Does one misspelled word a poem make?
Our intrepid reporter friend Ian Daly asks that question in a Poetry Foundation cover story about the controversial one-word poem by Aram Saroyan: "lighght." This description of the poem alone is worth the price of admission:
"Take away one 'gh' and it would pass straight through you—add another, and its starkness is lost. Repeating the “t” in the middle would be like dropping a rock in the ancient-lake stillness laid out by those four silent consonants. What you’re left with is more sensation than thought. The poem doesn’t describe luminosity—the poem is luminosity."
In sadder news, Editor & Publisher notes that the American Journalism Review is struggling. Like the Columbia Journalism Review, these magazines are lighthouses in the storm that new media created for journalists. Let's not lose our way. (Thanks, Isak!)
Novelist James Patterson is going to build a videogame out of his fast-paced thrillers. All writers should heed his advice as reader-connectivity tools evolve:
"With interactive entertainment, and casual games in particular, now available on mobile phones, PCs and television screens, this is a superb way to connect with my diverse group of readers, and do so with partners that can reach them anytime, in any format." (Thanks, Galleycat!)
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