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Article from the London Times in the UK.
August 4, 2008
Poetry at the 2012 Olympic Games? There’s no rhyme or reason why not
If they had poetry and rhetoric in ancient Athens they can have medals for slam performances in London, says Fanny Walker

Fanny Walker

There is something historically incomplete about the modern Olympic motto of [...]

Jonny Goldstein put out a challenge on Utterz for a Haiku-a-Day. I managed only one. You can go to my account, PurpleCar, on Utterz or here to listen, but here is the text:

 
Endless messages,
A desperate search, I swear
you said you loved me.

I am a member of the poetry review board for Philadelphia Stories, a print and on-line fiction and poetry quarterly journal here in my area (please submit your work! See guidelines here). Last night was our review meeting for the Winter quarter. Our task is to sort through hundreds of submissions and narrow the list down to three poems that will be printed in the next issue.

Writing is an art. Time-worn cliches about suffering for art aside, as writers, our particular brand of suffering is twofold: being misunderstood and fighting against the clock. Writing isn’t seen as an art by the general public. When someone uses paint and canvas, she is easily identified as an artist. The word [...]

Katie Haegele of LaLaTheory writes a bi-weekly column for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled DigitaLit. I like to republish her articles here because of their unique combination of writing, reading and digital art. Here’s this week’s article (I added the links.)

The words go round and round and they come out here
Have you ever [...]

I have 3 very basic rules for my writing.

All writing goes toward a finished product (i.e. the novel, a short story, poetry, or article).
All writing is filed and backed up regularly.
Write or work (e.g. editing, reading) toward a finished product everyday.

There are many writing prompt/exercises posts on the ‘net. These are fun and can [...]

Multimedia: The more the merrier
Collaborations of writers, artists, musicians and programmers yield lively work. Born Magazine is a source
This week, as I watched some animated poems and “played” a piece of interactive fiction, I couldn’t help but notice that many of the more sophisticated pieces took more than one person to build. Artistic [...]

Since attending podcamp philly, I’ve come upon a bunch of cool new sites lately, like BlipTV, Viddler, Upcoming and Twitter. One in particular is quite fun: StumbleUpon. Stick in the types of websites you’d like to surf to, download a toolbar and click. “Writing” is a category, “Poetry” is a category. [...]