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Blog to Blog – Jon Cone, “Sixty-Eight Statements About Poetry”
You may have heard: 1) It’s hardest to write on a blank page. (Right now our blog is a blank page.) 2) Good artists borrow. Great artists steal. In the spirit of both of these statements, we...
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Opening Day!
In the spirit of peaceful cohabitation in light of irreconcilable differences (Cubs v. Cardinals: Talk about intersection!)… and also in the spirit of Opening Day, here’s a photo for you. My wife and I...
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I Need It, Bad
Not too long ago I saw James Franco portray Allen Ginsberg in Howl (available, streaming, from Netflix). Apparently, according to Franco’s November 2012 post on Huffington Post (yes, I know I’m...
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National Share Poetry Month
In October of last year, poet Matthew Dickman advocated in this Tin House blog that we join [him] in a small, inexpensive, but possibly life-altering experiment. Over the next thirty days, let’s all...
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Oh, Snap (It Gets Better)
I just published our blog about sharing the poetry-love one piece at a time: see here. But some more sleuthing on the Tin House blog reveals that they’ve taken Matthew’s idea a step further. They’re...
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The Question of Certainty
Everyone knows that if you query poets about how their poems begin, the answer is always the same: a phrase, a line, a scrap of language, a rhythm, an image, something seen, heard, witnessed, or...
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Intersections Investigated: Baseball-style
It’s spring, though it doesn’t feel like it in northwest Iowa. Around the country, spring sports–youth, high school, professional–are popping to life like we can only hope the trees will in time....
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