The Book of Kells Great Poetry Giveaway 2011 is underway. If you want to receive the poetry at any of the participating blogs, leave a comment at the blog offering the lottery on the book of your choice, before April 30th. Such as at this one. I’ll mail off a copy of Between Stations for […]
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A Quiet Word: Focus in the Fracas
A poem by Jeanne Larsen entitled My Aging Lover in My Arms, The Dharma has this section, […] We’ve known how body shouts as a master might to a student, Do you understand, do you? Speak up. Quick, quick! As if the student cherished bewilderment. [via Anita Firebaugh] Ah, some truthiness after reflection in a poem. […]
Poetry vs. Science and Poetry vs. Market
Canada Arts Connect Magazine sports an article by Nathaniel G Moore Got Poetry-Month-Mania? For an entire month (though somehow I feel like this happens every few weeks) poets are endlessly paraded out on half-known and well-known blogs and discussion panels, college and national radio shows and cattled to readings series like it was the end […]
Woot Woot
5 years in the making, Between Stations, a 40-page collection of train poems, is out from obvious epiphanies press of Japan! every moment is a destination on the train. the head of a pin has toppled over, angels fallen off and the the comedies and gaps play out on the side of the slow diesel […]
NaPoWriMo
National Poetry Writing Month is a social version of the usual composing poems. At the NaPoWriMo site, they offer a prompt a day, a space to show results and featured poetry blog per day. Yesterday’s prompt was from Kelli Russell Agadon’s “Write a poem of at least 40 lines that is a single sentence.” That’s […]