If you’re anything like me, you pine for ways to make money doing the one thing you love most – creating. If I could follow in the footsteps of Robert Service and make a million by writing and publishing poetry then I would. Heck, I’d settle for just making an honest full-time living at it.
But [...]
For Christmas, Artella Land is getting creative with its pricing structure. They’re giving 55% off discounts on poetry e-books, art supplies, vintage ephemera, and other creative joys. Oh boy!
In the spirit of full disclosure, this won’t be for everyone. I find some of the artwork a little disconcerting and even some of the poetry. It’s not [...]
Neil Gaiman is the author of several lines of fantasy graphic novels. His first, Sandman, made a historic debut as an intelligent and thought-provoking graphic series. I enjoyed reading it myself in the 1980s and 1990s.
As an evangelical Christian, I feel like I exist in two worlds. In the first world, the one in which [...]
Took a trip to the Pennsylvania state Capitol building today. Being from Texas, I’ve visited that state’s Capitol on numerous occasions and I figured the Pennsylvania Capitol would largely be similar. A Capitol is a Capitol, after all. Or so I thought. How wrong I was.
The Pennsylvania state Capitol building is an incredible work of [...]
I’d never get a tattoo, but I like looking at them. Click here to see a Poet knuckle tattoo.
Sorry I missed my post yesterday. I was afraid that would happen. I was at the Dover Public Library in Dover, Pa. and they closed on me. Evidently, they close at 1 p.m. on Friday.
Today I’m posting from The Emporium in York, Pa. The reason I’m in York today is because it’s YorkFest, the annual [...]
Early post today. My wife and I will be camping out over the weekend. I will try to get to posting while away, but I can’t guarantee it. It’s the end of the summer here in beautiful South Central Pennsylvania and we want to take advantage of the nice weather before it begins to get [...]
Getting a late start tonight. Was at a critique group I hadn’t been to in a while. We went a little later than usual. It was a good night.
I found myself in the unusual position of defending a piece written by a young college-bound woman who was new to the group. It’s not unusual that [...]
Some interesting reading online this week:
Silliman’s back (unlike AC/DC) in black and white.
Enjoy The Second Coming. It’s been Finnished.
And yet, another Amazon boycott.
The Jewish geniuses a la Andy Warhol.
Meet President Iambic Dimeter with a pyrrhic dangler.
Capitalist poetry. Solicitation anyone?
Time to prepare a submission. Later.
Russian novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. Very significant. I don’t know that we have a modern equivalent unless it would be Gore Vidal. But Solzhenitsyn leaving this world is a real deadening event for soviet culture – and for the world.
Jim Murdoch writes about poets and art.
I still have not seen The Dark Knight.
Reginald Shepherd [...]