My mom’s birthday was the day after Christmas so I’m hitting the fast forward button.
Happy new year! Hope you had a great holiday & that 2010 is a good one for you. It’s going to be intense, that’s for sure.
- — Does my poetry have any social value? Absolutely not. It’s not even socially relevant. Can you imagine Garrison Keillor reading it on The Writer’s Almanac with his sad Eeyore voice? & thanks for the link—
- — Candace Sams’s decision to report bad Amazon reviewers to the FBI is further proof why it’s best not to respond publicly to your critics —
- — “Niedecker is less a poet than a porn-star” —
- — Charles Olson gets a conference —
- — Non-Contest Book Publishers – The list is growing —
- — For this installment of Games Poets Play, we’re going to have some fun with randomness and chance. —
- — 2000-2009: The Decade in Poetry —
- — “The Looking House” by Fred Marchant was selected by BarnesandNobleReview.com as one of the best poetry books of 2009 —
- — Robert Herrick’s yuletide tribute to the lush pleasures of spring. —
- — Stanley Moss is either the most religiously profane or profanely religious poet around —
- — poet to pen verse for ‘Carbuncle’ town sculpture —
- — For Christmas is coming, sure as rats. The spondoolix must come down, that is all I’ve got to say. —
- — Happy Hooverized Xmas Greetings from the Poetry & Popular Culture Office —
- — Now On-Line Galatea Resurrects #13 – 56 new reviews —
- — Figaro’s favorite language sage, Brooks Clark, writes that the sweet little Christmas carol resulted from a bet made by a well-known preacher, Phillips Brooks —
- — In the case of one well-known author, the cat may have helped a poet and novelist land a reprint deal —
- — You hate it, they live it – The announcement of Sacramento’s new poetry czar inspires a waxing of the city’s poetic innards and impulse —
- — A popular saying has it in Nicaragua that everyone is a poet until proven otherwise. What about the rest of the world? —
- — Literary Magazine Reviews Posted December 15, 2009 —
- — In her chapbook sequence, “Lucy,” Jean Valentine has written a deeply interior meditation that revolves around our three-million-year-old hominid ancesto —
- — Track Santa Claus With NORAD —
- — Schools of poetry are nonacademic outfits scattered about guesswork and lucky breaks. —
- — “Literary Math – This is just gorgeous” —
- — The Body Electric’s $5,000 NASA grant will cover the cost of the robot kit from FIRST —
- — A documentary on “Godmother of Punk” Patti Smith will air on PBS on December 30. —
- — The question is often asked: What does one do with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing? —
- — I’m glad to hear that Bray’s is still in business LOL. (video – not very Christmasy sorry) —
