In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: a list of things to be thankful for, including literary turduckens, Paul Muldoon’s priceless close reading of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok,” unconventional homegrown libraries, and more.
All posts tagged “poetry blogs”
Mix Tape: Tricks/Treats
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog, tricks and treats just in time for Halloween: a look at poet Anne Sexton’s lost vampire fiction, found poems from Craigslist “Missed Connections” in the wake of Occupy Wall Street, the unlikely friendship between an author… Read More
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
This week my good friend (and poet extraordinaire) Patrick Culliton invited me to be a part of his podcast, Talus or Scree. I recorded a poem for the Halloween episode, which you can listen to here. The poem, “Night of the Comet (1984),” is one of… Read More
Mix Tape: Welcome to the Future
In Mix Tape: Welcome to the Future, this week’s blog post for the Kenyon Review: the jaw-dropping gaff at the National Book Awards, the faux Nobel Prize in Literature website, the books libraries have to destroy, and more.
Mix Tape: Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: A best-selling author turns down a lucrative deal with a “legacy publisher” in favor of self-publishing electronically, EMTs are stationed outside an Amazon warehouse in Pennsylvania because of intolerable working conditions, and Bruce Lee is finally outed…as… Read More
Mix Tape: “Creativity is just connecting things.”
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog, we remember Steve Jobs, take a look at the unraveling of the creative class, and remind ourselves what it takes to be a writer (which, according to a Dunkin Donuts study, includes A LOT of flavored coffee).
Mix Tape: Genius (Comedy and Otherwise)
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: stories from the Onion and The Daily Show, one bookseller’s response to the bitchy complaints of Borders employees, a look at what Vonnegut and porn on VHS have in common, and more great finds.
Mix Tape: The Forest and the Trees
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog, all things great and small: The Billboard Poetry Project, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco channeling the very concise Emily Dickinson, poets tiny enough to slip through mail slots, and more.
Mix Tape: Funny, But Not Ha-Ha Funny
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog, things that make us squirm a little: David Foster Wallace’s notes in his collection of self-help books, celebrity “poets” (or “celebrity” poets?), the hot mess at BlazeVOX, and more.
Mix Tape: Snark Week
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: auto-generated hipster text, a flashback to the book-loving California Raisins, slang (and sampling) in literature, and a few more tidbits worth checking out.