What does one do with an essay like the one David Alpaugh penned for the Chronicle of Higher Education on the current state of poetry publication? As an editor who publishes about 50 poems a year here on The Rumpus (all directly solicited), I feel like I have to respond, since I'm contributing to the … Continue reading The New Math Doesn’t Really Add Up
Reading update
Even though I've been busy as hell with the semester, I've managed to get some reading done in the last few weeks. Almost two months ago, I took a page from Mark Scroggins and other to think about just how much I read. Since then, I've finished George Witte's Deniability, W. S. DiPiero's City Dog, … Continue reading Reading update
Do What Now?
So I'm hunting around for links for my weekly Poetic Lives Online post over at The Rumpus, when I come across this gem of a post from the London Review blog. I couldn't give it the full attention I thought it deserved in that column, so I'm putting it here instead. The blog post begins … Continue reading Do What Now?
Poem Flow
Poets.org, the online home of the Academy of American Poets, has just released an iPhone app called Poem Flow. (No idea on just how well that link will work, for the record--you can access the description through the Poets.org home page as well.) I downloaded it because, well, I'm a sucker for apps, and it's … Continue reading Poem Flow
Poetic Lives Online
Philip Pullman writes about Blake's poetry, and argues that it can be appreciated separate from the illuminations.Thermos interviews Katy Lederer, who we reviewed nearly a year ago.Anindita Sengupta on Indian English Poetry.Inferno, the video game. It's Dante in the same way "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is Homer. Except it's a video game. And Beatrice … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Poetic Lives Online
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
Another Poem to Love 