Line tamer.
So far at the conference I’ve overhead lots of talk about online vs. print, which seems to be a hot topic this year. The conversation has many parts: on the shuttle ride over it was about the fight at some journals just to get an online submission manager (fear being that it would increase submissions Read More …
Okay, I took some pics! This is the Denver Convention Center where the book fair, registration, and panels take place: And the entrance to Exhibit Hall A or whatever it’s called; the main hall. What’s nice is the entire book fair is in one hall this year, with carpeted aisles! Still a bit overwhelming, but Read More …
I wasn’t sure I was going to blog AWP this year, but hell, I have free wireless in my room, so why not make use of it. Alice Quinn was on my flight this morning in the row in front of me. I noticed her when we were queuing up to board; she was chatting Read More …
I have three poems in Issue Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2010 of Knockout Literary Magazine: “Letter to Mexico,” “What I Preach I Preach For the Sake of What We Excavate,” and “What Twenty Titles and Nine Drafts Later I Still Could Not Say.” All three are from my manuscript The Erotic Postulate. The two Read More …
I’m the featured poet in the Winter 2010 Issue of Blue Fifth Review, special theme: the body. The poems featured include “The Allentown Aubades” from The Erotic Postulate, “Circe’s Letterpress” from Skin Shift, and “After Jamaica, June” and “Spiral Compact Fluorescent” from Smite & Spoon. The issue includes new work by Marilyn Kallet, Ivy Alvarez, Read More …
Here is Salvador Dali’s 1937 oil painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus, referenced in the five sections of the same title in Narcissus Resists: I wrote “Metamorphosis of Narcissuss” in Provincetown during the summer of 2002 when I was taking Mark Doty’s advanced poetry workshop and workshopped this poem in his class. I had originally included it Read More …
I’ve noticed some poet friends Wordle-ing (is that a verb?) their poetry manuscripts. I couldn’t resist. After I finished my first manuscript some years ago I made a list of words I felt I overused in it and then forbid myself from using them in the next manuscript. If only I had had Worldle! Anyway, Read More …
I finished Homer’s Iliad (Fagles translation) last night (it’s been my subway reading since the turn of the year) and had my hairs stand on end when I read these lines by the ghost of Patroclus speaking to Achilles: “So now let a single urn, the gold two-handled urn / your noble mother gave you, Read More …
Didi Menendez has painted my likeness a fourth time. Here’s a cool progress strip of how the painting progressed: You can view more of Didi’s work here.
Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer, has weighed in on OCHO #29: OCHO #29 continues to present fresh poetry by both well-established poets and those on the threshold of fame – due to the unflagging commitment by publisher Didi Menendez and crew. This particular issue, adorned on the cover with some fascinating graphic art Read More …