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Poetry.LA is an online video showcase featuring established and emerging poets filmed at various venues throughout Southern California. It’s an up close look at a variety of poetic voices, including interviews with poets and publishers. The venues where poetry readings are held are also spotlighted to share with [...]
All-Ireland Poetry Day has been marked for October 2, 2008 to commemmorate the 30th anniversary of Poetry Ireland. This looks like one grand event.
Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon has provided a grant to allow Poetry Ireland to organize a poetry reading in every county. Both Irish and English poets will be featured at each [...]
Over at the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia is at it again – helping the Bush Administration with one more overspending scandal. And you thought poetry was exempt from the excesses of capitalism!
And on the lighter side of verse, mzbarbielicious – no, seriously, that’s Mz. Barbielicious (and her uno el friendo) – tells [...]
Best of the Web 2008. Congratulations.
I downloaded this .pdf document from Penguin Group USA that tells poets how to do Internet marketing. Haven’t read it yet. I’ve skimmed it a little and from what I’ve seen there appears to be a basic understanding of the subject, but incomplete. It’s free and I do recommend it. [...]
Meet the anticommunist antimodernists.
Meet the fake Frank O’Hara.
Meet Ron Silliman’s clone (but don’t laugh).
Meet the new declinists.
Meet Kay Ryan’s travel agenda.
What’s going on at the National Mall in September.
The accountability of the artist.
Poetry tagged.
That’s all for now. Goodbye.
Well, I did it. Made the presentation.
I’m always a little anxious about dealing with technology. I’m not the most technical-minded person in the world. I can figure it out if given the time, but I have to really sit and think on it. We played around with getting the S-Video to play from my PC [...]
Here’s an interview with the poet laureate of the blogosphere.
Praise for Rattle’s visual poetry section.
NaPoReMo? Isn’t this really getting out of hand?
Why John Hewitt and I might have children together: Our firstborn will be named Blogging.
The rise and fall and rise of Longfellow.
Let’s hear it for the woman.
The Poe Museum in Richmond.
Is The Critic dead, [...]
Two days ago I wrote a blog post about the production of poetry videos using musical scores as a backdrop along with creative, interpretive images that tell a story. Just for the record, if you got the impression that I don’t like Jazz, that would be incorrect. I do like Jazz, but it’s not the [...]
Today is the first day of National Poetry Month. It’s also April Fool’s Day. How fitting then that we should honor the biggest fool in our nation’s history with a poem. I wrote this at 5 a.m. when I couldn’t sleep.
An Ode To Alexander Hamilton
We all get what we deserve one way or another,
But you, [...]
With National Poetry Month just a few days away, Billy the Blogging Poet is gearing up for his annual Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere vote.
As for me, I’m planning a tribute to religious poetry open mic reading in Enola, Pa. on April 13. Carol Clark Williams, poet laureate of York, Pa. will be the featured [...]