Yesterday I informed you of a few new videos at World Class Poetry. Today I’d like to announce the addition of four new Billy Collins videos. If you’re a fan of former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins then you’ll like these videos. I’ve seen hundreds of poetry videos online and none come close to the…
Category Archives: Poet Laureate
How Google Books Saved My Soul
Oh, yes. The muse I didn’t know I had. Should you enroll in an MFA program? Google Books Saved My Soul I love Google. Most people are entirely unaware of Google’s super powers, among them the ability to locate a book anywhere in the world and help you get it sent to you at your…
What Kay Ryan’s Appointment As Poet Laureate Really Means
I said I would offer some words on the appointment of Kay Ryan to the poet laureate position. I must say that it is rather surprising given that she isn’t all that well known. I mean, there are other poets far more well known who could have been selected, which begs the question, why Ryan?…
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…
Poetry Potpourri, Volume 8.2
Meet the anticommunist antimodernists. Meet the fake Frank O’Hara. Meet Ron Silliman’s clone (but don’t laugh). Meet the new declinists. Meet Kay Ryan’s travel agenda. What’s going on at the National Mall in September. The accountability of the artist. Poetry tagged. That’s all for now. Goodbye.
Dreams, Poets, Obama, And A Lone Moon
Reb’s poet dream list is mighty long. Tilt Press is looking for a few good poets. What the blogosphere is saying about the new poet laureate, Kay Ryan. What Edward Byrne has to say. And Ron Silliman. Stay tuned. I’ll have some thoughts in the next few days. An interview with David Biespiel. Manufacturing America….
National Poetry Reading Month? Is He Serious?
Here’s an interview with the poet laureate of the blogosphere. Praise for Rattle’s visual poetry section. NaPoReMo? Isn’t this really getting out of hand? Why John Hewitt and I might have children together: Our firstborn will be named Blogging. The rise and fall and rise of Longfellow. Let’s hear it for the woman. The Poe…
Introducing The Perfect Poem
A writer lives her dream through “Portals of Country Living.” Meet the poet laureate of Poetic Asides, Sara Diane Doyle. Billy Childish, 3 poetry books published in one month. How to change the world with a poem. Naomi Shihab Nye says “Losing Bedrock Farm” is the perfect poem. A fight between the literati ensues: I’m…
Poets To Pay Attention To
Meet Delaware’s 16th poet laureate. Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore has been published. R.I.P. James B. Hall. A new poetry forum. Now this (read below) is pure poetry: If you want to believe that America is a governable country of informed citizens and not a nation of ignorant, Fox News-watching sheep, the single most depressing fact…
Reb Livingston Speaks
Nic Sebastian at Very Like a Whale asked Jeb Livingston a series of questions on her blog. I thought Jeb’s answers were very telling and I’d like to offer a few snippets and my responses: I sent my poems to all the wrong magazines; places that didn’t publish work in the same vein as mine…
