If you haven’t heard yet, Mark Strand has released a new book with called . In honor of this beautiful new book, THEthe will be giving away a signed copy of this limited edition chapbook. All you have to do to “enter” the drawing for this book is make a comment on any THEthe post (past, present, or future). Each comment is an entry to win, so feel free to go crazy (we like your comments anyhow!). Please observe the commenting guidelines; no spam or blatantly vapid comments, please. Please sign in with some form of contact information (via Facebook, Twitter, etc.) so that we can contact you if your name is drawn. Related Posts More Construction NotesOctober 14, 2010 Scattered Rhymes Podcast is Coming to THEthe! Scattered Rhymes is Coming: Joseph Spece What’s Your Style Book of Choice? The Silver Book
I recently learned how to use spreadsheets, and despite my own self-warnings about abstraction and its dangers, the ability to manipulate vast rows of numbers is beguiling to me. Using my newfound ability, I have created a rather uncomplicated formula to get this list of the 10 “most popular” posts in 2010. It’s too simple just to use “hits” or pageviews. Lots of people accidentally surf into a website and surf out as fast as they came (Google giveth and Google taketh away). My formula takes unique hits, time spent on a post, as well as bounce and exit rate all into account. All answers, of course, are functions of the question, so…take this list with a grain of salt. 1. Dorothea Lasky’s Poetry is not a Project or Cutting More Lines in the Cosmic Divide by Ben Fama Dorothea Lasky’s made huge waves when debuted at this years AWP. [...]
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Some of you have noticed a few changes here and there to The The. There are more ahead: a few contributors are moving on, and some new ones are moving in. Others will continue to contribute but on a less regular basis. I would like to welcome two new contributors: and . Make them feel at home, please. Thanks for sticking with us as we continue to figure out what TheThe is all about! Related posts: Blogging through Grossman, Part 2: Grossman demolishes otherness? “Because I am Looking to Complicate My Biography I Go Out to Buy a Tree” by Heather Christle TheThe Lookin’ for a Few Good Poetry Book Reviewers
The time has come to reveal (I think) the source (for those who don’t already know) of The The Poetry’s name, namely, “The Man on the Dump” by Wallace Stevens. is a link to the full text. Considering this, I wrote a little blurb to explain what this virtual forum is/might be. Here that is: ~ The The Poetry Blog takes its name from Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Man on the Dump,” which ends with a question and an answer: “Where was it one first heard of the truth? The the.” The The is a forum for ideas on poetry and the poetic aspects of fiction, non-fiction, music, visual art, film, and “the things / That are on the dump (azaleas and so on) / And those that will be (azaleas and so on).” Our contributors are writers, readers, artists, critics and so on. Our readers are writers, readers, artists, [...]