Sunday, March 16, 2008
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Reginald Shepherd on the Long Poem
Shepherd, Reginald. "Short Thoughts on the Long Poem."
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Light and Dust
Not new, but it's good to have this link handy:
Light and Dust Anthology of Poetry
Light and Dust Anthology of Poetry
Labels: anthology, poetry, visual poetry
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Improvised Maps: Tracking Wildfire
Here is an interesting example of a long poem project and its bibliographic references:
Brady, Andrea. "Tracking Wildfire." As part of the Dispatx Art Collective.
Brady, Andrea. "Tracking Wildfire." As part of the Dispatx Art Collective.
Labels: bibliographic notation, long poem, poetry
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Writer or Dilletante?
An argument against the all-inclusive belief that anyone can be a writer (or artist, or bedroom musician).
Sinclair, Jenny. "Wannabes beware, writing isn't a matter of staying the course," The Australian, 27 January 2007.
Sinclair, Jenny. "Wannabes beware, writing isn't a matter of staying the course," The Australian, 27 January 2007.
Labels: poetry
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Time in the Longpoem
Rediscovered this essay by Ron Silliman on the long poem.
Silliman, Ron. "'As to Violin Music': Time in the Longpoem," Jacket #27, April 2005.
Silliman, Ron. "'As to Violin Music': Time in the Longpoem," Jacket #27, April 2005.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Poet in Residence?
A brief history of, and back-and-forth about, "poets in residence" programs.
Labels: poetry
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Duration Press PDF Resource Library
Nate Mackey interview
"Creative Alchemy," Nathaniel Mackey interviewed by Bill Forman
Labels: poetry
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Innovative Audiences
Related to that Poetry Magazine exchange on the social aspect of poetry, here is a wiki dealing with audience for innovative poetry.
innovativeaudiences
innovativeaudiences
Labels: poetry
Early and Clairvoyant Journals
Eclipse
Does Poetry Have a Social Function?
This article inspired me to finally organize all of the interesting things I've collected.
"Does Poetry Have a Social Function," by Stephen Burt, Daisy Fried, Major Jackson, and Emily Warn.
I particularly responded to this by Major Jackson:
"Does Poetry Have a Social Function," by Stephen Burt, Daisy Fried, Major Jackson, and Emily Warn.
I particularly responded to this by Major Jackson:
Whether as a form of witness, as a medium which dignifies individual speech and thought, as a repository of our cumulative experiences, or as a space where we "purify" language, poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value. . . . one of poetry's chief aims is to illumine the walls of mystery, the inscrutable, the unsayable. I think poetry ought to be taught not as an engine of meaning but as an opportunity to learn to live in doubt and uncertainty, as a means of claiming indeterminancy. Our species is deeply defined by its great surges of reason, but I think it high time we return to elemental awe and wonder. Such a position is necessary to our communal health.
Labels: poetry