Tag: criticism
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A year in (not) publishing
Like more people than you would imagine, I once had a spreadsheet keeping track of the poems I had written, where I had submitted them, and the results. I rarely look at it now. I have not published many poems recently, either. Partly this is just life. Letting go of a poem – researching magazines…
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Making Nothing Happen
It was probably inevitable that the two most famous quotes about poetry’s purpose, Shelley’s ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’ and W. H. Auden’s ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ would be so contradictory: poetry is a house with many rooms. David O’Hanlon-Alexandra’s ‘New Defences of Poetry’ project, now available on its own website here,…
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Boom, Boom: Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘View of the Capitol’
Elizabeth Bishop is (maybe) most famous for her poems of place: she spent much of her life living in South America and wrote collections called Questions of Travel and Geography III (there was no ‘I’ or ‘II’). ‘View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress’ was written while working at the Library of Congress…
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