Archive for May, 2007
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
RATTLE #27 - Summer 2007 - Tribute to Slam
What kind of blog would this be if I didn’t mention the stellar new issue of RATTLE?
Issue #27 is hot off the press, and features a tribute to Slam Poetry, including a full-length audio CD of performance poems. Alan Fox interviews Slam founder Marc Kelly Smith, and four-time NPS champion Patricia Smith. [...]
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Postage Woes
This postal rate hike sucks. Not only does Media Mail, our usual shipping method, go up 50 cents a package, but I just went to the post office and learned that they’ve eliminated the International Surface option. Everything now has to go Air Mail.
We have about 50 international subscribers from all over the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Uncategorized by Tim
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Features of a Good Poem
One of the most common questions we seem to get is, “What do you look for in a poem?” Given the number of submissions we read, and the relatively few number of poems we’re able to accept, it’s not a bad question.
There are a lot of answers, but none of them are very specific. [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo, pseudo-intellectual bs by Tim
Monday, May 7th, 2007
Announcements
I promise to not let this blog descend into a series of irregular announcements, but it’s been a busy couple months. More meaningful posts to follow, including a revival of the poem-of-the-week posts, informal reviews of books I’ve been reading, and general poetry-filled rambling.
But for now, two announcements:
1) Congratulations to Lynn Shapiro [...]
