Sherry Chandler

rhubarb is susan attended Yearly Kos —or at any rate the wrap party—for the poetry blogosphere.

If you don’t know about the Yearly Kos, you probably don’t read political blogs. That’s all they’ve been able to talk about for some days now. Sort of navel gazing. Worse than poets.

My favorite clip:

American Prospect blogger: What’s the poetry blogosphere like?
rhubarb: It’s great . . . very vibrant . . . kind of like a pyramid, you know, in terms of traffic, everyone visits Ron Silliman’s blog . . . it trickles down from there . . .
American Prospect blogger: Who?
rhubarb: He was big in the 70s.
American Prospect blogger: What is it like politically? Do you guys get involved in politics?
rhubarb: Well, you know, most poets are like “whatever you are, I’m slightly more left wing.”
American Prospect blogger: That’s cute.

is mostly up, says Helen. Not quite dead yet:

HTML and other computer-related issues have ’bout whupped the donkey’s—oops, I mean the mule’s dead—rear end this time. But that should take nothing from the great writing. The Mule prides itself in attracting great writers. Nice ones, too. We’re working hard to make the Mule something that is easily recognized as as special as it is. (Don’t ya just love sentences like a that! The computer swears you’re wrong, but you’re right.)

If this is what the Dead Mule folks can achieve when the karma is bad, think what it must be like when the karma is good!

Take a trip over there.

For myself, I’m grateful for an opportunity to publish my “Worldview,” a group of poems that is very important to me, and to publish it in such good company.