Sometimes things just tickle me. That was the case with what I found this morning when I peeked at topix.net"s poetry news page. Topix.net is one of those sites that conglomerates news from newspapers and websites around the world on various topics. It"s one of my favorite places to pick through for "unusual" news about poetry. Since the feed scans local newspapers all over the world, I"m as likely ...
It"s become fashionable to diss Edward Estlin Cummings again. Best know to the world as e. e. cummings, the way he signed his name, his fresh takes on language and wordplaying infused his poetry and made him one of the most recognized and distinctive voices in modern American poetry. You can read all about his honors and the debates about his poetry in dozens of other places. This post ...