Links

• The Last Poet To Win The Nobel Prize
• Found: Dorothy Parker poem reveals pain of rejection
• Do You Believe in Magic? {congratulations!}
• I was about to say that I don’t understand how people can get upset at a lowly little poetry magazine that runs at a loss for the love of the game — but I guess I do understand
• Writers share the rituals of writing — or not —

Links

-- Herta Mueller wins the Nobel Prize for Literature (Manchester Guardian)
-- Mueller's win: is the Nobel committee Eurocentric?
Other articles:
“The first function of a literary magazine is to introduce the work of new or little-known writers of talent.”
— At first glance it seems the relationship is largely one way – that modern cinema is less enamoured with poetry than with poets’ life stories. —
— One burning question I remember having at the time was: Why doesn’t poetry rhyme anymore? —
-- Sina Queyras on reading styles --
— Killer poet pleads for release —

Links, some absurd but nevertheless intriguing

• Are Dictionaries becoming obsolete?
  A gallery of images of Eliot the editor
  Naked girls reading
  The half-read book
• How old are you in “writer’s years”? Equation here.
• Authors are taking huge pay cuts to their book advances—up to 50%
• Fairy tales go back further than we think

Some links

• Literary journals with quick turn-around times
• Best poet portraits
• The perils of the poetry reading
• A great creative writing teacher
• Thesaurus rex
• New assignment: pick books you like

via Jilly

“What is it about this painting that such infamous people in history have owned it?”

I always suspected there were lots of these kinds of "poets" out there...

The League’s press release states that “only a handful of large publishers are receiving significant benefits,” and that “writers and the small presses that publish most Canadian culture receive virtually nothing from the system.” —