Matt Barber

Poet.

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@JSgian1 @CredoMilesX All of the above. As a non-Catholic, I say this post is the only right answer (to the OP's question).

(I came here from elsewhere, just looking to make sure someone posted The Power and the Glory)

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@AmitMajmudar Possibly off-topic -- if you haven't read Byron's "Cain," I would recommend it. One of his best, and certainly the one work of his that I like best.

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

#FedEx

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@AmitMajmudar I like to think there's a resilience of spirit behind a lot of good humor.

And maybe with a little kidnapping/pirating and ransom, I, too, could be a great writer. Not that I wish to tempt fate that way.

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@GSBrouwer At the risk of overanalyzing - maybe it's the latent sense that all artists have weaknesses, and why go searching out the weak stuff if it is unfulfilling? There are academics who think it's worthwhile tracing the 'development' (or decline) but I've never found it fruitful.

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

Wow

[The Martins Deep. @MartinsDeep1]

Just signed the contract to have my artwork, "Mask", appear on the issue cover of @FreeFallMag

🤭

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

This sort of play is essential in poetry/literature - and epigrams, I think, help keep the mind nimble. This is a great example.

[Brooke Clark @thatbrookeclark]

Devoting this week to our occasional series of epigrams about websites, & kicking off with this one by Steven Kent

[Roy G. Biv @RALPHEEBOI]

It’s true! Send me your poems!!

[The Hudson Review @TheHudsonReview]

Get your poems ready! The Hudson Review's Inaugural Frederick Morgan Poetry Contest opens MARCH 1 for poets making their first appearance in The Hudson Review. No submission fee.

[bath magg @BathMagg]

Submissions are open for the whole of February!

Retweets appreciated 🦆

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@JHyphenTKelly Consistently 'getting it right': @BadLilies (many others have already noted them) -- flashes of brilliance have appeared @3ElementsReview, Rattle, Dark Horse, elsewhere

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@amjuster What is meant here by postmodern hell? Is this an apocalyptic vision-type poem, or is this a jeremiad against the age in which we live, is it both? I'm not sure what to suggest. You seek a modifier, are you indeed looking for something to evoke hwaet as well?

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@Brad49649135 @amjuster Just noticed that, in fact. Was reading between phone calls. Dang.

Tough crowd, but I should read more carefully, and with less jovial humor. LOL, as they say.

🙄

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@riyeff Which is to say it may be possible to distinguish qualitatively between AI results and (best quality) human stuff. AI is so far restricted to a pastiche of whatever humans have injected - it can imitate a style or even synthsize one but will carry over human biases.

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@riyeff Coleridge in Biographia Literaria makes a distinction between 'fancy' as the ability to combine disparate images/ideas and 'imagination' as a more purely creative activity, a sort of derivative participation in the pure creativity of God. For God it's ex nihilo & less so for us

[Poetry by the Sea @Poetryby_thesea]

Attention sonneteers! The deadline for the 2023 Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Contest has been extended to midnight on January 25, 2023! https://t.co/gRMV6l52YB

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

My wife's working on her French. I trust the French don't believe everything they hear from Americans.

[Grace Ellis Barber @GEllisBarber]

So, French practice is going well.

#french #Duolingo

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@ashleyrattner Faulkner! But yes, maybe not the best title for an LJ page. 😄

[Matt Barber @fauxrepublic]

@JHyphenTKelly If I were a rich man....