TWO-BIT MAGAZINE

After 100 years, Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) autobiography will be put into print.

In my short time as an assistant teacher for Intro to Poetry, one of the questions that kept popping up with my students was whether or not poetry had to be autobiographical. There seems to be a general assumption that whatever a poet writes is truthful.

This article discusses that assumption: “The Poet Never Affirmeth” by Travis Kurowski

http://therumpus.net/2010/05/the-blurb-17-the-poet-never-affirmeth/

Joyce Carol Oates discusses what it is to “be a writer” in her article “I Am Sorry to Inform You,” from 2010 fiction issue of The Atlantic.

Also, via the internet, to you.

Poetry Foundation (poetryfoundation.org) posted a lovely little article on Charles Bukowski last week. I thought it was worth sharing with all of you.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=239168

Speaking of articles, Two-Bit Magazine is eventually going to be looking for short articles on literature and the world related to literature to expand the Two-Bit Blog. If article writing is something you’re interested in, get on it, since Two-Bit Magazine will be looking for submissions in the not-too-distant future.