Over at the AcadLit General Forum, our Poetry Challenge 15 has officially opened for participation. Challenges remain open forever! Submit a Petrarchan Sonnet for the admiration, enjoyment, and critical exercise of your fellow traditional poets. Membership in the forum is free; you just have to answer a brief question about being more or less in…
On September 22, 2017 The Academy of Inventive Literature published the first issue of The Author’s Journal of Inventive Literature. The Theme of this first issue is “Life of Beasts” – with animal-themed poems and stories. The issue also includes an editorial on “Unsubtracted Poetry” by yours truly, the editor-in-chief. In this editorial I hold…
Since our several attempts have proved futile, I’ve decided to make like a hotel elevator and skip 13. Our Poetry Challenge 14 has just opened up! Instead of hosting the challenges here on my personal blog, we’ll now be hosting them at our Academy of Inventive Literature forum. It’s hosted, in turn, by Google Groups…
I read this anonymous little booklet many years ago, and during a recent re-organization of the house, I found it again. I realize now that many of my religious and spiritual instincts come from this book. It has no copyright notice, and is out of print. It seems to have been meant for unlimited reproduction.…
My emphatic title is due to the frustration I felt when searching for ideas to make my broth more interesting. Paucity is the term I would, on judicious reflection, employ. There is a paucity of broth recipes out there. I speak as one who not only scouts and scours Google search entries, but who also…
Having checked out his collected poems from my public library, I got a chance to read a short biography of this remarkable poet, the value of which biography is that it was written in 1929 by a man who knew Lanier and his wife. Sydney Lanier had one of those short and heartbreaking artistic lives.…
Everyone who learns a little bit about educational history in the U.S. learns about John Dewey. His published ideas, which would seem commonplace and hardly revolutionary today, caused a change in the system of education throughout American public schools which seemed at the time quite momentous. Ordinary people noticed it and referred to “the new…
