June 8, 2007
Take Two
Griffin Poetry Prize Winners Announced. Charles Wright’s Scar Tissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Don McKay’s Strike/Slip (McClelland & Stewart) are the International and Canadian winners of the seventh annual […]
June 7, 2007
Thoughts on the Virtual Iliad
Meg’s recent entry on the Virtual Iliad got me to thinking about a question that has come up in several forms recently: what do we mean when we talk about […]
June 7, 2007
On Frost’s “Mowing”
Usually I associate concern, in poetry, with the relationship of imagination to reality, the shaping effects of the former on the latter, with Wallace Stevens. But it’s a concern I […]
June 6, 2007
Take Two
Virtual Iliad. While we we’ve been debating the relative pros and cons of technology in lit land, the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies has been scanning the oldest known copy […]
June 6, 2007
I Heard the Word Porous Today
This lyrical musing is the work of Seattle poet Susan Parr. –TM I heard the word ???porous’ today, and it made me think of water pouring into my ears. But […]
June 5, 2007
A Peep at Ondaatje
A hearty welcome to Seattle-based writer Jonathan Crimmins, author of this post, who will lead us into temptation–and through his reading of Ondaatje’s recently released Divisadero–in the coming weeks.–TM Let’s […]
June 4, 2007
Take Two
The greatest job on earth. Will Allison offers a guest dispatch for Maud Newton today on his experience as managing editor and executive editor of the storied Story. The dispatch […]
June 3, 2007
Found and Found
A further word on erasures (for those who followed the rabbit holes of yesterday’s post). Wave Books has a page dedicated to erasure poetry production, replete with the equivalent of […]
June 2, 2007
Lost and Found
The phenomenon of “spam poetry” has a taken on a discrete life of its own. One need only google search the terms to find a smattering of blogs devoted to […]
June 1, 2007
Early Reading
How formative those early reading experiences are, or can be. Like many of my contemporaries, I had an appreciation of Dr. Suess, though perhaps my favorite children’s book from my […]
June 1, 2007
Thanks, Liz!
A year or so ago, the KR staff began urging me to start a literary blog on our website. What did I know from blogs? One thing seemed clear–I had […]
June 1, 2007
AD INFINITUM
This post is the work of the poet Heather Christle. This, and more from her, in the near future–™ Recently some mail arrived from Cameroon. It was not, as I […]