Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog, page 30

Poets in Conversation

Brent Goodman and I talk about our books in the new issue of Boxcar Poetry Review.

Poems A Tough Fit

Poetry, the most precise and precious of literary forms, is also so far the least adaptable to the growing e-book market. A three-line stanza might be expanded to four if a line is too long or a four-line stanza compressed into three if the second and fourth lines have sharp indentations, as with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hymn to the Night."Royalty disputes, philosophical objections and

Slush Pile

Talk about earning a bad name for yourself. "Slush pile" is loaded with numerous shady insinuations. From the Post's first deployment of "slush pile" to Van Loan's unethical reporter and ship slush emerges the foul and mercenary undertones that resonate into our modern use of "slush pile." One does often associate slush piles with the trash bin. Is that where J.H. Seward & Co.'s rotten sawdust

Literary Activism and Generosity

by Barbara Jane ReyesWe're back from Albuquerque, where Oscar participated as a writing fellow at the inaugural Canto Mundo writing workshops. He has a series of very good write-up's at his blog. I did my best to be scarce, spent a couple of days viewing art exhibits and reading a lot of poetry, and so I thank the organizers and fellows for opening up their space to me. I was fortunate to

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Confluence by Mary Biddinger

50/50: Words & Images for Didi Menendez

Edited by Grace Cavalieri, & April Carter Grant This anthology contains poems, essays, and visual works from writers and poets who have been published by Didi Menendez in MiPOesias magazine, OCHO, Poets and Artists (O&S), or books. Each piece is about or dedicated to Didi in celebration of her long-standing commitment to advancing print and web standards for independent publishing of poetry and

'it is all about pro‐equality'

We have to look at the media again. It surrounds us. It tells our stories. When you look at G rated movies having the same amount of sexualized images of girls and women as R rated films do, that clearly has an impact. When you look at the speaking roles in all animated films that one out of three are going to be girls or women. If you look at just the acceptance of sexism in the media,

An obvious better alternative

It seems like editors at big fancy lit mags (BFLMs) don't know what to do with all their submissions. Look, I read for a BFLM (Ploughshares) for many years, I know the sheer onslaught of mediocre to lousy or even good submissions is pretty tiresome. But there's a really easy way to limit the number of submissions you receive and ease the burden on readers: Just close submissions for most of the

Aries - Week of July 8

Have you added some bulk and stability to your foundation any time recently, Aries? Have you grown your roots deeper and asked for more from your traditional sources and recommitted yourself to your primal vows? I hope so, because this is a perfect time, astrologically speaking, to strengthen your link to everything that sustains you. You have a sacred duty to push harder for access to the stuff

Joy

I am having an awesome July -- PALABRA picked up one of my poems today, and so did Copper Nickel!_____And joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea, we had a lovely, lovely five days at The Shore. In fact I'm still recovering from all the family fun time. I hope we get down that way again this summer._____Stay cool. xo