I admit I know nothing about new Pulitzer-Prize-for-poetry winner Franz Wright. Should I? Anyone? Are there many other poets whose credits include The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and can we have our ball back?
Ela Kotkowska’s brief history of blogging, in the new moria.
I realize that in the post below Euphony is the title of a U of C litmag, but it looks more like the reading is sponsored by the “Program in Creative Writing and Euphony.”
The University of Chicago’s Program in Creative Writing and Euphony present the second event in the *******Emerging Writers Reading Series ******* DAN BEACHY-QUICK (Poetry) MEGAN STIELSTRA (Prose) Friday, April 9th 2004 Wieboldt 408 5 pm Megan Stielstra teaches creative writing at Columbia College, the University of Chicago and Jenner Elementary. She holds her MFA from the Fiction Department at Columbia…
applied copious amounts of lipstick in the car until we were 16 years old
There’s something profoundly nerdy about showing up early for a poetry reading, but I had a feeling it was going to be necessary for Robert Creeley at the U of C on Thursday evening. The reading had shifted from its usual long-hall, chairs-on-the-floor setting of Classics 10 to the auditorium setting of Social Sciences 122, which seats around 150, but…
News flash: Myopic Books has sold out of all of its copies of the Mayhew/Mohammad/Young/Yu Long Nose Pinocchio Bitch and the Lewis/Yu Postcard Poems! And I even know who bought them.
It seems Chicago was one of the handful of cities fortunate enough to hear the debut yesterday of Air America Radio, the new liberal talk-radio network, on WNTD-AM (950). Like any good Chicagoan, I’m city-status-conscious, and so I took note that the hosts consistently listed their affiliates in the order New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland; their marketing folks must…
Text Jim is back, which is nice because I can actually read him without waiting for my damn dial-up connection, and which makes me want to party like it’s April 2003. Plus he’s good.
Kasey weighs in on intention, arguing that “If we don’t know something about [the author], her education, her politics, her personal relationships, her intentions, the text doesn’t mean as fully or successfully what it’s ‘supposed’ to mean.” Absolutely. My skepticism about intention as a category isn’t a ploy to lock the author up in some kind of New Critical black…