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THREE POEMS by Russell BittnerWednesday, July 01 2009 @ 12:00 AM CDT
Russell Bittner lives, writes and works out of his home in Brooklyn, New York. His prose, poetry and photography have been widely published both in print and on the ‘Net.
ROY CAMPBELL: BOMBAST AND FIRE by Joseph PearceMonday, June 01 2009 @ 12:01 AM CDT
ROY CAMPBELL: BOMBAST AND FIREby Joseph Pearce
Roy Campbell was considered by many of his peers, most notably by T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Edith Sitwell, as one of the finest poets of the 20th century. Why then, one wonders, is he not as well-known today as many lesser poets? The answer lies in his robust defense of unfashionable causes, both religious and political, but also, and more regrettably, in his unfortunate predilection for making powerful enemies. Seldom has a life been more fiery, more controversial, and more full of friendship and enmity than that of this most mercurial of men. Born in South Africa in 1901, Campbell learned to speak Zulu almost as soon as he had learned to speak English. "The Zulus are a highly intellectual people," Campbell recorded in the first volume of his autobiography. "They have a very beautiful language, a little on the bombastic side and highly adorned. Its effect on me can be seen in The Flaming Terrapin . . . They take an enormous delight in conversation, analyzing with the greatest subtlety and brilliance." It seems that Campbell's own conversation conveyed more than a hint of this Zulu influence. Following his arrival at Oxford in 1919, his contemporaries were both bemused and beguiled by his tales, "a little on the bombastic side and highly adorned," of the African bush. He soon earned himself the nickname "Zulu," and his reputation as a wild colonial boy was immortalized by his friend, Percy Wyndham Lewis, who modeled the character of Zulu Blades in his novel, The Apes of God, on Campbell's image at Oxford.
The African influence also came to the fore in the long, vibrant, and colorful poem that established Campbell's reputation. The Flaming Terrapin, published in 1924, was, according to one critic, "like a breath of new youth, like a love affair to a lady in her fifties." "Among a crowd of poets writing delicate verses he moves like a mastodon with shaggy sides pushing through a herd of lightfoot antelopes," wrote George Russell in the Irish Statesman. "No poet I have read for many years excites me to more speculation about his future, for I do not know of any new poet who has such a savage splendour of epithet or who can marry the wild word so fittingly to the wild thought." REAR-MEAT RHODA by Joseph S. SalemiWednesday, April 01 2009 @ 01:40 PM CDT
REAR-MEAT RHODAGirls come in assorted sizes, A VERY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST SPEAKS by Sally CookWednesday, April 01 2009 @ 01:17 PM CDT
A VERY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST SPEAKSPermit me to describe the way in which I work. I will be brief, but only in the way that the mountains and the oceans are brief. To begin, the term “artist” holds no real meaning for me. The diversity of my commitment to the contemporary demands that I trash all antique concepts. I hate old works; I hate new works. I hate authorities, families, patriotic symbols, religion, historical reference, figurative art and formal poetry—any symbols of the old order. I am bored by technique; who isn’t? My work has no message because there is no message, other than what you may assign to it. That makes me feel good, and feeling is all. I am here to rub your noses in the stink of my feelings. The viewer has no rights in the world of art—this world belongs to such as me and has for some time. Get over yourselves, you who still believe that ideas, beauty and form have relevance. You are nothing but what I call “Beauticians.” SIX POEMS by R0y ScheeleSunday, March 01 2009 @ 08:51 AM CST
Roy Scheele is Poet in Residence at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. His poems have appeared widely, in such journals as Poetry, The Southern Review, and Verse, as well as a wide variety of other print and online magazines, and his work has been frequently anthologized. A book-length collection of his poems, A Far Allegiance, is forthcoming from Backwaters Press.FIVE POEMS by Leo YankevichSunday, February 01 2009 @ 07:59 AM CST
Leo Yankevich lives with his wife and three sons in Gliwice, Poland. His poems and translations from German, Polish and Russian have appeared in over a hundred journals since the 1980s. His latest book, Tikkun Olam & Other Poems, is available in pdf format from the New Formalist Press.FIVE POEMS by Alfred DornThursday, January 01 2009 @ 08:00 AM CST
Alfred Dorn began writing poetry at age ten after reading James Russell Lowell’s “Aladdin.” A prolific, widely published writer of metrical verse, he is the author of Voices From Rooms,and From Cells To Mindspace, both published in 1997 by Somers Rocks Press; and Claire And Christmas Village, issued by Pivot Press in 2002. He is the coordinator of the World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets Contest, which offers large cash awards for the best metrical entries. Dr. Dorn’s interests include art history, philosophy, travel, antiques, and psychic research.FIVE POEMS by Peter AustinMonday, December 01 2008 @ 08:48 AM CST
FIVE POEMS by Paul Christian StevensTuesday, November 11 2008 @ 11:37 AM CST
FIVE POEMS by C.B. AndersonWednesday, October 01 2008 @ 12:58 AM CDT
C.B. Anderson is the longtime gardener for the PBS television series, The Victory Garden. Translation: He’s got dirt under his fingernails. In the summer of 2003 he read a poem by Don Paterson (“A Gift”) that drove him into the fine old tradition to which his neighbors reckon him a virtual slave—and he was only 54. He lives in eastern Massachusetts with his wife and two kids, who don’t know who he is anymore, and never will until they try to get published.
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