There is a great slate of writers among the University Lectures guests at SU this year. I think I’m most excited about Jonathan Franzen’s talk with George Saunders (3/6), but David Sedaris (10/11), Zadie Smith (3/20), and Katrina vanden Heuvel (10/4). All these lectures are free, people.
Learn more about a new poet everyday:
From February through April of 2011, the Foundation will host a retrospective examining more than sixty years of American poetry. The retrospective will include a daily blog featuring essays by emerging poets on all past Winners of the National Book Award for Poetry, as well as a series of public programs in three U.S. cities.
Each day for ten weeks, beginning on February 14, 2011, the Foundation will publish a brief, original blog essay on a National Book Award Winner, beginning with William Carlos Williams, Winner of the first National Book Award for Poetry in 1950. In addition to the essay, each blog page will include a brief biography of the poet and related information and links.
The NBF poetry blog is now live.
Not that anyone needs ANOTHER reason to visit Austin, but the HRC opens the DFW archive for researchers today, with a webcast of the festivities.
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Opening day of the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, 1911.
Looks promising!
Edwardian Era, via CP
(Sorry, not that ELO!)
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One of many fascinating implements in this post: A Journey Round My Skull: Of Goose Quills, Gloves, and Writing Booths.
I just noticed Amazon’s Statisctically Improbable Phrases feature when looking at the Amazon page for Paul Fussell’s Poetic Meter & Poetic Form, a great handbook to understanding prosody. The improbable phrases for this book include: terminal trochee,
spondaic substitution, trisyllabic substitution, musical scansion, initial trochee, trochaic substitution, metrical contract, tetrameter quatrain, medial caesura, metrical norm, metrical variations, tetrameter couplets, syllabic meter, line integrity, stanzaic form, metrical regularity, sprung rhythm, metrical analysis, iambic feet, ballad stanza, pentameter line.
Seem pretty probably for me for a book about poetic forms, but in the grand scheme of things, I suppose not so probable.
I noticed the URL structure of these pages allows users to create lists of their own improbable phrases and instantly get a list of search-inside books containing them. Here’s the structure:
http://www.amazon.com/phrase/crazy-phrase/
This could be the new google-whack!
Great and eye-opening reflection on Strunk & White from the Language Log‘s Geoffrey Pullum. I always go to The Elements of Style on Bartleby.com to point people that leaving the trailing s off of a singular possesive that ends in s is utterly wrong, but now I guess I shouldn’t be so gloaty about it. I’m also glad that he allows for split infinitives, the always seem so conspicuously edited-out.
Pullum also reflects on the meaningless fark.com comments in a later post… I would assume that a linguistics professor should go nowhere near comments on sites like fark or youtube if he wants to get any actual work done– those sites are like the primordial goo of grammar and usage anomalies, not to mention under-thought maliciousness.
This looks really really cool… a story written in text messages collected by readers in locations throughout the city of Syracuse. Interesting that the messages are 156 characters long, since Twitter’s making 140 a standard now, but I suppose that’s more than 10% more goodness per message. @Sharplings writing what I think may be a joke novel on Twitter (search #FD, for Fuel Dump), but I’m much more interested in something interactive and local like this project by an SU creative writing student.
via the Post Standard (you’d think I woulda found out about this on campus!)
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