Monthly Archives: February 2011
Look on their Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
We recently started our poetry unit in the Reading Literature class I’m teaching this quarter at DePaul. To better understand how poets work with both content and form, everybody wrote two clerihews. The following are just a few of many fine examples, including the school-spirited… Saint Vincent DePaul Stares upon us from a wall. Always [...]
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The American Dream: a Juxtaposition…
…reading happened today at the womanMADE Gallery. Co-curated by Nina Corwin and Erika Mikkalo, it explored “A beautiful country with a history damning and redeeming in turns. A nation where all have opportunity but one percent of the population controls over a third of the wealth. A crucible of enlightenment democracy that allowed slavery.” I [...]
After Robinson Has Gone
…is, per Greying Ghost Press, ”a powerful collection of poems based on the life and mysterious disappearance of poet Weldon Kees. It is the reinvention of the treasure hunt – the poems split up and search for their influence in the zoos and roofdecks and theaters. The map is in the form of tattered books on the subway and [...]
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Today is Valentine’s Day…
…and tomorrow is Submit to Rose Metal Press Day. Or rather, it’s the first day of Rose Metal Press’ 2011 Open Reading Period, lasting from February 15 to March 30. During that window, Abby Beckel and I hope you’ll submit your hybrid/cross-genre (for instance: short short, flash, and micro-fiction; prose poetry, novels-in-verse or book-length linked narrative [...]
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Exactly one week ago…
…it looked like I might not make it to the AWP Conference in Washington, DC at all. But then–three cancelled flights and 21 inches of snow later–I did. See? You can tell this is true, courtesy of the photo below by one Kimberly Southwick, fabulous editor of the fabulous Gigantic Sequins: I was too late to [...]
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Explore the seamy side of poetry…