There"s an odd little dichotomy in the world of publishing poetry, an age skip that"s akin to the soap opera kid trick - that"s the one where the cutesy seven year old kid brother or daughter of one of the major characters goes off to boarding school, and returns a month later at the start of the summer season as a 16 year old, thereby skipping ...
Last week"s announcement that a UK site called iPoetry was going to make poetry mp3"s available to iPod listeners for 50p a poem created a very small media buzz - that is to say, it hardly got a comment from the blogosphere. What little comment did get made was along the lines of this single sentence on the unsalability of poetry. Apparently, the ...
What can you write in fifteen minutes? Or perhaps more pertinentily, do you keep your muse on tap? A new site on the cyberhorizon is pitting famous poets against each other in timed fifteen minute bouts. Quickmuse is the brainchild of Ken Gordon of Newton, Mass, who believes that improvisation keeps poetry fresh. "It doesn"t give poets a chance to be careful. It offers them ...
If you"ve ever got a line of poetry stuck in your head, or found yourself betting with a friend about who it was that penned the lines "Tyger Tyger burning bright", this week"s resources are just what you need. These three online poetry databases include searchable indexes of hundreds of thousands of poems by title, poet and text. Two will require that you have a ...
As romantic an image as the starving poet may be, support for artists pursuing their craft is one of the vital pieces of supporting art in our country. ...
