Poetry sites new to me or renewed to me: Of course I have to like Colorado Poets Association website, as they listed Rocket Kids among their favorite poets blogs. They have a nice page with print magazine publishing information too. Never a dull read: The Chimaera, edited by Paul Stevens, with artwork by Pat Jones. Subtitled “Literary Miscellany, the site has a daily poem selected from the current issue. It’s a triquarterly, and archives show…
I’m pleased to have had the opportunity to interview a true Internet pioneer. No, not Al Gore. One of those pioneers whose names you don’t find out until curious people get out there and start trying to figure out how all this happened — all this literature online, print publishing melting into the blogosphere and poetry reaching millions of readers. Yes, you heard me right. Millions. Just ask JJ Webb, whose name fortuitously omened his…
As I was blogging yesterday about book contests and assembling a list of those I might target with my new manuscript, it seems the blogosphere was alive with reports and responses to Stacey Lynn Brown’s “Cautionary Tale” about winning a first book contest which ultimately left her with no published book (until another publisher came to her rescue). Take a look at “Cautionary Tale” on Brown’s blog and comments about it. Also see Marie Gauthier’s…
It’s that time of year again – when multiple book contest deadlines seem to, well, multiply. Along with the average cost of subbing a manuscript to contests. I’ve heard poets say they’ve spent more than $500 to enter contests (I forget whether the person who quoted that sum had actually won a contest). New Pages has a handy guide to upcoming deadlines. Here’s another handy guide, courtesy of poet David Alpaugh, author of the thought-provoking…
Here are some notable stops in the literary blogosphere: Linebreak – a single poem a week, giving us a chance to read and re-read — careful selections mostly tending toward short poems with short lines, and although several poets seem to be featured without explanation, the picks are good and often memorable. You can also get them as weekly emails. Blue’s Cruzio Cafe — I’ve blogged before about these animated poetry videos, but as I’ve…
Or so quipped one of my friends when I came home from the hospital after back surgery. I had, as I like to call it, a back-lift. Much swankier than a face-lift, more long-lasting and more conducive to a youthful middle age. One of the benefits of undergoing back surgery is that you have a long recuperation period. Months, actually. That’s a golden ticket to a lot of time. I am actually encouraged to spend…
The Page!!! Links to all things poetry — articles, zines, reviews, new work by major poets, essays and interviews. All neatly organized and click-through-able. Links to articles on poets and poetry begin with a quote and the author and magazine in bold, so you get a quick sampling of what’s available and can click through to the full text. Left and right sidebars link to publications and new work. Of course, it’s mostly the usual…
No, not my reflexes. The dearth of answers I’ve received to date for a fleet of poetry submittals I sent in spring. Buoyed by ever-expansive spring thoughts of cracking new markets and bouncing off my flock of poems generated by the poem-a-day writing exercise of April (National Poetry Month), I sent out sheafs of paper. That was more or less four months ago. Even my April and May email subs have yet to garner responses!…
Over at Diane Lockward’s Blogalicious, a three-part article on print magazines that read in the summer. But if you can summon the energy to submit in July, you’re a more ambitious writer than I. Karen Weyant at Scrapper Poet in her “After the Fourth” entry laments summer’s general lack of literary industriousness. And here I am blogging, when I should be licking stamps. Or editing. Or typing up all those poems on scraps of notepaper…
Over at the FS&G blog, Best Words Best Order, I listened to poetry ringtones, including one recorded by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. I would be embarrassed to have his growled ringtone going off in my purse in the dressing room at Nordstrom, though I admit I would feel fine in the same situation at the hearing Paul Muldoon’s alluring Irish brogue. But where is Louise Gluck’s poetry ringtone? Naomi Shihab Nye’s? Is this just…