As National Poetry Month draws nearer, I am planning an experiment that I predict will catch on en masse. I won’t be the first person to do this, but I will be (as far as I know) the first person to codify principles for doing it. The “it” I’m talking about is writing and publishing [...]
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 [...]
Before being deployed as a National Guard officer in July 2004, I was a newspaper editor. As such, I spent a lot of time conducting interviews. I had worked in other writing assignments prior to that and had developed a sort of “open-ended” style of interviewing my subjects. I liked to start out with open-ended [...]
Belinda Subraman is a poet and podcaster with a radio show online. Her show Belinda Subraman Presents / Gypsy Art Show is very popular and receives a wide distribution weekly. Belinda interviewed me recently about the World Class Poetry Toolbar and the show went live today. During our interview, Belinda quizzed me on the toolbar, [...]