http://timothy-green.org/blog Poetry Editor and Struggling Poet Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:55:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the most common pieces of advice given to poets is to avoid self-consciousness—to carefully partition the artifice from the art, to hide the crafting from the crafted. And it’s good advice. The pleasure and insight we receive from poetry comes from our ability to enter it, ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/11/goosing-the-golden-gimmick-matthea-harveys-abecedarianism/ I went about a month without writing a blog post, but there was a good reason.  Megan and I got married on October 18th, at a beautiful little ceremony in Malibu.  Megan O'Reilly, Rattle's assistant editor, is now Megan O'Reilly Green, which makes me smile just to see. I still feel ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/11/tying-the-knot/ Swamped with no time for a proper post.  You'll know why soon, but in the meantime I wanted to put this up. It's made up the background art for this website for a couple months, but the cover for American Fractal is finally official. The breathtakingly intricate image is by Stacy ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/11/amfrac-cover/ I should have mentioned this earlier, but I'm the featured poet this week (or maybe last week at this point) in Santa Cruz's indy web weekly, The Good Times.  Browsing around, it's a nice publication, and makes me wish I lived in Santa Cruz.  Of the five poems, a few ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/10/good-times/ Most of you know that Hayden Carruth passed away last week, at 87, at his home in Munnsville, NY.  I'm late to the party because this is a busy time of the year, but also because I was trying to hunt down the audio of our interview with him, which, ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/10/carruths-prattle/ The fall e-Issue just went up last night, featuring selections of poetry from a pair of great books by Carol V. Davis and David James, artwork by Lois Gold, Andrew Kozma's review of a suite of chapbooks, and a preview of the Winter 2008 issue. You can download it for ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/09/really-wrong-david-alpaugh-on-poetry-book-contests/ The new issue of Oak Bend Review features an interview with yours truly (click on "Honorary Guest"), along with a generous spread of poetry (including one previously unpublished), glowing praise for American Fractal, and even a posting of that YouTube video Poetry.la did a while back.  I don't know about ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/09/interview-with-oak-bend-review/ One minute ago I will have posted the winners of the 2008 Rattle Poetry Prize.  (I'm writing this before I go to bed on Sunday night, which should explain the unusual verb tense -- what is that, pluperfect?) As I type this, Megan is wading waist-deep in SASEs, which she's filling ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/09/rpp-behind-the-scenes-the-big-announcement/ Talk of contests and ethics and curious decisions abound lately.  'Tis the season, I guess.  But we should all remember to turn our cheeks as we throw the stones, lest we be judged, too, or something. In other words, this is a messy, complicated world we're all trying to navigate, ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/09/poetry-scams-scoundrls-and-air-quotes/ First off, know that we always keep our promises.  Yesterday afternoon, with Rafael Nadal grunting in the background, we narrowed our 40 "quarter-finalists" down to 19 "semi-finalists" for the Rattle Poetry Prize, so we're right on schedule to announce the winners on September 15th.  We'd hoped to choose the winner ... http://timothy-green.org/blog/2008/09/rattle-roundup-312-rpp-edition/