AllInfoAbout Poetry New Issue Up

There"s a new issue up at Allinfoaboutpoetry, with news, poems, reviews and calls for submission. And once again, I run into something that has become a theme lately - the reemergence of poetry as a force in the world today. Justine Eaglestone"s article on the growing demand for poetry books fits right into the reawakening that I"m seeing around me and on the ...

Technorati Your Poetry Fix

I just found the absolute coolest tool on Technorati. It"s called Technorati Mini, and it"s a mini search window that is updated every minute or so with the search of your choice. Now, understand, if there"s one thing that I love almost as much as I adore poetry, it"s little techie toys. Not hardware toys, though those are nice enough, but the soft ...

Poems of Solace and Healing

It"s been five years since the morning that I stood in front of a television set watching in stunned horror as the news services replayed over and over and over the footage of a plane crashing through the second of the twin towers at the World Trade Center. I have yet to write about it. The enormity of it staggers me still, ...

Not Just for Women Poets

Random web searches sometimes turn up some lovely finds - and this is one of them. Todays-Woman.net is an active portal for poets - and despite the name of the site, it"s not just for women poets. Named one of Writers" Digest"s Top 101 Sites of 2006, Todays-Woman.net welcomes both men and women - in fact, nearly half of their members are ...

Resource of the Week: The Poetry Kit

Where do you go when you"re looking for information about upcoming poetry events? Calls for submissions? Calls for papers? A list of blogs that feature poetry? Something new to read? If you"re like most people, you"ve got a list of your own of places to check in for each of those things, but at The Poetry Kit you can find it all ...