Rejection strikes again! Friday I got a rejection paper wad from a Journal that shall remain nameless. When I say paper wad, this was a strip of uneven cut paper barely 3/4 inch wide and containing only one line. With that, three more poems bite the dust.
Last night I did a reading and book signing at the Perfect Cup in northland. This was just one of several book signings that are set up over the next few weeks for Under The Tellingtree Anthology which I have two poems and a short prose piece in.
I'll post a schedule of the remaining readings tomorrow.
Poetry
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Friday, February 18, 2005
Friday Gibberish
Some serious ad money paid for a blog - $25,000 a month... that would trump a lot of writing grants.
Yes, for what it is worth, it is true. If you google "slut"- Christine Hamm's name will come up. But so will a lot of others. You need to work harder to get you name further up the list Christine. Write!!! You do it so well.
I hope you all have been reading about Ivy's triple-loop rollercoaster ride. It has been worth the read!
Poetry
Yes, for what it is worth, it is true. If you google "slut"- Christine Hamm's name will come up. But so will a lot of others. You need to work harder to get you name further up the list Christine. Write!!! You do it so well.
I hope you all have been reading about Ivy's triple-loop rollercoaster ride. It has been worth the read!
Poetry
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Earnie Graham's Surveillance Project Cut Short
InCom Corp, the Sutter, California based technology company that co-oped with Earnie Graham and the Brittan Elementary School in Sutter has pulled out of it's experimental "student tracking" project with the school.
The project widely reported in the media and here at Stick Poet has come under heavy criticism from parents and civil libertarians who felt the use of electronic equipment to monitor students movements was a bad precedence to start in a public school.
InCom cited the intense media attention its experiment generated attracted as a reason for the termination of the program in Brittan. According to an AP wire story, Paul Nicholas Boylan, lawyer for the school district said, "They can go someplace where they wouldn't have any risk of vandalism. Here, they have to worry about a community where at least a few are dead-set against anybody being able to benefit from this." I'm not sure what school district that would be, I think he as much are Earnie Graham has greatly misjudged public sentiment on this issue.
As for InCom, I think they have the wrong approach to their market for surveillance.
The project widely reported in the media and here at Stick Poet has come under heavy criticism from parents and civil libertarians who felt the use of electronic equipment to monitor students movements was a bad precedence to start in a public school.
InCom cited the intense media attention its experiment generated attracted as a reason for the termination of the program in Brittan. According to an AP wire story, Paul Nicholas Boylan, lawyer for the school district said, "They can go someplace where they wouldn't have any risk of vandalism. Here, they have to worry about a community where at least a few are dead-set against anybody being able to benefit from this." I'm not sure what school district that would be, I think he as much are Earnie Graham has greatly misjudged public sentiment on this issue.
As for InCom, I think they have the wrong approach to their market for surveillance.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
I'm Thinking I Need A Want List
I see Denise Duhamel has a new book out. I am anxious to read it. Problem is I have an ever growing list of poetry books to read and presumably acquire since the libraries limit greatly the poetry books they acquire. I mean there is Eileen's brick I still have to get. Sharon Olds has a book out I want. You get the picture.
Monday, February 14, 2005
Backing Up To Sunday
Sunday was a mixed bag of goods.
A number of us gathered at a private launch party for Under the TellingTree: An Anthology of Voice and Verse. Well attended party and book signing. I'll post some pictures in a day or so.
The downside of the day was an e-mail rejection letter of three poems I had sent off. Not like that has never happened before.
A number of us gathered at a private launch party for Under the TellingTree: An Anthology of Voice and Verse. Well attended party and book signing. I'll post some pictures in a day or so.
The downside of the day was an e-mail rejection letter of three poems I had sent off. Not like that has never happened before.
Herald.com | 02/13/2005 | 'How do I love thee?' With lovely poems, of course
Herald.com 02/13/2005 'How do I love thee?' With lovely poems, of course
I was trying to think what I could blog about that fit the Valentines theme when as luck would have it, I came upon this piece in the Miami Herald.
There are a few notable examples of poetic couples and since poetry so often goes to the core of emotional feeling, it seems Valentines Day is an appropriate time to mentions some of these noteworthy couples.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning.
Jane Kenyon & Donald Hall
Tess Gallagher & Raymond Carver
Brenda Hillman & Robert Hass
Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes
MARGARIA FICHTNER in this Miami Herald piece takes a look at a contemporary couple, Denise Duhamel and Nick Carbo. I've been a fan of Duhamel's and only more recently discovered Carbo and realized their husband wife connection. Fichtner is able to do the subject of a poetic married love far more justice then I could in today's blog, so I will simply recommend you fallow the link and enjoy the read.
And on that I close wishing all you poets and non-poets a happy Valentines Day.
Including The love of my life - who is not a poet of words but one of beaded artistry.
Happy Valentines Day Sweetie!
I was trying to think what I could blog about that fit the Valentines theme when as luck would have it, I came upon this piece in the Miami Herald.
There are a few notable examples of poetic couples and since poetry so often goes to the core of emotional feeling, it seems Valentines Day is an appropriate time to mentions some of these noteworthy couples.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning.
Jane Kenyon & Donald Hall
Tess Gallagher & Raymond Carver
Brenda Hillman & Robert Hass
Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes
MARGARIA FICHTNER in this Miami Herald piece takes a look at a contemporary couple, Denise Duhamel and Nick Carbo. I've been a fan of Duhamel's and only more recently discovered Carbo and realized their husband wife connection. Fichtner is able to do the subject of a poetic married love far more justice then I could in today's blog, so I will simply recommend you fallow the link and enjoy the read.
And on that I close wishing all you poets and non-poets a happy Valentines Day.
Including The love of my life - who is not a poet of words but one of beaded artistry.
Happy Valentines Day Sweetie!
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Bingo
Yesterday I was able to pick up a number of poetry books at a discount store going out of business. They were dirt cheap! I think I got like 12 books. The were $1 each.
Robert Pinsky's The Want Bone
Nikki Giovanni's The Women and the Men
Ted Hughes' Wolf Watching
Diane Ackerman's Origami Bridges
Louise Gluck's The Seven Ages
A really interesting hard back book Anne Sexton - The Last Summer
(This is a photo shoot book by photographer Arthur Furst with some copies of letters and manuscripts. It also has an introduction by Linda Gray Sexton - a daughter)
There were some other items... non poetry and an interesting book A Company of Readers - uncollected writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling.
It feels a wee bit like Christmas. :)
Poetry
Robert Pinsky's The Want Bone
Nikki Giovanni's The Women and the Men
Ted Hughes' Wolf Watching
Diane Ackerman's Origami Bridges
Louise Gluck's The Seven Ages
A really interesting hard back book Anne Sexton - The Last Summer
(This is a photo shoot book by photographer Arthur Furst with some copies of letters and manuscripts. It also has an introduction by Linda Gray Sexton - a daughter)
There were some other items... non poetry and an interesting book A Company of Readers - uncollected writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling.
It feels a wee bit like Christmas. :)
Poetry
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