I think you all know about Bill Knott’s making all his poetry available through Lulu.com and for free PDF download from his blog. Well, here’s another way of going at it.
KC poet Scott Keeney is creating what he calls “blogbooks,” collections of his poems set up as individual blogs. An inventive idea! His latest is Sappho Does Hay(na)ku, available also as a limited edition chapbook from Sephyrus. Best of all, his poems are very good—minimalist in the best sense: Cid Cormanesque, Rae Armantroutish, etc.
And if you’re wondering what “hay(na)ku” means, check here.
Thanks to Eileen R. Tabios for leading me to Scott’s work and for inventing the hay(na)ku form in the first place!
Interesting. When I began what is<BR/>now Sprintedon Hollow but then was<BR/>Salchert’s Weblog, it was for the<BR/>express purpose of placing new and<BR/>older books of poems in it. So I<BR/>have done what Bill Knott did, but<BR/>S H has much more in it. Do have<BR/>links to all the completed books of<BR/>poems in S H’s All About Me. Once<BR/>I learn how to do it, want to do<BR/>some books in
Thanks for the ‘Shout Out.'<BR/>The simple guidance the hay(na)ku form advises is a brilliant sieve for ideas. (And demented followers are the best kind!)
Fascinating — the project <I>and</I> the form.<BR/><BR/>I’d also thought of doing a collection this way; I suppose of the millions of blogging poets out there, quite a few have. But as so often happens, the thought flitted away. It landed on a clothesline, was attacked by an angry dragonfly, and was about to turn into a poem when the telephone rang, saving us both.<BR/><BR/>Your demented follower