Following Jordan’s link to Jeremy Bushnell’s raccoon, I discover not only a fellow Chicagoan but another report on Thursday’s Creeley reading. Talk about poetic networks: I had to go through Jordan’s blog to find someone who was in the same room with me.
Author: Timothy Yu
Thanks to kari edwards for the news that poets Mark Doty and Carl Phillips may have been rejected for a position at Boston College because of anti-gay bias. Since Doty’s and Phillips’s credentials are impeccable, and BC’s president, William Leahy, has been a vocal campaigner against gay marriage, that interpretation looks pretty likely. A spokesman for Leahy, of course, denies…
It’s depressing that I only ever get involved in a discussion on the Poetics list when something really horrible gets said. It’s even more depressing that I’ve felt I had to do it several times in the past few months. I’d visited the archive, actually, to do something constructive, which was post a few references on confessional poetry, a discussion…
Sometime last year Ron Silliman suggested that one function of poets’ blogs could be to create an audience for those poets’ books. At the time this bothered me because I thought it sounded too mercenary. But now I’m realizing it could simply be an observation about conditioning–how it’s now inevitable that I’ll be reading hard-copy work by people I’ve only…
Alli Warren’s new chapbook, SCHEMA, came in the mail from Stephanie on Monday, with a grid of cover photo details courtesy of Alli’s own photo blog–for whatever reason, I’m particularly creeped out by what appears to be a flickering screen capture of John Kerry’s weary talking head. And other sources of light & roundness: a camera lens, a lamp, two…
Del, you will never know how grateful I am to you for listing the SHAMPOO contributors in reverse alphabetical order. (And you being a C, too.) Bless you.
The new SHAMPOO is up! (with a few poems from yours truly) — Dear Beautiful Person, It will make you feel all tingly if you look forthwith at the star-studded new SHAMPOO issue 20: Check out mind-altering ingredients by these super-gorgeous poets: Tim Yu, Stephanie Young, Kirby Wright, Marcus Slease, Alessia Sersanti, John Schertzer, Kate Schapira, Sarah Rosenthal, Jessy Randall,…
__________THE DISCRETE SERIES______________ presents John Tipton :: Kent Johnson [John Tipton had an itinerant childhood in Indiana, Florida, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Illinois. After a three-year stint in the U.S. Army, he attended the University of Chicago on the G.I. Bill where he earned an AB in philosophy. He currently lives in Chicago and curates the Chicago Poetry Project, a series…
Do I write like a tall skinny guy?
Ray Bianchi suggests that sucking up to poets at readings, once an exclusively New York activity, has come to Chicago. I’m a little confused, though, because he seems to think the answer to this is for poets to do a better job of marketing themselves–I guess so that they could focus on that kind of public success rather than competing…