3rd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 3 :: BARRETT WARNER on KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944)
The first poems or stories anyone writes are often letters, which is why young letters—those written before the writer has developed his genre and style and voice—are helpful when looking at a mature author. Included in the Keith Douglas archive
3rd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 2 :: ALYSSE KATHLEEN McCANNA on DIANE GILLIAM FISHER
Descend into the dark earth to make your meager living. Identify your spouse in a pile of bodies by some intimate detail no one else knows. Watch as the frosty morning pales your baby’s face as you are forced from
3rd Annual 30/30/30 Poetry Month Series :: Inspiration, Community, Tradition :: Day 1 :: Introduction and CHY RYAN SPAIN on KAREN FINLEY
The Operating System is thrilled to welcome you to our 3rd Annual 30-on-30-in-30 Poetry Month Celebration! In this wildly popular series, begun in 2012, we invite creative people from a range of backgrounds to share a story about how their
EDITORIAL:: #WORLDPOETRYDAY :: AWARENESS, INTENTION, GRATITUDE
A question to our creative audience - poets and non poets alike: if we imagine ourselves in an epic, global room, whose hand would I see raise when asked if you were aware that today is World Poetry Day, an
A VERY SPECIAL INVITATION to THE 3rd ANNUAL POETRY MONTH 30-on-30-in-30 SERIES
The Operating System is thrilled to invite you to participate in the 3rd Annual 30-on-30-in-30 Poetry Month Celebration! In this series, we invite creative people from a range of backgrounds to share a story about how their work has been
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 29 :: MORGAN VO on MINA LOY
“I was trying,” Mina Loy observed in 1927, with reference to her polyglot, punning, scholastic, asyntactic, unpunctuated free-verse poems, “to make a foreign language, because English had already been used.” Read more: http://marjorieperloff.com/reviews/loy-mysteries/#ixzz2Rp0FfojT Under Creative Commons License: Attribution from Morgan Vo, on and of Mina
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 28 :: BUD BERKICH on WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
William Carlos Williams: Backyard Artist I first experienced the poetry of William Carlos Williams in the fall of 1994, as an English major at Rutgers College. For me, it was an unforgettable experience. Williams' poetry shaped my own writing and philosophy
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 27 :: BENJAMIN WIESSNER on HARRYETTE MULLEN
I am going to start with an admission—I have a deep and varied past with the poetry of Harryette Mullen. Her masterpiece, Sleeping with the Dictionary, opened my eyes to so many possibilities in poetry. The experience I had is described best by her line, “I’ve been licked all over by the English tongue.”
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 26 :: JASON GRABOWSKI on FRANK O'HARA
IT IS GOOD TO BE SEVERAL FLOORS UP IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT WONDERING WHETHER YOU ARE ANY GOOD OR NOT AND THE ONLY DECISION YOU CAN MAKE IS THAT YOU DID IT – THE ONLY THING TO DO IS SIMPLY CONTINUE IS THAT SIMPLE YES,
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 25 :: MATT GANO on JACK McCARTHY
I first met Jack McCarthy at the Seattle Poetry Slam in 2003. He was doing his normal “catch the crowd off guard” old-man routine on stage, blending his extreme charm and undeniable wit with true sentiment and a little bit
