A change in focus for whatnotpoetry—

Though Jack and Bill may from time to time return to considering ekphrastic poems or ecopoetry, from now on Bill will try, as often as he can, to admire collections of poetry he has recently read, emphasizing what he enjoys or at times worrying over what he doesn’t understand.

Initial description:

At least initially, in whatnotpoetry, Bill will write about works in the georgic mode and Jack will write about ekphrastic poems.  From time to time we will write joint reviews of books (or poems) that we particularly admire.

William Aarnes has published two collections with Ninety-Six Press—Learning to Dance (1991) and Predicaments (2001)—and  a third collection, Do in Dour,from Aldrich Press (2016). Over the years he has had poetry published in The Southern Review, The American Scholar, and Poetry. Recent poems have has appeared in Main Street Rag, Shark Reef, and Empty Sink.

Jack Kristiansen exists in the composition books and computer files of William Aarnes.  Kristiansen’s poems have appeared in such places as FIELD,Tipton Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, Stone’s Throw Magazine, and Sunsets and Silencers, Main Street Rag.