Monthly Archives: August, 2007
new media
I have never been too adept at mastering new technologies, but some of what you can find and do on the Internet is really pretty cool. My latest find comes from the website of The Poetry Foundation, which is related to the magazine of the same name, of course. They have apparently been doing regular …
telling tales
Claire Zulkey is a prolific blogger and critic in Chicago who reviews for the LA Times and many other fine publications. I enjoy almost everything she writes, and on her website, she’s got a treasure trove of interviews with writers, from Steve Almond to the Go Fug Yourself Girls to Nick Hornby. The interviews are …
“real” poets
I went out today and bought a stack of “collected works” of poets like Langston Hughes and Nikki Giovanni to start prepping for the poetry I’ll teach this year. I like the idea of being able to dig deep into a poet’s work, and going beyond the poems that are most anthologized (though I will …
goals
One of my post categories on this blog is “goals,” and that’s because setting and keeping goals has been one of the strategies I have found most useful while trying to develop myself as a professional writer. One of the advantages of goal-setting is that it keeps you thinking about what kind of writer you …
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