It's been a while since I've done a news and link roundup so I have some good stuff:
Poetry Used for Good and Evil
- Used for good: poetry as medicine (Slate)
- Used for evil: boss harassment (Gothamist)
- Used for counterbalance: murdered transgendered woman's poems published (PinkNews)
The Automated Poetry Critic
How can you tell the difference? Ha! (Knee slap.) A program has been designed to pare out the professional poets from the amateurs: Poetry Assessor! I
just put my favorite poem in there (by a somewhat controversial poet)
and it spit back a score of 3.2! I couldn't get the evaluating PDF up for a justification on that outrage. Put your favorite poem in there and tell me what you get.
Publishing
- Level-headed evaluation from Writer's Relief on whether self-publishing is really for you
- 14 Questions You're Afraid to Ask Literary Agents
Tips from the Dead & The I-Thought-They-Were Dead
- Someone has extracted social media tips from Ernest Hemingway (The Daily Dose)
- 14 Life Lessons I Learned From Joan Collins (Thought Catalog)
Don't skip this one; it's FULL of stuff useful to poets.
Check Into It
- More good news always to be found here: http://www.annogram.blogspot.com/
- I love this piece of flash fiction that popped up on my StumbleUpon recommendations a while back: "I was Trying to Describe You to Someone," by Richard Brautigan
- Why is Poetry Hard (NPR)
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