I’m proud to announce that I am among good company in being a part of The Smoking Poet’s new online issue. If you like fine cigars and good literature then I’d encourage you to check it out. There are some good reads.
My piece is not a poem. Rather, it’s a memoiric short featuring myself and [...]
It’s no secret that the newspaper industry is in trouble. Daily newspapers are in fail mode with declining advertising revenues and readership. The majority of readers today would prefer to get their news online, which they consider more reliable and more convenient.
Greg Sterling, an online marketer whose blog I read often, heralds the day for [...]
From time to time I get another publication to submit its name to the World Class Poetry Publications list. The latest of these is Lilluput Review.
I have been letting publications submit themselves to the list rather than go out and actively recruit them, but this is a list I’d like to grow faster. What do [...]
Black Maze Books is an independent publisher in NYC. A growing catalog of literary works can be found at blackmazebooks.com.
The publisher is open to unsolicited queries for book length manuscripts of poetry, horror fiction, supernatural/weird fiction, and non-fiction until October 31st, 2009. Queries regarding books of other genres will be disregarded without reply.
Authors can send [...]
There’s an interesting article in the online version of Wired Magazine about the future of newspaper delivery. Nick Bilton, an editor in the New York Times research and development lab, who doesn’t even receive the newspaper at his home, believes that in the future, newspapers will all be delivered electronically. It’s really not a brilliant [...]
Satellite Convulsions: Poetry From Tin House
Tin House Magazine debuted in 1999. Since then it has been a powerhouse of postmodern poetry while making inroads into a new era. Frankly, I think we’ve moved beyond the postmodern, but some postmodern icons are still represented in the pages of the magazine as evidenced by its recently published [...]
Newly uploaded at World Class Poetry’s Publications page: The Shout
From Ottoman Press and editor Caleb Rutkowski, the first issue is on the way. They like upbeat stuff in the vein of the Beats and New York School. Read more at WCP.
Read about The Shout and other poetry publications
I rarely enter contests. I just think there is something degrading about bearing the soul to strangers for a fee. Because there is always a contest entrance fee.
But when I’d heard that Dorianne Laux was to judge The Smoking Poet contest – the first annual – and the entrance fee was only $5, I decided [...]
If you’re in the mood for macabre, try The Armor Dims, my latest publication credit. This is a post-Iraq poem for me, but fits in with the theme that I’ve been working with in a work-in-progress, Rumsfeld’s Sandbox.
The bio that appears at the bottom of the poem:
Allen Taylor spent 2005 stationed in Iraq, dreaming of [...]
I am learning more and more that Facebook is as good a friend as any poet can have online. I decided to experiment a little with Facebook pages and am pleasantly surprised. After creating one page just a day ago I’ve already seen results.
First, if you aren’t familiar with Facebook, you should get familiar with [...]