- How to Make a Poetry Interview Go Viral? In this age of digital nonsense, one thing is certain: it’s possible to share something with billions of people within a matter of seconds. Usually, it’s just garbage lists full of photoshopped catfaces and Jennifer Lawrence gifs (not complaining) and arbitrary rankings of things from previous decades (of which we are hardly innocent). Still, there’s […]
- The Business of Dying: C.D. Wright’s Investigative Poetry The ultimate price of life is death. Each individual ultimately works toward living a life that is worthy of death. This, however, takes on a dual meaning. Living a life worthy of death can be one lived in either a positive or negative in manner. In her book-length poem One Big Self: An Investigation, C. […]
- How to take your poetry reading to the next level Walt, meet Sasha Fletcher.
- Lessons Learned From Fiction Vs Non-Fiction Guns, Germs, and Steel: for years, it was the book everyone was talking about. Any intelligent conversation, ranging from politics to philosophy to American History, it all somehow came back to this book. But I resisted reading it — until now — for one simple reason: it was non-fiction. On another occasion, whilst socializing with some writer […]
- The Heart and e.e. cummings On this Valentine’s Week, we’d like to present you with a poem: e.e. cummings’ i carry your heart with me. Reading or sending poetry to your loved one on Valentine’s Day (or even better just any old day) costs nothing, is oh so romantic, and is perfectly perfect. i carry your heart with me (i carry […]
- Literary Man’s Top Ten Books of 2012 Greetings, literarians. Time to tally our favorite titles consumed in the blur of 2012. As with last year’s list, these aren’t necessarily our opinion on the best books published in 2012; rather, this is a list of the books I enjoyed reading most in 2012 (published from any year, any century, in any form or […]
- Poetry Review: Learning By Rote by Martina Reisz Newberry There are certain things that we, as readers, have grown to expect from poetry. For the most part, these things center on an unabashed honesty from the poet, a transformation of ourselves in light of their words, and most importantly a revelatory portrait of the world in which we live. It takes special writers to […]
- Fifteen Feet or So I never learned if it was good advice Or just Kirkpatrick’s way of killing time When he responded to my wisecrack: “Rhyme Is far more than — your words, sir — quaint device. “One trick will save you when the words won’t flow: Sit down and write a dozen sonnets straight, Six like Shakespeare for […]
- This picture is why we like the Oxford comma Courtesy of Sasha by way of Alan May on Facebook, we came across this lovely literary nugget this morning:
- Stanza DCCXLVII Our problem is take the bank or split right now, do not go home, do not pack, nothing. 30 secs flat from now we are gone on our separate ways, that’s it. Let’s go make the Captain look like a hero. Isn’t this religious, ah yes. The eternal battle between good and evil, saint and […]
