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• Compliment? Slam? But Cool!
  Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:03:03 -0600
  
  Out of the blue 2River received the cartoon below from G. Tod Sloan, the often controversial editor of The American Dissident. At one time the cartoon was part of a series called Rogues of the Month, but was removed due to space restrictions.  
  
  
  
  Compliment? Slam? Most likely a slam. But Cool.
  
  
  
• Book Review - 'Selected Poems,' by Frank O'Hara
  Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:28:32 -0600
  

  Death is often a good career move in poetry. No sooner are the obsequies over and the baked meats eaten than the publisher warms up the presses for a definitive edition of the collected poems, solemnly proofread down to the last querulous comma. Yet not all poets are well served by such an exhaustive volume, which may seal up a reputation forever ? indeed, such a book has sometimes been called a tombstone. A collected poems may be cruelest to a poet whose genius shone as intermittently as a firefly.

  [From NYTimes.com]

  
  
  
• Poems by Jo McDougall Listed in eScene
  Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:28:19 -0600
  

  Two poems by Jo McDougall from the Winter 2008 issue of 2RV are listed in Web de Sol's issue of eScene, which occasionally lists the best work published on the literary web.

  [See Series 31]

  
  
  
• NewPages.Com Reviews Spring 2008 Issue of 2RV
  Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:28:41 -0600
  

  "Colorful, penetrating art ... and a treasure trove of poems": So says NewPages.Com of the Spring 2008 issue of The 2River View.

  [Literary Magazine Reviews :: NewPages :: Current Lit Mag Reviews]

  
  
  
• The Energies of Words
  Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:40:25 -0600
  "Hermeneutical mysteriousness is the single most important reason why Objectivist ideals have endured in American poetry." Peter O'Leary digs deep into the Poetry magazine archive to uncover the origins of the Objectivist movement. [From The Energies of Words
  
  
• New York Times Book Review
  Sun, 18 May 2008 15:16:33 -0600
  

  To open one of Charles Simic?s collections of poetry ? this is, incredibly, his 19th ? is to enter with renewed delight an instantly familiar neighborhood.

  [From That Little Something - Charles Simic - Book Review - New York Times]

  
  
  
• The Plight of the Poet-Critic
  Thu, 15 May 2008 09:27:29 -0600
  

  The poet-critic gets no sympathy, and considering the charge-sheet against him ? adversarial, addicted to dicta, motivated by an axe-grindingly acute sense of right and wrong ? why would he? He is, in most eyes, a hyphenated hothead.

  [From Poetry Foundation: The online home of the Poetry Foundation]

  
  
  
• All the Difference
  Sun, 11 May 2008 09:21:19 -0600
  A biographical novel reconstructs Robert Frost?s life.

  [From All the Difference]
  
  

• Vendler?s Yeats
  Sun, 11 May 2008 09:14:55 -0600
  Helen Vendler?s study of W. B. Yeats demonstrates the flaws that come from trying to ensure the Right Poets are read the Right Way.
  [From Vendler?s Yeats]
  
  
• Poet Laureate Donald Hall Reflects on Age and Nature
  Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:23:12 -0600
  

  New U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall gives a tour of his New Hampshire farm where he has written poetry for over 30 years. He also reads poems on nature, love and loss, suggests that poetry is becoming more popular and explores the art of saying the unsayable. [From Poet Laureate Donald Hall Reflects on Age and Nature]

  
  
  
• 2River Climbs in Google
  Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:50:18 -0600
  

  2River is now at number 5 in the Google PageRank order of poetry magazines and e-zines.

  [From Google Directory - Arts > Literature > Poetry > Magazines and E-zines ]

  
  
  
• After Midnight Reviews
  Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:22:38 -0600
  

  Trepidatious as I was to scoure a purely online zine after getting off work, I was suprisingly pleased by 2River View.

  [From creative writing 2310: After Midnight Reviews Presents: 2River View]

  
  
  
• River Styx keeps on rolling.
  Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:43:26 -0600
  

  Richard Newman has spent the past thirteen years working to keep St. Louis' oldest literary magazine alive. It has not been an easy task.

  [From RFT: River Styx keeps on rolling.]

  
  
  
• Editing of Frost Notebooks in Dispute
  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:22:30 -0600
  

  A recently published compendium of Robert Frost's personal notebooks is coming under attack from two critics who say that the editor of the volume mistranscribed hundreds, if not thousands, of Frost?s words.

  [From Editing of Frost Notebooks in Dispute]

  
  
  
• Living With Ghosts
  Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:09:43 -0600
  

  
  For more than 50 years, Geoffrey Hill has written a pinch-mouthed, grave-digger?s poetry. His rich and allusive books are normally greeted by praise from critics and bewilderment from readers.
  
  [From Living With Ghosts]