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 [...]
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 [...]
Poetry and dance marry up for a unique performance.
Cheerios to donate childrens books.
The Georgia Review wins.
Love, American style.
Telling stories at 100.
On Luna Park.
My poet can beat up your poet.
How to turn a newspaper into a poem.
Shel Silverstein has a nephew?
Those young’uns have no sense of culture.
Five lessons for poets – from Henry Rollins, no less.
Conjunctions.
All [...]
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 [...]
My Gorgeous Somewhere – cool name for a blog. Started in September with a promise that posting will last only for one year, Ceridwen has already made a big splash with some interesting ideas.
One such idea is collaborative poetry. I’ve considered collaborative writing before, but never with poetry. I’m impressed by the solid ideas for [...]