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Robert Peake, Code Poet

Blog URL http://www.robertpeake.com/

Located Ojai, California USA

Tags poetry, writing, literature, poet, poem, mfa, grief, technology, education

News, reviews, and articles on the criticism and craft of poetry.

Latest Blog Posts

• Poetry Book Titles: a Quick, Fun Poll for Everyone on Nov 19, 2009 in Humor Insights Poetry Post-Postmodernism

  I have been reflecting on postmodernism and poetry, and came up with the idea of a quick, easy poll to help develop some of these thoughts. Care to help me out? You don’t have to know a thing about poetry to participate. For each title in bold,...

• Cloudbank Precipitates Great Poetry on Nov 17, 2009 in MFA Poetry Abby Murray Arthur Ginsberg Beth Russell Carolyn Miller Christopher Buckley Jennifer Whetham Margaret McGovern Marianne Klekacz Pacific University Peter Sears Ron Bloodworth

  “How open to suggestion / they have always been, carrying nothing // with them of the past, content to leave almost / everything behind…” -Christopher Buckley, “New Clouds” I received a complimentary copy of the premier...

• Waltzing Like a Beast on Nov 9, 2009 in Poetry Conservation Sandra Alcosser

  “It is a great privilege … to celebrate through poetry what is sacred between species…” -Sandra Alcosser Here is the voice of my friend and mentor, Sandra Alcosser, reading her own wonderful poem about a bear: // < ![CDATA[ //...

• Poem in San Pedro River Review on Sep 18, 2009 in Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Publications Zbigniew Herbert

  I received my contributor’s copy of San Pedro River Review today. This, their second issue, features emerging and established voices from the rural Heartland and the wild Southwest—brimming with Studebakers, bandannas, milk cows, and grea...

• Lessons from the Poetry Recession on Sep 17, 2009 in Insights Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Robert Pinsky Ted Kooser The Economy

  The current economic recession is my generation’s wake-up call about the difference between promise and lasting value. Whether we heed the call remains to be seen. The promise of ubiquitous home ownership, “money for nothing” invest...

• Interviewed on Public Radio About Poetry and Technology on Sep 12, 2009 in Insights Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Technology Cyberfrequencies Jackson Musker Katie Peterson KPCC Social Networking Tao Lin

  KPCC aired a program on their “Cyberfrequencies” segment today about the relationship between poetry and new media—particularly, Twitter. Having read a previous post on this site about the inherent disconnect I sense between the alw...

• The Blessings of Complicated Grief on Sep 5, 2009 in Grief Recovery Grief Hope Family Insights Life Poetry Poems Poetics Literature Writing Literary Arts Complicated Grief Spirituality William Wordsworth

  “No motion has she now, no force; / She neither hears nor sees; / Roll’d round in earth’s diurnal course, / With rocks, and stones, and trees.”-William Wordsworth, “Lucy” Yesterday marked the anniversary of the bi...