Category Archives: poetry
A Review of W.S. Merwin’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Book: The Shadow of Sirius
I decided a few weeks ago that I was going to start reading the Pulitzer Prize winners for literature and poetry. Every time in the past, I’ve read a Pulitzer winner (Walking to Martha’s Vineyard and Gilead for example) I’ve always really enjoyed them.
So I got W.S. Merwin’s book of poetry, The Shadow of [...]
Poetry Critiquing
A few days ago, John emailed me a poem he had written. It was a pretty good poem. And eventually, we got around to emailing about it.
And that’s when I realized how much I missed talking about poetry with people. Not so much random poetry, but the poetry that the people I’m talking [...]
Art and Estrangement
Here’s an interesting quote about art from an moderately interesting review of a book by a guy named White:
Drawing on the Russian Formalism of the 1920s, White maintains that “greatness” in art depends on “estrangement,” a perception from unfamiliar vantages that then tells us something “truer and more complete” about the world. And to estrange [...]
New Poetry Up
There’s a ton of new poetry up at my poetry blog, including a couple poems to people, a couple of which are personal enough that I feel a little uncomfortable posting them.
Sam Stecher Strikes Back
Once again, Sam at Wishing for Fiction has knocked one out of the park. He’s got this amazing poem called “Anonymous Jesus.” Here’s a sample:
“Miracles are not of the things I believe inbut sometime I wish I was Anonymous JesusI don’t have a Messiah complexI just want to healwalking streets and hallways that [...]
New Poetry Up
There’s new poetry up at my poetry blog.
If you’re going to say something more critical than “i like it”, feel free to comment. I’m especially curious about other reactions to the first draft of ‘The Next Poem You’ll Read’. It’s certainly still a first draft, but I’d to hear some outside feedback.
The Way The Medium Works
Most of the writing I’ve been doing recently has been in one of those mini composition books, the ones that are 4.5×3.5. Sadly, I wrote “Feb ’06″ on the cover of it, and I’m barely halfway through its 80 pages.
The interesting thing is to notice how the medium I write in affects my poem structure. [...]
New Poetry Up
There’s a bit of new poetry up at my poetry blog.
I realized tonight that I haven’t revised a poem in a serious way since before I left Arkansas. I’m considering holding off till July–then I can call it an even year.
Maybe that’s not a good idea.
Regenerating My Creative Drive or Choosing Who Controls My Life