From the Questionless Book Interview with Damian Rogers: A Writer is responsible for… finding the next word. As opposed to an Author, who is responsible for… showing up when asked. At its core, Publishing is… a way to circulate ideas through a network of individual personalities out into the sea of humanity. Or at least […]
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Self in Literary Proportions? S. Burt, J. Beer and L. Hejinian
Stephen Burt at the Boston Review looks at Our Poems, Ourselves: Does Autobiography Make Good Poetry? Instead of the expected angle of Is confessional outdated?, he questions if this idea of an autonomous self isn’t outdated: So much of what seems like personal experience arises from systems far larger (the English language, the global economy) […]
VERSeFest: Sharing vs. Ownership in Literature
On March 11th at the poetry fest Marcus McCann gave a talk on what our relationship is to other people’s work. How do we relate our words to the ideas of permission, attribution? Plenty of interesting questions were raised including those around what copyright is supposed to do? By it, are we asking corporations to […]
Cross-pollinating ideas
Brenda Leifso read poems from her new manuscript Arsenic Hour, named after that metabolic dip in the afternoon that makes you want to either scream and quit or pour a gin and light a cigarette and let lips get loose. Some of the poems revolve around the profoundness of family. Her last book was Daughters […]
Not Discipline, Scheduling Pleasure
“You have 1,440 minutes a day. Use one of them to write,” says the banner at The One-Minute Writer. [via Ron] The bonus side-effect is that, like meditation, is you can hang in for all the hours it takes for the first minute to pass, you’re off to the thought races.