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…
Category Archives: Poetry Blogs
York, Pa. and The Emporium
Sorry I missed my post yesterday. I was afraid that would happen. I was at the Dover Public Library in Dover, Pa. and they closed on me. Evidently, they close at 1 p.m. on Friday. Today I’m posting from The Emporium in York, Pa. The reason I’m in York today is because it’s YorkFest, the…
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…
Pure Poetry: My First Do-Follow Targeted Spam Comment
I knew it was going to happen. I installed the Do-Follow plugin just two days ago and already the spam comments have started trickling in. Here’s the first: Thanks for this. You was help me. Article who your writen was so important for me. Thanks again Besides the obvious grammatical and spelling errors (it could…
What Do Ron Silliman And Slate Magazine Have In Common?
Tomorrow is Memorial Day here in the U.S. and I’ll be taking the day off. So no blog post. Meanwhile, a review of Sam Hamill’s Measured By Stone. Speaking of which, what do Rattle reviews, Belinda Subraman, WGLT Poetry Radio, American Blues Network, Ron Silliman, Chekhov’s Mistress, Virginia Quarterly Review Blog, Dark Matter, Poetry Hound,…
The Poetic Future: Why I Blog
My regular readers will know that I am passionate about poetry. I have been since my college days when I wrote my first real poem, a lyrical ars poetica titled “Threesome.” I wrote the poem in response to “Satan Says” by Sharon Olds, who was the first contemporary poet I was subjected to. Her first…
Two Websites And A Feeble Attempt At Poetry
I’d like to mention two websites that publish poetry and are worth a mention. The first is Evolution of a Poet, written by Will Bridges (this website is no longer live – March 3, 2009). I’m impressed with this poet’s ambition to write a poem every day for a year and post it to his…
