In response to my question “Who decides whether a piece of literature is good or not“, Poetic Republic is sponsoring a new twist on the poetry contest – a democratic twist.
The contest is characterized by rounds where 12 participants vote on each other’s poems and the winners move on to the next round. Those who [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been playing around with a couple of websites and I just wanted to share a little about them and how working poets can benefit from them. Both of these websites are free, but they’d be valuable even as paid services. If you get a chance I’d encourage you to check them out and start [...]