POST FOR MARCH 28's class

I find the poems, the "chapbooks," challenging, and very
advanced, if rough-edged. I'd mostly hold them up to
anything one might find in many magazines--and they're often
better--each poet has a few of these superior poems, some
many--than the crap I stumble upon in MOST places
online. The fact that there is a continuous NARRATIVE
or sequential aspect is part of this, and this "assignment"
convinces me of the power of writing for a "book."

We'll do Meghan's, and Nicole's (possibly Danny's)
on March 28.

As far as the fat anthology goes, keep it. You'll need it if you con-
tinue to write. Seriously. Something will happen, in your writing,
in your reading, and you will NEED to go to Plath. Or Thomas
McGrath, or William Carlos Williams. I feel we sampled it
well, and that the point was made that one could go on sampling
and linking poets together historically or by other means,
while finding what makes each unique, the contrasts . . . (as,
say, between Lowell and Bishop, which everyone noticed).
So no required reading there . . .

READ the student poems THOROUGHLY.

Clayton will be coming to our class on April 19. Read his
chapbook. It's full of very very good stuff, as the sample
read in class a couple nights ago proved.

Here is a list that tries to rate the best online literary magazines.

Here's another list of magazines, some online, some not.