August 1, 2007
Rare Books II
In my last blog, I wrote about the rareness of rare books, which is to say it was a meditation on those qualities that make books precious to us both […]
August 1, 2007
Take Two
A Tale of Two Lit Mags. Williard Spiegelman, Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and frequent contributor to KR, laments the coming loss of poetry journal Parnassus in […]
July 31, 2007
You and I Lunch Special
This musing is the work of the poet Heather Christle. –TM There exist some easily satirized standard-issue poetry workshop comments: Have you thought about your line breaks? I’m not sure […]
July 28, 2007
Magnum Opus
I grew up reading Bloom County, and when I finally got around to checking my unread messages, I almost died of excitement when I found this. Given the passing of […]
July 27, 2007
Marvin Bell and the Dead among Us
Marvin’s Bell’s new book of poems, Mars Being Red (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), is quite an excellent read, and indeed an up-to-the-minute book that reminds us, “Three thousand of ours […]
July 25, 2007
Take Two
What do a CEO, performance artist, and actor have in common? Why, the Frank O’Connor shortlist. According to the Guardian, the world’s most pricey award for short story collections has […]
July 23, 2007
Ballerinas and Octopi
One of the genre classes I teach at the KR Young Writers workshop is a poetry class that I call “Ballerinas and Octopi.” It does not refer to the subject […]
July 20, 2007
Short Takes
What happens when two words combine to form something new? Something pretty linkalicious. Would Jane Austen be published today? Maybe if she wrote more quidditch in? (via Maud Newton) How […]
July 18, 2007
Take Two
Move over, D’Artagnan, Monte Cristo, and Balsamo–the lost Alexandre Dumas novel The Last Cavalier will be released by Pegasus in October, reports Publishers Weekly. The book was found in the […]
July 16, 2007
Stand Up Poets: Carson Cistulli, Dan Nielsen, and Gerald Locklin
A post by the writer Sean Casey. –TM Returning to Dan Nielsen and the joke as poem, take a look at Jason B. Jones’ recent Bookslut review of Carson Cistulli’s […]
July 15, 2007
Writers Workshop, Pt. 3
The third in a series by Kirsten Ogden regarding the KR Writers Workshops. Part Three: In which the blogger waxes rhapsodic about the most important piece of advice she got […]
July 14, 2007
Return of the Short Takes
On hiatus for a few weeks, the Short Takes are back.–TM Smell the fresh baguettes on this sentence from an anti-immigration petition: “Petition to NOT modify our native language to […]