Went on a 4-day vacation to enjoy my youngest step-daughter’s high school graduation in my home state of Texas. When I returned I found a notice that I’d been included in a list of the top 100 poetry blogs. Flattered and honored, I can’t help but note the subjectiveness of such lists, which is why…
Category Archives: Poetry Blogs
Why Poets Should Own Their Domain Names
In the mid-1990s, those of us who were brave enough to risk our lives and reputations by using this thing called the World Wide Web found a little web community that allowed us to set up our web pages for free. It was really nice. Actually, it wasn’t. But it was free, which made it…
What (Self)-Publishing Is All About
Liz Strauss said it better than I ever could. In summary, publishing is a business. Even if you self-publish, you’ve got to impress your editor and your publisher with a product that can sell. Do your editor and publisher have the skills to know what readers will buy? The hard part is the marketing. If…
Self Publishing Poetry: The Problem With Vanity
The Internet has made self publishing a whole lot easier. In many respects that’s a good thing. Were it not for the ease of use of capable technology, financial accessibility of the platform, and the internal drive to pursue it, I would not be able to write and publish this blog. All poetry bloggers owe…
Newspapers And Poetry: Parallel Delivery Futures
There’s an interesting article in the online version of Wired Magazine about the future of newspaper delivery. Nick Bilton, an editor in the New York Times research and development lab, who doesn’t even receive the newspaper at his home, believes that in the future, newspapers will all be delivered electronically. It’s really not a brilliant…
Bookflaps: Inspiration Comes From Odd Places
I love inspiring people. Though that’s not why I write. It certainly isn’t why I write poetry. But I got an e-mail yesterday telling me that I’ve inspired a local bookstore owner to start a blog. It made my day. Jim Lewin runs the local independent bookstore and curiosity shop called The York Emporium. I’ve…
Alltop Poetry Update
A couple of days ago I sent an e-mail to the administrator of Alltop and suggested they include some poetry sites that I felt should be aggregated along with World Class Poetry and some others. Here is the list I sent by e-mail: Silliman’s Blog Poetry Hut Poetry Hound The New Verse News Paul Hoover’s…
Poetry And Good Company: It Pays To Be On Top!
While doing a little browsing this evening I discovered myself in good company. What I mean is, the World Class Poetry blog, unbenownst to me until now, has been aggregated along with several other poetry sites at Alltop.com. If you’re not familiar with Alltop.com then you may be familiar with one of its founders, Guy…
5 Types Of Poetry Blogs And Who You Should Read
After surveying the poetry blogosphere I’ve settled on there being about 5 different types of poetry blogs online today. There are different variations of the 5, but I think we can settle on placing them into 5 categories and I’ll outline those for you with some recommendations on which are the best blogs to read…
23 Things Poets Can Do With Twitter
Literary agent Nathan Bransford had a guest blogger on his blog this morning. Tracy Marchini shared 21 things an author can do with Twitter. But Tracy left a couple of things off the list. I’m sure there are more, but these two extra things are things that I do as well. Install Twitter Tools into…
