Let me begin by saying that Atlanta poet Jon Goode deserves every accolade he receives in this article courtesy of CNN.com ( Read more... )

What is one of the greatest hurdles between audiences and poetry?
Your smart mouth!

http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=10638.html

What are your poetry submissions to magazines and contests trying to tell you?

Find out here!

http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=8740.html

Please post comments there!

This one is a bit of a doozy, if I do say so myself.

Did Saul Williams sell-out by letting his song be used by Nike?
You decide!  (...with my help, of course.)

http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=7382.html

 Poetry Is Doomed #11: How To Become Famous To The People Who Really Matter

http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=7059.html
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Somewhere between writing pages of mindbending prose and enjoying my day off, I wrote the longest Poetry is Doomed column yet!

You can read it here and be amazed.

Yet ANOTHER Poetry is Doomed column is up!  
That's two this week!  (Of course, this is to comepnsate for having been a slacker.)
 You can read what I would do if I were U.S. poet laureate here:

http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=5915.html

See you at open mic tonight!

Scott

 What's that?  A new Poetry is Doomed is up at Got Poetry.com?

This one is a quick taste before the slightly more juicy one in a couple of days.

My mother just responded online to my most recent "Poetry is Doomed" column.  She never responds to anything.  I didn't even think she read this stuff.

Don't let the coy treatise she imparts fool you; this is personally monumental and very, very funny in a Woods sort of way.

My new "Poetry Is Doomed" column is up at GotPoetry.com!

This month's question: Is it okay if my eulogy poem is bad?