Finally figured out the new version of WP enough to find the widget to put the link to recent comments in the sidebar. Check out those links by Jim on history of flarf. I added three words per poem by greg betts to the sidebar but if you didn’t notice, now you have. He’s shuffling […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Benefits of the Test Audience
In his post, the joy of revision, Robert Peake talks about looking at a poem’s elemental structure and intentions, and about the benefits of workshops for aesthetic calibration: it is through input from other self-aware readers that poets can often develop most quickly, learning through feedback how their decisions affect a receptive other. Through both […]
Two Poems
Check out the entirely of this second untitled poem of By Anna Akhmatova translated by Jane Kenyon… “one memory lies inside me./ I cannot and will not fight against it:/ it is joy and it is pain.// It seems to me that anyone who looks into/ my eyes will notice it immediately”. It came to […]
Cento in Old Rome
Christine de Pizan in The Book of the City of Ladies mentions the story of how Plato died with a book by Sappho under his pillow. Funny to think of who read and was familiar with which people in history. In the 1400s, de Pizan, also spoke of Proba the Roman (section I.29.1) who knew […]
Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation has an app for ipods. I have to say I enjoy having the random anthology at hand. To navigate you shake the machine and it reels the combination of subject and mood. I like the concept better than being parsed out one feature poem a day. I haven’t had as much luck […]