1. Family Guy: How empathy for Peter will make you a better
poet
2. Top 20 poet complaints
3. Dr. Frankenpoet will answer your questions now
4. The pre-application to MFA programs save-your-time-and-money
quiz
5. Silence of the Iambs, in which the poet is counseled to stand up
to smarty-pants poetry bullies
6. Dr. Machiavelli, PhD offers his thoughts on the contemporary
English department
7. Revision 101
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Taxi Review of Books
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Published to coincide with National Poetry Month
Newsletter and catalog feature to Sarabande's contacts, as well as
those provided by Skinner
Jeffrey Skinner is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Salt Water Amnesia (Ausable Press, 2005), and two anthologies of poems, Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance; and Passing the Word: Poets and Their Mentors. Poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, BOMB, and The Paris Review, and his poems, plays and stories have gathered grants, fellowships, and awards from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the state arts agencies of Connecticut, Delaware, and Kentucky.
"Skinner’s book takes advantage of its unusual format to convey
fun, unexpected content. 'Love of poems by others x Resistance to
influence = Style' sounds like something Susan Sontag might have
written in her journals… After writing five full-length collections
of his own poems, editing countless collections by others through
his work as a founding publisher of the influential small press
Sarabande Books… Skinner leaves no doubt that his love of the art
is no infatuation. In addition to being a self-help, how-to and
confession, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets is
also—and perhaps most of all—a moving portrait of a marriage."—New
York Times
"Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a
hilarious yet moving 'self-help memoir.' Skinner, more than a
'moderately successful' poet, has been published in Poetry, The New
Yorker, The Atlantic, and other prestigious journals. In this
facetious yet spot-on directive, he points out the pitfalls of
pursuing accolades in lieu of art."
—Kelly Fordon, Boston Review
"From the title of the book and chapters, from his half-goofy top
ten lists and his letters to Dr. Frankenpoet section, I knew he was
out to have some fun, but when Skinner writes about what poets must
do and be prepared for, he sometimes exceeds the predictable
answers."
—Shenandoah
"When he speaks about the craft of poetry, we are wise to
listen."
—Frederick Smock, The Courier-Journal
"Skinner’s book takes advantage of its unusual format to convey
fun, unexpected content. 'Love of poems by others x Resistance to
influence = Style' sounds like something Susan Sontag might have
written in her journals… After writing five full-length collections
of his own poems, editing countless collections by others through
his work as a founding publisher of the influential small press
Sarabande Books… Skinner leaves no doubt that his love of the art
is no infatuation. In addition to being a self-help, how-to and
confession, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets is
also—and perhaps most of all—a moving portrait of a marriage."—New
York Times
"Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a
hilarious yet moving 'self-help memoir.' Skinner, more than a
'moderately successful' poet, has been published in Poetry, The New
Yorker, The Atlantic, and other prestigious journals. In this
facetious yet spot-on directive, he points out the pitfalls of
pursuing accolades in lieu of art."
—Kelly Fordon, Boston Review
"From the title of the book and chapters, from his half-goofy top
ten lists and his letters to Dr. Frankenpoet section, I knew he was
out to have some fun, but when Skinner writes about what poets must
do and be prepared for, he sometimes exceeds the predictable
answers."
—Shenandoah
"When he speaks about the craft of poetry, we are wise to
listen."
—Frederick Smock, The Courier-Journal
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