Fascinating news from the last week.
John Milton was a poet and a freedom fighter.
The UK Telegraph’s Simon Heffer enthuses over the greatness of John Milton on the 400th anniversary of the poet’s birth. Heffer argues that he should be remembered as a pamphleteer who set up the struggle for English liberty.
Maddy Costa describes this semi-biographical play as one that leaves the audience “more in awe of Eliot the poet than ever.” The Family Reunion isn’t easy to play, but Jeremy Herrin’s cast is impeccable.
Poetry helps Tiburon woman to find her way back from brain injury.
At the age of 17 she crashed her sports car close to where actor James Dean died in his Porsche 550. She was left severely injured and her passenger was killed. Tyler, who earned her law degree in 1998, says poetry was the key to her rebirth.
Under the Needle: Poetry thrives in a downturn
Seattle Pi reporter Mike Lewis reports on why economic downturns aren’t such a bad time to be a writer and poet, especially in the case of Hugo House’s current writer-in-residence, Ed Skoog.
Poets’ suicidal journeys an inconsistent tale.
‘Sylvia Plath Must Not Die’, by Calgary’s One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre receives a rather unfortunate review from the Toronto Star’s theatre critic, Richard Ouzounian. If an evening with two suicidal poets is not your cup of tea, then it’s best to avoid.
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