Writers House, Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening, and Leonard Schwartz’s Cross-Cultural Poetics, as well as a curated selection of our favorite performances. You can play PennSound Radio through iTunes on your computer, or by installing the free TuneIn app on your iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android device. Listen at work! At home! At the gym! While rebuilding a transmission! And while you’re at it, follow us on Twitter (@PennSoundRadio) to keep up with all of our new programs and special features.
Galatea Resurrects 17
The brilliant reviews website returns with its seventeenth edition. Includes a review of The Commons by The Other Room reader Sean Bonney.
Happy Christmas
Yesterday’s Secret Santa was Ted Berrigan. Happy Christmas from the Other Room.
Secret Santa – 24
This is the last of the Other Room’s Secret Santa series, poets disguised as Santa Claus. Yesterday’s Santa was Ed Dorn. And to finish, who is this? Santa doesn’t like broad beans with his Christmas lunch. They give him terrible spasms.
Maintenant #83 – Daniele Pantano
One of the leading poets of central Europe, a Swiss poet by all rights, is somehow is also one of its leading poets of exile. Daniele Pantano, vigorous, multifaceted, considered and cerebral in his poetry, is one of the most active and highly regarded translators of modern Swiss poets and writers, and has brought to light some of the finest authors of the 20th century in Walser, Dürrenmatt and Trakl. Moreover, he has a fine reputation as a critic, poet and teacher in both America and England. His is a story of living in more than one country, writing in more than one language, pursuing poetry in more than one facet, and anyone who has read his work will not be surprised by the breadth of his background and erudition of his account. Discussing the modern history of Swiss literature, his own journey from Switzerland to America to England and the work that is marking him out as one of the most remarkable talents of his generation, Maintenant presents its 83rd edition and it’s first Swiss poet, Daniele Pantano.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-83-daniele-pantano/
Accompanying the interview are four poems from Daniele’s remarkable, and ever growing, new project, Mass Graves.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/fou-poems-daniele-pantano/
Parts XIX-XXII are available on The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
Secret Santa – 23
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Christina Rossetti. But who is this? Santa is planning to round off this year’s festivities with an all night session on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. He’s something of a gunslinger.
Secret Santa – 22
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Allen Ginsberg. But who is this? It’s a little known fact that Santa used to employ goblins as well as elves but stopped because of fluctuations in the market.
Secret Santa – 21
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Elizabeth Barrett Browning. But who is this? Santa once had a terrible accident with some scalding hot gravy and a toasting fork. You should have heard him howl.
Secret Santa – 20
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Lord Bryon. But who is this? How do you cook sprouts? Let me count the ways…
Secret Santa – 19
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Mina Loy. But who is this? Until his death, famous playwright, raconteur and funnyman Harold Pinter used to call at Santa’s house every Christmas morning to collect his present in person. One year, when he didn’t get the Sylvanian Families picnic set he’d asked for, he threw a massive tantrum and lapsed into sullen silence. “Don’t be such a child, Harold!” hissed his wife, Lady Antonia Fraser. “My mother was right. You really are dangerous to know!”
Secret Santa – 18
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was Louis Zukofsky. But who is this, with a small dog named Joannes? He loves it when Santa sings to him, although not when he’s watching Downton Abbey on television.
Secret Santa – 17
Every day in December up to and including Christmas Eve, the Other Room is posting a picture of a poet cunningly disguised as Santa Claus. If you can guess who it is and want to demonstrate your expertise to an admiring public, you can leave a comment to this post or email us at otherroomeditors@googlemail.com We will list all correct guesses on the following day and also reveal the identity of the festive poet in question. Yesterday’s Santa was T.S. Eliot. But who is this knocking at the door? He’s making “A” list, he’s checking it twice.
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