Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Really Wrong: David Alpaugh on Poetry Book Contests
The fall e-Issue just went up last night, featuring selections of poetry from a pair of great books by Carol V. Davis and David James, artwork by Lois Gold, Andrew Kozma’s review of a suite of chapbooks, and a preview of the Winter 2008 issue. You can download it for free at the e-Issue page, [...]
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Interview with Oak Bend Review
The new issue of Oak Bend Review features an interview with yours truly (click on “Honorary Guest”), along with a generous spread of poetry (including one previously unpublished), glowing praise for American Fractal, and even a posting of that YouTube video Poetry.la did a while back. I don’t know about “honorary,” but I truly am [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
RPP Behind the Scenes: The Big Announcement
One minute ago I will have posted the winners of the 2008 Rattle Poetry Prize. (I’m writing this before I go to bed on Sunday night, which should explain the unusual verb tense — what is that, pluperfect?)
As I type this, Megan is wading waist-deep in SASEs, which she’s filling with notifications to all of [...]
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Poetry Scams, Scoundrels, and Air Quotes
Talk of contests and ethics and curious decisions abound lately. ‘Tis the season, I guess. But we should all remember to turn our cheeks as we throw the stones, lest we be judged, too, or something. In other words, this is a messy, complicated world we’re all trying to navigate, and your information is usually [...]
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Rattle Roundup #312: RPP Edition
First off, know that we always keep our promises. Yesterday afternoon, with Rafael Nadal grunting in the background, we narrowed our 40 “quarter-finalists” down to 19 “semi-finalists” for the Rattle Poetry Prize, so we’re right on schedule to announce the winners on September 15th. We’d hoped to choose the winner at that meeting, but this [...]
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Saroyan Minimalism
I don’t know that I’ve mentioned it before, but as this blog has been getting increasingly personal, I might as well talk about the fact that for the last four years I’ve been plodding my way toward an MFA at USC — one class per semester, because I don’t have time for more than that.
This [...]
