Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Sundry Strings
I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed this week (a hundred emails and bucket of envelopes every day will do that to you), so while there are plenty of things I’ve wanted to post about — including our new Poet Laureate, who I love even though I think it’s about damn time for Marvin Bell to [...]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
VCP Reading at the Cobalt Cafe – Tueday 7/15
What are you doing next Tuesday? Well, if you’re somewhere in Los Angeles County you’re driving up to the valley to hear me read a couple poems along with the rest of the contributors of the Valley Contemporary Poets anthology. And if you’re not in LA you’re chartering a plane to the Van Nuys Airport [...]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Tadpoles
I think tapping off a quick post before hitting the sack is starting to become a habit. Maybe a good one. Anyway, since I’ve been so dedicated to upgrading and maintaining the Rattle website for the last two years — and maybe because I just like stats — I’ve become obsessed with monitoring referral data. [...]
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Maken Thy Rymes Seken Undeedlyness
The half-life of irregular verbs is proportional to the square root of their frequency. –Erez Lieberman There’s a whole sect of poets who write in pursuit of immortality. This has always struck me as unrealistic — a touchingly human attempt at postponing the inevitable — but still, many proudly proclaim this as their goal. They [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
The New Rattle.com
If you’ve visited Rattle.com in the last few days, you’ve noticed a big change. Inspired partially by the ease with which I set up my own website, I’ve shifted Rattle to a blog format as well. The blog format is ideal for a literary journal — especially as a supplement to our already robust print [...]
