Just dropping in to make a few short announcements. Sorry for the brevity, but these must be mentioned and I haven’t much time. I’ll write more later:
The Twitter poem experiment for National Poetry Month went very well. While I wasn’t much impressed with some of the poems I wrote for Twitter distribution, it seems my [...]
Today in 1770 William Wordsworth was born. Students of literary history will know Wordsworth as one of the founders of the Romantic movement, which debuted with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Wordsworth’s partner was Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of my heroes.
One of the criticisms you’ll find of contemporary culture is that people don’t [...]
Today I published my first Twitter poem, which you can read right here. I posted about my 30-day Twitter poem experiment four days ago.
What I didn’t know then was there was already an organized effort to write a poem a day and post it on Twitter. If you’re a Twitterer and you’re interested in following [...]
Awhile back I wrote a series on epic poetry. I wanted to revisit the issue and offer some thoughts on the differences between epic poetry and long narrative verse. Some people may place them in the same category and I really don’t think we should. The above-mentioned series played fast and loose with the term [...]
I had intended for this series to be a three-part series. But I found myself digressing into a lengthy discussion on technology in the previous post. I found it to be necessary because I believe technology will be an integral part to creating and publishing literature in the 21st century. We do not yet know [...]
It’s been a busy three days. Political conventions, distractions of one sort or another, computer issues, etc. But you don’t want to hear about any of that. You came to read about the future of the epic. So let’s get on with it, shall we?
The Epic Is Not Dead (Thanks Walt Whitman!)
Epics are not dead. [...]
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 [...]
I have this fun little game that I play with my poems. It’s called Kill the Appositives.
In case you are grammatically challenged, I’d like to explain what an appositive is. It’s really a negative, but some people see it as a positive (pardon the intentional pun). I was reminded of this game when reading a [...]
Innovation is a poetic necessity. Poets who have stood the test of time were innovators within their schools, and many were innovators among the broader poetic community. From Homer, who took the poetic storytelling form from the oral tradition to the printed page, to New Formalism on the one end of the scale and Language [...]
A sad death knell for poetry in New York.
A poem on moving into a new house.
Poetry journals.
The essence of conceptual poetry.
Nonconceptualism.
Poetry and religion.
T.S. Eliot.
The hyperabundance of poetry.
Journals that accept e-mail and simultaneous submissions.