Timothy Green's Blog
March 3, 2009
There was a great post yesterday on Wet Asphalt by J.F. Quackenbush, a former Rattle contributor, about the latest pox on literature, which he calls Writer as Lifestyle Syndrome (WaLS). Symptoms include valuing the artist over the art, referring to all publishers as “markets,” and seeing publication as the only means of legitimization.
Wet Asphalt has always been one of my favorite literary blogs, even though they tend to talk more about SF than poetry, because of the curmudgeonly way they prese
March 2, 2009
February 27, 2009
February 25, 2009
sub⋅mit
1. to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
2. to subject to some kind of treatment or influence.
3. to present for the approval, consideration, or decision of another or others: to submit a plan; to submit an application.
4. to state or urge with deference; suggest or propose (usually fol. by a clause): I submit that full proof should be required.
From the moment I was introduced to the literary industry — which was only about six years ago, ac
February 23, 2009
Last September, I chimed in on David Alpaugh’s provocative essay, “What’s Really Wrong with Poetry Book Contests.” The problem is economic — book contests are an easy way to get poets to subsidize their own publication. You can think of it as a publishing co-op, something like Cahuenga Press, only instead of a dozen people getting together and publishing one of their books every year, a thousand people are sharing the costs, and most of them won’t live long enough to see their year in the sun.
February 19, 2009
February 18, 2009
February 17, 2009
This is the brick wall I stared at for three days straight. It was a nice wall, sturdy and white, with an electric outlet, which would have been convenient if the Hilton didn’t charge $20/day for internet access. I really did mean to live-blog. Lots of interesting people stopped by the booth, and had I been able to immediately post pictures, I probably would have taken more of them.
Here’s a partial list of Rattle contributors who stopped by (sorry if I’m misspelling any names, but I’m not goi
February 10, 2009
February 9, 2009
If you ever get shot or suffer heat stroke in the San Fernando Valley, the Encino Medical Center might be your best bet for a no-fuss trauma unit. We’ve had to go a few times, and it’s always empty — which gives one the comforting impression that if there ever was an actual life-threatening situation, the doctors would turn off the Lakers game and treat you without a 4-hour wait.
There’s a sign in the waiting room that I always notice, proclaiming it “The Best Kept Secret in the Valley,” which s
