Clippings file

I’ve got a hankering for Emerald green. Looking at lit events in Ireland is exacerbating it. I’ll add Listowel Writers Week to my watch list. I can’t know if I want to attend yet because they don’t release their schedule until April.
At least Montreal’s Blue Metropolis has their schedule up. So does Ottawa’s writers fest. I wish the two did not overlap by half.
To be sexist, a yah that female are top candidates for poet laureate in Britain, Carol Ann Duffy and Ruth Padel.
I like the new Amazon side-by-side charts of “The most helpful favorable review” beside “The most helpful critical review” All the Fun’s In How You Say a Thing. Part of the problem with online is that there’s no grapevine to link the millions of people who use Amazon to weigh the source to know the value of who says what. People falsify names and the reviews stand alone. You can read more words of reviews than of what is being talked about.

“Because a metrical poem modulates individual phrases against the scaffolding of a rhythm and line-length that is mutually expected by both poet and reader, the poet can indicate, even on the page, the exact timber, tempo, and other physical characteristics the reading-aloud process should take at each point in the poem.
General readers of free verse have now learned to read poetry with their left brains—the way they read prose—privileging ideas, images, and rhetorical shape over line, rhythm, and physical vibrancy…They were reading not musically, but discursively. And this was a completely understandable way for earnest, educated general readers of the current day, trained as they have been by a century of free verse poetry and poetics, to approach an unknown book of poetry.”
– Annie Finch at Poetry Foundation