Monthly Archives: July 2004

Mystery Poems

Posted on 7/31/2004 by chris

In the spirit of Jonathan’s recent posts I am going to do a few of my own. Here are my mystery quotes. Who are they and are they any good? …the longest bridge of light leaps from all the rivers … Continue reading →

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Josh Corey on Here Comes Everybody

Posted on 7/31/2004 by chris

Josh Corey is the latest to be interviewed at Here Comes Everybody. I was particularly struck by this exchange: 8. Do you believe in a Role for the Poet? If so, how does it differ from the Role of the … Continue reading →

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Youth and Enthusiasm

Posted on 7/31/2004 by chris

Earlier tonight, while writing at the coffee shop (I know, I know, a complete cliche, but almost nothing stays open past 7pm in this town, and only a few of those will put up with loiterers like me), I overheard … Continue reading →

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More on Editors and Editing

Posted on 7/29/2004 by chris

I’m interested in what editors do and how they do it because I might find myself serving in that capacity again… and the last time around I didn’t do the job properly. Unlike the work of the author– where I … Continue reading →

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Me Tired, Comments Not…

Posted on 7/28/2004 by chris

Too tired to post much more tonight, but I wanted to note that I’ve been the fortunate recipient of some insightful and thoughtful comments on poetry, meaning, expectations, and politics as well as the responsibilities of the editor (from Gene, … Continue reading →

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I, Robot

Posted on 7/26/2004 by chris

“Suggested” by the Asimov Collection I, Robot, about the only aspect of the stories that (kind of) survives the transition to film are the famous Three Laws of Robotics. That the film “I, Robot” diverges so sharply from the book … Continue reading →

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Greencine Daily

Posted on 7/25/2004 by chris

I’m a NetFlix subscriber myself, but GreenCine Daily is perhaps the best film and cinema oriented blog around, always chock full of information and real stories about film rather than the same old celebrity gossip. Incidentally, the GreenCine Primers are … Continue reading →

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An Editor’s Responsibility

Posted on 7/24/2004 by chris

There is a small-scale discussion on one of the mailing lists I am subscribed to that is circling around the sometimes-incestous relationship between publishers, editors, and writers (stemming in part from a pointer to foetry). In my latest (and likely … Continue reading →

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Cosmopoetica, Chris, and the Commonplace Book

Posted on 7/23/2004 by chris

Cosmopoetica As a confirmed Jack-of-All-Trades-Master-of-None it was getting hard to follow all the different threads in technology, arts, and more personal/social areas on my personal site (chrislott.org) . Cosmopoetica was created as a place to centralize my major artistic thoughts … Continue reading →

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Great (Poetic) Expectations

Posted on 7/23/2004 by chris

Ron Silliman asks what I take to be the single most important question we can entertain as readers or writers: what is the role of expectation in art? My recent post about Lance Phillips poetry is really about expectation and … Continue reading →

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Here Comes Everybody

Posted on 7/14/2004 by chris

If you haven’t seen them yet, Lance Phillips’ Here Comes Everybody site has some interesting interview available– and many more to come. I fixed the link in my previous post to go to Lance Phillips’ blog, where it should have … Continue reading →

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Lance Phillips’ Corpus Socius

Posted on 7/14/2004 by chris

Josh Corey writes about Lance Phillips‘ book Corpus Socius. This is a natural point for me to followup on my comments about Houlihan’s Robo-Poetics. My first inclination was to use one of the snippets Josh posted to illustrate my own … Continue reading →

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Prosody, Linguistics, and You

Posted on 7/12/2004 by chris

It was refreshing to see Mike Snider wade into the prosody fray. I have no position on who is right or wrong in this debate… but I do understand Mike and Greg more clearly (I am certainly deficient not just … Continue reading →

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Pessoa and The Book of Disquiet

Posted on 7/12/2004 by chris

I’ve been reading Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet (read an interesting review from the Guardian, see the Amazon listing). Written under the heteronym Bernardo Soares, the Book of Disquiet is a journal of sorts, a kind of writer’s notebook in … Continue reading →

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Monkey See, Monkey Do

Posted on 7/10/2004 by chris

So who was first? K. Silem Mohammed, John Latta, Nick Piombino, Josh Corey– that’s just from my last 20 minutes of blog-reading… there are probably others. Jonathan would have an interesting list, I bet, if he weren’t busy being snarky … Continue reading →

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Joan Houlihan and “Robo-Poetics”

Posted on 7/10/2004 by chris

Joan Houlihan is stirring things up (again). Her basic thesis appears to be that poetry which doesn’t evidence intentionality and engage the reader is not really poetry, but at best an expression of theory, a generated product not really meant … Continue reading →

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What Bloggers are Reading

Posted on 7/10/2004 by chris

Bloggers are all kinds of people… and they have all kinds of reading habits. What are bloggers reading right now? Phil Gyford decided to find out and then Jason Kottke noticed and garnered more than a few comments of his … Continue reading →

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Excuse the Dust

Posted on 7/9/2004 by chris

Welcome… I’m still moving in, but I hope to have things under control by the end of the weekend! If you are an RSS user (and you should be!), you can subscribe to feeds for Cosmopoetica Entries and Comments!

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