Collected Online Works

Here's a list of all my poems, translations, and readings that have found their way online. I'm a bit old fashioned and usually submit to print journals (three of four poems of the poems below are from print magazines that eventually repost material online). So this ends up to be a random sampling but still a representative one, except in translation (I work on more poets than just Agnar). Anyway, cheers!

Poems

• Two poems at Identity Theory.
• Two poems at Beloit Poetry Journal
• "Triest" in Salamander Magazine
• Pushcart nominated poem "Rebecca with Tequila Shot" at Tipton Poetry Journal
• "The Third Way" in Specter Magazine

Translations

• Three Translations from the Faroese of Agnar Artúvertin at Asymptote Journal
• Two poems about Prometheus from the Faroese of Agnar Artúvertin 
• "Ars Poetica" (Agnar Artúvertin) at the Bakery
• "The Working Girl"  (Agnar Artúvertin) at Euphony
• Two Translations from the Faroese of Agnar Artúvertin at Eleven Eleven

Readings and Lectures

• 88.1 WYCE's Electric Poetry 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 
• A Jot Conference lecture - Eyes and Ears: Finding Your Material/Your Material Finding You
• Talking about translation on the Faroe Islands Podcast

Miscellany

• Six of my poems in Faroese translation
• An old essay about Hemingway and Route 66
• Blogging about gender on the Structo blog

Odd Advertisement: McDonalds - Mouthopia

McDonalds has a baffling advertisement for the Big Mac: Mouthopia. This compound, made of the Old English mouth and Greek suffix topia, from topos (place), seems to mean mouthplace or mouthland. That is not a place I'd like to be. I assume they meant to play off utopia (no place) but went astray when they picked a th word, breaking up topia. This opens up another interpretation: mouth/opia, a medical condition of the mouth, perhaps one you get from eating a Big Mac. Kudos to McDonalds though for keeping up with current research and depicting dinosaurs as feathered.

Strange Fortune VII

More singular serendipity (this time in the form of advice) brought to you by China Garden.

In Memoriam

Gertrude Petra Landrum
(June 10, 2011 - June 10, 2011)

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” 

(Matthew 19:13-15)

In Memoriam

For your birthday, G. We'll see each other.

And now the internet is the arbiter of taste...

The Strange Signs Whitmore Lake - Part I

My trash can - "inedible darling"

My garage door - is there a HERS somewhere?

My landlady's playbuoy pontoon lives in my yards during the winter

The menu at the local ice-cream shop advertises options from "south of the boarder."
"Boarder" means someone who rents, not at all the same thing as "border."

A Morass of Magazine Monikers

Sorting through the masses of literary journals to find one worth reading or worth submitting to is a hard thing. I remember leafing through Poet's Market when sending out my first submissions and trying to figure out what was reputable. To add to the confusion, there are pairs out there like the ones below:

• One can submit to 3 AM Poetry or 5 AM Magazine as they might submit to Third Wednesday Review or Fifth Wednesday Journal.
• Today I got confused between Fiddleback, Fiddleblack, and Fiddlehead.
• One could easily mistake The Kudzu Review for The Kudzu Review.
• Sit on the front porch and read either The Front Porch Review or The Front Porch Journal.
• Will reading either Epiphany: An Unpretentious Publication or Epiphany: a Literary Journal (does that mean it is pretentious?) bring an epiphany? I have a translation in the former.
• The only difference that separates Prism Magazine (a publication Evangelicals for Social Action) from Prism Magazine (an international literary journal) is a .org instead of a .ca.
• Though The Journal is a great magazine I have subscribed to in the past, it is the literary equivalent of The Central African Republic - it smacks of not trying very hard for a name.
• Though hard to confuse, Whistling Shade is a near opposite of Whistling Fire. 
• And how quickly a Word Gathering can turn into a Word Riot!

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