5 posts tagged with poetry by whir.
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Helen Vendler, 1933 - 2024

Helen Vendler, perhaps the preeminent contemporary American poetry critic, has passed away at 90. [more inside]
posted by whir on Apr 25, 2024 - 13 comments

Hark! from those shadowy depths thy voice / Mournfully echoes, "AUTH".

Fair is the Lake, and bright the wood,
With many a flower-full glamour hung:
Fair are the banks; and soft the flood
With golden laughter of our tongue
Poems written by the GPT-2 neural network, with copious notes on methodology. [more inside]
posted by whir on Nov 6, 2019 - 23 comments

Search me. Ezra liked foreign titles.

Des Imagistes is an online version of Ezra Pound's influential 1914 anthology of Imagist poetry, which includes work by Pound, James Joyce, H. D., and William Carlos Williams. [more inside]
posted by whir on Dec 16, 2008 - 11 comments

Claudia Emerson wins pulitzer for poetry

Claudia Emerson, a Virginian poet and English professor, has won the 2006 Pulitzer prize for poetry for her book The Late Wife. Here is an interview from 2002, and here is a podcast of Professor Emerson reading from The Late Wife in 2005. Some of her poems: "Bone," "The Bat," more.
posted by whir on May 4, 2006 - 23 comments

Opus Posthumous

Elizabeth Bishop is one of the most esteemed modern American poets, yet her Collected Poems, containing all of the poems published during her lifetime, runs to a scant 287 pages. Now, 27 years after her death, a selection of her unpublished poems has been published as Death and the Juke-Box by Alice Quinn, an editor at the New Yorker. (more inside)
posted by whir on Mar 9, 2006 - 14 comments

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