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This just in from Jim Cummins: The sestina challenge heats up!
As DL noted here, Laura Barkat at the T.S. Poetry Press site has designated July as Sestina Month. Though I've never met Laura, we got to talking online and I felt emboldened to "sestina-challenge"…
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Your Book Here [by Jake Adam York]
Last week, my wife and I snuck away into the mountains. I packed only one book. The plan was to read the land—penstemon, aster, Indian paintbrush, lupin, aspen, lodgepole, spruce—and come back to the…
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Introducing “terrain” a great blog from an unlikely place by Stacey Harwood
Several weeks ago, I was clicking around looking for an image to go with a post when I came accross terrain, a blog put out by Julia Fogg, a landscape architect in the UK. …
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Hang Time : Best American Poetry 1990 revisited [Jake Adam York]
The blog, so often, is about now. But I am here, as Terrance Hayes writes, “because I never could get the hang of time.” • I wanted to begin my stay as guest blogger by…
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Jake Adam York, Guest Blogger July 17-23
This week we welcome Jake Adam York as our guest blogger. Jake is the author of three books of poems—Murder Ballads (2005), winner of the 2005 Elixir Press Prize in Poetry, A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), winner…
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Goldfrapp, Stepmothers, Scissors, Brandon, Depeche Mode, & Why I Was Born (More or Less) This Way [by Neil de la Flor]
It took me longer than expected to write this post because I didn't want to write this post. Plus, I couldn't stop hula-hoop dancing and doggie style two-stepping to Goldfrapp's “Number One”. I am…
