The book, Third Rail, features poems inspired by rock and roll. Guns N’ Roses is the title of a poem by Campbell McGrath which starts out:
“Not a mea culpa, not an apology, but an admission:
there are three minutes in the middle of “Sweet Child o’ Mine”
that still, for all the chopped cotton of the passing years,
for [...]
Question: What do The Cranberries, Van Morrison, and W.B. Yeats all have in common?
Answer: Now & In Time To Be, a CD featuring rock songs using the poetry of Yeats as lyrics.
Probably one of the most interesting contributors to the album is Shane McGowan, formerly of the punk group, The Pogues, who performs An Irish [...]
Some dude named Joe Cislo published this poem over at 3Hive.com. I like it…
“Leslie Erickson
said she liked my Van
Halen button. It
was V-shaped just like
Eddie’s guitar. I’d
bought it at a flea
market along with
some tube socks that had
holes in the heels and
toes…”
To read the rest of this poem, titled Van Halen, go here.
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This is the second in [...]
(I’m going to be doing a series of 5 posts about rock and roll and poetry. Here’s the first… 
Rock and roll is poetry. Some of it’s crap poetry, but some of it will blow your socks off. Sometimes you can get a whole new appreciation for a song or artist by reading the lyrics on [...]
I find the coolest things on Dionne Galace’s blog. The latest cool thing I found is Ember, an online novel in progress at Bettie Sharpe’s site. (Remember that name — you’ll probably be hearing a lot of it in the future, especially if you like romance novels with a bit of action and a bit [...]
I was searching around for weird marriage stories (to go along with my previous features of man marries dog, man marries goat, and 102-year-old man gets married) when I found one about the world’s tallest man (7′9″ marrying a woman who is more than 2 feet shorter than him. But that’s not the most interesting part of [...]
I came across an interesting article called Do You Need a Web Publicist? which talks about the ways to both organize and control online information about yourself.
“The Internet has matured to a point where so much of one’s life is online that some people need methods of self-promotion and self-protection, concepts usually associated with the imagemakers [...]
Found a great blog called Pretty Good on Paper. There’s a plethora of random yet interesting information here including how to keep your password safe and keep a list of passwords that nobody else will be able to decipher, how to fold a piece of paper into the shape of a terrier, and a post on [...]
A 27-year-old Chinese waitress was born with both feet facing the wrong way. The woman is quoted as saying:
“I can run faster than most of my friends and have a regular job as a waitress in the family restaurant. There is no reason to class me as disabled.”
Read the full article and see photos at [...]
I read a lot of poetry I don’t like. Some days I get lucky and find something good right away; other days, I have to plow through a mountain of bad poetry in my search for that one poem that will bring a smile to my lips. Today was one of those “mountain of bad poetry” [...]
