This week we welcome Mark Eleveld as our guest blogger. Eleveld is the editor of the best-selling poetry anthologies, 'The Spoken Word Revolution' & 'Redux' (Sourcebooks Publishing). He is a high school English teacher, co-owner of EM Press (em-press.com) and, most recently, producer of 'Slam the Radio', a poetry radio show on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio, channel 117/163. Welcome, Mark.
In other news:
In honor of National Poetry Month: One month of poets' tattoos over at Tattoosday!
Coming Up at The New School (66 West 12th Street, Room 510):
Monday, April 6, 6:30 PM David Lehman will lecture on W. H. Auden's poetry at 6:30 PM. To prepare, read the Auden selections in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Among the poems Lehman will address are "Musee des Beaux Arts," "September 1, 1939," "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," and "Under Which Lyre."
Tuesday, April 7, 6:30 PM Paul Violi will read his poems and converse with David Lehman.
oh my GOD! If you see James Lipton, give him a great big kiss for me.
Posted by: Laura Orem | March 29, 2009 at 05:07 PM
Re: the Google thing - I'm not sure I understand exactly what's going on here, other than the part about Google wanting to digitize everything. Could someone explain it in simple language for the legally-challenged?
Posted by: Laura Orem | March 29, 2009 at 08:31 PM
David, wear a soiled t-shirt and let your emotions grow organically out of your interpersonal relationships tonight. And good luck!
Posted by: jim cummins | March 31, 2009 at 04:38 PM
Thanks for the links to Chu's blog. Much clearer now!
Posted by: Laura Orem | April 01, 2009 at 11:19 AM