Poets and Editors LRR, May 4, 2013February 8, 2025 Recently, I joined some of the other editors for a radio show to promote the release of our latest issue. We floated as an idea for the show the theme “Poets and Editors,” and while we instead spent a lot of time talking about the poems in our latest issue… Continue Reading
I don’t “get” Poetry. LRR, April 26, 2013February 8, 2025 What is there not to get? I often hear the expressions I don’t like poetry/I’m not a fan of poems /I don’t care much for poetry from English majors, and people who consider themselves fans of literature (blasphemy to my ears). It is seldom, or actually never the case where… Continue Reading
Like Reading? Then Put a Ring on It! LRR, March 26, 2013February 8, 2025 Blog posts are stressful, man. So are taxes, emails, and Facebook. That’s why, for the past few weeks, these other stressful tasks have taken precedence over the #1 task of any English major—reading. Reading has not been a priority of mine for about a month now. Too many deadlines, too… Continue Reading
Hearing Poetry LRR, March 24, 2013February 8, 2025 Although I’ll be the first person to admit that I love nothing more than curling up with a book of poetry, there is something very special about hearing the words on a page come alive through a writer’s voice. The way in which poets play with language becomes evident upon… Continue Reading
Is Poetry Dead? LRR, February 13, 2013February 8, 2025 In 2003, Newsweek released an article titled “Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?” The article, as you might guess, asserts the position of poetry as an irrelevant artform in today’s day and age. The author claims that poetry simply cannot survive in our culture of notoriously short attention spans… Continue Reading
Literature in Unlikely Places. Every Word Matters. LRR, February 13, 2013February 8, 2025 When thinking about the word Literature we often only think of books. What we forget is that Literature is the art of written work. Written work can be anywhere, not just in books and although contradictory to its definition, it does not even have to be written. Written work can… Continue Reading