Image Spark

Image Spark allows you to save any image you find on the internet by simply right clicking the image and it will be saved on a database. The website is free, and you only need to create a profile to get started. Yeah I know it is nothing new or exotic, but it solves the age old problem of losing something once you save it. So make yourself a profile and go infringe on some copyrights.

Hit the link to get started:
http://www.imgspark.com/

Jon Edwards Photography

Jon Edwards is an American teenager with a interesting photographic style. Follow the link to see more photos if you like the one above:
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2008/09/jon-edwards_10.html

ezra pound

"good writers are those who keep the language efficient. that is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

-ezra pound

is he right?

Charles Wright

Two new poems. 

MFA Programs

For any of you thinking about getting an MFA in CW. 

Dear Camera

Very cool new journal.

museo del prado

The absolutely phenomenal Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain, has collaborated with Google Earth to create photos of some of the museum's most well-known masterpieces. The resolution on these paintings is tremendous; you can see every brushstroke and tear drop as clearly as if you were standing in front of the painting. I went to the Prado last fall, but seeing these images so closely and clearly is a completely different level of experience altogether. If you have ANY interest in art, please look at this masterpiece of 21st century technology.

Coldfront

If you like reviews of new poetry collections, check this out.  Mark Bibbin's piece on good music is very nice. 

Paul Otremba

"Haute Cuisine"

inspired

"All poets' wives have

Rotten lives

Their husbands look at

Them like knives."

-Delmore Schwartz, American Poet

I've always wondered: do truly great poets (or writers or what have you) have lives full of inspirational people and events, or are they simply skilled at turning the humdrum of everyday existence into something extraordinary? I don't mean that in a manipulative, melodramatic way, but in an elevated-perception kind of way, where poets are gifted (cursed?) with experiencing their world through the extremes that most people comfortable with shades of gray can't seem to fathom. Maybe a few poets are adept at stirring up trouble/inspiration, and maybe a few more are just lucky and trouble/inspiration comes to them, but I don't really think that's the case for the majority. 

I want to (and in some sense, must) believe that there is a gift. Some are born with it and some may learn it, but all poets have it. It's more than finding something quirky and lacing it with pretty words; it's uncovering other realms entirely, partially for the benefit of those who cannot see them but with help.