“Let / us be bees / watching over this / amazing queen.”
I’ve thought this for a long time. Nice of Bookfox to say it so clearly: Open Letter to Pushcart Nominated Folk You realize of course if I ever get nominated I’ll be having it skywritten over Manhattan…
Okay, so there are writers with more on their plate (read: more than one sprite) than I do who still manage to get it done. Meena, who I met on FB, has one set of really organized strategies. The first part looked very much like what I do (though I have never thought to formalize [...]
One of the FB groups I’m part of (which could be a blog post of its own – I really hate the idea of being largely supported by online community, and yet that’s where I’m getting almost all of my “artistic” support)….wait, let’s start that again: I’m a member of a FB group in which [...]
I find this NPR story a bit…driveling…but it’s totally made up for by the wonderful clip of Vonnegut graphing a number of “base” plotlines (boy meets girl, Cinderella, etc). Totally worth watching, plus the bunnies are cute Vonnegut graphs the classics
A nice summary of what the White House did to celebrate Poetry Month, PLUS a link to some of Obama’s college poetry (he’s a better president than poet, imho) The good stuff lost in the hip-hop controversy
Okay, this is turning into the best thing about the poetry challenge (most of the prompts so far haven’t spoken to me – I think I’m too concrete or something equally scientific and medical and prosaic): I’ve run into some very cool blogs. There’s a wonderful poem on day 8′s prompt (Agreement)with a terrific afterward [...]
One of the poets that hangs at Poetic Asides, Banana the Poet, gave a fun interview on a blog site that covers interesting indie writing that shows up on twitter. A lot of her poems cheer me up so her site is worth checking out as well