Just a note to say I’m wrapping up my membership in Amazon’s Kindle Online Lending Library (KOLL) by giving away free copies of e-books on certain days throughout June. Here are the books I’m giving away free and which days they’re available at that price. Twitter Poems – Today! Get it right now (until midnight…
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Free Poetry Books For All
I appreciate all my subscribers sticking with me as I close out some old business. All of this self-promotion has got me feeling cheap, but I hope you’re not feeling used. Today is my birthday, so I thought I’d give away all my poetry chapbooks (the digital versions at least) for free. If you own…
Published: Twitpoems
Here’s a quick announcement. I just published Twitpoems, a collection of Twitter poems of 140 characters or less, at both Amazon and Smashwords. Available for the Kindle, the Nook, Apple’s iPad, Kobo, and other e-readers. In 2009 I conducted an experiment whereby I published one poem a day for about 6 months. Twitpoems represents one…
Free Poetry For Your Kindle – Today Only
Today only, you can get Twitter Poems for the Kindle for free. Act before midnight PSD. Twitter Poems is the genesis of the #twitpoem project, which I started in April 2009. These 30 poems were published one day at a time on Twitter during the month of April 2009. All are 140 characters or less….
Poetry Books For $1
If you like poetry books – and who doesn’t? – then you’ll love a new website that I’ve built called $1 Dollar Books. As you can guess, it’s a site devoted entirely to selling books for $1 each, plus shipping & handling. That includes poetry books and books in other genres. I have upwards of…
Dinkle Dorkle And Other Nut Cases
In 2009 I undertook an experiment publishing Twitter poems. I called them Twitpoems and created the #twitpoem hashtag for that purpose. The concept was real simple. Poems consisted of 140 characters or less. At the end of each virtual line I add a / to designated to readers that there would be a line break…
I Finally Published Poetry Book ‘Rumsfeld’s Sandbox’
I’ve been relatively quiet on this blog for the past six months. I won’t issue any apologies. Some of my most vocal critics may be jumping for joy. The reason I haven’t posted much in recent months is that I’ve been quite busy working on two projects, one of which is the publication of Rumsfeld’s…
What Drives Poetry Book Sales?
I’m not sure that I buy that 1980 is the pivotal year in the turn to corporatization in the publishing business, but Scott Esposito writes about a striking observation made by Nina Siegal in a post on sales and quality at Conversational Reading. The interesting thing here, though not surprising, is that the nature of…
Tanka Poetry: The Heart Of A Sailor By M. Kei
First, World Class Poetry offered “Twitter Haiku and Other Gems” by Gene Myers. Now, our second Twitter chapbook focusing on Japanese short forms is available for free through the World Class Poetry Toolbar. “The Heart Of A Sailor” is a collection of 26 tanka poems by gay poet M. Kei, a volunteer skipjack crewman in…
Hybrid Poetry: Post Avant Or Something Else?
I just finished reading American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology Of New Poetry edited by Cole Swensen and David St. John. The book is a compilation of poets and a selection of their poems that have been published over the past 10 or 20 years, illustrating the vast expanse of poetic ideologies on the current scene….
