Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Prose on Poetry: A Reading Group (of sorts)
Sometimes I take pride in my own ignorance about poetry; other times I feel like a fool. I’ve read millions of poems (and I’m not sure if that’s hyperbole), thousands of books, but I’ve read very little prose on poetry, and my understanding remains intuitive. It’s the poems that are interesting to me, [...]
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
In Love with Ted
Two presentations on working with nature instead of against it, from www.ted.com:
Both of these videos are interested in the real paradigm shift that’s occurring beneath the “Green Revolution” — it’s not just about working to protect the environment, but rather working proactively and symbiotically with the environment to get both what we want, and what [...]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Budy, Evans, Lockward, Ramspeck: New at the Rattle Audio Archive
I haven’t updated the audio archive for a few months. It’s definitely a back-burner, bonus project, and spring is a difficult season to get anything like that done. But I’m happy to say that I’ve just added five new pieces, including one of my favorites by Andrea Hollander Budy. Click here (2.8 [...]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Addendum to the Last Post (Pieces of You)
Turns out the Mets could handle a bad poet after all: David Wright hit two home runs in the first two innings, and Miguel couldn’t get through the third, giving up 8 runs and securing his 10th loss of the season. If only his slider broke with the confidence of his lines…
Anyway, I ended up [...]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Celebrity Poets
The way this season is going, the Mets will probably lose tonight to Miguel Batista. A 37-year-old journeyman from the Dominican Republic with a putrid 6.26 ERA, Batista is often casually described as “one of the smartest man in baseball.” Why? Because he’s a published poet! He’s also written [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Ballad Stuck in My Head
I’ve been reading a lot of formal poetry lately, thanks mostly – and perhaps surprisingly – to the upcoming Cowboy/Western issue. Cowboys love their meter and rhyme. Poetry sprung up 50,000+ years ago as a pneumonic device for people who hadn’t yet invented the ballpoint pen (not to mention the ball itself), and verse became [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
New Blurb - Gregory Orr
Asking for blurbs with your hat in your hand is no fun — it puts the “cap” in capitalism (haha), and forces us to momentarily acknowledge that there’s more to artistry than art. But when your favorite poets read and seem to genuinely like your book, it all becomes worthwhile. I don’t know [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
AdSense Literary Experiment
BACKGROUND
For just over a year, we’ve been using a secret Gmail account to read and track submissions. It’s pretty simple: People email me submissions, I forward them to Gmail, and all the editors have the infinite storage and ultimate searchability at their fingertips. We can then use the labels to keep track of [...]
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Books Received
FYI, we’ve received the following books in the last few weeks, and all of them are available for review. If anyone’s interested, just shoot me an email — write a review, keep a book. Earn the favor of your peers, learn to articulate your tastes, hone your own writing skills…everybody wins. The [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
American Fractal Mailing List
I’ve been forgetting to post this here. I’m preparing a mailing list for American Fractal‘s publication notice — I guess there’s a little three-page mailer that Red Hen sends out, offering a discount on preorders. Any addresses I give them will only be used for this purpose. If you’d like to receive the mailing, send [...]
