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A Toast
Bill Knott’s Poems for Death has made Don Share’s list of … well, I’m not sure what it’s a list of! Important books Share’s read so far this year? (A shot in the dark.) Anyway, he observes that “Bill is one of the best poets in the country.Read More
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Tightrope and Knott
When you start thinking about money and success in publishing poetry you may as well be a tightrope walker who thinks about falling. These and other illuminations, some regarding the esteemed, irascible, and tenderhearted Bill Knott, in today’s post on Bob Arnold’s blog, A Longhouse Birdhouse.Read More
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Midnight Ciphers
I’ve been meaning to write about Karen Volkman‘s Nomina for quite awhile, but Joel Brouwer has beat me to it and said most of what I had in mind to say. Here’s the comment I left in response to his excellent review: Joel, you’ve relieved me of trying to make sense of my scattered notes on Nomina, which line by line fascinates and baffles me.Read More
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New From Knott
In the past couple of weeks Bill Knott has posted a new book of his poems, which is available for cheap at Lulu.com, as well as even cheaper in the form of free PDF downloads. It’s called A Salt of Seasons: Winter Spring Summer Fall Poems (with an Appendix of “Nature” Poems).Read More
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Thanking You in Advance
Please read Bill Knott’s Neve Campbell Villanelle at your earliest convenience.Read More
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An Appreciation of Ai
If you haven’t checked out Bill Knott’s Prose Re Poetry blog (one of three he has going at the moment), check out today’s post about a poetry reading given by Ai.Read More
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Kryptonite
I’ve never been one to advertise my (many) failures, but I admit to enjoying Bill Knott’s posting, on an earlier incarnation of his blog, of selected rejection slips he’d gathered over the years. Some of them were outright hilarious. But I’m posting the following not to highlight the blindness of an editor, but to show what a genuinely kind rejection should look like.Read More
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Up and away…
On his blog Bill Knott has posted a handful of poems about balloons.Read More
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The Great Debate
No, not Obama v. McCain, but this (a repost of a November 2007 post by Bill Knott on his blog today [links not in the original]): Randall Jarrell, writing in 1941: ”Realizing that the best poetry of the [1920s] was too inaccessible, we can will our poetry into accessibility—but how much poetry will be left when we finish? Our political or humanitarian interests may make us wish to make our poetry accessible to large groups . . . . “ The debate—whether one should strive to make one’s verse accessible—still rages of course.Read More