We do love a good simile.
The off-and-on-again blog of Ron Mohring, whose plate is almost always overfilled. CONTENTS OF THIS BLOG ARE MIGRATING (gradually) to my new blog, The Boy Who Reads in the Trees. See top post for URL.
Linky Links
- About a Word
- Alex Gildzen: Arroyo Chamisa
- Anne Haines
- Art Durkee: Dragoncave
- Autumn House Press
- Barn Owl Review
- Beloit Poetry Journal
- Bernadette Geyer
- Bookslut
- Brevity
- Broadsided
- Cabinet of Wonders
- Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry
- Chapbook Review
- Copper Nickel
- DIAGRAM
- DIY Poetry Publishing Cooperative
- Donna Vorreyer
- Double Room
- Drunken Boat
- Dudecraft
- Eduardo Corral: Lorca Loca
- Emerging Writers Network
- Fat of the Land
- Frank Sherlock
- Hanging Loose Press
- Indiana Review
- Jameson Currier: Queertype
- John Keene: J's Theater
- Jory Mickelson: Literary Magpie
- Karen Weyant: The Scrapper Poet
- Kristin Berkey-Abbott
- Mark Doty's blog
- Mark Granier:Lightbox
- Matthew Hittinger
- Matthew Siegel
- Paul Martinez Pompa
- Poetry Daily
- RJ Gibson: On the Cusp
- Redheaded Stepchild
- Sandy Longhorn
- Southern Indiana Review
- Tarpaulin Sky
- Writing the Holocaust
- qarrtsiluni
- the rain in my purse
2 comments:
Well, that makes me feel better about my own giant "like" -- at least I'm not the only one! :) Cool stuff,isn't it?
Anne,
Do you know Mark Cox's poem "Like a Simile"? I'll try to post it. Great fun.
On Wordle: I'm an easy mark for cool graphic design. I won't go so far as to say that I judge a book by its cover, but a clean, balanced design always draws my eye first. I'll read a book with an awful cover, but given the choice, I'll buy the one with the better design. So I find this tool/toy totally appealing, yes.
Haven't given this much thought, but one application beyond the level of simple diversion (which has its place) might lie in helping to generate titles: I've generally struggled to come up with a suitable title for my chapbook manuscripts. One way I've approached this in the past is to do specific word searches/ word counts: how many times does this ms. use the word LIGHT or FEAR, for example? Are these terms resonating, creating a kind of undercarriage? The Wordle tool shows my relative dependence on certain words at a glance. Very nice.
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