I've been noticing some senior citizens - my guess in their late sixties through eighties - reading from electronic book readers. This is a sign that even seniors (who statistically tend not to use the internet, e-mail, or cell phones, or social networking sites) are taking to the light weight and less-expensive-than-a-paper-copy download. At the library electronic books are also downloadable at no charge. There is no renewal. When the book is due it goes poof! So no chance of a library fine.
HOW DOES A WRITER GET PAID for books that go poof?
6/20/11
6/19/11
6/18/11
DAVID FERRY : POETRY FOUNDATION 2011 LILLY POETRY AWARD
The Poetry Foundation announces this years Lilly Lifetime Achievement Prize for poetry to poet David Ferry - link above.
And the New York Times article to go with :
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/david-ferry-wins-the-worlds-biggest-poetry-prize/
And the New York Times article to go with :
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/david-ferry-wins-the-worlds-biggest-poetry-prize/
6/15/11
RUTH LILLY THE GREAT PHILANTHROPIST OF POETRY
Ruth Lilly, the only living heir of the Eli Lilly fortune pledged $100 million (have heard $200,000 million also) in 2002 to the Poetry Foundation to publish Poetry Magazine and more. She also provided that every year one poet receive the Lilly award which is $100,000! Linking to the New York Times article from 2007 which reveals the lack of appreciation some have shown for this amazing bequest.
(I can't think of any other philanthropist who gives/gave a rats ass for poets or poetry. It's difficult to get a free space to run a nonprofit writing group as is.)
(IS THIS ATTITUDE ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF THE NOTORIOUS POETS' DEVOTION TO BELOVED POVERTY? Aren't some of us a bit tired of the notion that poverty is always honorable or the natural state of poets and poetry? I used to know people who posed that they were poor to be accepted in certain Los Angeles poetry circles!)
I'll be linking to more about LILLY scholarships, awards, and so on...)
(I can't think of any other philanthropist who gives/gave a rats ass for poets or poetry. It's difficult to get a free space to run a nonprofit writing group as is.)
(IS THIS ATTITUDE ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF THE NOTORIOUS POETS' DEVOTION TO BELOVED POVERTY? Aren't some of us a bit tired of the notion that poverty is always honorable or the natural state of poets and poetry? I used to know people who posed that they were poor to be accepted in certain Los Angeles poetry circles!)
I'll be linking to more about LILLY scholarships, awards, and so on...)
6/10/11
BRUCE FEIRSTEIN quotation
"Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame thrower." - Bruce Fierstein
6/7/11
ANCIENT SEMETIC LANGUAGE - AKKADIAN - THE CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY PUBLISHED AFTER 90 YEARS OF TEAM RESEARCH
Love this story... Akkadian is a Semetic language (last written 1900 years ago) and ancient form of Assyrian and after 90 years (and many academics) working on the project have finally published a dictionary. the dictionary gives us some idea of what people spoke in Mesopotamia!
Oh how I admire linguists, since I have absolutely no talent with languages...
Like anthropologists, they looked at tomb stones, and other evidence of this cuneiform written language.
Oh how I admire linguists, since I have absolutely no talent with languages...
Like anthropologists, they looked at tomb stones, and other evidence of this cuneiform written language.
6/4/11
HARRY BERNSTEIN FIRST PUBLISHED AT 96 AFTER WRITING 40 BOOKS! OBIT
Connect now to the obit for this author, who late in life, received acclaim for his writing about a childhood effected by anti-semitism. He's compaired to one of my favorites, Isaac Bashevis Singer, as well as Frank McCourt, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on this last (and only) published book!
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