http://patrickkanouse.com/blog Poetry and the Arts Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:33:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've moved to http://patrickkanouse.blogspot.com/. http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/09/10/moving-to-a-new-blog/ I recently saw both District 9 and Inglourious Basterds. The former I was quite excited to see. The latter I was a bit concerned about. Both expectations were set by the promotional campaigns. Fortunately, my expectations were exceeded by both films. (I'll discuss Inglourious Basterds in my next post.) First, District ... http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/09/04/district-9-movies-to-see/ I was catching up on some blog reading this past weekend. I read Joan Houlihan's blog entry titled "The Poetry Rapture - Who's In?" (Yes, I'm that far behind in my reading...piles of The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, National Geographic, etc., are sitting next to ... http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/09/01/catching-up-on-the-death-of-poetry/ Once inexpensive methods have become available for practically anyone to create attractive websites (and websites that act as journals), then anyone can act as an editor. Hence, one of the critical barriers the MFA programs has created can be circumvented. All those poetry MFAs entering the world and acting as ... http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/08/20/e-books-and-the-future-of-poetry-part-5/ If one thinks of some of the recent achievements in cinema (Easy Rider, John Sayles, etc.), the  advancement of the art is often from outside the system. I very much admire Sayles' movies. He has often worked as a screenplay fixer/re-writer/writer of studio genre films to finance his independent efforts. ... http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/08/17/e-books-and-the-future-of-poetry-part-4/ In our modern or post-modern or whatever you want to call it era (I really mean the times we’re living in), a poet stating that they want readers is, perhaps, a bit off-putting. Yet, no matter how much one may state that they disdain readers or they don’t care, they ... http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/08/12/e-books-and-the-future-of-poetry-part-3/ My last post was all in the way of prefacing how I view the current state of electronic publications. The ebook reader is here to stay and more and more books will be read on e-readers. Poetry journals have been moving to more and more of an online only presence. ... http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/08/10/e-books-and-the-future-of-poetry-part-2/ In the next few posts, I want to explore poetry’s future in regards to the act of publishing, whether journal or book. I work in publishing (technical computer books) and have some insight into the rapid revolution in the rise of non-print media. While the Sony Reader has been out ... http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/08/06/e-books-and-the-future-of-poetry-part-1/ I have often described what I call "cinema moments," which are these points in time when everything seems perfect...as if in our heads we are watching a movie of ourselves that fully captures the ideal. As it happens, I have encountered another source that describes essentially the same thing, though ... http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/08/04/cinema-moments-anothers-description-of-such/ Years ago I read a paragraph from Philip Ball's wonderful book Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color that has stuck with me. I've even tried to fashion a - as yet unsuccessful - poem from it. Legend has it that Emperor Charles V stooped to pick up a brush ... http://patrickkanouse.com/blog/2009/07/21/titian-and-the-emperor-charles-v/