Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 18th, 2008
OpenOffice
Huge shout out to Peter Glovicki, who pointed me to OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice is a free, open-source alternative to the damnable Microsoft Office suite. Bill Gates is charging $300 just to upgrade to Office 2007, which is flashy and annoying, and tries to save files as .docx so you can’t open them with [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in random riff-raff by Tim
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
"No Wound Deserves a War"
Speaking of whether or not poetry can change the world, I couldn’t help but repost Salah al Hamdani’s “Baghdad, Mon Amour” as our poem of the week. If any one poet can make a difference, it’s someone like al Hamdani, who began writing in his twenties, while imprisoned for his opposition to Saddam Hussein’s [...]
No Comments » - Posted in PotW, poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
600
In a story from last September, Alice Quinn, who had just stepped down as editor of The New Yorker, mentions that the magazine “regularly received more than 600 poems a week.”
First thought: If they can’t crack 1,000, Lyn Lifshin must not submit there. I kid, I kid.
Second thought: 20 submissions/day x 4.5 poems/submission x [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo, rattle rubbish by Tim
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Glenn McKee Retrospective
I can’t make any claims to have known Glenn McKee, or to even have corresponded with him. I’m not even sure who it was that sent us his four MP3s, from the CD, Lester’s Calling, that we’re featuring this week at Rattle.com–it was Dory Hudspeth, a former Rattle contributer herself, who is [...]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Rattle e.4 - Released
This blog is supposed to be more than just a place for announcements, but I’ve been too busy to live up to my end of the bargain, and sometimes there are just things worth announcing. So here it is, this spring’s free online supplement.
61 pages of art, poetry, and essays. Our two book [...]
