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Poem in San Pedro River Review
on Sep 18, 2009 in Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Publications Zbigniew Herbert I received my contributor’s copy of San Pedro River Review today. This, their second issue, features emerging and established voices from the rural Heartland and the wild Southwest—brimming with Studebakers, bandannas, milk cows, and grea...
Lessons from the Poetry Recession
on Sep 16, 2009 in Insights Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Robert Pinsky Ted Kooser The Economy The current economic recession is my generation’s wake-up call about the difference between promise and lasting value. Whether we heed the call remains to be seen. The promise of ubiquitous home ownership, “money for nothing” invest...
Interviewed on Public Radio About Poetry and Technology
on Sep 12, 2009 in Insights Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Technology Cyberfrequencies Jackson Musker Katie Peterson KPCC Social Networking Tao Lin KPCC aired a program on their “Cyberfrequencies” segment today about the relationship between poetry and new media—particularly, Twitter. Having read a previous post on this site about the inherent disconnect I sense between the alw...
The Blessings of Complicated Grief
on Sep 5, 2009 in Grief Recovery Grief Hope Family Insights Life Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Complicated Grief Spirituality William Wordsworth “No motion has she now, no force; / She neither hears nor sees; / Roll’d round in earth’s diurnal course, / With rocks, and stones, and trees.”-William Wordsworth, “Lucy” Yesterday marked the anniversary of the bi...
Jekyll and Hyde and Publishing
on Aug 27, 2009 in Grief Recovery Grief Hope Family Insights Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Christian Wiman Facebook “The self that writes may need to be a delicate and protected creature, but the self that submits to magazines ought to be as tough as a rhino’s butt.”-Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry Organization is one thing. Discipline is anot...
"You Should Write a Poem About That!"
on Aug 23, 2009 in Humor Insights Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Words It tends to go like this: we are having an interesting conversation, bantering a bit, and then one of us says something clever, or strange, and oftentimes a little surreal. Out comes the phrase, directed at me with all the sincere enthusiasm of a rev...