This is the last post for a while. Good luck with your poetry. 
See you in the funny papers lit mags.
- — British publishing house Faber & Faber said it’s setting up its first creative writing school in Canada. —
- — Lately, poems happen because I work for them. —
- — Hulu – The Nobel Prize: Exiled Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz Wins 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature —
- — More poetesses close to Million’s Poet title —
- — Are your poems flat as a family snapshot? Learning to release the energy in your images can open up your poetry’s hidden depths. —
- — workshop redux: give me a (line) break —
- — Inauguration poet praises virtue of work —
- — Hearing people talk at cocktail parties may be easier if you’ve been musically trained, according to new research that shows music fine-tunes certain language abilities in the brain. —
- — Insect Museum’s annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge returns —
- — An analysis of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing and song writing is presented in light of the effects of his mixed-right-handedness on motoric and conceptual processing. It is argued that (i) his mixed-handedness allowed him greater integration of the roles of his left and right hands in guitar playing and (ii) his right-handedness conferred specific benefits in playing a left-handed guitar. In terms of his song writing, the greater interhemispheric interaction (and consequent greater access to right hemisphere processing) associated with mixed-handedness is argued to characterise aspects of his lyrics and vocal delivery —
- — Asahi Haikuist Network —
- — A turn from recent trends in literature, this book trusts language to reveal the world. —
- — Your rules for writing-Saturday’s selection of expert advice on how to write fiction has generated a lot of interest. But we’d like to know your maxims, too —
- — NewPages February Lit Mag Reviews —
- — Literary legacy: In 1899, Paul Laurence Dunbar visited Denver to ease his TB and write. Today, a British scholar is intrigued by three of the pivotal figure’s works that saw print only in this paper —
