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http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2008_05.php#012880 It explains a lot, really: I can't pretend to be much of a judge of poetry: I'm an English teacher, not a homosexual.
Eavan Boland asks, Who exactly is a poet? How do we recognize one, even when circumstances seem to deny the possibility of such an existence?
Noö Journal whets our appetite for issue 8 by releasing its first ever e-chapbook of bad poetry, Matt Jasper: A Collection of Bad Poetry. It's got poems by Tao Lin, Blake Butler, K. Silem Mohammad, and others. In addition to the free chapbook, you can always buy a bad poem. From Mohammad's contribution: I just heard from someone in Hades, / How Matt Jasper is a hit with the ladies, / . . . / How Slim Whitmans beget Slim Shadies, / How Alice the maid is exploited by the Bradys, &c.
Preserving the poetry of Shel Silverstein: "I think Shel had an impact on poetry," [Mitch] Myers said in a recent phone interview. "He gave a lot of freedom to his readers and to the poetry itself."
While Silverstein's contemporaries in modern poetry attempted to push the envelope on form and style, his simple, accessible verses were just as visionary. "Guys like [Silverstein] and Dr. Seuss took it to a whole new level," Myers said. "He's touched a lot of generations."
At Guernica, James Galvin's "The Stagnation": Did you ever notice / How easy it is / To terrify clowns? / They're already crying / Before the fun / Begins.
Gary Sullivan on K. Silem Mohammad and Sharon Mesmer: Mohammad always determinedly trips up the expectations of our settled tastes in avant-garde poetry; Mesmer continuously embarrasses them.
Jon Schneider talks with VQR about Ezra Pound (mp3).
Dennis Cass, who I interviewed at PopMatters a while ago, has made a funny video for the paperback release of Head Case.
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