Poet Ross Gay is on a roll: He talks gardens and gratitude (The Los Angeles Times)
Third set of Lesbian Poet Trading Cards due out in March (Chicago Tribune)
Katie Holmes on Playing a Bipolar Poet (Wall Street Journal)
Sex trafficking victim is now a famous poet (Asia One)
Bangladeshi woman whose poetry collections were published from India last year after her rescue from a sex racket there and published under the pseudonym Chhaya.
James Franco is not a Queer Poet (City Paper)
Local poet/activist to open bed and breakfast catering to visiting artists later this year (Metro Times)
What can a poet tell us about the Zika virus? (Washington Post)
In Iran, A Poet's 700-Year-Old Verses Still Set Hearts Aflame (NPR)
New hardcover book on Sappho (W.W. Norton)
Experts to probe death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Yahoo! News)
Will this exhumation ever end??
8 Battlefield Poets of World War I (History.com)
New take on notions of Audre Lorde, 'warrior poet' (Windy City)
Other Interesting Links
Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional (Mental Floss)
When Teamwork Doesn’t Work for Women (New York Times)
Think tenure and co-authorships.
Prison poetry makes it to the outside
At Monsieur Big Bang’s local coffee shop he found a handout of a poem written by a "free man in solitary confinement in KS prison" discussing "corporate masters, born into slavery and taking back, lives, liberties and pursuits of Happiness and redistributing wealth back to the majority.”
Devoid of any figurative fanciness, it was full of verb and in the now. Sure it was a hodge-podge of a call to political action but political poetry is alive and well behind the wall.
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