Random Acts of Poetry
Forget busses. Canadians really know how to take poetry to the streets. Thanks, Pearl.
Forget busses. Canadians really know how to take poetry to the streets. Thanks, Pearl.
This post hit me hard, and made me realize I should take the advice I was dishing out on the Ploughshares blog about the Lehman scandal. Basically, the blogosphere seems content to debate rather than take action. And debating and discussing all aspects of poetry is interesting–even seductive. But the truth is, writing poetry is …
Here’s a test for the GRE: Bad is to Accessible as Good is to ____________. Thanks to one of my longtime favorite etymology resources (besides the expensive OED, which I still don’t own), here are the antonyms of synonyms and synonyms of antonyms for “accessible” and related words–i.e. some possible opposites of “accessible” to consider: …
By now, I have heard many poets complain about accessibility in poetry, and how it waters down the art. In fact, I have always firmly believed that poetry is about communicating an experience through art. The reader necessarily has to bring their faculties to bear, and maybe do some work. But beyond some pretty basic …
Thanks to my recent trip to the library, I discovered an anthology called Rivertalk that seems to have included many Ojai-area poets. The anthology looks like it ran annually for several years until 2004. A little Googling turned up this site, which got me excited at the prospect of a local poetry workshop. I emailed …
Jim has been posting blow-by-blow derision of Best American Poetry 2006 since it came out. Now he is accusing Lehman’s (secret) wife of sock-puppeting to bolser the book’s Amazon reviews. Unfortunately, everything about his posts indicate the reaction of a hurt child. Is sock-puppeting unscrupulous? Definitely. Are poets often oversensitive? You betcha. Does throwing a …