Poetry School | Web Curios | Activity https://poetryschool.com/groups/web-curios/ Activity feed for the group, Web Curios. Sun, 03 May 2026 02:46:48 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 73f69fb758b00acf9a5a7783b5523c2e Jane Newberry posted an update in the group Web Curios: Done it - signed up for the Gregory Punch-up.  It wasn't […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/193870/ Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:50:39 +0100 Done it – signed up for the Gregory Punch-up.  It wasn’t easy, I really think finding the Holy Grail would have been quicker, but I’m signed up now and looking forward to meeting Martha Sprackland.

]]> 0 062aa1a895d71f872d60156a64a8c766 Nisa Saiyid posted an update in the group Web Curios: http://www.gagallery.com/artists/nazgol-ansarinia/works I am […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/186018/ Sat, 01 Jun 2019 07:24:36 +0100 http://www.gagallery.com/artists/nazgol-ansarinia/works
I am off to Martha Sprackland’s Parasol Unit workshop, Poetic Demolition in 4 weeks time on 29th June, there are still tickets available: see photos for some inspiration:
39, 45-51

]]> 0 3c7658bc001fdc887e469301acce7edf Andrew Rymill posted an update in the group Web Curios: A very good article  on Contemporary Danish and Faroese […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/162349/ Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:08:15 +0000 A very good article  on Contemporary Danish and Faroese Poetry

https://plumepoetry.com/2017/09/featured-selection-contemporary-faroese-poetry-a-selction/

]]> 0 3436bcaf016a23259bff10baf255ef89 Andrew Rymill posted an update in the group Web Curios: I found this and thought others may find this  the article […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/162276/ Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:22:21 +0000 I found this and thought others may find this  the article as well. So me hopes https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/travel/vehicle-language

]]> 0 50036d6edabc60fcb523f465edf32cdf Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: https://helenmort.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/on-challenge/ https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/119402/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:01:40 +0000

On Challenge

]]> 0 e3be440d45a253c0aa72be36e9533e81 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09lw39p https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/119019/ Sun, 21 Jan 2018 11:25:06 +0000 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09lw39p

]]> 0 bdc10e2ece98eaf47fe314ace6a29400 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: I have discovered this, quite frankly, wonderful resource […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/119018/ Sun, 21 Jan 2018 10:43:28 +0000 I have discovered this, quite frankly, wonderful resource from Kaveh Akbar

https://www.divedapper.com/

]]> 0 4d1db628005dc66837f103938593e9f2 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: https://www.thenation.com/article/why-claudia-rankine-writes-f […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/118750/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:30:56 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/article/why-claudia-rankine-writes-for-the-resistance/

]]> 1 a663c348a73dfa275d285ed545ef9f5a Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Ouch http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5147079/Brutal-r […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/117904/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:59:42 +0000 Ouch

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5147079/Brutal-rejection-letter-Sydney-publisher-poet.html

]]> 0 6e7aef985e2e75a9c3ae8efa4934f5f4 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/12/03/the-poets-pencil/ https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/117902/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:56:04 +0000 http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/12/03/the-poets-pencil/

]]> 0 77abe673a22e49e54f0eb46966e8f1a4 Nyla Matuk posted an update in the group Web Curios: https://thewalrus.ca/new-plagiarism-accusations-against-bestse […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/116820/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:01:05 +0000

New Plagiarism Accusations Against Bestselling Author Jill Bialosky

]]> 1 78955a64d730caa3d618477cd534a06f Delfin sanchez veliz posted an update in the group Web Curios: How i get my picture in profile https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/114047/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:17:54 +0000 How i get my picture in profile

]]> 0 a3df72b7760df262690d8aea8749088d Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/09/poetry-plagiaris […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/110860/ Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:59:47 +0100 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/09/poetry-plagiarism-copying-maya-angelou-ira-lightman-will-storr

]]> 0 e7a3a15970239bf93b324b960e2ea2d1 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Poets-Learned-to-Stop/241141 https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/110858/ Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:59:04 +0100 http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Poets-Learned-to-Stop/241141

]]> 0 ffb702093507ac7fefe43bca600ba529 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/stop-dissec […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/110222/ Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:01:57 +0100 https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/stop-dissecting-a-poem-as-if-it-were-a-dead-frog/2017/09/14/4e4653a0-8900-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html?utm_term=.5ac80adcc1d4

]]> 0 c43b2cb0ea4b8a66da88a07845e391eb Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Two days after ‘Rape Joke’ went viral, while Lockwood was liv […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/106411/ Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:08:31 +0100 Two days after ‘Rape Joke’ went viral, while Lockwood was living with her parents, she received an email from the editor of the Penguin Poets Series, to whom she had submitted a manuscript six months earlier. He apologised for not responding sooner and told her he wanted to publish her book. Lockwood’s husband was thrilled; her father chuckled with delight, ‘the way he does when the rogue cop gets the better of the by-the-book police chief’. But Lockwood was uneasy. Elsewhere in the memoir, she describes feeling ‘transparent to God and everyone’ as a child. During her first confession, she ‘streamed tears’ over an innocent lie, as though the priest could see through her. After ‘Rape Joke’ was published, she felt something similar, ‘something even beyond bare, as if some interior room had been turned inside out and I found it was large enough to contain the whole world.’ ‘This was the price?’ she couldn’t help thinking. ‘This was the purchase of entry, into that closed and impregnable world?’

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n14/namara-smith/bible-study-in-the-basement

]]> 0 bb6e619b3f065c076c9cd8fefaefead6 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Philip Larkin's belongings included a Hitler figurine, empty […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/106409/ Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:00:10 +0100 Philip Larkin’s belongings included a Hitler figurine, empty spines of the diaries that he wished shredded after his death, lipstick…

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/04/philip-larkin-exhibition-in-hull-offers-fresh-insights-into-poets-life

]]> 0 6b752038acc38c4d94311d8f867da54d Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/18/how-iranian-poet […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/105250/ Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:56:08 +0100 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/18/how-iranian-poetry-brought-me-closer-to-my-father-cyrus-shahrad-hiatus

]]> 0 b56b9f8529d73df94242ce8d00d3178d Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/writer-erasing-infinite-jes […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/105244/ Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:23:32 +0100 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/writer-erasing-infinite-jest-find-poetry-left-behind/

]]> 0 dd1ffa40c1c940df2e77e15e47bcb969 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/how-ae-housman-in […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/104956/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:02:51 +0100 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/how-ae-housman-invented-englishness?mbid=social_twitter

]]> 0 02818d0f0b0ba8025dfd5d214f1cc974 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: As ever, a surprising and eclectic Forward […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/103710/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:29:39 +0100 As ever, a surprising and eclectic Forward shortlist…

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/12/michael-longley-heads-shortlist-for-forward-poetry-prizes

]]> 0 9874b0fb84514b9fa095470ca74ead37 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Instagram and the rise of 'fidget spinner' […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/103551/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:35:42 +0100 Instagram and the rise of ‘fidget spinner’ poetry:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/poet-trolling-everyone-instagram-show-social-media-glorifies-pop-poetry/

]]> 0 0dfd2a919f7ba3fa6b4a8c84540d831b Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Thought-provoking stuff. How could poetry survive in a […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/103013/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:34:30 +0100 Thought-provoking stuff. How could poetry survive in a post-language world?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/pavlo-shopin/meaning-of-language-why-do-arts-and-sciences-need-language

 

]]> 0 b12dc5fb75419baf66cf6b1eb528122f Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: I love a style guide, […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/102810/ Tue, 06 Jun 2017 08:03:03 +0100 I love a style guide, me

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/05/the-35-words-youre-probably-getting-wrong

]]> 0 8ea5604926625efee20479701ae9378f Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Interview with a one man, pay-per-poem, human poetry vending […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/102089/ Wed, 31 May 2017 11:38:02 +0100 Interview with a one man, pay-per-poem, human poetry vending machine!

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mall-of-america-poet-brian-sonia-wallace-interview

]]> 0 9e2a53eec09edff23c77e301bf31981f Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: "In her 1997 letter to the Clinton official, Rich wrote: […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/102087/ Wed, 31 May 2017 11:36:33 +0100 “In her 1997 letter to the Clinton official, Rich wrote: “In my lifetime, I have seen the space for the arts opened by social justice movements, the power of art to break despair.” Her belief in poetry and politics as inextricable and interdependent made her personal and intellectual struggles longer and more painful than they might have been, but it also gave her a rare ability to understand and coexist with monsters—the kind that plague us from outside as well as from within.”

The World of Adrienne Rich

]]> 0 42e305fd23917dab99c70cb968e767ad Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: http://lithub.com/in-a-12th-century-iranian-poem-a-vision-of-s […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/101423/ Wed, 24 May 2017 17:11:30 +0100

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

]]> 0 2f3cb8f1777c292ab676cfe664d2ee95 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/ocean-vuong-on-being […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/100420/ Wed, 17 May 2017 10:52:56 +0100 https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/ocean-vuong-on-being-generous-in-your-work/

]]> 0 799fd38287c21705c34cf3888d348b42 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: A great, great interview with Wayne Holloway-Smith. A good […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/100264/ Tue, 16 May 2017 10:13:01 +0100 A great, great interview with Wayne Holloway-Smith. A good chaser to our review of Alarum that we published last week.

http://www.thepoetryextension.com/wayne.html

]]> 0 92bb12789d2a06692025d256e4b5e1e1 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Go on then! Not a bad list, but I think it can be enlarged […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/99674/ Thu, 11 May 2017 10:22:44 +0100 Go on then! Not a bad list, but I think it can be enlarged and improved. Poetry book suggestions for those uninitiated to poetry, please!

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2017/0426/870492-poetry-recommendations-for-people-who-think-they-dont-like-poetr/

]]> 1 91c2a053a62a7f0fdb26e9e8002a4078 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: I had the great honour of meeting Nuar yesterday. She'll be […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/99670/ Thu, 11 May 2017 09:29:14 +0100 I had the great honour of meeting Nuar yesterday. She’ll be teaching for us this Autumn, we hope!

https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/blogs/news/fourth-person-singular-by-nuar-alsadir

]]> 2 ff5ff5e38a3dcdb6caffb833e219447f Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: There’s Thom Gunn, who had a “strong dislike” for “lite […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/99581/ Wed, 10 May 2017 11:08:25 +0100 There’s Thom Gunn, who had a “strong dislike” for “literary gatherings.” There’s Kenneth Cox, who reveled in the death of his literary enemies, and “sought and achieved almost complete invisibility outside of his writings.” Roy Fisher carried on like an island of one: “A lifelong, rather cheerful agoraphobe and hermit, neglect suits him.” Lorine Niedecker quarantined herself on an actual island and accessed the world, when she needed to, by post. Christopher Middleton was “incapable of schmoozing, and his career suffered accordingly.” Basil Bunting “liked to live by his wits outside the prescriptions of any institution.” When this “obstinate, rambunctious, impulsive” poet stooped to teach creative writing, he took precisely zero interest in his students’ creations. Classes were held at his bungalow, and he mostly read at the course registrants until, one by one, they dropped out.

What Happens When Authors Are Afraid to Stand Alone

]]> 0 49aa5bf21c6e5572695bfb858bdee924 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: https://www.fastcodesign.com/90124025/the-benedictine-monk-who […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/99358/ Mon, 08 May 2017 09:17:50 +0100 https://www.fastcodesign.com/90124025/the-benedictine-monk-who-connected-concrete-poetry-and-design

]]> 0 a3a3f21ab62ea30ecb86324d12408d96 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Women who fish, you see, seem to overwhelmingly prefer the […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/99150/ Wed, 03 May 2017 16:23:32 +0100 Women who fish, you see, seem to overwhelmingly prefer the term “fisherman.”

A fascinating dilemma! Would be interested to hear your opinions…

https://thewalrus.ca/why-women-who-fish-are-still-fishermen/

]]> 1 24b5734cf48249035ca26f683cb61f6a Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Interesting thesis suggesting Donald […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/99110/ Wed, 03 May 2017 09:41:55 +0100 Interesting thesis suggesting Donald Trump-as-performance-poet

http://carcanetblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/every-day-is-world-poetry-day.html

]]> 0 e99f10dda327d0fa41e13ffb23c51f87 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2017/04/18/land-selfies-and-sh […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/95534/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:54:50 +0100 http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2017/04/18/land-selfies-and-shots-lunch-poetry-thrives/z0G9E7k9Yr2r16ugEsuGGJ/story.html?event=event25

]]> 0 055fd44691ae2069e37d3c12a238302e Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: In Robert Lowell’s day, men didn’t talk about their fee […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/92681/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:58:07 +0100 In Robert Lowell’s day, men didn’t talk about their feelings much. People in general didn’t talk about mental illness. He talked about both.

Keeping a Lowell Profile

]]> 0 dab83d7c41e799bf803fb8b26748e1a1 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: WHY don't I live in […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/92302/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 08:10:56 +0100 WHY don’t I live in LA?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/apr/07/masterpieces-concrete-poetry-pictures-getty-center-ian-hamilton-finlay-augusto-campos

]]> 0 3fd7bb26ca701b189ac5c55f54185c58 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Not poetry, but some great visuals here to stimulate the […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/90825/ Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:36:33 +0100 Not poetry, but some great visuals here to stimulate the ekphrasist in you!

http://www.hamburgereyes.com/

]]> 0 4cbeb418d279b85249d77d6f88edc24a Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: I enjoyed this interview with Jee Leong Koh, who I was […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/90810/ Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:00:36 +0100 I enjoyed this interview with Jee Leong Koh, who I was previously uninitiated. Our very own Jenny Wong interviews!

Issue Twenty: A Conversation with Jee Leong Koh | The Adroit Journal

]]> 0 b4f9ce6229e64305c79ec401650de493 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: "Now, as then – dark times, singing. We know no other way. B […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/90317/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:38:09 +0100 “Now, as then – dark times, singing. We know no other way. But enough, truly, finally, enough – there is nothing left to say”

http://forward.com/culture/368143/is-poetry-after-idlib-barbaric/

]]> 0 54b659339bd9f6a03b7dbbf09fb8ac61 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: You can add 'shards' to my banned […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/90050/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 15:13:52 +0100 You can add ‘shards’ to my banned list

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/probing-the-moist-crevices-of-word-aversion/

]]> 0 b978af57398473a5a853e80568b561ad Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: "Poetry’s brevity makes it particularly suited to our t […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/88013/ Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:58:43 +0100 “Poetry’s brevity makes it particularly suited to our time, as does its flexibility, as does its ability to supply what is absent from all this streamed information: an organizing principle of meaning, of pathos.”

http://www.theenchantingverses.org/thirteen-thoughts-on-poetry-in-the-digital-age-by-mandy-kahn.html

]]> 0 c304d56a7b26d6cab51faf4818644b63 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: If poems are 'machines' (Williams), then this is their […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/87846/ Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:48:38 +0100 If poems are ‘machines’ (Williams), then this is their grist

https://newrepublic.com/article/141420/art-paying-attention

]]> 0 14606e9b52e9193771f2030f0b0cc675 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: "All the poets of all times can only say one thing. They can […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/87346/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:35:32 +0000 “All the poets of all times can only say one thing. They can say that what-is is. When he sees his people destroying the world, the poet can say, ‘We’re destroying the world.’ He can say it in narrative or lyric or dramatic or meditative form, tragic or ironic form, short form or long form, in verse or prose. But he cannot lie, as a poet, and offer himself as the saviour. He can believe or not believe that salvation is possible. He can believe in one God or in many gods or in none. He can believe or not believe in belief. But he cannot finally say anything more than the world has told him.”

http://dark-mountain.net/blog/the-persistence-of-poetry-and-the-destruction-of-the-world/

]]> 0 9ee843fa9e8fe7f8c94e67cd2f0e41ae Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Another missive from poetry's noisy […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/87314/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:39:08 +0000 Another missive from poetry’s noisy comeback

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-39327885

]]> 0 c9e63baddac9ef78438e59f87056a693 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: What made Marianne Moore’s poetry modern? Her patriotism, f […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/87313/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:07:45 +0000 What made Marianne Moore’s poetry modern? Her patriotism, feminism, morality, and queer-family experience.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/92768

]]> 0 af9cb1bc199d20ededfa94f6d49c8349 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-sea-salt-in-wal […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/87251/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:47:36 +0000 http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-sea-salt-in-walt-whitmans-poetry

]]> 0 9c4582005fe29c410ad8087c386c4c37 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Fantastic blog this, just discovered it. It has lots of […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/87155/ Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:38:23 +0000 Fantastic blog this, just discovered it. It has lots of up-to-date linklists of the latest writing by women available online:

https://thewritesofwoman.wordpress.com/

]]> 0 97cdf497439803f2bcb6c71faa0f482b Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group Web Curios: Ummm ... ok http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39201217 https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/86530/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:41:31 +0000 Ummm … ok

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39201217

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