Monthly Archives: March 2009
Of Travel, Lapses, and General Merriment
To start off I’d like to apologize for having taken such a long unexpected hiatus from blogging. Last Wednesday I left for Minneapolis to attend the Sigma Tau Delta Convention. In case you’ve never heard of it, Sigma Tau Delta … Continue reading
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The Advent of the American Haiku
It’s pretty hard to turn around on the web today without running around, stepping over, or bumping into a haiku. These short, three line poems are quickly becoming ubiquitous, and one of the internet’s favorite forms of poetic expression. I … Continue reading
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A Literary Peace Offering
Unfortunately, there’s just not the time today to do the kind of review of the Touch Poet app that I wanted. So as a consolation prize, here’s a great video about online publishing and some related links: You can also … Continue reading
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The Wednesday Five
Another week has passed, and here we’ve arrived at the next five poetry recommendations: 1. Writers’ Cafe I like to think of this site as Facebook for writers. It’s basically a social networking/blog-hosting community that is geared toward poets and … Continue reading
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Google Poetry Robot
My apologies for the very late post: this week has been particularly difficult on my schedule. Today’s offering is a very cool little search tool and writing aid: the Google Poetry Robot. First out in 2006 but consistently updated, this … Continue reading
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A New Wednesday Tradition
There are so many places out there to read or post poetry. A broad spectrum of web tools has been employed to help disseminate all the poetry out there, putting it into manageable chunks for us to happily digest. As … Continue reading
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Where Has All the Hypertext Gone?
For starters, some poetry news from over the weekend: Apparently, former British Prime Minister Sir John Major wrote secret poetry, though why he was keeping it a secret we’ll never know. In a truly nasty coincidence, Ryan North of the … Continue reading
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Poems as Comics, Comics as Poems
A list and summary of some cool ways in which the poetry and webcomic worlds combine. Continue reading
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Introduction and Example
There’s a lot of poetry on the internet. So much, in fact, that people are finally beginning to sit up and take notice. But the truly interesting thing is beyond that a bit: poetry doesn’t sit idly by as a … Continue reading
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