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BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER IV (Hump Back).
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"The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters…."
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BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER II (Right Whale).
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BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER I (Sperm Whale).
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"To be short, then, a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. There you have him."
Occupy Writers, Salinger the Cruise Director, and More
Writers in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement have launched a website; the Appalachian Prison Book Project has lost its funding; Columbia professor James Shapiro has some choice items to say about Anonymous, the new Roland Emmerich film; and other news.
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"As yet, however, the Sperm Whale, scientific or poetic, lives not complete in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life."
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway
The first volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, published last month by Cambridge University Press, collects the correspondence of the Nobel Prize winner, including postcards, telegrams, and drafts of letters, written between 1907 and 1922 and never intended for publication.
M. L. Liebler: Fall in Detroit
Longtime P&W-supported sponsor and writer M. L. Liebler, author of fourteen books of poetry including The Moon A Box, which received the 2005 Patterson Poetry Award of Excellence, blogs about the kickoff celebration for the second annual Detroit Michigan Writers' Retreat in downtown Detroit.
Summer in Detroit is over... the season is turning from hot and humid into fresh apple fall. There isn’t any frost on pumpkins yet, but it won’t be long before the first snowflakes fall.
Though temperatures may be dropping, Detroit's literary scene is just warming up. On September 16, Detroit kicked off another full season of literary activities with our annual Detroit Michigan Writers' Retreat in downtown Detroit. A good number of folks packed the small theater at the College for Creative Studies to listen to a diverse group of writers.
This year's readings started with the urban narrative poetry of Rutgers's Tara Betts. Tara was followed by A. Van Jordan, the current writer-in-residence at the University of Michigan, who delivered a spirited reading that combined quantum physics and comic book heroes. Poet Denise Duhamel whooed the audience with her hilarious poems that explored Barbie, sex, and other contemporary and uniquely American topics.
Readers were treated to a little fiction from Ohio novelist Robert Olmstead, as he read from his bestselling novel Coal Black Horse. Robert left the audience wanting more (and sold quite a few copies of the book!). Roger Bonair-Agard kicked it up a notch with a performance-based reading. He read poems featuring interesting moments from his childhood in Trinidad, one of which was a wonderful poem about how his aunt took him to the barber against his mother’s wishes.
Photo: M. L. Liebler.
Support for Readings/Workshops events in Detroit, is provided by an endowment established with generous contributions from the Poets & Writers Board of Directors and others. Additional support comes from the Friends of Poets & Writers.
Changing Face of Publishing, Anne Sexton's Prose, and More
Adult hardcover book sales gained 33 percent in July; Harper Perennial attempts to create a brand that offers modest advances for first books, cool young writers, and a cutting-edge aesthetic; despite Anne Sexton's success publishing poems, magazine fiction editors did not want her stories; and other news.
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