Edwin Torres
Buffer Zone Galactica
Reading with Will Alexander at the Poetry Project recently was a fabulous experience. One of the layers I walked away with was his between-poem chatter-as-parable.
John S. O'Connor
Poemsinging
Like many people, my interest in poetry grew out of my interest in music. As a listener, I love the thoughtful lyrics of songwriters like Joe Henry, Rennie Sparks from The Handsome Family, Chuck D, Gershwin. Regardless of the song-genre, great lyrics hit me first. My interest in reading poetry came about in a much sneakier way. I took voice classes in college and unwittingly sang art songs derived from poems. (One teacher marveled — in what I’m still not sure was a compliment — at my “gift” at turning any art song into a country tune). I had no idea that the German songs I loved were actually poems by Schiller and Goethe, nor that one of my favorite folk songs was a Yeats poem set to music by Benjamin Britten. Here’s my audio version of this last song, Down By the Salley Gardens.
Barbara Jane Reyes
Indie Publishing: Two Questions, Many More Answers
Many thanks to Brent E. Beltrán and Consuelo Manríquez de Beltrán of Calaca Press, Patrick Durgin of Kenning Editions, and Willie Perdomo of Cypher Books for their responses to my indie publishing questions.
I know my current series of posts (#1 | #2) on indie publishing isn’t garnering heaps of Harriet comments, which is fine, because I do know these posts are generating good conversation, and that others about small presses and independent publishing are happening elsewhere in poet e-world.
Over at HTMLGIANT, Rauan Klassnik asks, “What’s Right and What’s Wrong with the Small Press World?” Read responses from Reb Livingston and Justin Marks.
Anselm Berrigan
a question on hearing
I’ll be heading to Tulsa, Oklahoma tomorrow to take part in The Tulsa School Conference & Literary Festival that Grant Jenkins has organized through The University of Tulsa. Never been there, but my father, Ted Berrigan, was stationed in Tulsa after the Korean War and wound up enrolling in TU via the G.I. Bill.
Don Share
Poetry makes nothing happen… or does it?
You see the phrase, “poetry makes nothing happen” trotted out over and over again, attributed to W.H. Auden as some sort of evidence for the reductiveness and hermetic inutility of poetry. And yet…
Abigail Deutsch
literary gatherings: a schmoozer’s guide
The literati are like aliens. Some are cute. Some are hostile. All talk funny, and all require diplomatic outreach. (Daniel Nester recently described this phenomenon in his riotous, depressing takedown of the New York poetry scene, “Goodbye to All Them.”)
I here present the strategies I have observed and developed at literary gatherings, in hopes that you, reader, will not someday find yourself lying on a couch in a grungily chic neighborhood of San Francisco at 4 a.m., claiming, along with a bald, 13-year-old Norwegian you’ve just met, to be a Macarthur Fellow.
Edwin Torres
Brand World Atheist
The Levi’s ad using Walt Whitman’s poem “America” repositions Levis within their target– audience, as a hip company making cool jeans because they’re using a poet to ‘empower’ America’s youth. Here’s to empowerment, I think?
John S. O'Connor
A New View on Haiku
Like many people, I was taught that haiku were poems that followed a 5-7-5 syllable count. In fact, I taught haiku that way for years myself. I’ll even own up to the fact that I used haiku as my “special lesson” on days when I was being observed. There was something so satisfyingly tight about the form and my observers (read: my bosses) left the room thinking actual learning had taken place. And, in fairness, maybe a little learning did occur – but a few years later, under the patient tutelage of a kind magazine editor named Robert Speiss, I learned that modern English language haiku is a much richer form than I had ever imagined.
Amber Tamblyn
The One That Got Away.
I’m finally back in New York Citayy on a mini break from tour. Good thing too, because some H1N1-style critter has crawled up into my throat and built a throne, barking exhaustive orders at my immune system and leaving me couch ridden. Prior to the cold, I was able to make it to Rachel Mckibbens’ book release party at the Bowery Poetry Club. I had my book release party there as well back in September, and the energy can sometimes be stressful and a little crazy. Rachel was incredible and her book Pink Elephant is filled with the kind of poems some women spend their entire lives trying to write. It was a magical evening.
Other Recent Posts
Anselm Berrigan: Poetry and Narrative in Performance, part II
Barbara Jane Reyes: Indie Publishing: Two Questions and More Answers
Abigail Deutsch: Nabokov trundles back up the lane
Anselm Berrigan: Poetry and Narrative in Performance, part I
Edwin Torres: Saturnalia Didactic
Fred Sasaki: Poetry Marathon at the Serpentine Gallery, London
Barbara Jane Reyes: Indie Publishing: Two Questions and Several Answers
Melissa Friedling: Janet
John S. O'Connor: Poetry Noir
Anselm Berrigan: Steel Nests, pt. II
Kenneth Goldsmith: The Digerati Strike Back
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Anselm Berrigan: steel nests on their own terms, part I
Melissa Friedling: Sarah and Heather
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Barbara Jane Reyes: Rachel McKibbens, 'Pink Elephant' (Cypher Books, 2009)
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