I would tweet this but the tweetdeck is sunk under the whales again…John Mackenzie on how to write a poem. See also “if you will not be not content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin.” Arnold Bennett, How to live on 24 Hours a Day (1910) You probably already […]
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Inspiration Firestarters
Shane Rhodes’ Treaties poems (that link and the next 3 links forward at CanLit Guides) and ones at Numero Cinq Magazine and one set to music, Cordite Poetry Review are coming in his 6th book entitled X coming this spring 2 years after his last collection. It’s good to see a longer cycle of an […]
Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day
Put a poem poesy and put it in your pocket. What to pick? There’s a new one of mine up The Week Shall Inherit the Verse today. Disseminate that willy-nilly if you wish. What’s the world out there but something in concert with our breaths? Alice Burdick’s poem is up at The Toronto Quarterly invites […]
Erasing and Print Presence
Let’s see. What links haven’t I mentioned here? Daily haiku Cornell Library haiku by Rick Black. Erasure Issue of Evening Will Come has Solmaz Sharif’s essay. Example, purpose of erasure, Expose author’s authority and, therefore, role as culpable participant (e.g. “…the very fact of mutilating the text broke the spell the complete text has on […]
Links Roundup
Awesome entry point to National Poetry Month with a beautiful piece by Gary Barwin. Carol has rounded up a bunch of prompts if you want to push yourself to do a poem a day for April. It’s International Pwoermd Writing Month too. Here’s an issue on erasure. An article from early March on Patheos on