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Showing posts with label good stuff. Show all posts
JANICE N. HARRINGTON: A MEDITATION ON THE ART OF DOILIES
from Beloit Poetry Journal Poet's Forum:
“Why, Oh Why, the Doily?” was triggered by re-discovering a collection of doilies, family keepsakes. So began a meditation on the meaning of doilies and the devalued artistry of women. My early attempts in 2004 sounded elegiac—here’s a lost time and here’s what doilies meant. Despite continual revision, drafts never moved beyond the small container of personal history.
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Why, Oh Why, the Doily?
Dagoberto Gilb on Ai
Gossip was that she was nothing but trouble. That she did not cooperate with anyone or any group.
Read more...
look at this!
Larry Levis Documentary Trailer from Virginia Commonwealth University
Click here.
Question: Isn't that Charles Wright narrating the beginning??
Was my MFA worth it?
Lev Raphael:
I enjoyed the company of my fellow students in what was in effect a giant writers group. Were they all good writers or even good critics of each other's work? No. But the enthusiasm for writing and reading was powerful. I can still remember finding a friend at lunch who was glowing because she'd been reading Richard Wilbur's "The Mind-Reader."
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Brian Spears:
But the program as a whole was worth it for a few important reasons. The first is that the Arkansas program is a long program–60 hours if you come in with a Bachelor’s degree. That’s four years, fully-supported if you want to teach. That’s a lot of time to develop as a writer, and man did I need it. I don’t think I started doing anything approaching marginal work until my third year; I exploded in my fourth.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Poetry Manuscript: Some Ideas on Creation and Order by Jeffrey Levine
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Make sure the poems that begin your collection establish the voice and credibility of the manuscript. They should introduce the questions, issues, characters, images, and sources of conflict/tension, etc., that concern you and that will be explored in the book. Think about the trajectory of the manuscript: you want to set the reader off on a journey, a path toward some (even if undisclosed) destination, but forget about "arc." The notion of "arc" is, in my opinion, too willful to be successful in any artistic undertaking. Make the book work, and then let others talk about your "arc."
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Just because a poem has been previously published does not mean that you are required to leave it alone. Rethink, re-enter, and if possible, re-vision each poem as if the Paris Review had never taken it.
James Allen Hall
That first year of college, I frequented the library, the anonymous stacks where...
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Telling you about my mother is like first cleaning then assembling her gun. In the end, she’s whole. She’s dangerous again. My mother’s gun was always loaded and well-hidden. I can’t remember how many times I’ve ransacked her room, looking for it so I could stop her from holding it to her head again, stop her from putting it in her open mouth.
poetry northwest
poetry northwest is one of my favorite journals.
not because they published one of my best poems in the relaunch issue in '06. i'm not that vain. okay, just a bit.
it's one of my favorite journals because they keep publishing a lot of good poems, and interesting reviews and the journal itself is a beautiful object. the latest cover image is stunning!
the new issue features work by rick barot (love his work to death) and bob hicok (sorry, i just don't like him as much as the rest of you do) and linda gregg and srikanth reddy (his long sequence Voyager is kickass) and kelli russell agodon.
and the website is pretty cool, too. it features content not found in the journal, like this poem by rick barot (marry me, rick!) and this review of andrew grace by zach savich and this dead man poem by marvin bell.
that's a lot of good stuff.
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