Sherry Chandler

Don’t miss Jeff Worley’s review of Marcia Hurlow’s new poetry collection Anomie (CustomWords). He says, in part:

Hurlow’s poetry is highly imagistic, concise and accessible. She makes these poems sing. Anomie is an intelligent and memorable debut. With this book, Hurlow further establishes herself in the top echelon of Kentucky poets.

And speaking of blogging poets, I’ve added a link to Poetsarus, the Poetry Aggregator offered by THE Blogging Poet, Billy. If you need to up your dosage on your daily poetry fix, Poetsarus is the place to go.

Any of you who do chatrooms might like Billy’s blog poem of that same title.

I found the link over at Mildred’s Umbrella.

In my very first entry on this blog, I noted that, rather typically perhaps, I was starting with blogging just as blogging is going out and podcasting is coming in. “What,” some one asked, “is podcasting?”

Over at Rocket Kids, Rachel Dacus has a post that addresses podcasting and its significance for poets. Follow her links for an explanation and an opportunity.

Meanwhile, Have Coffee Will Write provides a link to a rather deflating Scott Stantus cartoon. The weak link in podcasting may be the podcasters?

And over at I See Invisible People, Terry Kanago addresses the way blogs themselves are revolutionizing and redefining what is literature. So perhaps I am not, to quote my friend Robert Brimm, “clinging to the trailing edge of technology.” Though I don’t expect AdSense to come calling to show up on this site any time soon.

The NYTimes seldom bother to review poetry collections anymore. And when it does, it’s nearly always established poets, such as John Ashbery. As in this Sunday’s Books section, John McGrath’s review of Ashbery’s new collection Where Shall I Wander (Harper Collins) and his Selected Prose (University of Michigan, ed. Eugene Richie).