Literary agent Nathan Bransford had a guest blogger on his blog this morning. Tracy Marchini shared 21 things an author can do with Twitter. But Tracy left a couple of things off the list. I’m sure there are more, but these two extra things are things that I do as well.
Install Twitter Tools into your [...]
In business it is a common practice to read biographies to learn how other successful people approached their challenges and “rose to the top.” Is it possible to do the same with literature? Can you read all the great books of the past and learn how to write one yourself? If you read every Puschart [...]
While browsing through my favorite RSS feeds and Twittering among my betters, I came across a link to this post about Jerry Seinfeld’s interview on what made him so successful. I realized that it has applications for poetry writing as well.
In summary, Jerry Seinfeld’s formula for success is so simple. It boils down to these [...]
Deborah Ager asks, “When to quit a poem?”
I’ve thought about this a lot lately. I said a while back that I was about ready to retire Rumsfeld’s Sandbox and start on something new. Of course, this is a book of poems, but the principle should hold for projects as well as individual poems. When it’s [...]
Meet Rowan Williams the poet.
Meet Satan’s mistress, the best poet in the U.S.
I have to say this about Sharon Olds. She was the first contemporary influence upon me. While taking my first poetry workshop as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Dallas one of our required readings was Satan Says, her first book. [...]
Interesting discussion on poetics and disablement.
Here’s a gem of a thought from Exoskeleton on the poetics of overdeterminacy:
I think the concept of “indeterminacy” has been very bad for poetry; in many ways a kind of recuperation of avant-garde energies as updated versions of Empson’s new critical “ambiguity”.
Seems like the concept of “indeterminacy” plays into Max’s [...]
This is the 300th post for the World Class Poetry Blog and to commemorate this historic event I’ve made a few administrative changes that I hope will be welcome improvements. For starters, I’ve changed my tag line. You’ll notice that the header of this blog now says, under the blog title, “Intelligent Commentary On 21st [...]
I’ve talked to several writers of multiple genres who have said that they love poetry more than anything, but since they can’t make any money writing poetry they write other stuff to make their living. Is that good?
All I can say is, it can’t be bad. I personally think that writing poetry will strengthen one’s [...]
I still, after several hundred similar situations, find these kinds of incidents disturbing. I understand the image question. The school doesn’t want an artist’s work to tarnish its image. I also understand that some parents are concerned that a teacher may prove to be a poor role model for their children. But do these people [...]
Poets and the storms of depression.
A love poem by Frank O’Hara.
Rilke’s “The Swan”.
Doctrine of Signatures.
The National Book Critics Circle recommends ….
A “Bard Double-Dactyled (in Sioux City) and Other Odd Pieces” (including one on Humpty Dumpty).
Lebanese art and poetry that unites.
A poem for Heath Ledger.
Recombinant Poetics.
The Library of Congress Blog is nominated.
Why poets should blog.
Can you [...]