poetic lives online
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Please Read the Letter That I Wrote
Starved for funds, the United States Postal Service recently considered cutting its mail delivery service down to five-days a week–not a huge surprise considering their losses over the last couple of years and the fact that Americans are relying more…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have you been been keeping up with our poem-a-day project? Kenny Goldsmith talks about the challenges of twenty-first century writing. Rae Armantrout won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry this year, and Ron Silliman has every link you probably want on…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Most of the excitement this week is in Denver at the AWP Conference, but there’s still plenty to talk about in poetry. For instance, have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? We’re only a third of…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? The list is updated every morning with new poemy goodness. Along with National Poetry Month, the big discussion this week seems to be the AWP Convention. WILLA has three…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The poet Ai Ogawa died last week, and her official obituary is available here. Oliver de la Paz, who knew her briefly while he was in graduate school, had a story to share as well. Janisse Ray on Wendell Berry.…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
You’ve probably heard of erasure as a poetic mode–how about redaction? Arthur Lubow looks at Adam Zagajewski, calls him “the last of his kind.” Lily Hoang at HTMLGIANT wonders about the discussion surrounding Tao Lin: “I do, however, care about…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Rae Armantrout for winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection Versed. This post by Al Filreis made me send him a Facebook friend request, just so I can find out how the conversation ended. (If…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate having to clear the cache? Maybe this time I’ll get better about bookmarking sites. Karin Slaughter has concerns about how e-books will affect the future of reading. I tend to think that…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Here’s a light-hearted start to the night–a cat decides a poetry video has to be stopped. A musing on poems with dates in the titles. Joshua Corey also responds to “The New Math of Poetry. Edward Hirsch on whether MFA…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I’m always interested in new and engaging ways to bring writing to people, so with that in mind, Diagram’s 10th Anniversary issue is out–well, it’s not an issue, exactly. It’s a deck of cards. But I bought it, and everyone…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Note: I’m adding this late, but it’s important. Our sincerest condolences go out to the friends and family and admirers of Lucille Clifton, who died yesterday at the age of 73. She was a tremendous voice for poetry and she…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I’m always interested in the different ways poets are exploring to get poems out to the reading public. Cellpoems calls itself “a txt-msg poetry journal,” though thankfully none of the poems I’ve looked at thus far have been written in…