Jim Murdoch’s piece on the reader’s responsibility to breathe life into poems is fascinating. At the very least, it’s a good metaphor for people who teach poetry to those who don’t read it much.
Here’s a look back–way back–at some really early poetry.
C. Dale Young gives you a little taste of Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s new book. We’ll be reviewing it here, and interviewing Gabrielle in the very near future. (That’s what we call a teaser.)
We’ve got something very similar in the works with Rebecca Wolff.
Mark Scroggins gives a high recommendation to the latest issue of Parnassus, and not just because he’s in it. Perhaps they could be the next in line for the subscribe to one journal a month project.
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Thanks for highlighting my post, Brian.
Oh, neat. I second that. Is the idea to feature a journal every month, or to generally enthuse people into subscribing monthly to whichever journal? (I’m a new intern at Parnassus and looking for new ideas to increase subscriptions). Thanks!
More to enthuse people to subscribe to a new journal, any journal, every month. The point has been made, multiple times, by people far more eloquent than me, that we writers don’t do a very good job of supporting the journals that publish us, or even that we want to be published in. What’s more, in the current economic climate, university presses and small presses are in dire need of dollars, and subscribing is a good way to help them out. I know most of us writers are pretty poor, so doing one a month is a good way to ease our own economic pain.
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