Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
More on Greatness: Art vs. Art History
Why is Citizen Kane always listed as the greatest movie of all-time? Is it the most memorable, the most moving? The most adored? Nope — if that were the criteria, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and It’s a Wonderful Life would top it easily, along with at least 100 others. It’s not [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in on poetry by Tim
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
There's No Such Thing as a Great Poem
This blog has been full of discussion lately, and I love it — it gives me things to think about (and thus post about). In a comment thread from last week, “G the Art Spy” argued that we publish too much poetry these days — that a journal that published infrequently and was “extremely choosy” [...]
12 Comments » - Posted in on poetry,rattle rubbish by Tim
Monday, June 8th, 2009
A New Kind of Book Review
The first book was written 5,000 years ago, and the first book review 4,999 years, 11 months, and 28 days. There’s been quite the hubbub ever since, particularly when it comes to reviews of poetry. Should we waste space writing negative reviews, when so many brilliant collections languish in the shadows? But if they’re always [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in on poetry,rattle rubbish by Tim
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Notes on the Last Post
Thanks, Carol, for letting me know of a lively and relevant discussion that’s going on right now at the Eratosphere. It focuses on an article by Sandra Beasley in the latest Poets & Writers, “From Page to Pixils,” which you’d think might have been the inspiration for yesterday’s post, but I actually hadn’t seen it [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in on publishing,rattle rubbish,sagacious sulking by Tim
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Poetry Publishing for the 21st Century
An Idea I Will Never Use, So If You Want It It’s Yours If I was running an online-only poetry journal, I would completely ditch the “issue” model that magazines have been operating under for the last 300 years, and publish continuously, in a blog-style format.* Hopefully with enough publishable content to add a new [...]
