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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. DH and I visited an estate sale last Saturday. At every estate sale, there is the “woman’s room” filled with handmade afghans, lacey items, hats, etc. The “man’s […]
An interesting tidbit:
The late 19th century poet’s [William McGonagall] work is so bad he carried an umbrella with him at all times as protection from the barrage of rotten tomatoes he faced wherever he recited.
I’m not sure which poet said that, for her, writing is a physical process. She had to feel her arm and hand doing the work of the writing and the thoughts came from her mind down her arm and into her hand.
An article about children and handwriting reminded me of that quote.
In our house, […]
Nick Bruno picked up on my questions about blogging and how well we “know” bloggers. Interesting comments and conversation follow the initial post on his blog….
From Elizabeth Gilbert’s web site:
Her essay mentions that she did not get a MFA. Instead, she took a series of odd jobs on ranches and in restaurants and kept writing and showing her writing to people. That reminded me of the debate that seems never to die: “Should You Get the MFA or Not”? That […]
Husband scored big points for taking care of the wee one at the pool while I stayed home to do a one-hour yoga routine, eat without anyone sitting in my lap, and read.
I skipped what looked like a good poetry reading by A. Van Jordan to have time alone.
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Lately, life has been a series […]
Last night, I finished Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett. In this memoir, she writes about her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. Grealy attended the Iowa MFA program with Patchett, and they struck up a friendship there (at about age 21) that lasted until Grealy’s death at age 39.
Grealy was most famous for her […]
My Colombian friend told me about this Poetry Festival in Medellin. If you visit the link, you’ll see a photo with hundreds upon hundreds of people present for the closing reading.
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I’m a bit behind on responding to comments. Will do so soon.
Reb Livingston had a blog post about whether poems posted on blogs count as being published. Cherryl Floyd-Miller responded on her blog and wrote that editors can’t have it two ways:
But the goddess Reb makes a good point. Those same publishers who reject us for having publised [sic] on a blog are often the same […]
From Peter Pereira’s blog and from Buffalo Report…
Dear Mrs. Bush,
I am writing to let you know why I am not able to accept your kind invitation to give a presentation at the National Book Festival on September 24, or to attend your dinner at the Library of Congress or the breakfast at the White House.