poetic lives online
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I really had planned on doing this column ahead of time last week, but Friday night found me under the kitchen sink teaching myself how to unhook a garbage disposal and attempt to unclog pipes with a plumber’s snake. I…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have you heard? The Rumpus is a place for poetry. (My own thoughts on this subject here.) If you’re looking for a journal to subscribe to, Gulf Coast is a really good option. Greg Gerke, who just reviewed Kim Chinquee’s…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have you heard about The Rumpus Poetry Book Club? Just making sure. I’ve bookmarked this article on how to format poetry online, since I’ve had some problems along these lines in the past myself. This year, Wimbledon’s official poet laureate,…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
So, as Stephen mentioned in a recent Daily Rumpus, we’ll be doing a poetry version of the Rumpus Book Club. We’re in the early stages at present, but we’ll make more announcements as we start to nail things down. I’m…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Check out this terrific interview with Amy King at Huffington Post on the current “Femininaissance” in poetry. Artifice Mag muses on summer reading and wants to know what you’re reading this summer. Dante Michaux on “What’s American about American Poetry?”…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
No-Tell Motel has some summer reading recommendations for you. Did you see our reviews of two poetry collections this week? Weston Cutter on Maureen McLane and Virginia Konchan on Timothy Green. Harriet points to where you can help with Gulf…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
We mourn the death of poet Leslie Scalapino. Our condolences to her family and friends, and to all who were moved by her work. PEN American announced the release of Burmese poet Saw Wei, imprisoned for “inducing crime against public…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Via HTMLGIANT, Poets for Living Waters has put out a call for submissions. They’re calling it a “poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made ecological catastrophes in history.”…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Austin Kleon’s Newspaper Blackout site (along the same lines as his book) is worth checking out. He’s also a more than fair Twitterer. Via Harriet, Andrea Lingenfelter talks about “teaching Bay Area children to translate from Chinese and do concrete…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Tara Betts found herself attacked by a particularly ignorant political blogger named Debbie Schlussel over her class at UrbanWordNYC. Betts’s response is elegant, measured, and powerful, everything the attack was not. Update: I have been told that Schlussel’s attack was…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
So, did you like our National Poetry Month project? If you missed any of the poems, check them out here. Barbara Jane Reyes has some interesting thoughts on poetic tradition. Virginia Heffernan discusses the way self-publication has lost some of…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Sorry for the light posting today. Combination of computer issues and personal matters. Here are some poetry links for you. Have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? We ran poems this week by Seth Abramson, Sidney…