Over at the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia is at it again – helping the Bush Administration with one more overspending scandal. And you thought poetry was exempt from the excesses of capitalism!
And on the lighter side of verse, mzbarbielicious – no, seriously, that’s Mz. Barbielicious (and her uno el friendo) – tells [...]
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 [...]
I went searching for the earliest reference to the phrase “School of Quietude” on Ron Silliman’s blog. Silliman is, of course, the person who coined the phrase.
Interestingly, Silliman started his blog on August 29, 2002. The first mention of the School of Quietude was on September 2, 2002, but only as a label, or a [...]
Ron Silliman posted an interesting diatribe on his blog on Saturday. I usually don’t agree with a lot of what he says (who does?), but I’m always appreciative of the thought that he puts into it. Saturday’s post was about the sentimentalist ways in which Robert Creeley’s poetry is being used today.
Rather than say I [...]
There’s something quite indiscernible about Bill Knott’s outrageous tirade against Ron Silliman’s selection for the William Carlos Williams award. But I agree with him. At least in part.
Third paragraph:
and I assume (I hope) that many of those same poets are now feeling insulted and outraged by the choice of this year’s winner,
Well, I didn’t enter [...]