Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog, page 35
May 12, 2010
Who Does She Think She Is?
______Hat tip to Kelli for this
May 11, 2010
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I read a poem at a writers conference/competition for high school students that used baseball as an extended metaphor for sex. It was truly high art. I had to read this poem in a small group setting where it would be critiqued by other high school students and a writer-mentor. We were in a small auditorium. I read the poem at the podium. In the middle of it, a nine-months-pregnant high school
May 8, 2010
Sad News
A Tribute to Rane Arroyo
The Female Poets List
Yesterday afternoon I made a giant list of almost 300 contemporary female poets compiled from three lists I'd previously made. And I asked for more.By 11pm there were over 400. By midnight there were over 500. I woke up this morning to over 200 more.
May 7, 2010
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Daisy Zamora reads "Mother's Day"Mother's Day : Poetry Everywhere : Video : The Poetry Foundation
May 6, 2010
open your eyes
What Foursquare further demonstrates is how many female poets are working today. Foursquare mostly publishes poets of the "experimental" persuasion and tends to favor visual poetry over narrative poetry (if those two things can be– not "opposed" but "contrasted"). The list above is not a list of everyone who ever submitted work to Foursquare or all the poets who ever could. I'm retiring as the
May 5, 2010
Hooray!
Good news in today's email. My poem, "Suspended," will appear in the anthology Because I Told You So: Poems on the Happiness and Crappiness of Parenthood.
May 4, 2010
A Review of James Schuyler's Other Flowers, by Lemony Snicket
A nothing day full ofwild beauty and thetimer pings. Roll upthe silvers of the baytake down the cloudssort the spruce andsend to laundry markedmore starch.
Me too
I can understand why Henry Miller wrote, late in life, that if he had it to do over again he would be a gardener.
