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Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day
I subscribe to Bryan Garner's daily "Usage Tips." This came in today's e-mail: poetize; poeticize. Although Eric Partridge claimed that "'poetize' is gradually displacing 'poeticize'" (Usage & Abusage at 235[Garner's Modern American Usage, Oxford…
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I Love Lawrence Schimel: In Praise of A Midsummer Night’s Press—Jason Schneiderman
In yesterday’s blog, I was talking about Poetry Citizenship—an idea I should probably do more to articulate—and one of the things that kept lurking at the edges of both the post and the conversation…
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Fortune and Other Tellers [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, How are you? Are the muses of autumn whispering in your ears? Or have they entered your blameless mind and turned to furies? The world is full of worry. Why not us?…
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A Call for Poetry Citizenship And a Dust Up Over Reading Fees—Jason Schneiderman
A minor blogosphere dust-up over reading fees has made me think a lot about the economy of money and attention—particularly as it relates to poetry. The blog battle went something like this—The New…
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IT’S HERE!! IT’S THE OFFICIAL PUB DATE OF STRIKING SURFACE! -Jason Schneiderman
It's official! Striking Surface is out!! Thank you to Ashland Poetry Press for publishing it! Thank you to Sarah Wells & Stephen Haven for being amazing editors and managers. Thank you to Elton Glaser…