I received a copy of Itinerary by the late Reginald Shepherd, compliments of John Gallaher. It is not often that I read through an entire work of a poet, even a small one, and marvel. Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of reading certain Reginald Shepherd poems and I’ve enjoyed them, though I’ve never [...]
I was about to make a grave error this evening and title this post, “Tragic Poetics: If I Wasn’t Laughing I’d Be Crying.” It would have been an appropriate title for the post that I was planning to make, but as I was gathering up more information and going through my usual links to read [...]
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 [...]