I just finished reading American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology Of New Poetry edited by Cole Swensen and David St. John. The book is a compilation of poets and a selection of their poems that have been published over the past 10 or 20 years, illustrating the vast expanse of poetic ideologies on the current scene. [...]
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 [...]
I realize this is a rather sketchy history, but today I’m discussing the literate age of poetics, mostly the 20th century. I’m not going into great detail on purpose. Nevertheless, it should be helpful to see how the epic has changed over time. When we think of the great epics there are certain stories that [...]
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’d like to offer a great big thanks to Timothy Green, editor of Rattle, for getting me thinking on this. He commented on a former blog post about the nature of didacticism and I wanted to respond in a way that calls for more than a simple comment on a post. Here’s his comment:
The problem [...]
I’ve been amused over the months reading Ron Silliman’s ideas on post-avant poetry and what he calls the School of Quietude. I’ve been a bit confused mostly, wondering what he meant by them for I had never heard anyone else talk about them. But since I’ve been in and out of the poetry world for [...]