Really, I promise that this will be the last twitter-related post (for a while), but I just wanted to let you know that I have a poem in the current issue of OCHO, edited by Collin Kelley and Didi Menendez.
Also, since my poem is about Icarus and Daedalus (his father), I think it’s pretty cool [...]
Archive for May, 2009
28 May
I’m in OCHO #24: The Twitter Poets Finale
26 May
MFA Profile: Poet Brandon Mazur
If your bio were to appear in the New Yorker, what would it say?
I guess it would say that I was born in New Jersey and have lived here my whole life – all over the state – and that’s what I write about. It might also say that besides trying to be a poet [...]
20 May
2 poems, a story, and a great article.
Occasionally, I am going to post links to poems (and maybe a poetic story) that have been published in online lit mags. I think the best way to evaluate the future of literary magazines and the internet (my obsession, lately) is to see what’s actually being published.
And here we go:
2 Poems
Neighbor Curse by Carrie Oeding [...]
16 May
Replies to @Those of Us Who Tweet
Immediately after I put up the post @Those of Us Who Tweet, it occurred that I hadn’t actually asked twitter poets themselves for their thoughts on twitter and poetry. So, I asked them to respond to the following question (in 140 characters or less, of course): Why are you a poet who tweets?
@AnnMarieEldon: I love [...]
14 May
A Poem to Wake Up Next To
Christopher over at Outside the Lines just blogged about this poem. It’s so delicious. I thought I’d pass it along.
The Hug by Thom Gunn
It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined
Half of the night with our old friend
Who’s showed us in the end
[...]
14 May
@Those of Us Who Tweet
Now that Twitter has become the next “It” thing, I feel the need to profess that I joined in July 2008, way before it was cute. Lately though, all kinds of people have been making twitter useful (and not just Oprah and Ashton Kutcher).
In particular, writers and poets have really developed a knack for twitter. [...]
12 May
Post-MFA Profile: Chidi Asoluka
If your bio were to appear in the New York, what would it say?
Of course, it would include my name: Chidi Asoluka. It would say that I am from Irvington, NJ, a small town outside of Newark. I’m the only son of Nigerian immigrants. My fiction usually deals with this fact, consciously or not. And [...]
12 May
Post-MFA Profile: Evan James Roskos
Over the next few weeks, I will be posting profiles of students who just graduated from the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark. It’s an opportunity to learn about the MFA experience from the inside out and to meet some great writers.
So, allow me to introduce Evan James Roskos. Don’t be fooled by the allergy-laden picture. When [...]
10 May
Mom: So Hip Even Her Errors Are Correct
When my mom was a young woman in Memphis, TN, she got to see Nikki Giovanni read at the University of Memphis. A few months ago, I got to see Nikki Giovanni read here in New York so I decided that for Mother’s Day, I would read Ego Trippin’ for the women in my life [...]
9 May
I’m From Driftwood… Er, Memphis…
Nathan Manske, a Texas native, recently created a website called I’m From Driftwood. The site has a very simple premise. In his own words, it features “stories from gay people all over the world.” Each entry starts with the person’s name and where they are from. Usually, the stories are presented in the written form, [...]
