Monday, February 22, 2010

To All Fans of Poetry in Maine ...

... and all the ships at sea (whatever that means):

http://nwsnews.wordpress.com/UMaine New Writing Series

Please come ... I may even read new writing ...

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Tallulah Bankhead . . .



. . . because Franklin Bruno wrote "For Tallulah" in his book Policy Instrument for me last night, and I love her, and she kind of looks like my mother here . . .

Monday, February 08, 2010

Marc Nasdor's Sonnetaila on Silliman's blog





Ron sez: "So my question is this: Is Sonnetailia going to be one of those one-brilliant-book-makes-a-career moves, or is Nasdor finally emerging as the big time talent I suspect he has always been? Awhile back, Steve Fama & I were listing off the number of significant poets who didn’t publish a first real book of poems until they were on the high side of 40, starting with one Charles Olson (if not, say, Emily Dickinson). It would be great to discover that there are hundreds, even thousands, of unpublished pages, but my guess is that there isn’t. However, there is no reason at all that Sonnetailia can’t just be the first in a string of great books, and I hope to read every one."

I sez: BIG TALENT! FIRST IN A STRING!

Read the entire review: Silliman's Blog

Friday, February 05, 2010

New Brooklyn Poet Laureate: Tina Chang



... I think she will ROCK the poet laureate!