2016-03-19 18:53
Syd Barrett died last Friday, though it wasn't announced until today. Why am I posting about a rock icon on Poetry Snark? Because Syd Barrett was the true mad poet-genius of the 60s, and I h… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
I don't know anything about how the New York Times chooses their book reviewers. I suspect that they must have some kind of system, because randomly choosing people couldn't possibly result… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Max Roach is dead. Simply put, he was the most accomplished and important jazz drummer in the world. He cut his teeth as a teenager playing with Charlie Parker, where he advanced upon the wo… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Some clever soul with plenty of free time has decided to start spamming the comments sections of various posts with links to porn and white supremacist sites. Lovely. And oh so inventive.I'v… Read More
2007-06-15 05:20
A short update on why I've been slacking so long on the posts.Basically, I looked up one day, and a book-length writing project that I had committed myself to had fallen desperately by the w… Read More
2007-03-10 20:18
The NYT offers a misguided defense of Poetry magazine's 200 million dollar endowed Poetry Foundation, coupled with a devastating and well deserved attack on the poetry publishing practices o… Read More
2007-01-15 00:03
Alice Coltrane died at age 69 today of respiratory failure. In addition to her work replacing McCoy Tyner in her husband's band, she also released numerous, underrated albums of her own, inc… Read More
2007-01-10 21:03
Bill Blood suggests "Cave of the Fiberoptic Octopus."Anyone have any better ideas? Read More
2006-12-23 02:13
So I just got this email that seems like a perfect symbol of where poetry is at as an institution. So desperate are publishers for a return to some mythic time when poetry was a mainstream a… Read More
2006-12-18 03:00
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war." --Donald Rumsfeld Ah, that Rummy, always looking on the bright side of things. What does death have to do with war, anyway?… Read More
2006-12-08 07:58
I know a game. It's called "guess who said these things at last night's reading." Wanna play?The rules are simple. Read this post and then tell me in the thread who you think Poetry Snark h… Read More
2006-12-08 05:04
I promise to get some new content up soon (yes, I read your emails).Meanwhile, tip a glass for one of the great geniuses of the twentieth century and go watch this classic video of Frank Zap… Read More
2006-11-20 02:10
Who, after I had crashed a dinner party for local Buddhists who shamelessly referred to themselves as "Jewel Hearts" & shouldered pointedly through circle after circle of syncophantic xa… Read More
2006-11-15 07:30
During the 2000 election cycle, I was once accosted by a Republican who, knowing a little about my politics, said to me something along these lines:"So, I once heard you say that your politi… Read More
2006-10-22 20:18
The short, unpleasant history of blurbs began on an appropriately bogus note. The first literary blurb in history was when Walt Whitman extracted a sentence from a private letter from Emerso… Read More
2006-10-19 20:20
A friend who reads this site just told me that he wasn't aware that there was anything going on in the comments sections, and so he just reads the posts, not the threads. The comments sectio… Read More
2006-10-14 10:41
It's no secret that poetry is among the most "elite" of art forms, right up there with contemporary classical music. When people say "ordinary people don't read poetry," what they mean is "w… Read More
2006-09-16 11:44
Poetry Snark recently attended a reading at a local pub called the Sanctuary. The reading sucked, but I found this diary outside the bar, just laying there on the sidewalk. It seems to chron… Read More
2006-08-20 22:02
Well, we haven't had one of these in a while, so why not? These kinds of posts are easy, and I'm lazy.Here are some blogs that you should check out:Johannes has a good blog with a lot of pro… Read More
2006-07-31 22:18
Johannes Göransson -- poet, translator, and co-editor of Action Books -- offered a response to my post on the "New Academicism." I replied. Here's the exchange. If you haven't done so… Read More
2006-07-31 04:58
(re-posted from May, 2005 at the request of a friend) The old academicism was about old white guys defending the values of New Criticism and old formalism. We're talking poets like Howard Mo… Read More
2006-07-17 04:51
In January of 2003, Dana Gioia was made chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts...He took what many regarded as an unorthodox attitude toward his job... "Fuck this literature shit… Read More
2006-06-18 23:35
I had to turn that "Word Verification" feature on again for the comments. I don't like it either, but the site has been getting hit by those "Great site! Check out this link!" robo-spammers… Read More
2006-06-14 23:06
Everybody loves a top-ten list. Here, in reverse order, are Poetry Snark's ten most overrated poets.I'm limiting these to Anglophones (living or dead), as I don't trust translations, and the… Read More
2006-06-07 05:18
Walt Whitman sells shit Read More
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