| MUSELETTER Archives, 2002 |
MUSELETTER #109 12.26.02
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST: New Year’s Day Alternative Spoken Word Extravaganza, New Year’s at the Poetry Project, Bowery Poetry Club, Kwanzaa in the Bronx, Poets in the House, The What’s-New Category, A Series Grows in Brooklyn, Last But Certainly Not Least.
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Museletter Correspondents Gift Picks: CDs, Museletter Correspondents Gift Picks: Books.
MUSELETTER #108 12.19.02
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Our Museletter correspondents, Dig Infinity! The Life and Art of Lord Buckley (book review), The Real Chancellors of American Poetry (from Jeff McDaniel).
MUSELETTER #107 12.12.02
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: MUSELETTER RETURNS, Poets in the News, Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (book review), The Business of Fancy Dancing (film review by Gary Mex Glazner).
MUSELETTER #106 6.9.02
FAREWELL MUSELETTER... but the About Poetry Web site lives on!
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Classified Ads, Speech Acts (poetry in performance, reported by Wanda Phipps), “The Bowery” (a poem written by Linda Lerner after seeing the film Piñero).
PRAGUE/CZECH REPUBLIC: Ahoj!; March: Hidden Crossroads, In the Flesh, Firecrackers; April: Speaking of Schoenfelt, Magnesia Literary Awards, 12th Prague Writers’ Festival; May: 8th International Book Fair, Seamus Heaney, MeetFactory; Romani Literature; Summer News.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Supreme Poets at the Bowery Poetry Club, e-poets.com --> e-poets.net.
MUSELETTER #105 5.30.02
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Piñero & the Poet’s Life, The Gulf War Phones
TEXAS: Mark Doty in SW Texas, Austin Has a New Venue, puro ¡SLAM! in San Antone, Every First Friday in Houston, Real Dallas Poetry in a Plastic World, Poetry Festivals Aplenty in Texas.
BRISTOL/UNITED KINGDOM: First Night Success at the Phat Lip Floor Show, Remembering Albert Huffstickler, Decode, Performance Poetry, Please, Texas/UK Connections.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: 21st Annual Taos Poetry Circus & World Heavyweight Poetry Bout, Agha Shahid Ali’s “Stationery.”
MUSELETTER #104 5.22.02
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Let every month be World Poetry Month, Hearts and Hands: An interview with Luis Rodriguez, Herman Berlandt’s International Poetry Museum
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: SFStation Literary Arts, Poetry Spoken Here (League of Canadian Poets).
MUSELETTER #103 3.24.02
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Prague Museletter Flash: Firecracker
MIDWEST/CHICAGO: A Shape Shift of the First Order: The Guild, The Charm of Number Three, A Remembrance of Things Passed, Absolutely Killer Poetry, Further Dish From Around the Big Town, An Online Literary Tidbit.
AUSTRALIA: Poets in the Gardens, Readings at the Water Rat Hotel, The Shoalhaven Poetry Scene, Writers Week in Adelaide, More Readings in Adelaide, And from Perth...
JAPAN: Yaponesian Global Guerrilla Poet Nanao Sakaki, Sakaki on the Net, Mignettes: New Publications.
NEW ENGLAND: But Enough About Poetry, Let’s Talk About Me, Who’s the Funniest Man in New England Poetry?, More Poets Breeding, More Moves Than Paula Abdul!, Women of The Vagina Monologues, Slam Champs Running Amok.
LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Hello from Los Angeles, Poets & Players, Gotta Get It at the Getty, Salvation at the Vocal Lounge, Georgia Lives in New York But Was Just in SoCal, Monday Night Moves, Leslie Monsour at LACMA, Mind the Gap, On the Verge, Magic Words at Magic’s Starbucks, Get In On the Big Picture, Crossing the Border with M.C. Bruce, A Short Note from One of Those Guys Peddling Poetry, The Wonder of World Stage, Facing LA: A Conversation with its Writers and Poets, Another West: Poets from Our Community, And From Oklahoma..., Found a Little Teapot, Poetic and Stout, “Word of Mouth” in Tujunga, Do Some Po at Do Boys Coffee House.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Lorenzo Thomas interview at Poets’ Chat, Corpse Essay at Writer’s Hood Poetry Pages.
MUSELETTER #102 2.21.02
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Atta Poem by Emily XYZ
EXPANDED ANTHOLOGY: More Poems After the Attack
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: An Open Letter To Mary Oliver; Mary, Meet SeeKing; Mary, Meet Wammo.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Poetry Superhighway’s Great Poetry Exchange, Reesom Haile at Drunken Boat.
MUSELETTER #101 2.12.02
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Top Picks - American Epic Poems of the 20th Century
NEW ARCHIVE: Anthology of IBPC entries from our Forum
BRISTOL/UK: Pure Poetry Perpetual Literature Festival, Jay’s Fest, Quill & Parchment, Spring Season at the Lansdown.
VIRGINIA/DC/MARYLAND: Richmond & Around, In Northern Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland.
LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: The San Diego Report, Another West - New Poetry Series at the Autry Museum, Peering Through the Skylight.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Dennis Downey (A Half Full Glass House), PoetsAllOver Poetry Markets.
MUSELETTER #100 1.21.02
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Poetry Currents
MONTREAL/CANADA: Voix d’Ameriques (Voices of the Americas), Kiss My Cabaret, Poetry & Sculpture, Thundering Word Heard, Tanya’s Travels.
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Correspondent to Correspondent, The Opens, Special Occasions in Port Townsend & Vancouver, Tacoma Slam, See C.R. Avery.
AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Perth Poetica, Lines Across the Land, Walking on Water & Lunchlines’ Waves, Canberra: Cafe Bazaart, Sydney Events, Hobart (Tasmania), Victoria: Send VisPoCards.
TEXAS: Such Sweet Sorrow on the East Side; New Year, New News, New Venues; Slam, If You Please, Ma’am; Poetry Festival Preview.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Tia Chucha’s Cafe Cultural, Belladonna* Book Sale.
MUSELETTER #99 1.9.02
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: 2001 - The Year in Poetry
LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Three Months After 9.11, Excerpt from My Unfinished October Column, Words “N” Tha Mix, Monday Night Poetry Has Moved to a New Location!, San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, Big Bad Poetry Slam Keeps On Slammin’, Tebot Bach Refines the Art and Approach of Poetry, Poetry by the Seashore, Two Idiots Continue to Peddle, Tracking Down Nate Green, Christmas Wrap at Rapp Saloon, A Performance Poetry Manifesto, The Scoop on PL and the World of Zen.
CHICAGO/MIDWEST: Holiday Felicitations, There’s Taking a Break..., And Then There’s Getting Broken, Musicality Revisited, On the 2002 Radar.
NEW YORK CITY: NYC Poetry Book Collections: Poets House & Housing Works, Goodbye Guy!, Yee-Ha Pink Pony!, Speaking of Sheeler..., Welcome to the Family, For the New Year.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Lorenzo Thomas on Poets Chat, Mahmoud Darwish in The New York Times.
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