Didn't like today's prompt, to be quite frank. I'm always resistant to requirements on a title, especially one where the rule is to use a word in a particular way, in this case to use the word "partly" as the beginning of a phrase of some sort. Today's offering isn't as good as I'd like, … Continue reading Day 3
Day 2
Today's prompt was to write a water poem, and it turns out that this is something I've been considering a fair amount lately in my poetry, and in my daily life. Florida is built on limestone (among other things) as opposed to bedrock, which means that as the oceans rise due to melting icecaps, we … Continue reading Day 2
NaPoWriMo
Last year, I participated in the poem-a-day challenge at Poetic Asides. Robert Lee Brewer posts a prompt every day and you're supposed to write a poem in response--30 poems in 30 days--which for a less prolific writer like me is a draining experience, especially since most of the poems I wrote last year turned out … Continue reading NaPoWriMo
Hmmmm
Wonder if installing the WordPress app on my phone will make me more likely to post? I have my doubts, but it would be difficult for me to post less often than I do now. Though if I can post pics from my phone... Hmmm.
Poetic Lives Online
The poet Ai Ogawa died last week, and her official obituary is available here. Oliver de la Paz, who knew her briefly while he was in graduate school, had a story to share as well. Janisse Ray on Wendell Berry. The Poetry Foundation has just posted part 2 of The Muslim-American Poet as Self and … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Poetic Lives Online
You've probably heard of erasure as a poetic mode--how about redaction? Arthur Lubow looks at Adam Zagajewski, calls him "the last of his kind." Lily Hoang at HTMLGIANT wonders about the discussion surrounding Tao Lin: "I do, however, care about the evident boredom people display in their comments about him. Why do you care? Furthermore, … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Reading Ulysses on my phone
A year and a half ago, I openly mocked the notion of reading Ulysses on a tiny screen. At the time, I had an iTouch instead of an iPhone, but I was still convinced that it was, as the title of that post says, the worst app ever. And now, I'm reading Ulysses on my … Continue reading Reading Ulysses on my phone
Does this mean I have taste?
The Lambda Literary Awards have announced the finalists for their 22nd annual awards, and I'm really glad to see a couple of names in particular on the lists for Lesbian Poetry and Gay Poetry, because I reviewed both books for The Rumpus. Here's my review of Samiya Bashir's Gospel, and of Randall Mann's Breakfast with … Continue reading Does this mean I have taste?
National Poetry Month’s Coming
For the last couple of weeks, I've been putting together the National Poetry Month project for The Rumpus, where I'm the poetry editor. It's a fair amount of work, wrangling 30 poems from 30 different people in various stages of their careers, balancing styles and genders and ethnicities and ages among other things. And I'm … Continue reading National Poetry Month’s Coming
Poetic Lives Online
Congratulations to Rae Armantrout for winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection Versed.This post by Al Filreis made me send him a Facebook friend request, just so I can find out how the conversation ended. (If you friend request me, I'll probably say yes--I'm a bit of a whore.)Jessica Smith has more … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Another Poem to Love 