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The English Version Of “Vincent”
If you watched the video in the last post of Tim Burton’s Vincent and thought I’d gone loco en mi cabeza, you’re right. I mistakenly uploaded the Spanish version. Here it is in English. My apologies to both English and Spanish speak...
Two Poetic Videos From Tim Burton
Did you know Tim Burton, the movie maker, was a poet? It’s true. He’s written a rather macabre and interesting bit of poetic stories called The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: and Other Stories. I’m not going to lie to you and say t...
Poetic Links Worth A Mention
If you didn’t have the talent to be a writer, would you still write? Waiting on Beckett. Dark Matter’s gigs. Grrrrr …. Poetry Hut is closed. Diane Lockward on bios. See three new pages at World Class Poetry: Stephen Crane Ralph Wald...
Poet Laureate Interviews Blogger Allen Taylor
Before being deployed as a National Guard officer in July 2004, I was a newspaper editor. As such, I spent a lot of time conducting interviews. I had worked in other writing assignments prior to that and had developed a sort of “open-ended̶...
Poetry Potpourri, Volume 8
Meet the anticommunist antimodernists. Meet the fake Frank O’Hara. Meet Ron Silliman’s clone (but don’t laugh). Meet the new declinists. Meet Kay Ryan’s travel agenda. What’s going on at the National Mall in September. T...
