Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Note From Jim
James Longenbach was my first poetry professor, and probably my best. He’s also hands-down the best writer on poetry today, in my opinion — writing eloquently not just with a passion for poetry, but with compassion for it, too. If I ever teach a creative writing class, The Art of the Poetic Line will be [...]
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Parables of the Kingdom
I spent this afternoon at the laundromat, reading Chris Anderson’s manuscript The Next Thing Always Belongs, which is coming out from Fairweather Books sometime later this year. Two of his poems have appeared in Rattle: “Living the Chemical Life” was an honorable mention for the 2007 Rattle Poetry Prize, and “Reality Homes” is in this [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
January Notes
Today’s Found Poem came from New Scientist, one of two magazines I actually subscribe to. (The other is Poetry, if you’re wondering.) It took about 10 minutes to find a poem in there — I only had to wade through the first 11 pages. I think I could find a dozen poems in every issue. [...]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
"Yes, We Can" by Marvin Bell
Marvin Bell YES, WE CAN On the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America, Jan. 20, 2009. We are a people who began from a Yes, A nation born of the yes in the farmland, The yes engraved in the dirt and stone, In the mines, in the [...]
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
The Found Poetry Project
Megan and I started a new online journal a few weeks ago. Though it has no relation to or affiliation with Rattle, they’re both based on the same principal — that poetry is not just for hipsters and pretentious old men in tweed jackets. Where Rattle argues that anyone can enjoy poetry, that poetry is [...]
