This week's icon quote is from Lord Byron's Don Juan, Canto XIV ( Read more... )

Last week's Poetry Friday host, Karen Edmisten, posted the poem "The Writer" by Richard Wilbur, noting that she usually posts it about every four months. Today, I'm reposting one of my all-time favorite poems (I have many, so don't ask me to rank it), "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot.

I posted the poem once before, back in ( Read more... )

Yesterday, millions of people world-wide heard Elizabeth Alexander read a poem. I happened to like it as I heard it, although three out of three people I know who also listened to it had issues with her delivery that prevented them from fully appreciating her text. I think, though, that upon a second reading, it improves, regardless of one's first ( Read more... )

On what writing is

"I always thought writing was arraying words in beautiful patterns, but now I think it's more like walking blindfolded, listening with your whole heart, and then looking backward to see if you made any tracks worth keeping." Sara Lewis Holmes in her recent Poetry Friday post at Read Write Believe.

On why fiction/fantasy matter ( Read more... )

Yesterday, an interview with renowned fantasy writer Bruce Coville, and today, a top ten list. I really don't think I can keep this level of quality up, folks ( Read more... )