Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Hey Hilda, Publish a Book Already!
As I was putting my eight hours at the ol’ poetry factory today, updating returned subscriptions and stuffing envelopes (with a papercut on my thumb to prove it), I was listening to Poets Cafe’s interview with Hilda Weiss, which you can download by clicking here. It occurred to me that Hilda Weiss might be the [...]
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
I have 12-18 months to live. Like any Z-list, fame-hungry, Plank-length celebrity, I periodically Google myself — blog search only, since web searches usually result in the same old pages — to see if anyone’s talking smack about me. What do I see today on page 1, right between my batting averages post on the [...]
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Top 15 Poems on Rattle.com
Rattle.com as a blog is now one year old! I thought it’d be fun to list the top 15 most-read poems since we launched the format. The number in parentheses are unique views to the poem’s individual page. Note that views through the RSS feeds and on the main page are not recorded, so [...]
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
A Real Caricature
Most literary editors, I think, know of G. Tod Slone, though I doubt very many readers do. He’s the crated dog to our mailman — a constant but ineffectual yapping in our ears from some unknown location (is it Massachusetts?), always tilting at the same windmills with the same catch-phrases (“vigorous debate, cornerstone of democracy!” [...]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
A Partial List of Great Poems Since 1900
As Compiled by Timothy-Green.org Readers, Slightly Edited By Me; Listed Alphabetically, Linked When Available, Sequences Excerpted; Leave a Comment to Suggest Your Own.
“As I Walked Out One Evening” by W.H. Auden
“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
“Ars Poetica” by Jorge Luis Borges
“How to Like It” by Stephen Dobyns
“A Display of Mackerel” by Mark Doty
“The Love Song of [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
More on Greatness: Art vs. Art History
Why is Citizen Kane always listed as the greatest movie of all-time? Is it the most memorable, the most moving? The most adored? Nope — if that were the criteria, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and It’s a Wonderful Life would top it easily, along with at least 100 others. It’s not [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
There’s No Such Thing as a Great Poem
This blog has been full of discussion lately, and I love it — it gives me things to think about (and thus post about). In a comment thread from last week, “G the Art Spy” argued that we publish too much poetry these days — that a journal that published infrequently and was “extremely choosy” [...]
12 Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo, rattle rubbish by Tim
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Bookending LA
Tonight in Ventura, Next Week It’s Riverside
My book tour, if you can call it that, is spiraling to a close. I’ve got two dates this month, then one in July, then nothing until the winter. So catch me while I’m hot. Here’s the scoop this month:
Date: Tuesday, 6/9/09
Time: 7:30 p.m.
What: Timothy Green + O
Location: Artist’s [...]
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
A New Kind of Book Review
The first book was written 5,000 years ago, and the first book review 4,999 years, 11 months, and 28 days. There’s been quite the hubbub ever since, particularly when it comes to reviews of poetry. Should we waste space writing negative reviews, when so many brilliant collections languish in the shadows? But if they’re always [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo, rattle rubbish by Tim
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Six Pack at Lobster and Canary
Earlier this week I did a brief interview (six answers, one question), with Daniel Rabuzzi at Lobster and Canary. Props to Daniel for some unusual questions, including “What is your favorite cloud formation?” Click here to see the answer, plus jabs at Paul Muldoon, scientists, and heartless verse.
