Poetry notes
The return of the epic:
Dr. John Guzlowski informs that Matt Flumerfelt has been working on an epic poem based on the labors of Hercules, and he’s posted the first XIV books at his blog Baloney Emporium. Dr. Guzlowski has blogged about it with a sample from the poem. He says: Matt is a demon rhymer, and I think he’s going to bring rhyming back!
On the Psalms:
Dr. Guzlowski has also posted a short piece about Charles Swanson’s book of poems “After the Garden: Selected Responses to the Psalms.” Mr. Swanson’s poems bring together his love of the psalms and stories from his own life.
Someone once made the remark about my epic, “Why would anyone write a rhyming epic in the Twentieth century”–now the 21st. Poetry is an unorthodox career choice, so it’s as if the person were saying it’s OK to be unorthodox, just do it in an orthodox way.