Happy birthday, Mahmoud Darwish! Here are some quotes from his writing. “One day, I will be a poet. Water will…
Poetry, E-Books, and John Ashbery
There’s an article in today’s New York Times called “Line by Line, E-Books Turn Poet-Friendly.” In it, Alexandra Alter reports…
#AuthorFail 10: Laura Goldstein
Um, well, this is embarrassing: if you checked this post this morning between 9 am – 9:26, you would have…
On the Occasion of My Son’s 3rd Birthday
Joseph Millar is one of my favorite poets, and a faculty member in the MFA program I attended. Today my…
Announcing the launch of MadHat Press with a poetry chapbook competition
MadHat Press is the non-profit imprint arm of the multimedia e-zine, Mad Hatters’ Review and a production of MadHat Arts…
A poem for Thursday: “Present Tense,” Harryette Mullen, from Sleeping with the Dictionary.
“Now that my ears are connected to a random answer machine, the wrong brain keeps talking through my hat. Now…
Contemporary Verse Novels: The Anxiety of Reading Poems and Kimiko Hahn’s THE UNBEARABLE HEART
This book undoes a lot of the anxiety I have as someone who has to read a lot of poetry…
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carson, Saterstrom, Conrad, the Roubauds, Boully, and Ruefle
What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a…
New Work for New Devices
At the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks ago, at least 100 new tablets were revealed. A minority of these…