Chris Potter, Head Moderator at the Alsop Review’s Gazebo asked that we spread the word to Gazebo followers that the site is moving to: http://www.thealsopreview.comPlease register for an account on the new board. We’ll be up and running as soon as we can. You have to register and then wait to be emailed a confirmation code before you can post. Please help spread the word. The reasons are various and administrative, and we were surprised…
Some new finds: Adam Deutsch’s blog is called, well, Adam Deutsch. He’s editor at Cooper Dillon Books and blogs news of poets and poetry books. Brian Brodeur has a delightful blog called How A Poem Happens (self-explanatory). Today’s is an interview with one of my favorite poets, Robert Hass, about his poem “The World As Will and Representation.” Blogger, are we done tweaking the program now? You’re almost as bad as Facebook. Every time I…
I think writers are especially fond of making New Year’s resolutions that pertain to the creative life. I’m working on my list, which includes: Reading more poetry booksGoing to more readingsGiving more readingsNever failing to open when an idea knocks on the door Diane Lockward at Blogalicious has a great list. About.com has a good list for fiction writers. I really like the one, “Be easier on yourself,” advising writers to focus on what they…
If anyone’s interested in ideas for raising funds for a nonprofit organization — and many presses and journals are — you might want to browse my new blog, Funds for All and All for Funds. Stop by and say hello, leave a good idea for supporting good causes! Visit https://racheldacus.net for more information and writing by Rachel Dacus.
You haven’t heard much from me in the last week or so because I fell into a novel. Not one I’m reading, one I’m writing — much deeper waters. I started this thing about five years ago as a novel. It had morphed from a travel memoir to grow characters and a plot, and then I started to like some of the characters. Not all. But some. But it was insane to be writing a…
The list is growing. Maybe a new trend is starting? Non-contest reading, perhaps with a small reading fee. Sounds like a reasonable way to conduct a small press. Adam Deutsch, of the new Cooper Dillon Books, wrote to let me know that they read poetry book manuscripts – both chapbooks and full-length – outside of contests. He writes: “We’re a fairly new press, releasing our first titles right now. We’vejust put out a chapbook by…
I’m gearing up to do some interviews, and reading poet interviews on other journals is a great way to get ideas. There’s a wealth of wisdom out there — much of it contradictory advice about how to write and publish poetry, which makes it all the more fun. One site that has an archive worth listening to is Artful Dodge. Fringe Magazine has short interviews on the blog, longer ones in each issue. , which…
I’ve posted the recording of the show on my website. It’s two hours, the first hour comprised of poets reading their Dickinson-inspired poems. Mine is about 45 minutes in and is called “Carlo and Me,” inspired by Emily’s fabulous big black dog Carlo, with whom she roamed through the fields. Hope you enjoy it! It’s a total Emily-fest, hosted by Merry Gangemi. The recording starts in the middle of the first hour (don’t know why),…
I’ll be reading my poem “Carlo and Me” as part of the Emily D. festivities heard on Radio Station WGDR, Community Radio from Goddard College in Vermont. The two-hour show, “Woman-Stirred Radio,” is hosted by Merry Gangemi, writer, activist, editor and producer. It airs from 4-6 pm Eastern time. This Thursday’s show, Dec. 10, Emily D.’s birthday, is devoted to the poet of Amherst, with the first hour of readings of poems inspired by Dickinson,…
Reading Messenger and appreciating the elegance of her lyric, her elegy, and her imagination. I have a poet friend who also grew up on a farm. I think it gives a deep, almost mystical connection to the earth and the truth of the flesh. I think I will get her book on craft, The Flexible Lyric. Interesting interview with her in The Atlantic Unbound. Visit https://racheldacus.net for more information and writing by Rachel Dacus.