Month: June 2006

  • Getting a Poetry Column

    Recently, Frank Wilson of the Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote the article about online poetry, Some is quite good, but is it literature? In it, he notes that “as with the blogosphere vs. the MSM, online poetry has something to do with getting around official gatekeepers.” Let me suggest to you online poets, to be a gatekeeper…

  • What poetry is and what a poem is.

    Let me not dare, here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that has ever been…