Friday, August 17, 2007
Best of poems online, etc.
Man I'm glad I don't run the Best New Poets project. Some of those people in the blog comments seem to be horribly spiteful clueless newbies. Anyway...
"Each Day" by Aaron Anstett (Thieves Jargon)
"Reading an Ex Lover’s First Novel" by Ashley Capps (Post Road)
I admit my complete and obvious bias about Aaron's poem, but it's still damn good.
"Each Day" by Aaron Anstett (Thieves Jargon)
"Reading an Ex Lover’s First Novel" by Ashley Capps (Post Road)
I admit my complete and obvious bias about Aaron's poem, but it's still damn good.
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Too true about BNP this year. If they would have kept it less transparent we would be waiting patiently like any other contest.
Aaron - he's one of the reasons I got into poetry in the first place. Turns out he went to Ripon college a couple years ahead of me and transferred (to Iowa?) before I got there. His undergrad poems in the college lit mag - one about Frankenstein - blew me away. I later had the pleasure of soliciting some of his work for Sycamore Review and reviewing his first book.
What's your acquaintance? I saw that poem to you in his latest book.
Aaron - he's one of the reasons I got into poetry in the first place. Turns out he went to Ripon college a couple years ahead of me and transferred (to Iowa?) before I got there. His undergrad poems in the college lit mag - one about Frankenstein - blew me away. I later had the pleasure of soliciting some of his work for Sycamore Review and reviewing his first book.
What's your acquaintance? I saw that poem to you in his latest book.
Brent-I've known Aaron in Colorado Springs for several years.
Ash-I'm afraid I just can't see that much of a taint because the USPS lost the results envelope. They probably should have had the judge send the results via e-mail, though, and hopefully will be spurred to do so next year.
Ash-I'm afraid I just can't see that much of a taint because the USPS lost the results envelope. They probably should have had the judge send the results via e-mail, though, and hopefully will be spurred to do so next year.
Oh, I agree with you. It's not the editor's or the judge's fault that the mail went screwy, but I'm afraid this will give the nay-sayers out there a chance to cry "foul!" and piss on the parade of the poems that make it in.
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