I’m feeling generous. I decided to add a new feature to the World Class Poetry Toolbar. If you are a regular user then you can refresh your toolbar (I’ve sent a message through the toolbar to remind users how to do that). Directly to the right of the radio bar you will see the Adobe…
Category Archives: Poems
Best Poetry Of The Web And A Book On Critique Groups
Best of the Web 2008. Congratulations. I downloaded this .pdf document from Penguin Group USA that tells poets how to do Internet marketing. Haven’t read it yet. I’ve skimmed it a little and from what I’ve seen there appears to be a basic understanding of the subject, but incomplete. It’s free and I do recommend…
Poetry Potpourri, Volume 9
Here’s 100 near perfect books of poetry. Mahmoud Darwish died Saturday of of surgery complications. Where poetry comes from, according to neuroscience. 25 websites for researchers. 50 websites for writers. The essential reading list of a socialist langpo. The poet-farmer who is my near neighbor. Sylvia Plath as a hip-hop poetess. Jay-Z may have issues…
Finnishing The Second Coming And Scanning The Elected
Some interesting reading online this week: Silliman’s back (unlike AC/DC) in black and white. Enjoy The Second Coming. It’s been Finnished. And yet, another Amazon boycott. The Jewish geniuses a la Andy Warhol. Meet President Iambic Dimeter with a pyrrhic dangler. Capitalist poetry. Solicitation anyone? Time to prepare a submission. Later.
The Kind Of Rejection I Like
This is the kind of rejection that I like to get: Thanks very much for the three poems submitted, which I found interesting and intense. Unfortunately, they do not match the needs of the xxredactedxx. I appreciate the well-written submissions and your support for the xxredactedxx. I redacted the name of the journal for obvious…
Where Is Ozymandias Now?
I love disagreement. It charges my bones. Last week I wrote a blog post titled “I As Persona”, which drew fire from one of my readers. It was friendly fire, but it’s worth a response nonetheless. The subject is the overuse of the first person singular in poetry today. It really irks me to open…
Two Poetic Videos From Tim Burton
Did you know Tim Burton, the movie maker, was a poet? It’s true. He’s written a rather macabre and interesting bit of poetic stories called The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: and Other Stories. I’m not going to lie to you and say these are great poems, but they will make you laugh. They bear…
Poetic Links Worth A Mention
If you didn’t have the talent to be a writer, would you still write? Waiting on Beckett. Dark Matter’s gigs. Grrrrr …. Poetry Hut is closed. Diane Lockward on bios. See three new pages at World Class Poetry: Stephen Crane Ralph Waldo Emerson Tim Burton I’m hoping to get my laptop back tonight. A couple…
Poet Laureate Interviews Blogger Allen Taylor
Before being deployed as a National Guard officer in July 2004, I was a newspaper editor. As such, I spent a lot of time conducting interviews. I had worked in other writing assignments prior to that and had developed a sort of “open-ended” style of interviewing my subjects. I liked to start out with open-ended…
Poets, Poems, And Critics
The Poetry Archive has published its 100th CD of poetry. Oh, those The New Yorker covers. Recordings of Robert Creeley. I’ve never heard anyone say Ayn Rand was the reason they decided to become a poet. Harold Bloom’s “Song of Myself”. Bill Hayward’s Bob Dylan. Tea with Dante.
