It's Saturday night and it's poetry time. Who else is excited?I always figured the Irish got excited about poetry. Roddy Doyle says otherwise. I'm late to the game in discovering the Poetry Foundation's podcasts, but I'm having some fun listening to them. I liked Ron Silliman's discussion of writing a poem with an eraser, as … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
An Arundel Tomb
Twice now, in the last couple of months, I've come across media pieces on Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb" (which is on my Interpretation of Poetry syllabus for this week), first on BBC4 radio, which is sadly not available online at present, and then today on the Poetry Foundation website--they tweeted it and I followed … Continue reading An Arundel Tomb
Wow
So I've been blogging at The Rumpus and Incertus about the Haiti earthquake response, instead of prepping for classes tomorrow like I ought to have been--it's too early in the semester to get behind, after all--but about midway through my marathon session, I was forwarded this incredibly wonderful post from Don Share at Harriet. If … Continue reading Wow
Poetic Lives Online
Happy Saturday everyone. So Missouri Governor Jay Nixon wants a Poet Laureate for the state who doesn't have anything in his or her background that might embarrass him. I take it he doesn't know many poets.Connecticut is looking for a Poet Laureate too. No word on embarrassment restrictions.Did you miss the off-site MLA poetry reading? … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
First Impressions: George Witte’s Deniability
I should have loved this book, I think. I agree with Witte's politics, and my own writing tends toward the metrically formal, which Witte does quite ably throughout Deniability. And yet...maybe I would have loved this book three years ago, which is when I suspect most of the poems were written, or at least inspired. … Continue reading First Impressions: George Witte’s Deniability
Poetic Lives Online
First thing: Chinese poet Lu Xiaobo has been sentenced to eleven years in prison. There isn't much people can do, but you can register your opinion on this via the PEN American Center website.Mark Scroggins has inspired me to keep better track of how much poetry I read. Not sure if that's what he was … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Tracking my Reading
For a long time I thought I read a lot--and I did, compared to the people I was an undergrad with, and among my friends while I was a Witness. Then I got to grad school, and even though I was reading more then than I ever had before, I came to realize that I … Continue reading Tracking my Reading
Stealing Books
Via The Rumpus, Margo Rabb has a funny piece in the NY Times about book theft. As anyone with a wry sense of humor might expect, the Bible is the most-stolen book around, even in Christian book stores (where it might be the only thing worth reading). These paragraphs near the end got me thinking … Continue reading Stealing Books
Poetic Lives Online
Hi everyone. I sort of took today off along with everyone else here at The Rumpus, but there was a lot of good stuff in the po-world this week and I wanted to pass it along. For starters, Memorious launched their blog today, and their first official post is "what books we're looking forward to … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Major changes are afoot
I haven't updated this blog since August, and it's been two weeks since I updated Incertus--obviously, something has to give. Right now, I'm doing a major redesign on the personal website, and I've managed to successfully import this blog into it--for now. I plan to redesign the blog as well, and include a twitter feed … Continue reading Major changes are afoot
Another Poem to Love 