Commercial Poetry

Earl the Squirrel's Rule #13 Introduction       Sounds are the last thing most newcomers think about while writing poetry and th...

     Marjorie Perloff's " Poetry on the Brink - Reinventing the Lyric " begins with an engaging question:    "What happ...

National Slam Finalist Eric Darby : U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins : 8 year old Alexis Rosinsky :      Enough said.

    In " Anniversary " we noted the passage of a half century since the last iconic poem.  It is fun to speculate what the next on...

    Earl the Squirrel's Rule #32     Half a century ago a bawdy limerick about a man from Nantucket appeared in Playboy magazine.  N...

     From " Novels versus Poetry - Part III ":     "Once the work finds its audience reader discussion, critics and the pas...

    In Parts I and II we discussed the value and nature of performance.  Now it's time to revisit an old theme to examine the approaches...