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The New Math of Poetry [Audio]

By Eric Hill • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb, Podcasts, Poetry

It’s estimated that a new poetry journal is released every day, and in 2010 alone, more than 100,000 new poems will be published. But, it’s not reader demand that’s fueling this escalating trend. Instead, the vast majority of new poems and poets will never find much of an audience for their work. To talk about the new math of poetry is David Alpaugh, a poet and a writer.
Elaine Grant/New Hampshire Public Radio


Hey Word Nerds!!!

By Eric Hill • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, Podcasts, Recommended Artistic Consumption

There must be at least a few etymologists out there in the crowd, right? Then this is the podcast for you. Charles Hodgson’s Podictionary posts a word-a-day inquiry into the strange beginnings of now-common words, often with an eye to their literary usages. He is also the author of Wine Words, a survey of the language of that grapey nectar. Today’s word is Bachelor, by the way. Check it out.


Listen to This

By Eric Hill • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, Podcasts

Today, Nick brings us the first entry in this new series, a conversation with Scott Gilmore of Peace Dividend Trust, a development NGO based in Ottawa and New York, with projects currently underway in Afghanistan, East Timor, and Haiti. PDT essentially promotes a buy-local strategy for international development, helping connect international aid agencies with local suppliers in the countries they work in.
Graham F. Scott/This Magazine Podcast


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