Saturday, January 10, 2004

 

Welcome to the first post! I started this website because it's that time of year when my mind seems to turn toward poetics...last year I spent about a month reading polemics between New Formalists and Language Poets, dating from the early nineties, in which they called each other fascists and libertines until it seemed like I was reading Roman political history, instead of a rather academic cultural debate.

This year, the bug started due to reading Silliman's Blog, where I heard about this movement called the New Brutalists, and from there the Ellipticals, and I realized that I'd fallen behind the times. I also felt ready for an injection of new ideas into my own writing.

I'm still growing as a writer, figuring out my poetics. After three years of isolation from other poets, due to geography and work, I'm just starting to peek out from my hole and learn what's going on in the world and interact with other writers. It's my hope that this blog will furnish a forum that will hopefully draw interested people into my circle, and I into theirs.

Expect new and moderately exciting posts soon. In the meantime, if you've got a website you think should be on my sidebar, let me know in the comments.

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