I’ve always had a mild disdain for the literary industry. I’m not sure exactly where it comes from, but I can trace it as far back as my second semester of college, at which point I’d already realized that I preferred working with phonemes to working with phosphates, but was still resistant to declaring an …
Every time I send out a mass email soliciting subscriptions — which is only twice a year at most — I receive a handful of responses similar to the following: I could not help but be perplexed by an editor rejecting my work for their magazine and then pleading with me to take a subscription. …
Two Hollywood people I like, Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt, had teamed up to film a baseball movie I’d actually pay to see (well, rent at least) — but it was axed at the last minute by the studio. And I really mean last-minute — the film crew was on its way, and they’d already …
War is a racket. … Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. –Major General Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket, 1935 It’s no revelation to say that we’re a culture obsessed with money. That we can’t do anything unless someone makes a profit. Money corrupts everything it shouldn’t: healthcare, politics, adoptions, war… Sometimes …
Several people have commented recently on the subtitle of this blog: “Poetry Editor and Struggling Poet.” Tim, they say, how can you possibly be a struggling poet when you have a book that’s just been published by a good press and a full-time job in the poetry industry? Or as G. Tod Slone puts it, …