A Web Poet

A beautiful haiku.
We stumble head first
Into another Season
the leaves watch us fall.
--Tyler Knott Gregson  has become well-known on Instagram and Tumblr.

[There is] a new generation of young, digitally astute poets whose loyal online followings have helped catapult them onto the best-seller lists, where poetry books are scarce. These amateur poets are not winning literary awards, and most have never been in a graduate writing workshop.

...their appeal lies in the unpolished flavor of their verses, which often read as if they were ripped from the pages of a diary. Their poems are reaching hundreds of thousands of readers, attracting the attention of literary agents, editors and publishers, and overturning poetry’s longstanding reputation as a lofty art form with limited popular appeal.

--Alexandra Alter, NYT 11Nov15

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Curiouser and Curiouser in Translation

#wordnerd #polyglot #bats

In the October 29, 2015, Wall Street Journal there is an article by Edward Rothstein titled "Curiouser and Curiouser in Translation." The article especially interested me because "Alice in a World of Wonderlands" is on my Very Short List of books that I have most loved and that have most influenced me.

If I must choose a favorite from the translations cited, I award my coveted Curiouser and Curiouser Translation  Prize to:

Twinkle, twinkle little bat!

How I wonder where your're at!

The rendition of the translation into Slovenian reads:

Along the lake

Near Mt. Triglav

A pot drifts...

I think Lewis Carroll would have appreciated this curious translation.

And we wonder why there are rifts between nations caused by misunderstanding.

Author PR

‪#‎AuthorPR‬ ‪#‎BookPromo‬ #Halloween


I think I should start a list of tips for Author and Book Promotion. If it seems to work well, I can then share the words of wisdom.

• Rule #1. Never, ever publish a selfie.

Batwoman, ready for the trick-or-treaters.

An indignant seven-year-old insisted I could not be Batwoman.

"No, no! Not Batwoman. You have to be Batman."

But he accepted my politically incorrect Almond Joy candy bar anyway.