There is a great deal of good bad poetry in English, all of it, I should say, subsequent to 1790. Examples of good bad poems – I am deliberately choosing diverse ones – are “The Bridge of Sighs”, “When all the World is Young, Lad”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, Bret Harte’s “Dickens in …
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Follow-up to “The Gender Question” is coming tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are a few links of interest. FACEBOOK Most importantly, Rattle now has an active Facebook page. We’re going to be posting regular updates there, event notices, news, things like that. Please, please, please add it and tell your poetic-minded friends to add …
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 …
Every writer likes to have a special space in which to write. I like to write in the basement, in the dark, on a laptop, halfway reclined in my papasan chair. Some people write in the woods. Some like a noisy cafe, full of characters worth stealing. Some like a special kind of paper or …
Apparently American Fractal is available on Amazon.com! I had no idea. Click this link to preorder at 32% off the cover price. I always see authors saying you should buy the book from one particular vendor instead of another, but I don’t know if there’s a best way to buy this book — just buy …