Litmag Roundup

• The Missouri Review publishes a series of “Dream Poems” by Richard Bausch.
• Joanna Klink talks poetry in Jubilat.  Looking forward to her next collection, Raptus, which Penguin is releasing this May (preorder a copy).
• Rae Armantrout in Poetry.
• Robert Bly in the APR, “Nirmala’s Music.”
• Bly is hitting the magazines hard this month.
• Poetry Northwest announces its newest issue with a poem by Rick Barot. He is the author of Want: Poems– a book worth a few readings.
• After this week’s premiere of Treme on HBO, I like to imagine John Goodman reciting this poem.  Fady Joudah in Callaloo – behind a wall for subscribers and libraries.
• Atlanta Review has the most bizarrely charming web presence.  I’m not even sure this is the entirety of Michael Lee Phillips’ prize-winning poem, but it’s still a solid narrative piece.
• Adam Zagajewski, translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh, in Five Points.

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Monday links, Pulitzer edition #2

• The 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded today to Rae Armantrout’s Versed. The deserving book seemed a good bet for the prize, as mentioned earlier on this site. Here are three poems from the collection in the most recent edition of NO. Finalists are Angie Estes’ Tryst and Inseminating the Elephant by Lucia Perillo.
• Broadway musical Next to Normal won the drama prize,  its citation appended with the following note: “Moved into contention by the Board within the Drama category.” The Pulitzer board has been known to intervene when dissatisfied with the jury’s selection – most famously when the board awarded no prize in 1963, objecting to sexual themes in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. This year’s strange citation might have something to do with another of the finalists: In The Next Room or the vibrator play.
• Jennifer Higdon’s Violin Concerto, premiered at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, won this year’s award for music. Congratulations to the winning composition – and my town’s orchestra!
• The Times favorably reviews Charles Bernstein’s new selected poems, All the Whiskey in Heaven, as well as translator-extraordinaire Edith Grossman’s new book, Why Translation Matters. To go along with the book’s publication, Grossman wrote an interesting piece on translating Don Quixote for Guernica magazine.
• The Australian looks at Les Murray’s new collection, Taller When Prone.
• In a letter to Paul Demeny, Folio favorite Arthur Rimabud wrote: “I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.” Many have interpreted this ‘derangement’ as some sort of synesthesia.  In the American Journal of Human Biology, Kevin Mitchell reviews a new overview of the phenomenon,  Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia.

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Friday links, Pulitzer edition

• Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists will be announced Monday, April 12. Some of Folio Found’s favorite recent books have won the prize. Claudia Emerson’s Late Wife, the 2006 awardee, comes to mind as among the top few books of the past decade.  The National Book Award tends to have a fair degree of overlap, so good bets are: Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy; Rae Armantrout, Versed; Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again; Carl Phillips, Speak Low; and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval.
• Derek Walcott describes the process of writing his poem “XLVIII” from Midsummer.
• Following recent turmoil in Kyrgyzstan, there are fears the US might lose its lease on the Manas airfield, used as a refueling station against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Non-US air bases cannot be named after US citizens, so the center’s name refers to the Epic of Manas, one of the few living oral epics.  If you want a taste, watch this short video about manaschi Sayakbai Karalaev.
• The Guardian looks at Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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