by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2011 | Blog
Brenda Hillman finished off the SPLAB 2011 Visiting Poets Series in fine fashion November 11 and 12 with a brilliant talk on Innovation and Activism in Poetry Friday the 11th (Veterans Day), a workshop that left at least one participant “buzzing all day”...
by Ryukan | Nov 21, 2011 | Blog
I got this from SIFF today: “*Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.” —**Hayden...
by Ryukan | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog
As Thanksgiving approaches school children learn the story of pilgrims, Plymouth rock, helpful natives and thanks. As those children grow older they realize that the way the pilgrims gave thanks was genocide. That kind of ruins the story. Using examples such as...
by Ryukan | Nov 15, 2011 | Blog
from Phoebe Bosche’s I-Phone: Begin forwarded message: From: Calls for Poets Submissions <cfp.literature.univ.edu@gmail.com> Date: November 15, 2011 7:44:32 AM PST To: Call for Poets Submissions <cfp.english.univ.edu@gmail.com> Subject: Invitation to...
by Ryukan | Nov 14, 2011 | Blog
From Greg Bem: Hello everyone, My old school, Roger Williams University, recently underwent a shift in the Creative Writing department. The nationally-distributed literary magazine, which was called originally called roger, is now called Mount Hope. Anyway, I just met...
