Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

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The Sycamore Review paid someone for a poem. It cost them a quarter and the poem was written on a bar napkin. Sounds like a worthwhile trade.

Kent Johnson on The New British School

Publishing an e-version of your book? Prepare to be boarded.

I think this is a terrific way to get poetry out and recognized, and I think the grad student who’s worried about “branded advertising” needs to be careful or he’ll choke on his own sense of self-importance.

Typo 13 is available; here’s a sample from Carolyn Guinzio.

And finally, Ron Silliman on the baseball playoffs.

Brian Spears

Brian Spears's first collection of poetry, A Witness in Exile, is now available through Louisiana Literature Press, and at his personal website. He is the Poetry Editor for The Rumpus, and teaches poetry at Drake University. More from this author →