Sometimes blogging encourages a shoot-from-the-hip mentality that doesn’t serve anyone well. But sometimes the rapid response reflex opens a door — which is what happened for me when I posted a reply to Ron Silliman’s post (do read it: it’s quite entertaining) praising a new anthology edited by Jeff Hilson, entitled The Reality Street Book of Sonnets. Here is my comment: A friend of mine, an artist, many years ago asserted that anything an artist calls art IS art. (Our wrangling over this, of course, came down to deciding what an “artist” is.Read More