Posts tagged as:

Persons

Blogging through Grossman, Part 3: Poetic Promiscuity.

Thumbnail image for Blogging through Grossman, Part 3: Poetic Promiscuity. March 2, 2010

We recent poets have two great tools at our disposal: freedom of poetic license, and freedom of publishing. Generally, we can say whatever we want, and get a significant number of people to hear what we have to say. The question is whether this freedom has led to better poetry or degeneration. Perhaps that’s not the best way to put it. The question should be, even if somebody is doing something amazing and new in poetry, would we even see it? Will we travel all this way to find that we really did need the gatekeepers of poetry??

Read the full article →

Blogging through Grossman, Part 2: Grossman demolishes otherness?

Thumbnail image for Blogging through Grossman, Part 2: Grossman demolishes otherness? February 16, 2010

I probably should state right off the bat that I am not a philosopher by trade. If I mess up philosophical terms and definitions, feel free to correct me. I tend to have a more intuitive approach to philosophy, rather than a systematic one. Thus, I tend to explain things by analogy. I recognize the [...]

Read the full article →

Blogging through Allen Grossman, Part 1: The Role of Poetry

Thumbnail image for Blogging through Allen Grossman, Part 1: The Role of Poetry February 9, 2010

First, I want to say it is an honor to be blogging with so many great minds and poets. Some of you I’ve met in person, and many of you I haven’t. I hope to get to know all of you, at least virtually. It will be fun to see where blog goes. Now, onto [...]

Read the full article →