I”m not often one to follow media hype to something slick and commercial. I”m always the last one on the block to read the current bestseller out of sheer stubbornness – and this press release that showed up in my mailbox really nicked at my resistance to commercializing art. Then again – it”s a poem [...]

Ever since I first read the lines: when I was no more than 12 year old, I have been in love with the musical quality of Gerard Manley Hopkins poetry. His poems play with sound like an artist plays with color, rubbing consonants against each other, stretching vowel sounds by laying them side by side, [...]

Among the other things dropping into my mailbox this week are updates from Quickmuse, which is rapidly developing into a mini-media sensation. It”s been written up in a few offline newspapers and journals, which has, I”m quite sure, made it easier for the QM folks to entice known poets to feature in their advertised poetry [...]