What’s Chris Lott’s Favorite Punctuation?
Story on Heather McHugh
Good quote from writer’s fest panel:
"I thought I had pretty good titles up until this book…[but] nothing sells like murder" @CharlotteJGray explains #truecrime @Writersfest
— Ottawa Writers Fest (@Writersfest) October 29, 2013
Magma Magazine does a round up of 25 rules for editing poems. The last few?
22. Can you summarise the poem adequately? If so, be wary of the poem.
23. Is your ending an effective and imaginative response to the poem’s tension or simply an easy (but cleverly disguised) retreat from it?
24. “Images can be sly ways of escaping from a poem” – Robert Bly, writing to Tomas Tranströmer, from Airmail.
25. If you’re stuck, take a walk for at least a mile. Concentrate on the moment, not on the poem. Give the unconscious room to work.
from chapbook to trade book at Apt 9.
Endre Farkas and Robert Swereda have some very interesting stuff in the humungous Branch issue still working thru …but I see there’s one by Sneha Madhavan-Reese who has a micro chapbook with phafours earlier this year.
Are you a Tree attendee? There’s a chapbook contest for you — details here