Amy McDaniel over at HTMLGIANT is talking about the aesthetic versus the political in art, and she uses this as part of the basis of her argument. Politics are terminal. They are finite. We might say we are interested in raising questions when we talk about gender or race or other categories that are defined … Continue reading Art vs. Politics
Am I a feminist poet?
I've been a feminist for a long time now--even in my more conservative days, I was a strong supporter of equal rights for women, even though I was a bit of an ogre personally. I've had a long way to travel from my fundamentalist upbringing, but it's been a good road and I'm glad I've … Continue reading Am I a feminist poet?
Question
How does one review a collected works? I'm having some problems figuring out an approach that doesn't reduce to "do you like what so-and-so has written over the course of his/her career? Then you'll probably like this." I suppose a reviewer could review the poet's career as a whole, but that seems a daunting, if … Continue reading Question
Some Post-National-Poetry-Month Thoughts
I'm really proud of the selection of poems and poets I was able to gather for The Rumpus project. I got good poems from a wide variety of poets--I discussed that variety here--and had a strong month in terms of reviews and interviews as well, something I hope will carry over into the rest of … Continue reading Some Post-National-Poetry-Month Thoughts
Poetic Lives Online
So, did you like our National Poetry Month project? If you missed any of the poems, check them out here. Barbara Jane Reyes has some interesting thoughts on poetic tradition. Virginia Heffernan discusses the way self-publication has lost some of its stigma, and introduces me to a new term: microniche publishing. If you missed seeing … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Day 30
So, I made 29 out of 30 days for the month, which is pretty damn good, I'd say. I could go back and bang something out for the day I missed, but it's just not worth it to me. Today's prompt was to write a letting go poem, and I thought about one of the … Continue reading Day 30
Day 29
I don't want to say I'm mailing it in here at the end of NaPoWriMo, because I'm trying, but the prompts just aren't sparking much in me. Plus, as this poem illustrates a little, it's the end of the term, which means I'm burnt from the work and facing a pretty significant workload between final … Continue reading Day 29
Day 28
Today is supposed to be an end of the road poem. I've written a lot of poems about specific roads, but they're always about the motion, the travel--the Overseas Highway, US 50 in Nevada, etc. So I reached back into my memory and pulled out the cemetery roads that were everywhere in south Louisiana when … Continue reading Day 28
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Another Poem to Love 