Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Hey Hilda, Publish a Book Already!
As I was putting my eight hours at the ol’ poetry factory today, updating returned subscriptions and stuffing envelopes (with a papercut on my thumb to prove it), I was listening to Poets Cafe‘s interview with Hilda Weiss, which you can download by clicking here. It occurred to me that Hilda Weiss might be the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in on poetry by Tim
Monday, June 29th, 2009
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
I have 12-18 months to live. Like any Z-list, fame-hungry, Plank-length celebrity, I periodically Google myself — blog search only, since web searches usually result in the same old pages — to see if anyone’s talking smack about me. What do I see today on page 1, right between my batting averages post on the [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in personal prattle by Tim
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Top 15 Poems on Rattle.com
Rattle.com as a blog is now one year old! I thought it’d be fun to list the top 15 most-read poems since we launched the format. The number in parentheses are unique views to the poem’s individual page. Note that views through the RSS feeds and on the main page are not recorded, so you [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in rattle rubbish by Tim
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
A Real Caricature
Most literary editors, I think, know of G. Tod Slone, though I doubt very many readers do. He’s the crated dog to our mailman — a constant but ineffectual yapping in our ears from some unknown location (is it Massachusetts?), always tilting at the same windmills with the same catch-phrases (“vigorous debate, cornerstone of democracy!” [...]
73 Comments » - Posted in rattle rubbish by Tim
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
A Partial List of Great Poems Since 1900
As Compiled by Timothy-Green.org Readers, Slightly Edited By Me; Listed Alphabetically, Linked When Available, Sequences Excerpted; Leave a Comment to Suggest Your Own. “As I Walked Out One Evening” by W.H. Auden “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop “Ars Poetica” by Jorge Luis Borges “How to Like It” by Stephen Dobyns “A Display of Mackerel” by [...]
