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Never Getting Published [by Bruce Kawin]
I asked Julie Carr, who is thoroughly launched as a poet, how she would feel about being a poet if her work had never been published. Because that does happen to some of us. …
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On Amazon and in Your Local Poetry Store [by Bruce Kawin]
One way to survive as a poet is to print your own work. Cal Kinnear once had a Hoe Washington press, an old newspaper flatbed. He set the type and chose the paper for…
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Post Wherein I Propose the Annexation of Canada by the United States by Means of Daoism [by Anthony Madrid]
All right, let’s all try and remain calm. I’m not going to go up the front steps and walk through the front door, here. I’ma go around back and come in through the kitchen…
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The Widows’ Handbook [by Bruce Kawin]
For the rest of the week I'll be writing mostly about survival: what it means to keep writing even if it looks as if your work will never get published and the difference it…
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Learning to Love Lorca [by Sharon Preiss]
The Lorca extravaganza continues! Don’t worry if you’ve missed some of the early events that have already happened New-York-City-wide in celebration of this poet of mystery and…
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Writing “Old Frankenstein” [by Bruce Kawin]
When I wrote "Old Frankenstein," the newest poem in Love If We Can Stand It, I got the first line out of nowhere. I was watching TV in the living room and thinking about…
