New on Poets.org New Poets Forum Video: Sincerely Ironic Panel Backchat: Audio Discussions with Marie Howe & Dorianne Laux First Books: Elana Bell Receives the Walt Whitman Award The Self in Poetry: New Rachel Zucker Audio Feature Behind the Mask: Explaining Thomas Hardy New Poets Forum Video: Sincerely Ironic Panel "One thing we're always doing is grappling with the problem of language's ability to represent experience, language's ability to represent the self," says Mark Wunderlich on a panel with fellow poets Jericho Brown, Tina Chang, Olena Kalytiak Davis, and Meghan O'Rourke. View this clip from the 2010 Poets Forum, presented by the Academy of American Poets—featuring a lively discussion about the traditions of irony and sincerity in American poetry. The 2011 Poets Forum will be held October 20-22 in New York City. Participants include the Academy's Chancellors, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Matthew Dickman, and others. On the web at: www.poets.org/poetsforum Backchat: Audio Discussions with Marie Howe & Dorianne Laux Recorded behind the scenes at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in Suffolk, England, this interview with Marie Howe explores her relationship to joy—and loss—in her poetry. Then listen to Dorianne Laux give a close reading of Ruth Stone's poem, "Curtains," by which "you can tell, just from this one poem, how great a poet she must be." On the web at: www.poets.org/mhowe & www.poets.org/dlaux First Books: Elana Bell Receives the Walt Whitman Award The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Elana Bell has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award for her book-length collection of poems, Eyes, Stones, chosen by poet Fanny Howe from more than 1,000 entries. The book will be published in the spring of 2011 by Louisiana State University Press. Look for Curses and Wishes, the newly published poetry collection by Carl Adamschick, recipient of the 2010 Walt Whitman Award, now in stores. On the web at: www.poets.org/ebell The Self in Poetry: New Rachel Zucker Audio Feature "The poem is all self. All. And the poem is made necessary when the self suddenly becomes visible and unavoidable." Rachel Zucker discusses objectivity, authority, and whether the self can ever be separated from the poem. On the web at: www.poets.org/zucker Behind the Mask: Explaining Thomas Hardy "It is that under which best lives corrode." Andrew Norman considers the connections between Thomas Hardy's poetry and events in his personal life—including his first wife's mental illness—as evidenced in the poet's Moments of Vision and other works. On the web at: www.poets.org/thard Thanks for being a part of the Poets.org community. You may unsubscribe from this newsletter at any time.
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