There has been quite a bit of debate banter about the Elizabeth Alexander’s inauguration poem. While I think her delivery sort of undermined her writing, the fact that she’s started a national conversation about poetry is wonderful. Seriously, she was on the Colbert Report the other night and every blogger with at least a minimal [...]
Archive for January, 2009
22 Jan
Can’t Dodge the Recession…
Forgive the awful pun, but it’s true. The economy has claimed another victim: the Dodge Poetry Festival.
The Morristown-based Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation confirmed Friday it cannot afford to fund the biennial Dodge Poetry Festival planned for 2010 because of a 30 percent decline in assets.
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12 Jan
Lark & Termite
Obviously, I’m a bit biased. Jayne Anne Phillips is the director of the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark. I happen to be a student in said program. Even so, I have to take a moment and let ya’ll know how much I am loving this book. (Present progressive tense because I’m about 75% of way through [...]
7 Jan
Great Advice from Annie Dillard
I’ve been using the winter break to get my head in the “write place” as it were. Part of that has involved reading an insane amount of books.. check out of my twitter profile if you don’t believe me. One of the books I’ve devoured is In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction edited by [...]
7 Jan
3 Poems Featured in MFA/MFYou
Aside from being happy that I’ve gotten some more work published, I’m stoked to be a part of the conversation over at MFA/MFYou. The goal of the journal is to “figure out if there really is a difference between the writing coming out of MFA programs and the writing from the hardworking folks who chose [...]
