A lot of things have been changed because of the Internet.While shopping once required a visit to the store, people can now choose to do it with a click of the mouse. Corresponding with people on the other side of the world could take days or weeks, but now its done in a matter of minutes through email.One more way that the internet has changed things is the publishing of poetry. For those interested in reading poetry, the only places available, up until a few years ago, were anthologies from the book store, literary or university journals, or listening to poetry live at an open mic venue.Now writers of poetry have another ...

Michael Dickel’s poetry defies easy characterization. The art in his new book, The World behind it, Chaos, including photography and digital art, moves like his poetry between the lyric and the surreal. While his poems also have a political bent, the visual art seems less inclined to the worldly. With the sound and imagery of the poems and the colors and textures of the photographs, both his poetry and art converge on the erotic. This book is not an art book, only; and it is not a poetry book, only. It is both art and poetry, exploding off the page into the domain of the reader. No essay or review can fully ...

eld was dubbed 'the poetry capital of Europe' for its thriving creative industry and numerous poetry publishers, editors and writers, and regular readings and poetry events, and the city's reputation for creative excellence is deserved. The Kirklees Media Centre is home to seventy creative businesses and there are half a dozen studio units available to hire in the city centre alone.Huddersfield's role as a creative centre is reflected in its dozens of theatres, performance spaces, galleries and art studios, and the country's rising 'cafe culture' is certainly apparent here.Set into 160 miles of the Pennines and encompassing surrounding villages, such as Holmfirth, Huddersfield combines the best of city and rural life.HistoryHistory in ...

Why should a writer make the conscious decision to publish his work with a publisher that intends to give that work away to the public free of charge?For that matter, why should any publisher make the conscious decision to give away its product? Or its investment, even if that investment is primarily in time and/or labor?To answer both questions, allow me to cite the current strike by the television and screenwriters’ union now underway in the United States. The reason that the writers and their support teams are striking is that they want to be paid for their work (they are asking for only a few cents per dollar made by studios ...

More books get published today than before. Great talented poets write new books every day and, through book signings and book readings, make their books popular. Contests, sponsored by literary magazines and universities, and on line group discussions are spreading poetry like never before.Readers get more sophisticated. While they appreciate fiction, they expand their reading to poetry. Poetry has become like Math, a tool that make you stop, wonder and think. Poetry makes the reader a better person intellectually and spiritually. It paints life with all the colors of the rainbow. Poetry plays with alternative meanings of words to evoke and to stir up emotions to grab attention and to create wonder ...