Archive for October, 2009
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Interstate
I meant to publish an old poem every other week or so, but just realized it’s been almost two months since I posted the last. Part of the reason is that I spilled water on my laptop, and no longer have easy access to very old poems. But everything back to 2002 is still handy, [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in old poems by Tim
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Letters to the Editor
A few weeks ago I sent out my semi-annual mass email to announce the fall’s newsletter (available as a free PDF download here, if I haven’t mentioned it). As always happens when you email 20,000 people, hundreds of them write back — most to say thanks, some to change an address, but then a fragrant [...]
15 Comments » - Posted in rattle rubbish by Tim
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Koans Rhyme with Poems
Over the summer, the editors of the Buddhist magazine Tricycle approached me, asking if Rattle might help them with a poetry discussion group. Though we have no direct ties to Buddhism, I thought it might be interesting to participate. I’m not a practicing Buddhist myself — I’m too much a spiritless materialist to succor the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in golden nugget posts, poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
2009 RPP: Better than Regular Submissions
In a post last month, detailing the stats behind this year’s Rattle Poetry Prize, I made the following statement:
[W]hen you read the winners in December, if the honorable mentions seem no stronger than the rest of the poems in the magazine, and there are a few in the open section that seem even better than [...]
