Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
Orwell Finally Comments on Elizabeth Alexander's Inaugural Poem
There is a great deal of good bad poetry in English, all of it, I should say, subsequent to 1790. Examples of good bad poems – I am deliberately choosing diverse ones – are “The Bridge of Sighs”, “When all the World is Young, Lad”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, Bret Harte’s “Dickens in [...]
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
AmFrac's Wordle
There are definitely more important things to talk about, like continuing the discussion on gender in poetry, but what the heck, let’s take a turn toward the self-important. No one’s going to be interested in this, except me and maybe my wife. Last month, Robert Peake turned me onto Wordle.net — a really neat website [...]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
The Gender Question, Part 2
This is a follow-up to Monday’s post. In January of 2006, the Poetry Foundation released it’s Poetry in America survey (PDF). The study found that 62% of “poetry users” (those who read or wrote poetry in the last five years) were women, only 38% were men. If those numbers remain accurate, then the question immediately [...]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Around the Web
Follow-up to “The Gender Question” is coming tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are a few links of interest. FACEBOOK Most importantly, Rattle now has an active Facebook page. We’re going to be posting regular updates there, event notices, news, things like that. Please, please, please add it and tell your poetic-minded friends to add [...]
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
The Gender Question
A few weeks ago someone wrote in, concerned that five of Rattle‘s six Pushcart Nominations this year were men, wondering if that said anything about our editorial tendencies. In fact, only four of the six were male — Hayden Saunier is very much female, despite sharing a first name with the famous Carruth — but [...]
