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
Neglectful
I update this site far too rarely. I am a bad personal blogger, I suppose. But anyway, two sites to bring attention to. The first is a new blog by a dear friend of mine from Stanford, Shara Lessley. She's apparently going to be moving to Jordan in a year, and her blog is going … Continue reading Neglectful
A Quiz: Vogon Poetry or Flarf
My last post talked about the Vogon Poetry app for the iPhone. Vogon poetry, if you're familiar with The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is considered the third-worst poetry in the universe. Flarf has come to be known--by one definition anyway--as intentionally bad poetry. Flarf got the main(stream) stage this month with its inclusion in … Continue reading A Quiz: Vogon Poetry or Flarf
Vogon Poetry
I dare say I'm not the only iPhone owner who's also a fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--the book, not the film. Smartphones in general seem to be turning into the technology Douglas Adams envisioned all those years ago, and while they may not (yet) provide you with an introduction to Eccentrica Gallumbits … Continue reading Vogon Poetry
On Poetry Reviews
I like Don Share's take on the issue of poetry reviews mostly because he doesn't try to stake out a "my way is the only way to look at this" position. That appeals to me populist side.I’m not advocating weeding out the bad from the good in poetry or in anything else; my good is … Continue reading On Poetry Reviews
Padel v. Walcott
By now it's old news that Ruth Padel has resigned her position as Oxford Professor of Poetry a week after she took the job. She came under fire because she supposedly lied about her involvement in the campaign against Derek Walcott. I refuse to call it a smear campaign as some others have because calling … Continue reading Padel v. Walcott
Another Poem to Love 