Archive for August, 2009
Friday, August 28th, 2009
A Darkness Below
This poem is awful, so don’t bother reading it as if you’ll be able to take something from it — but it marks a key epiphany in my growth as a writer. In 1999, we were all worried about Y2K and I was a freshman in college, still a biochemistry major, still thinking of myself [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in old poems by Tim
Monday, August 24th, 2009
2009 Rattle Poetry Prize Math
There are two reasons I’m announcing the Rattle Poetry Prize numbers a full week later than I did last year. First, our editorial priorities had to be adjusted to fit with Alan’s travel schedule, as he’s going to be gone for much of September. But the bigger issue was the volume of submissions we received. [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in random riff-raff, rpp behind-the-scenes by Tim
Friday, August 21st, 2009
The Little Things, The Night
I have reams of writing (from back in the day when I wrote regularly), that aren’t published and never will be, but that are still meaningful to me. In some cases they probably could be published if I sent them out, but I don’t care enough to bother, or just don’t want to. In other [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in old poems by Tim
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Six-Pack of Lit Mags for Rattle Readers
Still no time for an essay-like post, and we’re going on a much needed mini-break to Laguna Beach this weekend, so here’s something to hold you over — a list of literary magazines that fans of Rattle could also be fans of, at least in my estimation.
Perhaps surprisingly, I’m not all that current with literary [...]
32 Comments » - Posted in random riff-raff by Tim
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Growler Reviews AmFrac
I haven’t had any time to update recently, but I’ve got a few topics loaded in the chamber and ready to shoot — just need time to write them up, and time doesn’t come cheap this time of year. I’ll have an official count on Rattle Poetry Prize submissions by the end of the week, [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in american fractal by Tim
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Playing Moneyball with Poetry
Two Hollywood people I like, Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt, had teamed up to film a baseball movie I’d actually pay to see (well, rent at least) — but it was axed at the last minute by the studio. And I really mean last-minute — the film crew was on its way, and they’d already [...]
