[New-Poetry] BEST CITY FOR POETRY

[Anny Ballardini]

Re: [New-Poetry] BEST CITY FOR POETRYI have been running this Angolo della Poesia every fortnight with a brief program on the regional radio RAI, courtesy of Nives Simonetti, by which I introduced an author. On the same day (on Saturdays) the local newspaper Alto Adige published my introduction of the chosen Author with the poem read during the radio program (by the actress Daniela Scarlatti) in my Italian translation, courtesy of Fabio Zamboni and Mauro Fattor, editors:

http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/2006/07/langolo-della-poesia_15.html
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/2006/07/langolo-della-poesia.html
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/2006/06/langolo-della-poesia_17.html
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/2006/06/langolo-della-poesia.html
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/2006/05/langolo-della-poesia_20.html
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/2006/05/langolo-della-poesia.html

(hope the links work)

there are some more, you can easily spot them because there is this vertical box: the scanned newspaper article , in Italian... and they are on every 15 days.
I even mentioned you and Geof Huth when I spoke of Karl Young. I doubt it that you will be famous here, but anyhow, you were on the air at a certain point,

Anny
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Grumman 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:21 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] BEST CITY FOR POETRY


  I'm a little confused, Anny--are you referring to your (always interesting reviews) at your blog?  Or do you also have newspaper reviews at your blog that you've done--and I can't find?

  --Bob
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Anny Ballardini 
    To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
    Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:16 AM
    Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] BEST CITY FOR POETRY


    Hey Bob, I did it... (did because we are on holiday for the summer, but will/might pick up in fall, hopefully)
    check my blog (you can easily find the articles because I scanned them),
    not local poets but my (mainly and preferably) American ones,
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Bob Grumman 
      To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
      Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:06 PM
      Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] BEST CITY FOR POETRY


      >>>Here's a real fantasy answer: a newspaper that ran a  weekly thousand-word column by someone knowledgeable of his city's poetry  scene who covered some local poet's poetry in every other column, with  intelligently-discussed examples of it included.  The columnist would do  the same thing in his other columns, except with national poets (perhaps  connecting them to local poets).

      --Bob

        Wow!  If anyone finds something like this, or gets a newspaper to do it, be sure to let us know!


        Well, I did say "fantasy answer."  But how about a newspaper that intelligently covered one local poet a month?  Or one local poet every three months, one local composer every three months and one lcoal painter or sculptor every three months.
        --Bob G. 
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